Yorkshire Water has gone out to tender with a contract to appoint a single partner to provide software asset management services worth an estimated £65 million in total.
The water company is looking to establish a long-term relationship with an expert service partner, with a duration of 3 years with the possibility of a 3-year extension, followed by a further 2 year extension.
Yorkshire Water Services (YWS) are seeking to enhance their approach to Software Asset Management (SAM), with the aim of reducing the cost of managing the software estate and improve agility in sourcing, renewing and managing entitlements. Ensuring compliance and avoidance of audits also remains a key priority.
The SAM strategy needs to move with broader technology and business goals, including more agile ways of working, technologies ‘as a service’, increased automation and greater use of cloud infrastructure.
The selected supplier will have access to product experts across YWS’ major vendors, help shape YWS’ IT strategy and future roadmaps and keep the team up to date on industry trends and licensing changes. .
The partner will be required to provide a best-in-class service for the following:
- software renewal and procurement services
- enterprise software and infrastructure (virtual machines, hypervisors, infrastructure management platforms and software-defined systems),
- IaaS, PaaS, SaaS
- expert guidance and best practice
- software asset management and compliance services
- software portfolio management
- cloud usage and spend management services
The water company has emphasised that it is not seeking bids from joint ventures. Yorkshire Water intends to appoint a Large Value Reseller partner who will be responsible and accountable for delivering and managing contracted work, irrespective of whether solutions are sourced direct from OEMs, distributors or other partners.
Deadline for receipt of applications for an invitation to tender/ expressions of interest is 2nd May 2019 – click here to access the tender documentation.
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