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title: "Solarwinds Contract 26/27 (con_31831)"
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# Solarwinds Contract 26/27 (con_31831)

Buyer: Department for Education  
Current stage: Award  
OCID: ocds-b5fd17-b61eda19-1c59-4e2d-90cd-d4313c79b1b2

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## Summary

The Department for Education procured a three-year subscription renewal for SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted Advanced for Enterprise AE1000, an upgraded SolarWinds product supporting monitoring of up to 1,000 nodes. The requirement is for networking, internet and intranet software, covering the Department’s operations across the North East, North West, Yorkshire and the Humber, East Midlands, West Midlands, East of England, London, South East and South West of England. This is a goods procurement focused on supplying enterprise software licensing rather than consultancy, construction or general IT support. The buyer is the Department for Education, based in London. The product renewal is intended to maintain or upgrade SolarWinds observability capability across a broad departmental estate, with the subscription applying for the full three-year term.

The procurement has been completed and awarded through a selective call-off from a framework agreement. The tender submission deadline was 4 June 2026 at 5pm. The contract was awarded to Akhter Computers on 11 June 2026 for £101,240.05 including the stated GBP currency. The active contract runs from 11 June 2026 to 10 June 2029. The award covers the SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted Advanced for Enterprise AE1000 subscription and its three-year term. The recorded procurement value and awarded value are the same. The process was suitable for small and medium-sized enterprises, while participation was not reserved for voluntary, community or social enterprises. The award followed a framework-based procurement route, rather than an open standalone tender, and the selected supplier is an SME.

This award indicates established Department for Education demand for enterprise SolarWinds licensing and observability software across a large, geographically distributed public-sector estate. Suppliers well placed for a future requirement would need to provide, renew or support SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted Advanced for Enterprise, including the AE1000 capacity of up to 1,000 monitored nodes. Credibility would come from strong knowledge of SolarWinds licensing, subscription management, enterprise monitoring and self-hosted deployment, together with the ability to serve public-sector technology estates across England. Experience supplying through framework agreements is commercially relevant because this requirement was bought by framework call-off. The award to an SME also shows that specialist smaller technology suppliers can compete for this scale of software licensing requirement, provided they can meet the product, capacity and route-to-market demands.

## Notice

Renewal of Solarwinds licencing under the upgraded product: 2257103 SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted Advanced for Enterprise AE1000 (up to 1000 nodes) - Subscription 3Yr Term

## Key Details

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication source | Contracts Finder |
| Latest notice | https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/a199c8d5-e3fd-48bc-91f1-49035a0842af |
| Notice type | Award Notice |
| Procurement type | Framework |
| Procurement category | Goods |
| Procurement method | Selective |
| Procurement method details | Call-off from a framework agreement |
| Tender suitability | SME |
| Awardee scale | SME |
| All stages | Award |

## Dates

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication date | 7 Aug 2026 |
| Submission deadline | 4 Jun 2026 |
| Future notice date | Not specified |
| Award date | 11 Jun 2026 |
| Contract period | 11 Jun 2026 - 10 Jun 2029 |
| Recurrence | Not specified |

## Values

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Tender value | £101,240 |
| Lots value | Not specified |
| Awards value | £101,240 |
| Contracts value | Not specified |

## Status

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Tender status | Complete |
| Lots status | Not specified |
| Awards status | Active |
| Contracts status | Not specified |

## Buyer

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Main buyer | Department for Education |
| Locality | LONDON |
| Postcode area | South West London |
| Postcode | SW1P 3BT |
| Country | England |
| ITL 1 | TLI London |
| ITL 2 | TLI3 Inner London - West |
| ITL 3 | TLI35 Westminster and City of London |
| Local authority | Westminster |
| Electoral ward | St James's |
| Westminster constituency | Cities of London and Westminster |
| Delivery location | TLC North East (England), TLD North West (England), TLE Yorkshire and The Humber, TLF East Midlands (England), TLG West Midlands (England), TLI London, TLJ South East (England), TLK South West (England) |

## Supplier

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Number of suppliers | 1 |
| Supplier names | Akhter Computers |

## CPV Codes

### Divisions

- 48 - Software package and information systems

### Codes

- 48200000 - Networking, Internet and intranet software package

## Release History

- 7 Aug 2026 at 13:14 - Award - Award Notice - https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/a199c8d5-e3fd-48bc-91f1-49035a0842af

## Documents

- https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/a199c8d5-e3fd-48bc-91f1-49035a0842af
  7th August 2026 - Awarded contract notice on Contracts Finder

## Notice URLs

- https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/department-for-education/about/procurement

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