Notice Information
Notice Title
FinOps solution
Notice Description
Jisc's Cloud Managed Services team was looking to procure a FinOps solution from a single provider. The successful solution will be predominately deployed by Jisc as the main user (use case (1) and (2)), however there is scope that the solution is in-directly made available to Jisc members and customers (use case (3).
Lot Information
Lot LOT-0000
Renewal: Beyond the 2 year initial period, two further 12 month contract extension options are provided for (i.e. 2+1+1).
Notice Details
Publication & Lifecycle
- Open Contracting ID
- ocds-h6vhtk-059ff6
- Publication Source
- Find A Tender Service
- Latest Notice
- https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/008128-2026
- Current Stage
- Award
- All Stages
- Tender, Award
Procurement Classification
- Notice Type
- UK7 - Contract Details Notice
- Procurement Type
- Standard
- Procurement Category
- Services
- Procurement Method
- Open
- Procurement Method Details
- Open procedure
- Tender Suitability
- SME
- Awardee Scale
- Large
Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)
- CPV Divisions
48 - Software package and information systems
72 - IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support
-
- CPV Codes
48442000 - Financial systems software package
72212482 - Business intelligence software development services
Notice Value(s)
- Tender Value
- £20,000,000 £10M-£100M
- Lots Value
- £20,000,000 £10M-£100M
- Awards Value
- £20,000,000 £10M-£100M
- Contracts Value
- £20,000,000 £10M-£100M
Notice Dates
- Publication Date
- 29 Jan 20263 weeks ago
- Submission Deadline
- 23 Oct 2025Expired
- Future Notice Date
- Not specified
- Award Date
- 7 Nov 20253 months ago
- Contract Period
- 26 Feb 2026 - 25 Feb 2028 1-2 years
- Recurrence
- Not specified
Notice Status
- Tender Status
- Complete
- Lots Status
- Complete
- Awards Status
- Active
- Contracts Status
- Active
Buyer & Supplier
Contracting Authority (Buyer)
- Main Buyer
- JISC
- Contact Name
- Chris Hallahan
- Contact Email
- chris.hallahan@jisc.ac.uk
- Contact Phone
- +44 2081482444
Buyer Location
- Locality
- BRISTOL
- Postcode
- BS1 6NB
- Post Town
- Bristol
- Country
- England
-
- Major Region (ITL 1)
- TLK South West (England)
- Basic Region (ITL 2)
- TLK5 West of England
- Small Region (ITL 3)
- TLK51 Bristol, City of
- Delivery Location
- Not specified
-
- Local Authority
- Bristol, City of
- Electoral Ward
- Central
- Westminster Constituency
- Bristol Central
Further Information
Notice Documents
-
https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/008128-2026
29th January 2026 - Contract details notice on Find a Tender -
https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/071973-2025
7th November 2025 - Contract award notice on Find a Tender -
https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/058823-2025
23rd September 2025 - Tender notice on Find a Tender
Notice URLs
Open Contracting Data Standard (OCDS)
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