Awarded contract

Certificate Management Tool

Details

Buyer: Orbit Group Ltd
Supplier(s): Phoenix Software Limited
Value: £30,744.96
Duration: 3 years
Topic: Software package and information systems
Published: 24 October 2026
Source: uk:find_a_tender

Tender description

Certificate Management Tool subscription Early renewal of the Certificate Manager contract is required to maintain business continuity and reduce operational risk for external-facing websites and applications. Although the current contract expires by June 30th, 2027. The certificate authority lifecycle has changed, with publicly trusted SSL/TLS certificate validity periods reduced to 200 days from March 2026 and 100 days from March 2027. ## Contract award

Timeline

Completed: Award published24 October 2026
Current notice
Completed: Award date24 October 2026
Next: Contract expiry date14 September 2029in 3 years

About the buyer

Orbit Group is a not-for-profit housing association building and maintaining homes across the Midlands, East and South of England. Bids for major contracts are shortlisted before moving to dialogue and negotiation stages. Quality counts for 60% of evaluation and price for 40%.

Orbit's Pipeline Notice flags tender opportunities ahead of a formal launch.

Over the past 5 years, most of Orbit Group Ltd's contract awards have been in construction work, business services and IT services.

Decision makers

Connect with the people behind this procurement.

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Contracts Manager	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@orbit-group-ltd.gov