Software Asset Management as a Service 25-26

Tender description

The Council currently utilises more than 200 software applications across all corporate services, as well as additional applications used in schools, which ICT Services have a limited record of. Due to a number of legacy systems and in many instances, a number of contracts awarded to the same supplier across different services, the Council’s software estate has become complicated and difficult to manage. Therefore, the Council requires the continuation of a Software Asset Management as a Service system which ensures licence compliance, software optimisation, audit readiness and cost reductions. Lot 1: A negotiated procedure was conducted in accordance with Regulation 6 (1)(b)(ii) The Procurement (Scotland) Regulations 2016 which states “Circumstances in which a contract can be awarded without competition6.(1)A contracting authority may award a public contract without seeking offers in relation to the proposed contract— (b) where the works, supplies or services can be supplied only by a particular economic operator for any of the following reasons— (i) competition is absent for technical reasons; but only, in the case of paragraphs (ii) and (iii), where no reasonable alternative or substitute exists and the absence of competition is not the result of an artificial narrowing down of the parameters of the procurement.