SONI089 – Software Licensing & Buying Services

Buyer
SONI Ltd
Value
£68,557,055
Closes
30 October 2026
Where
Belfast
Type
Sets up a framework (suppliers apply to join)

In plain English

SONI Ltd (an Irish grid operator) is seeking suppliers to provide software licensing services and software buying/procurement services. They need one supplier (or team) to handle productivity platform licenses and a second supplier to manage multi-supplier software licensing and buying across their organisation.

What the buyer wants

• Supply and manage productivity platform software licenses (e.g. Microsoft, similar tools) • Act as a software buying agent: select, negotiate, procure and manage multiple software vendors on SONI's behalf • Deliver outcome-based services, meaning you choose the methods and resources to hit agreed targets • Manage supplier relationships, licensing compliance, and delivery of agreed service levels

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Likely requirements

Our reading of the notice. Always check the tender documents.

This is a six-figure contract (£68.5m+) requiring significant software procurement and vendor management capability at enterprise scale; small one-person trades or micro-businesses without proven multi-vendor software management experience will almost certainly not pass tender evaluation.

How to bid

This is a framework: the buyer picks a set of suppliers now and awards work to them over several years. If you are not on it when it is awarded, you usually cannot win work from it until it is re-tendered, so this is the window to bid.

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