PERMANENT AWARD EVIDENCE

Secondary General Purpose Cloud Platform

Department for Work and Pensions · published 2 Apr 2026. This page preserves the identifiers and current held fields for one Contracts Finder release; it is not an invoice, performance assessment or complete contract history.

Contracts Finder release ID3360795b-c11b-412d-9e75-38e8f706d03f-891611
Open Contracting ID (OCID)ocds-b5fd17-6640d74c-4980-43f2-9cb8-a9b0d924d3f1
Buyer identifierGB-CFS-328315
Release typeaward
PUBLISHED COMMERCIAL FIELDS

Values stay separate.

A tender estimate and an award value answer different questions. Neither is treated as cash paid.

Award value
£42,000,000
award field
Tender value
£42,000,000
tender field
Procurement method
Call-off from a framework agreement
Category
goods
CPV
48000000
Software package and information systems
Delivery
Not stated
M2 3AA
PUBLISHED DESCRIPTION

What the notice says

This is a contract for DWP's Secondary General Purpose Cloud Platform, providing Cloud hosting for Digital workloads in Microsoft Azure.

Tender statuscomplete
STAGE-DATE LEDGER

Reported dates, without an invented lifecycle.

The current projection contains one award release, not a verified chain of planning, tender, award, contract and modification records. Dates are shown in source-field order and are not silently repaired.

  1. 01Notice publishedPublication timestamp on the held release2 Apr 2026
  2. 02Tender period endsTender-period field as published16 Jan 2026
  3. 03Contract startsContract-period field as published31 Mar 2026
  4. 04Contract endsContract-period field as published31 Mar 2029
SUPPLIER EVIDENCE

Published names and exact identifiers

A company profile appears only when this release carries a usable company number. Name-only suppliers remain name-only.

Published name only

Softcat Limited

No legal entity is inferred from this supplier name.

SOURCE

Contracts Finder release

Published 2 Apr 2026 · held through the daily award projection · Open Government Licence v3.0.

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