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Student Loans Company requirement for IBM Power and Storage

Data-processing machines (hardware)
UK
Published value
£2,500,000
Submission deadline Not published
Lots published1
Procurement Executive Summary
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Tenderline Synopsis: STUDENT LOANS COMPANY: "Student Loans Company requirement for IBM Power and Storage". Published status: planning. Published value: £2,500,000. 1 published lot. Submission deadline not published. See the official notice for participation instructions.
Contracting AuthoritySTUDENT LOANS COMPANYScope & CategoriesNot publishedSubmission Window
planning
No deadline published
Submission GatewayDirect notice routeLegal Basis & RegimeStandard procurementEstimated Value (exc. VAT)£2,500,000
Bidder Intelligence · Authority Profile: STUDENT LOANS COMPANY
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Derived from OCDS awards & bid statistics
Published history for STUDENT LOANS COMPANY. These figures describe retained records, not a forecast of bids or a measure of buyer bias.
Published-to-award variance
Not availableInsufficient comparable data
Requires at least 5 comparable procedures
Competition Density
2.5Bids / Report
50% of reports have one bid
Supplier ConcentrationHigh Concentration
THE STREET COFFEE CO CAFE LIMITEDTop vendor: 91.8% of attributable value
Payment Terms
Check noticePublished terms
Payment obligations depend on the applicable regime and contract. Consult the official documents.
Coverage: 17 active published awards; 10 bid reports (which may be per lot). Supplier values exclude multi-supplier awards, frameworks and DPS, and use GBP only. They are published award values, not payments. Published-to-award variance compares single-lot, single-award, single-supplier GBP procedures with explicitly non-framework/non-DPS status; increases remain in the average. Unpublished data stays unknown. Awarded suppliers are winners, not all bidders.
Historical Awarded Suppliers With This Authority:
Supplier NameHistoric AwardsAttributable GBP Value
THE STREET COFFEE CO CAFE LIMITED1 win£1,242,202
SOFTCAT PLC2 wins£83,450
Orangebox1 win£28,199
Procedure terms
Contracting AuthoritySTUDENT LOANS COMPANY
Procedure methodNot published
Procurement categoryNot published
Statusplanning
Framework / DPSFramework
CompetitionNot published
Above thresholdNot published
Legal basisNot published
Tender period startsNot published
Clarification deadlineNot published
Electronic submissionNot published
Submission languagesNot published
Published24 Nov 2025, 08:43 GMT
Last source update24 Nov 2025, 08:43 GMT
Recurring procurementNot published
ClassificationData-processing machines (hardware)
Delivery area
UK
OCIDocds-h6vhtk-05e6d6
What is being bought
This is a retrospective notice to verify Student Loans Company undertook premarket engagement with regards to their tender for IBM Power. All companies registered under Technology Products & Associated Services 2 (RM6098) Lot 2 (Hardware) have been contacted to confirm expressions of interest for the following hardware requirements. 4 x E1050 - Midrange solution, each with: 96 Cores Installed / 27 Cores Active 3TB DDR5 Memory AIX Operating System 5 Years Hardware and Software Maintenance (Advanced ExpertCare) + 100,000 ECOD Days
What changed
From the official release history
  1. Published value updated to £2,500,000
    24 Nov 2025, 08:43 GMT
  2. Status changed to planning
    24 Nov 2025, 08:43 GMT
  3. Official notice release published
    24 Nov 2025, 08:43 GMT
  4. Buyer information updated
    24 Nov 2025, 08:43 GMT
Lots and requirements (1)
Published by the contracting authority
  • Lot 1 · #1
    Individual lot title not published
    planning
    Published valueNot published
    The source published no individual title or description for this lot.
    Contract periodNot published
    EligibilityNot published
    Options / renewalNot published
Timeline
  1. Pipeline notice
    24 Nov 2025, 08:43 GMT
  2. Procedure published
    24 Nov 2025, 08:43 GMT
  3. engagement
    Not published · met
    Companies registered on CCS framework RM6098 Lot 2 were issued an expression of interest on 01/07/2025, closing 15/07/2025, via Delta ESourcing. The questionnaire included an initial specification which has altered slightly to that published during the further competition.
Commercial outcome and competition
AwardsNo award published
ContractsNo contract published
Bid statisticsNo aggregate bid statistics published
Buyer and organisations in this procedure

STUDENT LOANS COMPANY

Contracting authority GB-COH-02401034
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  • STUDENT LOANS COMPANY
    buyer

    GB-COH: 02401034 · GB-PPON: PMXL-3278-BCWT
    Memphis Building Lingfield Point, Darlington, UKC13, DL1 1RW, GB
    kenneth_mckay@slc.co.uk
Documents (1)
Official links; attachments are not copied
Related procedures (0)
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No related procedures published
Planning and rationale
Planning budgetNot published
No-engagement rationaleNot published
Procedure rationaleNot published