IT Managed Services
Estimated value
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Awarded value
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Suppliers
1
Lots
1
Published
11 Feb 2026
Description
GPhC intend to award a contract for the provision a hybrid Azure Managed Service in support of its business operations and create sustainable relationships that meet the following strategic sourcing objectives: • Performance Optimisation - Enable improvements to service delivery and customer experience both for internal and external customers, allowing better management of cost, risk and results. • Agility / Speed - Implement an agile, responsive and scalable partnership with the organisation addressing their rapidly changing needs, lowering complexity and improving global delivery capabilities. • Improved Relationship Management - Achieve clear and proactive account management with the flexibility of services to support future business requirements. • Cost Control & Reduction - Effectively manage services to provide transparency with clear cost control with flexibility in consumption of services to allow funding of future IT requirements. • Innovation - Partner with an MSP that will bring technology leadership in IT services and assist GPhC with becoming "faster followers;" enabling the adoption of better practices and solutions to improve business outcomes. • Risk & Accountability - Proactively identify issues and themes that may have an impact on GPhC's business operations and service. • Plan of approach detailing the solution, delivery and effort to cover the services requirements to include but not limited to - in no particular order: 1. Infrastructure & Hosting 2. Desktop Management 3.Mobile device Management 4.Infrastructure Monitoring 5.Security 6.Disaster Recovery 7.Service Transition. 8.Service Management as per ITIL processes 9.Service Levels & Service Credits 10.Governance 11.Technical Account Management 12.Release & Configuration Management 13.Resource Skillsets & Coverage
Scope
- Reference
- GPhC105
- Commercial tool
- Standalone contract
- Contract dates
- 05 Jan 2026 to 04 Jan 2029Possible extension to 04 Jan 2031
The initial contract will have a discretionary option of a 2 year extension in 12-months consecutive order. Secondly, the GPhC reserves the right to carry out subsequent procurement (towards the end of the initial 5-year contract duration) of this service by DIRECT AWARD. This is in accordance to schedule 5 (8) of the PA2023 and section 95.
- CPV classifications
- 7221273072253000725140007260000072700000
- Contract locations
- London, United Kingdom
- Particular suitability
- Small and medium-sized enterprises (SME)Voluntary, community and social enterprises (VCSE)
Award criteria
Criteria the buyer will use to evaluate bids.
| Name | Description | Type | Weighting |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stage 1 - Supplier Qualification and Condition of Participation Assessment | — | quality | — |
Participation
Conditions suppliers must meet to bid.
See the document attachment section.
The Supplier are required to share the code for their core supplier details entered on the Central Digital Platform or upload a PDF copy of their downloaded details; this will be evaluated alongside the Conditions of Participation set out in Annex 2 on a PASS OR FAIL BASIS. The Procurement Specific Questionnaire (PSQ) will be evaluated as follows; 1. Contract examples and experience - 60% (20% per contract example) 2. Scale and Capability - 30% 3. Cultural Fit - 10% All bidders interested in submitting a tender must submit the PSQ. Only the top 5 scoring suppliers will be shortlisted
Submission & procedure
- Procedure
- Competitive flexible procedure
Award details
Awarded supplier(s), contract period and value as published in the award notice.
Awarded value
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Award date
26 Jan 2026
Contract start
02 Mar 2026
Contract end
01 Mar 2029