Awarded contract

Who won: Provision of COTS Software and associated services

A goods contract from Cabinet Office, worth £8,580,000. Below: what it involves and how to write a winning bid for it.

Buyer

Cabinet Office

Value

£8,580,000

Published

9 July 2026

About this contract

Provision of Support for Software licensing and associated services for the Cabinet Office (CO) & GDS. Trustmarque's COTS Cloud Procurement Service will provide the Authority with a specialist channel distributor for the supply of a fully strategic, IT procurement managed consolidation service of software licensing and renewals.

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