Official UK procurement notice
M365 software licences · UK public procurement notice
Authority: Northern Ireland Electricity Networks Limited (Public body)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionM365 software licences
CPV: Business transaction and personal business software package · Industry specific software package · Miscellaneous software package and computer systems · Software package and information systems · Software package utilities
How this framework works
From the published notice- Bids received
- 1 bids received · 1 suppliers appointed
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1M365 software licencesAwarded
M365 software licences. Additional information: A competitive procurement exercise to source this requirement from another vendor is not possible due to the need to progress the outputs urgently, until such times as a new procurement process is in place.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record · publisher note attached- Procedure method
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Legal basis
- CELEX · 32014L0025 Utilities Contracts Regulations 2016 (Directive 2014/25/EU)
- Procurement category
- Goods
- Notice status
- Awarded without competition
- Procurement threshold
- Unspecified in notice
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Framework agreement
- Who may use this agreement
- Not stated in the notice; call-off rights may be limited to the establishing authority
- Competition type
- Direct award (no call for competition)
- GPA / WTO covered
- Yes (GPA)
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 21 Feb 2025, 09:30 GMT
- Last source update
- 24 Mar 2025, 13:37 GMT
- FTS notice number
2025/S 000-010906- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-04e5e2Find a Tender
- Why no open competition
Extreme urgency brought about by events unforeseeable for the contracting authority/entity and in accordance with the strict conditions stated in the directive; Bargain purchase taking advantage of a particularly advantageous opportunity available for a very short time at a price considerably lower than market prices
- Published justification
A competitive procurement exercise to source this requirement from another vendor is not possible due to the need to progress the outputs urgently, until such times as a new procurement process is in place.
Publisher note: A competitive procurement exercise to source this requirement from another vendor is not possible due to the need to progress the outputs urgently, until such times as a new procurement process is in place.
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast2 suppliers are admitted to this framework without individual award values or dates, see the supplier list below.
Contracts
All 2 of these contracts carry the same published figure, £771,000, the framework's maximum for the whole notice, not each contract's own value. They are not eleven separate sums.
M365 software licences
- Signed
- 17 Feb 2025
- Value
- ceiling above
- Status
- active
M365 software licences
- Signed
- 17 Feb 2025
- Value
- ceiling above
- Status
- active
Bid statistics published by the authority
| Bids | SME | VCSE | Valid bid range |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1bids | — | — | — |
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Dispute resolution & review bodies
- High Court of Justice in Northern IrelandMediation body
- Northern Ireland Electricity Networks LimitedReview body
- Northern Ireland Electricity Networks LtdReview body
Framework contractors & participating bidders
2 commercial parties on the notice- Bytes Software Services LtdFramework contractor
- Bytes Software Services LtdFramework contractor
Official documents & specifications
Official links; attachments are not copiedNo document links were published on the notice.