PERMANENT AWARD EVIDENCE

VMWare Renewal - Direct Award via the NHSSBS DWS Framework ref SBS/19/AB/WAB/9411/16

Durham County Council · published 13 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 IDa76313d8-d8ee-4859-918c-daaab3b32bb6-844952
Open Contracting ID (OCID)ocds-b5fd17-04cf7ee7-050a-4084-a733-185c26074e00
Buyer identifierGB-LAE-DUR
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
£289,657
award field
Tender value
Not disclosed
tender field
Procurement method
Call-off from a framework agreement
Category
services
CPV
48000000
Software package and information systems
Delivery
North East, United Kingdom
No postcode
PUBLISHED DESCRIPTION

What the notice says

The Council requires VMWare licensing + support (vCentre, ESX) subscription renewal for 3 years. Direct award via an existing framework agreement was identified as the most suitable route to market.

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 release13 May 2025
  2. 02Tender period endsTender-period field as published24 Apr 2025
  3. 03Contract startsContract-period field as published23 May 2025
  4. 04Contract endsContract-period field as published23 May 2028
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

Phoenix Software Ltd.

No legal entity is inferred from this supplier name.

SOURCE

Contracts Finder release

Published 13 May 2025 · held through the daily award projection · Open Government Licence v3.0.

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