Official UK procurement notice
Single Source Maintenance Renewal
Authority: Met Office (Central government)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionRenewal of Single Source Maintenance (SSM) requirements from October 2026 to September 2027.
The Single Source Maintenance (SSM) model has been established in the Met Office for many years and places responsibility for as much IT equipment maintenance as possible
onto a single support supplier. It allows the supplier to sub-contract maintenance to specialist companies as needed where the supplier does not have in-house capacity or capability.
The scope of SSM includes:
- Maintenance & security updates for networking equipment;
- Hardware maintenance for all IT equipment located within the IT Halls and at frontline
sites; and,
- Manufacturer warranty management for all Dell commodity equipment, such as
desktops and laptops.
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1Awarded
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Procedure method
- Direct award
- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Notice status
- Awarded without competition
- Procurement threshold
- Unspecified in notice
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Direct award (no call for competition)
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 16 Jul 2026, 11:03 BST
- Last source update
- 7 Sept 2026, 11:59 BST
- Authority reference
DN821818- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-084326- Latest notice
- Contract details notice (UK7)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06cca1Find a Tender
- Why no open competition
- Additional Repeat Extension Partial Replacement
- Published justification
SSM renewal required to provide continuity of services during 2026/27. Requirement for services is an interim strategy necessitated by delay in on-going programmes.
During the year the SSM scope will reduce due to late completion of delayed programmes and commencement of new systems, as existing hardware and systems are fully decommissioned.
The Contract also has TUPE implications. MO considered the contract unlikely to be attractive to the wider market at this point.
Met Office intends to re-tender revised scope of SSM requirements during 2027.
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
13 Aug 2026 → 7 Sept 2026 · 2 dates- Standstill ends67 days ago13 Aug 2026, 23:59 BST
- Notice published43 days ago7 Sept 2026, 11:59 BST
Notice history
4 events · 3 releases on Find a Tender · since 16 Jul 2026- Transparency notice published16 Jul 2026, 11:03 BSTUK5
- Contract award notice published4 Aug 2026, 15:53 BSTUK6
- Contract signature expected20 Aug 2026, 23:59 BSTscheduled
- Contract details notice published7 Sept 2026, 11:59 BSTUK7
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast| Awarded to | Value | Date | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Computacenter (UK) Ltd1 Oct 2026 – 30 Sept 2027 | £255,000 | 15 Jul 2026 | Awarded |
Contracts
Contract 1 · Computacenter (UK) Ltd
- Signed
- 7 Aug 2026
- Value
- £255,000
- Period
- 1 Oct 2026 – 30 Sept 2027
- Status
- active
No agreed KPIs: N/A
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Bidders & participating suppliers
1 commercial party on the notice- COMPUTACENTER (UK) LIMITEDAwarded supplier
Official documents & specifications (3)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Contract details notice Contract details notice on Find a Tender
- Contract award notice Contract award notice on Find a Tender
- Transparency notice Transparency notice on Find a Tender