Software License Resellers Agreement (SLRA) 2020 for Higher Education Consortia

Awarded 22 Feb 2021

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Awarded 22 Feb 2021Expired 21 Feb 2025

Southern Universities Purchasing Consortium (SUPC) awarded a contract to Academia Limited, Bytes Software Services Ltd, CDW Limited, Civica UK Limited, Insight Direct (UK) Ltd, Phoenix Software Ltd, Pugh Computers Limited, Softcat PLC, SoftwareONE UK Ltd, Trustmarque Solutions Ltd for the provision of software licensing and services for Windows, Microsoft, Adobe, VMWare and other miscellaneous or commercial off the shelf software sold via resellers.

The framework also accommodates deals that may be in place directly with original software vendors (OSV).

Successful resellers were expected to provide added value services.

SUPC acted as lead organisation on behalf of its members and also for members of the London Universities Purchasing Consortium (LUPC), North Eastern Universities Purchasing Consortium (NEUPC), North Western Universities Purchasing Consortium (NWUPC), the Higher Education Purchasing Consortium Wales (HEPCW), Advanced Procurement for universities and Colleges Limited (APUC) and Crescent Purchasing Consortium (CPC).

All agreements resulting from this tender were made available to and apply to all current and future members of the participating consortia, and also to any member of any other Higher Education (HE) or Further Education (FE) purchasing consortium or any other higher education institution in the United Kingdom providing that they formally commit to participate in and support this Framework.

SUPC granted permission only at the request of the consortium, or an institution if it is not a member of a Consortium.

The contract value is AUD 500,000,000.

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