PERMANENT AWARD EVIDENCE

EES Microsoft Licences

UK SHARED BUSINESS SERVICES LIMITED · published 2 May 2025. 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 IDa318b58e-d4c5-4f79-8a14-28edc438143b-842717
Open Contracting ID (OCID)ocds-b5fd17-b0714351-a14c-4121-900b-ecacd087bc3f
Buyer identifierGB-SRS-sid4gov.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/dXGP288m
Release typeawardUpdate
PUBLISHED COMMERCIAL FIELDS

Values stay separate.

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

Award value
£3,170,425
award field
Tender value
£3,170,425
tender field
Procurement method
Call-off from a framework agreement
Category
services
CPV
48100000
Industry specific software package
Delivery
United Kingdom
No postcode
PUBLISHED DESCRIPTION

What the notice says

***** THIS IS AN AWARD NOTICE, NOT A CALL FOR COMPETITION ***** This procurement is being concluded following a mini competition under the SUPC SLRA Lot 1 - Chest Microsoft EES framework Variation 001, 002 and 003 has been conducted. As a result of this the Call-Off contract value has increased to £3,170,425.01. Brief Description of Requirement Award to provide: UK Research and Innovation would like to renew their Microsoft Enrolment for Education Solutions (EES) agreement for a 3 year period, dating from 1st January 2023 - 31st December 2025. EES is Microsoft's agreement term to supply academic licensing to their customers and can supply anything from their portfolio and enables critical services UKRI need from productivity, security, information management, infrastructure.

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 May 2025
  2. 02Tender period endsTender-period field as published21 Dec 2022
  3. 03Contract startsContract-period field as published1 Jan 2023
  4. 04Contract endsContract-period field as published31 Dec 2025
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.

SOURCE

Contracts Finder release

Published 2 May 2025 · held through the daily award projection · Open Government Licence v3.0.

Inspect the official JSON release ↗