IT Managed Services

General Pharmaceutical CouncilcontractFind a TenderRef ocds-h6vhtk-051709Procurement Act 2023SME suitableVCSE suitablepending
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Estimated value

Awarded value

Awarded 26 Jan 2026

Suppliers

1

Lots

1

1 awarded

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 2029
Possible 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
72212730
72253000
72514000
72600000
72700000
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.

NameDescriptionTypeWeighting
Stage 1 - Supplier Qualification and Condition of Participation Assessmentquality

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

Award date

26 Jan 2026

Contract start

02 Mar 2026

Contract end

01 Mar 2029