Official UK procurement notice
Value Added Cloud Services
Authority: SOUTH WESTERN RAILWAY LIMITED (Public body)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThe Services cover the provision, maintenance, support, billing, and housekeeping of Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure accounts and subscriptions. First Rail Holdings' IT Infrastructure team administers the contract, including invoicing, usage analysis, and problem‑escalation management.
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedProcedure 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
- Utilities
- 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
- 20 Mar 2026, 18:32 GMT
- Last source update
- 28 Apr 2026, 11:34 BST
- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-038454- Latest notice
- Contract details notice (UK7)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-0670d8Find a Tender
- Why no open competition
- Additional Repeat Extension Partial Replacement
- Published justification
First Rail Holdings Limited is the contracting authority's current service provider of managed Cloud Services using Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure.
Services include managed service provision, as well as access to the Cloud for file storage, Cloud Server instances and Amazon Web Connect telephony services, which are used by our Customer Contact Centres.
Following SWR's transfer to public ownership, SWRL has conducted a review of the potential for technical separation from this agreement and identified some areas of significant complexity which require addressing before it will be possible to exit from the current services.
Our current arrangement comes to an end on 31st March 2026, therefore a short-term direct award is required to ensure continuity of these business-critical services. A minimum period of 6 months up to a maximum of 12 months to 31st March 2027 is required to finalise this technical review and run a compliant tender process under PA23 regulations.
The value published in this Direct Award is the value of the Services over 12 months, this value may reduce if the contracting authority is able to exit earlier than 31st March 2027.
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
31 Mar 2026 → 28 Apr 2026 · 2 dates- Standstill ends203 days ago31 Mar 2026, 23:59 BST
- Notice published176 days ago28 Apr 2026, 11:34 BST
Notice history
4 events · 3 releases on Find a Tender · since 20 Mar 2026- Transparency notice published20 Mar 2026, 18:32 GMTUK5
- Contract award notice published20 Mar 2026, 18:42 GMTUK6
- Contract signature expected1 Apr 2026, 23:59 BSTscheduled
- Contract details notice published28 Apr 2026, 11:34 BSTUK7
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast| Awarded to | Value | Date | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| FIRST RAIL HOLDINGS LIMITED1 Apr 2026 – 31 Mar 2027 | £633,334 | 20 Mar 2026 | Awarded |
Contracts
Contract 1 · FIRST RAIL HOLDINGS LIMITED
- Signed
- 1 Apr 2026
- Value
- £633,334
- Period
- 1 Apr 2026 – 31 Mar 2027
- Status
- active
No agreed KPIs: This contract is for the provision of software licenses, no works will be carried by the supplier.
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Bidders & participating suppliers
1 commercial party on the notice- FIRST RAIL HOLDINGS LIMITEDAwarded supplier
Official documents & specifications (4)
Official links; attachments are not copiedTender pack and attachments
Notices 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