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title: "vFire additional licences and associated maintenance and support"
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# vFire additional licences and associated maintenance and support

Source: [Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/vfire-additional-licences-and-associated-maintenance-and-support-ocds-h6vhtk-0547bf). UK public procurement intelligence compiled from official UK procurement notices.

> **Tenderline Executive Summary:** Business Services Organisation: "vFire additional licences and associated maintenance and support". Published status: complete. Contract Value: Value not published. 1 published lot. Submission deadline not published. See the official notice for participation instructions.

## Key Information
- **Status:** COMPLETE (no submission deadline published)
- **Buyer:** [Business Services Organisation](https://tenderline.uk/buyers/business-services-organisation-GB-FTS-424)
- **Contract Value (direct award):** Value not published (currency not published)
- **Submission Deadline:** Not published
- **Lots:** 1
- **Procurement Method:** Direct award
- **Main Category:** Not published
- **Classifications (CPV):** None published
- **Delivery Location:** UKN
- **Legal Basis:** UKPGA 2023/54
- **Awarded Value:** £105,000 (exc. VAT, 1 award)
- **Official Documents:** 5 published documents & notices ([view on Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/vfire-additional-licences-and-associated-maintenance-and-support-ocds-h6vhtk-0547bf#documents))
- **OCID:** `ocds-h6vhtk-0547bf`

## Before you bid
Deciding whether to bid? The Tenderline page for this tender carries the competition and buyer analysis this notice does not:

- **Expected competition:** how many bids lots like this attract, from past awards in the same market.
- **Who could compete:** suppliers who have won similar work, and who holds the current contract.
- **Buyer track record:** earlier work for this buyer, its unexpired awards, and how its awards compared with its estimates.
- **Price forecast:** the commercial price range for each lot, with the middle 50% of comparable awards.

- **What it takes to win:** selection and award criteria, lot by lot.
- **Contract history:** what this tender replaces, and every notice in the procedure.

[Open the competition and buyer analysis](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/vfire-additional-licences-and-associated-maintenance-and-support-ocds-h6vhtk-0547bf#tl-md)

## Description
Alemba are the Global owner of the vFire IT Service Management (ITSM) toolset product and as such are the sole official provider for this product. BSO ITS has grown in recent years and vFire is the main tool used by all BSO ITS staff to deliver IT Services to end users within the agreed SLA. Use of vFire\ASM toolset will mean that the provision of IT Services can be monitored and reviewed to ensure that HSC customer SLA targets are met via use of the vFire ITSM toolset.​
BSO ITS staff levels have grown in recent years and vFire is the main tool used by all BSO ITS staff to deliver IT Services to end users within the agreed SLA. There has been no major investment by BSO ITS in terms of licences despite staff levels increasing by over 100% since preCOVID. ​
£1,974,000.00 has been previously Direct Awarded to Alemba for Vfire Licences and Support.
It is our intention to complete a further Direct Award to the value of £105,000.00 (exclusive of vat). We wish to review this on an annual basis until 31st March 2029.

## Lots (1)
### Lot 1: Untitled lot
- **Lot id:** `1`
- **Status:** complete
- **CPV codes:** 72000000
- **Delivery regions:** UKN
- **Delivery countries in notice:** GB

## Awards & Winning Suppliers (2)
- **Award:** 1 (active)

  - Supplier(s): **ALEMBA LIMITED**
  - Supplier identifiers: `GB-FTS-157922`
  - Value: £105,000 (exc. VAT)
  - Date: 23/06/2024

- **Award:** 2 (active)

  - Supplier(s): **ALEMBA LIMITED**
  - Supplier identifiers: `GB-FTS-157922`
  - Value: £105,000 † (exc. VAT)

> † value taken from the contract record; the award notice published none.

## Contracts (2)
- **Contract:** 2 (active)
  - Signed Value: £105,000
  - Signed Date: 16/07/2025

- **Contract:** 1 (active)
  - Signed Value: £105,000
  - Signed Date: 25/06/2025

## Provenance and Official Sources
- **Official Notice:** [Find a Tender notice](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.find-tender.service.gov.uk%2FNotice%2F048935-2025)
- **Last Source Update:** 2025-08-14T15:56:05.000Z
- **This document generated:** 2026-10-23T14:58:06.068Z
- **Machine API:** https://tenderline.uk/api/public/tenders/ocds-h6vhtk-0547bf