Find a TenderPast planning noticePreliminary market engagement notice
Published 28 Mar 2025, 15:08 GMT

Official UK procurement notice

Patch Management for IT Systems (CWC25058MW)

Official notice

Authority: Wolverhampton City Council (Local council)

ServicesAbove thresholdSME suitableVCSE suitable
Sectors: Software Packages & ERP (48)IT Services & Software (72) Delivery: Delivery location not published
Planned pipeline valueValue not publishedpipeline notice, not a live tender
Tender notice expected Date not publishedfrom the planned procurement notice
Contract term 4 yrsends 1 Jul 2029 · starts 1 Jul 2025

What is being bought

Published requirement description

Wolverhampton City Council (WCC) is conducting a Preliminary Market Engagement to establish the type of solution and functionality that is available for automated patch management and third party software updates for Client and Server devices.

Wolverhampton City Council currently use different products for patch management and vulnerability management. These are from Tenable, ManageEngine and Pulseway. We are seeking to review the market to ascertain what products are available that can possibly integrate with our existing Tenable.One vulnerability management solutions as well as providing a patch management solution across the estate for servers and client devices where possible. Products should ideally highlight what patches are required to be applied to address critical, high, and zero-day threats in a timely manner as well as allowing granularity to apply patches to individual systems as and when needed, in addition to easily managed routine patching cycles.

We are a primarily Microsoft for Client and Server devices with some Linux and Unix servers, as well as a few Mac clients.

Our client devices are all currently managed via Microsoft Intune and we have approx. 4500 laptops and desktops.

Our server estate is Hybrid split between on premise and Microsoft Azure. We have approx. 400 in total which is a mix of Virtual and Physical.

We have Cloud first strategy so any proposed solution should be Cloud based.

If you would like to participate in the Preliminary Market Engagement please complete and submit the questionnaire available on the Council’s website Opportunities - www.wolverhamptontenders.com ↗. The engagement period ends on Tuesday 22nd April 2025 at 12:00 pm (noon).

CPV: Information technology services · Software package and information systems

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published
Lot #1Planned 4 yrsSMEVCSE
Contract period: 1 Jul 2025 – 1 Jul 2029 (4 yrs)
Eligibility: SME eligibleVCSE eligible

Procedure terms & legal framework

From the official record
Legal basis
UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
Procurement category
Services
Notice status
Past planning notice
Procurement threshold
Above threshold (FTS publication)
Regulatory regime
Standard
Commercial structure
Stand-alone contract (no framework)
Competition type
Competitive procedure
GPA / WTO covered
Unspecified in notice
Recurring procurement
Unspecified in notice
First published
28 Mar 2025, 15:08 GMT
Last source update
28 Mar 2025, 15:08 GMT
Authority reference
CWC25058MW
FTS notice number
2025/S 000-011827
Latest notice
Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
Classification (CPV)
Information technology servicesSoftware package and information systems
Delivery area
Not published
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-04fa32 Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice
Submission deadline
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Timeline

28 Mar 2025 → 1 Jul 2025 · 3 dates
  1. Planning notice published
    28 Mar 2025, 15:08 GMT
  2. Market engagement
    22 Apr 2025, 00:59 BST

    Wolverhampton City Council (WCC) is conducting a Preliminary Market Engagement to establish the type of solution and functionality that is available for automated patch management and third party software updates for Client and Server devices.

    Wolverhampton City Council currently use different products for patch management and vulnerability management. These are from Tenable, ManageEngine and Pulseway. We are seeking to review the market to ascertain what products are available that can possibly integrate with our existing Tenable.One vulnerability management solutions as well as providing a patch management solution across the estate for servers and client devices where possible. Products should ideally highlight what patches are required to be applied to address critical, high, and zero-day threats in a timely manner as well as allowing granularity to apply patches to individual systems as and when needed, in addition to easily managed routine patching cycles.

    We are a primarily Microsoft for Client and Server devices with some Linux and Unix servers, as well as a few Mac clients.

    Our client devices are all currently managed via Microsoft Intune and we have approx. 4500 laptops and desktops.

    Our server estate is Hybrid split between on premise and Microsoft Azure. We have approx. 400 in total which is a mix of Virtual and Physical.

    We have Cloud first strategy so any proposed solution should be Cloud based.

    If you would like to participate in the Preliminary Market Engagement please complete and submit the questionnaire available on the Council’s website Opportunities - www.wolverhamptontenders.com ↗. The engagement period ends on Tuesday 22nd April 2025 at 12:00 pm (noon).

  3. Contract starts
    1 Jul 2025

Notice history

1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender
  1. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    28 Mar 2025, 15:08 GMT
    UK2

Commercial outcome & contract awards

Pipeline notice
Awards (0)
No award published
Contracts (0)
No contract published
Bid statistics
No aggregate bid statistics published

Contracting authority & participating public bodies

Wolverhampton City Council

Contracting authorityPublic authority - sub-central government GB-PPON: PVBV-7568-LBLL Civic Centre, St Peters Square, Wolverhampton, West Midlands, WV1 1RLContact name, email

Official documents & specifications (1)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure