PERMANENT AWARD EVIDENCE

E5 MPSA Microsoft License Agreement

National Audit Office · published 4 Nov 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 IDb28b484c-85ce-489d-8dbd-cab79269150c-870743
Open Contracting ID (OCID)ocds-b5fd17-51993307-9391-4abd-b7ab-6f5edf72b9d2
Buyer identifierGB-SRS-sid4gov.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/sBN45ywB
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
£70,000
award field
Tender value
£70,000
tender field
Procurement method
Call-off from a framework agreement
Category
services
CPV
72222300
Information technology services
Delivery
United Kingdom
No postcode
PUBLISHED DESCRIPTION

What the notice says

The National Audit Office (NAO) has awarded a contract to SoftCat PLC via the HealthTrust Europe ICT Solutions framework. Under this agreement, SoftCat PLC will provide the NAO with Microsoft Products and Services Agreement (MPSA) licences. The contract commenced on Saturday, 1 November 2025 for 3 years until Tuesday, 31 October 2028 with the estimated contract value of £70,000 (gross)

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 release4 Nov 2025
  2. 02Tender period endsTender-period field as published1 Sept 2025
  3. 03Contract startsContract-period field as published1 Nov 2025
  4. 04Contract endsContract-period field as published31 Oct 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.

SOURCE

Contracts Finder release

Published 4 Nov 2025 · held through the daily award projection · Open Government Licence v3.0.

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