Signal · Supply Chain & Logistics

Contract award: Transport For Greater Manchester - 2025 / 405 (GBP 9,200,000)

UK Contracts Finder OCDS Search Authoritative source Published 9th October 2026 United Kingdom

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What the source reported

Source-reported

Contract award notice published on UK Contracts Finder by Transport For Greater Manchester. Procurement: 2025 / 405. Description: TfGM have a requirement for the procurement of software licences, products and services, which are needed to ensure TfGM staff can access the necessary software, via a Value-Added Reseller ("VAR") agreement. A VAR is a single supplier organisation that adds features or services to an existing third-party product (the licence or software that is being purchased from the developer). It then resells Category: services. Value: GBP 9,200,000 (stated award/contract value). Supplier(s): Softcat Plc.

Publication: UK Contracts Finder OCDS Search · Government/Regulator
Published: 9th October 2026
Original report: contractsfinder.service.gov.uk

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What ProcIntel recorded

ProcIntel-derived

Category: Supply Chain & Logistics
Geography: United Kingdom
Organisations: None identified
Collected: 9th October 2026 · 06:46

Initial assessment ProcIntel's automatic, provisional read of this individual Signal -- Initial Significance and Initial Confidence, computed deterministically before any Event extraction or human review.

A provisional, automatically computed reading of this individual Signal, before Event extraction or human review. Not a final rating.

Significance 1 · Low

Confidence 2 · Low

Initial Significance Low (15.0/100). Strongest contributor: Procurement Impact (6.0/30 points). Limiting factor: Impact-Scale Specificity (0.0/10 points). Initial Confidence Low (39/100, data sufficiency: Insufficient). Strongest contributor: Source Authority (40.0/40 points). Limiting factor: Specificity (0.0/20 points). Capped at 39 (Low) -- insufficient structured evidence to support a higher Confidence reading, regardless of source authority.

Strongest contributor: Procurement Impact
Limiting factor: Impact-Scale Specificity

Possibly the same underlying story as Contract award: Home Office - 7200000 (GBP 6,000,000) — flagged automatically, never merged automatically.

What the source reported

What ProcIntel recorded

Initial assessment ⓘMore about Initial Signal AssessmentProcIntel's automatic, provisional read of this individual Signal -- Initial Significance and Initial Confidence, computed deterministically before any Event extraction or human review.

Initial assessment ProcIntel's automatic, provisional read of this individual Signal -- Initial Significance and Initial Confidence, computed deterministically before any Event extraction or human review.