{"url":"https://www.servnetuk.com/research/vmware-broadcom-public-sector-tracker-2026","slug":"vmware-exit-2026","study":"UK public sector and VMware after Broadcom: a contract-notice tracker","publisher":"Servnet (servnetuk.com)","data_as_of":"2026-09-19","purpose":"To help public-sector organisations plan virtualisation renewals and migrations by showing what comparable bodies have published. Neutral description of published notices; no judgement on any buyer or supplier.","key_dates":{"broadcom_acquisition_closed":"2023-11-22","omnissa_independent":"2024-07-01","procurement_act_2023_commenced":"2025-02-24"},"method":{"unit":"One procurement = one OCDS OCID, or several OCIDs linked as the same purchase (cross-posted between portals, or a tender and its award published separately). 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Identifier, URL and address fields are not searched.","sources_scanned":["every compiled release in the OCP Data Registry copies of Contracts Finder (2021-2026 files), Find a Tender (2021-2026), Public Contracts Scotland (2021-2026) and Sell2Wales (2022-2026)","every Public Contracts Scotland API notice list Jan 2021 - Sep 2026 (21 notice types)","Contracts Finder v2 keyword searches with quoted phrases for all terms and spellings (cross-check for notices missing from the registry copy)","Sell2Wales site keyword searches, all notice types, current and archived (the Sell2Wales OCDS API returned HTTP 500)"],"review":"Every matched record was read and classified; a term match alone is not evidence of relevance."},"classification":"One class per procurement from the notice text (see classification_rules.json): licence/subscription, support/maintenance, services/migration, hardware bundle, EUC (Horizon/Omnissa), or not relevant.","dating":"first_notice_date = earliest published notice of the procurement across all linked records (notices tied only to an award from before 2021 are ignored). Quarterly series count procurements by first-notice quarter; procurements first noticed before 2021 that had later notices in the window are shown separately.","broadcom_period":"post_broadcom = published contract start on or after 2023-11-22; where no contract start is published, the first notice date is used (broadcom_period_basis says which).","values":"value_gbp is a single award: versions of the same award re-published on a portal or across portals are collapsed (identical amount with a shared notice title, or with the same supplier and no conflicting contract dates; or the same supplier with the same award date or contract start, unless the notices' titles differ; the latest version is used), awards first published before 2021 are dropped when an in-window award exists, and any further separate award in the same record is listed under additional_awards rather than added. Awards published as GBP 0 are treated as missing and re-fetched from the portal where possible. Where no award value is published, the estimate shown is the one from the tender that led to the award (or the latest linked tender).","value_quality":{"rule":"One rule for every record: a value is flagged when the notice itself shows that the published value covers more than this procurement's virtualisation or EUC purchase and the platform's share is not published. 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The value comes from the latest-published award among the linked records; other fields from a representative record (award notice preferred, then Find a Tender, Public Contracts Scotland, Sell2Wales, Contracts Finder)."},"sources":[{"name":"Contracts Finder (Cabinet Office)","used_for":"Notices from English and UK-wide buyers, including below-threshold contracts","access":["OCP Data Registry bulk OCDS file 'United Kingdom: Contracts Finder' (publication 128): https://data.open-contracting.org/en/publication/128","Contracts Finder v2 search API (keyword cross-check for notices missing from the registry copy) and published-notice API: https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/api/rest/2/","Contracts Finder OCDS search API (OCID lookup): https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Published/Notices/OCDS/Search"],"licence":"Open Government Licence v3.0 - https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/","terms_quote":"\"All content is available under the Open Government Licence v3.0 except where otherwise stated.\" (site footer, https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/); OCDS packages carry the OGL v3.0 licence URL.","robots":"No robots.txt restrictions (robots.txt returns 404)."},{"name":"Find a Tender (Cabinet Office)","used_for":"Above-threshold notices from all UK nations, and all Procurement Act 2023 notices","access":["OCP Data Registry bulk OCDS file 'United Kingdom: Find a Tender Service' (publication 41): https://data.open-contracting.org/en/publication/41","Find a Tender OCDS release package API, per OCID: https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/api/1.0/ocdsReleasePackages/{ocid}"],"licence":"Open Government Licence v3.0 - https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/","terms_quote":"\"Notice data is available under the Open Government Licence.\" (https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Developer/Documentation, linked to OGL version 3) and \"All content is available under the Open Government Licence v3.0, except where otherwise stated\" (site footer); OCDS release packages carry the OGL v3.0 licence URL. API Retry-After guidance followed.","robots":"No robots.txt restrictions (robots.txt returns 404)."},{"name":"Public Contracts Scotland (Scottish Government)","used_for":"Notices from Scottish buyers","access":["PCS OCDS API monthly notice lists, all 21 notice types, Jan 2021 - Sep 2026: https://api.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/v1/Notices","PCS OCDS API notice family by OCID: https://api.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/v1/Notice?id={ocid}","OCP Data Registry 'United Kingdom: Scottish Procurement and Commercial Directorate' (publication 39): https://data.open-contracting.org/en/publication/39"],"licence":"Open Government Licence v3.0 - https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/","terms_quote":"API responses carry \"license\": \"https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/\" and publisher \"The Scottish Government\" (checked in the stored responses).","robots":"www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk disallows crawling in robots.txt, so no pages on that host were fetched; only the separate API host (no robots.txt) was used. Notice links point to the public notice pages for readers."},{"name":"Sell2Wales (Welsh Government)","used_for":"Notices from Welsh buyers","access":["OCP Data Registry 'United Kingdom: Wales: Sell2Wales' (publication 119; coverage Apr 2022 - Mar 2026): https://data.open-contracting.org/en/publication/119","Sell2Wales public notice pages found with the site keyword search (the Sell2Wales OCDS API returned HTTP 500 during collection)"],"licence":"Open Government Licence v3.0","terms_quote":"\"All content is available under the Open Government License, except where otherwise stated.\" (site footer, https://www.sell2wales.gov.wales/)","robots":"robots.txt is empty (no restrictions)."},{"name":"OCP Data Registry (Open Contracting Partnership)","used_for":"Bulk copies of the four UK portals' OCDS data (avoids load on government servers)","access":["https://data.open-contracting.org/"],"licence":"Data keep the source licence (OGL v3.0 for all four UK publications); registry site content CC BY 4.0","terms_quote":"Publication page (e.g. https://data.open-contracting.org/en/publication/128): \"License: Open Government Licence v3.0\"; site footer: \"This work by the Open Contracting Partnership, unless otherwise noted, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.\" Terms of use: https://www.open-contracting.org/terms-of-use/","robots":"robots.txt: 'User-agent: * Disallow:' (no restrictions)."},{"name":"eTendersNI (Northern Ireland)","used_for":"Not used","access":["https://etendersni.gov.uk/epps/home.do checked; no OCDS feed or API is published"],"licence":"No open-data licence or re-use statement found","terms_quote":null,"robots":"No robots.txt.","note":"Excluded because re-use terms could not be verified. Northern Ireland buyers' above-threshold notices appear on Find a Tender and are included from there."}],"attribution":"Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0 (Contracts Finder and Find a Tender - Cabinet Office; Public Contracts Scotland - Scottish Government; Sell2Wales - Welsh Government).","personal_data":"No personal data is published. Contact points (names, e-mail addresses, phone numbers) and portal user fields are removed from every source record before it is stored; e-mail addresses, phone numbers and named contacts inside free text are replaced with '[email redacted]', '[phone redacted]' or '[name redacted]'; a supplier that appears to be a named individual is shown as '[individual redacted]'. 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Both end on the same day and are replaced as a whole by the after contract: the force's share of the 3-year VMware by Broadcom Enterprise Order via BlueLight Commercial (22 Dec 2024 - 21 Dec 2027), for 'the Forces IT virtual Server Estate'. Neither ELA notice itemises products. The force's own notice 'Omnissa ELA Horizon Solution' (17 Jan 2025 - 16 Jan 2028, £128,087, its share of BlueLight Commercial's Omnissa agreement) says: 'There was a requirement to renew the Horizon subscription. This is for 600 concurrent users across both South Yorkshire and Humberside police.' This suggests the before-side ELA awards may have included Horizon, which the after-side VMware by Broadcom Enterprise Order does not (Horizon has been sold separately by Omnissa since 1 July 2024), so comparability is medium, not high. The headline uses the pair as the written rules define it; the alternative 'syp_horizon_added_after' adds the Horizon renewal, annualised, to the after side. 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16 Jan 2028) annualised and added to the after side, in case the before-side ELA awards included Horizon","pre_procurement_ids":["ocds-b5fd17-99a0028f-f301-41c3-b5da-34125d78927f","ocds-b5fd17-7fe220a9-1aea-4afa-8752-4dbeedab8def"],"post_procurement_ids":["ocds-b5fd17-f1496fef-f247-49bb-b3c7-359b17146e1c","ocds-b5fd17-0ea99750-b499-487a-bfd5-d8bf7f5126e1"],"pre_annualised_gbp":210778.98,"post_annualised_gbp":304968.67,"annualised_change_pct":44.7,"checks_passed":true,"problems":[]}]},{"buyer":"East Cambridgeshire District Council","buyer_type":"council","nation":"England","comparability":"medium","scope_note":"'Provision of VMware Licences and Support' (Mar 2021 - Mar 2024) followed by 'VMware Licences and Support' for East Cambridgeshire DC (Mar 2024 - Mar 2029, awarded via Cambridgeshire County Council).","pre_broadcom":[{"procurement_id":"ocds-b5fd17-cc6df774-3625-4cc3-8ad2-62028fa71abb","ocids":["ocds-b5fd17-cc6df774-3625-4cc3-8ad2-62028fa71abb"],"title":"East Cambridgeshire District Council Provision of VMware Licences and Support,","first_notice_date":"2022-04-29","contract_start":"2021-03-09","contract_end":"2024-03-08","contract_months_used":36,"term_source":"published contract period","value_gbp":24416,"value_basis":"awarded value","annualised_gbp":8138.67,"annualisation":"scaled to 12 months","suppliers":["SoftwareONE UK Ltd"],"notice_urls":["https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/d129d65e-36ba-4208-b3bd-f89a1c1abd60"]}],"post_broadcom":[{"procurement_id":"ocds-b5fd17-725f2e52-0a3b-4cd8-bba2-d085d4b5f086","ocids":["ocds-b5fd17-725f2e52-0a3b-4cd8-bba2-d085d4b5f086"],"title":"23119 East Cambridgeshire District Council VMWare Licences and Support","first_notice_date":"2025-07-10","contract_start":"2024-03-15","contract_end":"2029-03-15","contract_months_used":60,"term_source":"published contract period","value_gbp":62056.8,"value_basis":"awarded value","annualised_gbp":12411.36,"annualisation":"scaled to 12 months","suppliers":["Trustmarque Solutions Ltd"],"notice_urls":["https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/9487bce2-6be5-4fbc-b511-65a19f3e21b5"]}],"pre_annualised_gbp":8138.67,"post_annualised_gbp":12411.36,"annualised_change_pct":52.5,"timing_basis":"contract start dates","checks_passed":true,"problems":[],"same_buyer_note":"The 2024 notice was published by Cambridgeshire County Council and states it is 'for East Cambridgeshire District Council (the Authority)'; both notices cover East Cambridgeshire DC's VMware estate."},{"buyer":"Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service","buyer_type":"central government","nation":"Scotland","comparability":"medium","scope_note":"3-year VMware ELA from June 2023 (COPFS-2023-055) covering the existing VMware estate, followed on its expiry in June 2026 by VMware Cloud Foundation subscription licences 'to operate COPFS's existing VMware estate'. The 2026 contract term is not published, so no annualised change is computed.","pre_broadcom":[{"procurement_id":"ocds-r6ebe6-0000736646","ocids":["ocds-r6ebe6-0000736646"],"title":"VMware 3 year ELA","first_notice_date":"2023-06-26","contract_start":null,"contract_end":null,"contract_months_used":36,"term_source":"override (see scope_note)","value_gbp":705000,"value_basis":"awarded value","annualised_gbp":235000,"annualisation":"scaled to 12 months","suppliers":["Softcat Plc"],"notice_urls":["https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/search/show/search_view.aspx?ID=JUN482056"]}],"post_broadcom":[{"procurement_id":"ocds-r6ebe6-0000833747","ocids":["ocds-r6ebe6-0000833747"],"title":"VMWare Cloud Foundation Licences","first_notice_date":"2026-06-04","contract_start":null,"contract_end":null,"contract_months_used":null,"term_source":"published duration","value_gbp":695792.16,"value_basis":"awarded value","annualised_gbp":null,"annualisation":null,"suppliers":["INSIGHT DIRECT (UK) LTD"],"notice_urls":["https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/search/show/search_view.aspx?ID=JUN557235"]}],"pre_annualised_gbp":235000,"post_annualised_gbp":null,"annualised_change_pct":null,"timing_basis":"contract start where published, otherwise first notice date and stated term","checks_passed":false,"problems":["ocds-r6ebe6-0000833747: contract term not published","rule (3): ocds-r6ebe6-0000828235 ('VMWare Support Service 2026-2029', starts 2026-04-01) is a same-buyer VMware licence/support contract starting on or after 22 Nov 2023 and before the post side"],"earlier_notices":[{"procurement_id":"ocds-r6ebe6-0000659163","title":"VMware Enterprise Licence Agreement","first_notice_date":"2021-07-01","value_gbp":282116,"contract_start":null,"contract_end":null,"notice_urls":["https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/search/show/search_view.aspx?ID=JUL419901"]}]}]},"ratios_withdrawn":{"status":"withdrawn - not published","why":["Unit mismatch: Contracts Finder and Sell2Wales denominators counted procurement processes (OCIDs), Find a Tender and Public Contracts Scotland counted notices, and the numerators did not consistently use the same unit or CPV scope (13% of relevant Contracts Finder records carry no CPV 48/72 code).","Coverage gaps: in six quarters (2022-Q2, 2024-Q1, 2025-Q1, 2025-Q2, 2025-Q4, 2026-Q2) the OCP bulk copy of Contracts Finder has only 0.76-0.84 procurement records per notice on the live portal, against 0.93-1.00 in other quarters, while the study also includes notices found only on the live portal.","Regime change: from 24 Feb 2025 notices moved from Contracts Finder to Find a Tender and each Procurement Act procurement generates several notices, so per-portal shares across 2025 are not comparable."],"instead":"Counts of de-duplicated procurements across all portals, split at 24 Feb 2025 (by_regime_period, by_first_notice_quarter)."},"caveats":["Counts are of notices published on the four UK procurement portals. Many purchases are never advertised or published (for example small call-offs below the Contracts Finder publication threshold), so these are counts of published procurements, not of every purchase.","Procurement Act 2023 regime change: the Act applies to procurements started on or after 24 Feb 2025 (not to devolved Scottish authorities, who keep publishing on Public Contracts Scotland under the Scottish regime). Notices for those procurements are published on Find a Tender under new notice types, and each procurement generates more notices than before. On the portals themselves, Contracts Finder carried 18,412 notices in 2025-Q1 and between 8,980 and 12,276 per full quarter since, while Find a Tender went from 11,767 to between 21,488 and 29,039 (portal search counts, all notice types, retrieved 2026-09-19). Counts before and after 24 Feb 2025 therefore come from different publication rules, so a change in counts across that date is not by itself a change in buying. The series are split at that date (regime_period) and the two periods should not be joined into one trend.","Share-of-notices ratios (VMware notices as a share of all IT notices) are not published: the portals count different units (notices vs procurement processes), the bulk copy of Contracts Finder has coverage gaps in some quarters, and the 2025 regime change moved notices between portals. See 'ratios_withdrawn'.","Values are as published, in GBP and normally excluding VAT. They are award or contract values (the maximum the buyer may spend), not amounts paid. Each procurement carries one award value: re-published versions of the same award are not added together, and separate awards from different years are kept apart.","Medians are the headline value figures. GBP totals are published only as a pair, with and without the 22 records whose published value covers more than the platform purchase (value_quality flags, one rule for every record): 'ceiling_or_programme' (2: a framework ceiling or a whole programme) and 'aggregate_agreement' (20: an agreement in which the platform is one item among others, such as public-cloud consumption or other vendors' products, or a collaborative agreement whose members' shares are also published). Across all 580 awarded values the total is GBP 729,647,388 (the five largest make up 72.9%); without the flagged records it is GBP 237,581,210 (the five largest make up 30.9%). BlueLight Commercial's 2 collaborative agreements are flagged because participating organisations also published 8 notices for their own shares of them (GBP 3,642,535 in total), which are counted as separate procurements: the total with flagged records counts those shares twice.","Pre/post Broadcom (acquisition closed 22 Nov 2023) is tagged by the published contract start date where one exists, otherwise by the procurement's first notice. Some buyers publish notices months after the contract started.","Each procurement is dated by its first published notice (across all portals where it was cross-posted).","Classes and platforms come from reading each notice (rules in classification_rules.json). Low-confidence classifications are included and listed.","End-user-computing (EUC) purchases - VMware Horizon, Workspace ONE / AirWatch, Omnissa since 1 July 2024 - are a class and platform of their own (62 procurements) and are not in the VMware platform count. 6 core purchases (licence agreements or platform hardware) that also include Horizon or Workspace ONE products are counted as core, not as EUC, and are flagged mixed_euc (5 in the VMware platform count, 1 under Nutanix).","2 procurements name two platforms and are counted under both, so platform counts sum to 622 for 620 procurements.","Paired renewals compare published award values of the same buyer before and after the acquisition; unit prices and estate sizes are rarely published, so a change can reflect a different number of cores or products as well as price. n = 21. Each side is a single award, except where the notices show the same estate was bought under two concurrent contracts that the other side's contract replaced as a whole; these are annualised separately and added. Any other contract (not the one the post contract renews) that continued after the post contract started, and so was not replaced by it, is in neither side (listed under concurrent_notices). Median +42.4% under the published pairing rules; under the alternative choices considered for individual pairs it would be +46.8% (Met Office transition contract), +42.4% (Met Office vSphere subscription added), +46.8% (South Yorkshire PCC award left out), +44.7% (South Yorkshire Police Horizon renewal added to the after side), +52.5% (Met Office transition contract and South Yorkshire PCC award left out, together) (definitions in paired_renewals.summary.sensitivity).","Sell2Wales bulk data covers Apr 2022 - Mar 2026 only; other Welsh notices were found with the site search. Northern Ireland's own portal (eTendersNI) has no open-data licence and is not used; Northern Ireland buyers' above-threshold notices on Find a Tender are included.","Nothing here is a judgement on any buyer or supplier; it describes what was published, to help organisations plan."],"considered_not_included":[{"notice":"https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/14c9fa1c-c342-46b7-805b-a67949dfa448","buyer":"London Ambulance Service NHS Trust","title":"LAS - Horizon Consultancy","published":"2026-02-04","decision":"not included","rule":"horizon_rule (classification_rules.json v1.2)","why":"The notice describes 'an assessment and design review of the Trust's Horizon platform' (G-Cloud 14 Lot 3: Cloud support). It names neither VMware nor Omnissa, gives no product qualifier (View, 7, 8, Enterprise, Standard, Universal, VDI, licences, subscription) and no end-user-computing context, so under the written rule the product is not identified. The supplier's identity is not used as evidence. Found by the second independent verification (VERIFY-2 S7)."},{"notice":"https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/a3b49443-c484-4646-9c1f-cb5fc2230894","buyer":"FCDO Services","title":"Provision of Veeam Cloud Provider (VCP)","published":"2023-08-18","decision":"excluded from the FCDO Services VCPP record (overrides.json notice_exclude)","why":"Veeam purchase published in the same OCDS record as the VMware VCPP call-off; outside the study scope (VERIFY-2 S2)."}],"files":{"csv":"/research/vmware-exit-2026.csv","readme":"/research/vmware-exit-2026-README.txt"},"licence":{"source_data":"Open Government Licence v3.0 (see sources)","derived_tables":"CC BY 4.0 - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/","attribution":"Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0 (Contracts Finder and Find a Tender - Cabinet Office; Public Contracts Scotland - Scottish Government; Sell2Wales - Welsh Government)."},"page":{"title":"UK public sector and VMware after Broadcom: a contract-notice tracker","meta_description":"620 UK public-sector procurements naming VMware, Nutanix, Hyper-V or Horizon, 2021 to 2026, with 21 same-buyer renewal comparisons. Open data.","summary":"This tracker reads every notice found by keyword scans of Contracts Finder, Find a Tender, Public Contracts Scotland and Sell2Wales that UK public bodies published from 1 January 2021 to 19 September 2026 naming VMware, another virtualisation platform or VMware end-user computing. After reading and de-duplicating, 620 procurements remain: 446 for VMware, 101 for Nutanix, 62 for Horizon or Omnissa end-user computing, 7 for Hyper-V and 3 for Azure Local. Where the same buyer published comparable VMware renewals before and after Broadcom's acquisition closed on 22 November 2023, the median change in annualised contract value was +42.4% (21 pairs; interquartile range +22.6% to +96.2%). These are published contract values, not unit prices, and the estate size and product mix bought can change between renewals.","summary_words":124,"key_findings":[{"id":"scope","headline":"620 published procurements naming a virtualisation platform","text":"From 1 January 2021 to 19 September 2026, UK public bodies published 620 distinct procurements for virtualisation platforms or VMware end-user computing (from 789 matched records, of which 129 were read and found not relevant). By platform: VMware 446, Nutanix 101, Horizon / Omnissa 62, Hyper-V 7, Azure Local / Azure Stack HCI 3 and not named 3. These sum to 622 because 2 procurements name two platforms and are counted under both."},{"id":"classes","headline":"Licence and subscription renewals: 381 of 620","text":"By type of purchase: licence or subscription 381, hardware bundled with a platform 116, end-user computing 62, services and migration 32, and support and maintenance 29. Each procurement has one class, assigned by reading the notice under written rules."},{"id":"paired_renewals","headline":"Same-buyer VMware renewals: median +42.4% in annualised value","text":"In the 21 same-buyer pairs that pass every comparability check, the median change in annualised contract value from the renewal before the acquisition to the one after it was +42.4% (interquartile range +22.6% to +96.2%; range -4.6% to +263.0%). 20 pairs rose and 1 fell. Alternative pairing choices for 2 buyers give medians from +42.4% to +52.5%, including +44.7% with South Yorkshire Police's separate Horizon subscription renewal added to its after-acquisition figure. The comparison uses published contract values; licence quantities are rarely published, so a change can reflect a different estate or product mix as well as price."},{"id":"broadcom_period","headline":"VMware licence procurements: 162 before, 169 after the acquisition","text":"Of the VMware core licence and subscription procurements, 162 have a contract starting before 22 November 2023 and 169 on or after it (dated by published contract start for 282, by first notice for 49). 93 of the 169 were first published after the Procurement Act 2023 took effect on 24 February 2025, when publication rules changed, so the two counts are not a like-for-like trend. 29 of the 169 name VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF), against none of the 162 before."},{"id":"alternatives","headline":"Nutanix in 101 procurements, Hyper-V in 7","text":"Nutanix appears in 101 procurements (45 hardware bundles, 41 licence or subscription, 13 support, 2 services): 50 dated before the acquisition and 51 after. Hyper-V appears in 7 and Azure Local / Azure Stack HCI in 3. 14 procurements state a move between platforms or that alternatives are being considered; named destinations include Azure VMware Solution (3), cloud services (2), Nutanix (2) and Azure Local, and 3 describe replacing VMware without naming the target."},{"id":"values","headline":"Median awarded value £122,895","text":"The median published award across 580 procurements with an awarded value was £122,895 (interquartile range £53,176 to £325,314); for VMware core licence and subscription it was £95,579 (309 awards). Totals are shown only with and without the 22 records whose value covers more than the platform purchase: £729.6m with them and £237.6m without."}],"section_intros":{"platforms":"What was bought, by platform. Counts are of distinct procurements after linking notices that were cross-posted between portals or published separately for the tender and the award. A procurement is counted under the platform it buys; where a notice names only the platform being replaced, the platform is recorded as not named.","classes":"What kind of purchase. Each procurement has one class - licence or subscription, hardware bundle, end-user computing, services and migration, or support and maintenance - assigned by reading the notice text under the published classification rules.","timeline":"Procurements by quarter of first notice. The Procurement Act 2023 changed what is published, and where, from 24 February 2025, so the series is split at that date and the two parts should not be read as one trend. The latest quarter is partial (to 19 September 2026).","broadcom_period":"Before and after the acquisition. Broadcom's acquisition of VMware closed on 22 November 2023. Each procurement is placed before or after that date by its published contract start, or by its first notice where no start date is published.","values":"Contract values. Values are published award or contract values in GBP, normally excluding VAT: the most a buyer may spend, not what it paid. Medians are the headline figures; totals are shown only as a pair, with and without the records whose value covers more than the platform purchase.","paired_renewals":"Same-buyer renewals. A pair counts only when the same buyer bought the same VMware licence estate before and after 22 November 2023, both sides have a published award value and term, and the scope matches after reading both notices. The after side is the buyer's first contract for that estate starting on or after 22 November 2023. Values are annualised; a term under 11.5 months is not scaled up. Sensitivity: the median would be +46.8% if the Met Office's first post-acquisition support renewal were set aside as a transition contract and its next contract used instead, +46.8% if the award by the Police and Crime Commissioner for South Yorkshire under the same agreement were left out of the force's before-acquisition figure and +52.5% if both of those changes were made, and +44.7% if South Yorkshire Police's separate Horizon subscription renewal were annualised and added to its after-acquisition figure; it would stay at +42.4% if the Met Office's separate vSphere subscription were also added to its before-acquisition figure.","alternatives":"Alternatives in the notices. Platform changes are recorded only where a notice itself states a move or says alternatives are being considered; nothing is inferred from a buyer's later purchases.","method":"Notices were found by scanning the open-data files of the four portals and the portals' own keyword searches; every matched record was read and classified under the published rules; two independent checks re-fetched samples from the live portals.","data":"Download the data. The CSV lists every procurement with its buyer, platform, class, dates, value, flags and links to the source notices. Source notices are published under the Open Government Licence v3.0; the derived tables are released under CC BY 4.0."},"paired_renewals_table":{"title":"Same-buyer VMware renewals before and after the acquisition","columns":["buyer","before_annualised_gbp","after_annualised_gbp","change_pct","before_notice_urls","after_notice_urls"],"rows":[{"buyer":"Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency","buyer_type":"central government","comparability":"medium","before_annualised_gbp":87991.48,"after_annualised_gbp":319434.49,"change_pct":263,"before_contract_start":["2023-03-28"],"after_contract_start":["2024-07-04"],"before_notice_urls":["https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/52c40000-2b6b-477f-b299-1cc7c7d9de59"],"after_notice_urls":["https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/c11850a5-a8f8-4d24-a1cf-7e4afd87b0a1"],"note":null},{"buyer":"University of 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Annualised value = published contract value / (term in months / 12); terms under 11.5 months are not scaled up. Each side is a single award, except where the notices show the same estate was bought under two concurrent contracts that the other side's contract replaced as a whole; these are annualised separately and added. Any other contract (not the one the post contract renews) that continued after the post contract started, and so was not replaced by it, is in neither side (listed under concurrent_notices). Values are contract values, not unit prices. Sensitivity: the median would be +46.8% if the Met Office's first post-acquisition support renewal were set aside as a transition contract and its next contract used instead, +46.8% if the award by the Police and Crime Commissioner for South Yorkshire under the same agreement were left out of the force's before-acquisition figure and +52.5% if both of those changes were made, and +44.7% if South Yorkshire Police's separate Horizon subscription renewal were annualised and added to its after-acquisition figure; it would stay at +42.4% if the Met Office's separate vSphere subscription were also added to its before-acquisition figure."},"advice":{"title":"Planning notes for public-sector IT teams","intro":"Practical points drawn from the published notices. They describe options, not recommendations for any product or supplier.","items":[{"heading":"Start from your own baseline","text":"Use your current contract's annualised value, term and licensed core count as the starting point for the next renewal. In the 21 comparable pairs the change ranged from -4.6% to +263.0%, so the median of +42.4% is not a forecast for any one organisation; estate size and product mix vary between renewals."},{"heading":"Confirm what a renewal quote covers","text":"Check the edition, term and core count that a quote is based on. 29 of the 169 post-acquisition VMware licence procurements name VMware Cloud Foundation, against none of the 162 before it. Horizon and Workspace ONE have been sold by Omnissa since 1 July 2024; 6 core agreements in the data also included these products, so check whether end-user computing needs its own renewal."},{"heading":"Assess alternatives early enough to test them","text":"Notices in the data describe moves to Azure VMware Solution (3), cloud services (2), Nutanix (2) and Azure Local, and 3 describe replacing VMware without naming the target. 116 procurements bought hardware for or with a platform, so aligning host refresh dates with licence renewals can widen the options that are practical at renewal time."},{"heading":"Check existing routes to market","text":"391 of the 620 procurements mention a framework or call-off. Collaborative agreements also exist, such as BlueLight Commercial's VMware and Omnissa agreements for police, fire and rescue services, so check whether a sector agreement already covers your organisation before starting a separate procurement."},{"heading":"Publish complete award notices","text":"40 of the 620 procurements have no published award value (some show only an estimate or an award of £0), and some notices appear months after the contract started. Publishing the award value, term and scope promptly helps other public bodies plan and benchmark their own renewals."}]},"faq":[{"q":"What does the tracker count?","a":"Distinct procurements published on Contracts Finder, Find a Tender, Public Contracts Scotland and Sell2Wales from 1 January 2021 to 19 September 2026 whose notices name VMware, another virtualisation platform (such as Nutanix, Hyper-V or Azure Local) or VMware Horizon / Omnissa end-user computing. Every matched record was read: 660 of 789 were relevant, and linking cross-posted and tender/award notices leaves 620 procurements."},{"q":"Does this show public bodies leaving VMware?","a":"Not directly. It shows what was published: VMware appears in 446 procurements and Nutanix in 101, and 14 procurements state a platform change or that alternatives are being considered. Many purchases are never published, and counts either side of 24 February 2025 come from different publication rules, so the counts are not a measure of market share or exit rates."},{"q":"How much have VMware renewal costs changed?","a":"For the 21 same-buyer pairs that pass every check, the median change in annualised contract value was +42.4% (interquartile range +22.6% to +96.2%; range -4.6% to +263.0%); 20 rose and 1 fell. Alternative pairing choices for 2 buyers give medians from +42.4% to +52.5%, including +44.7% with South Yorkshire Police's separate Horizon subscription renewal added to its after-acquisition figure. These are published contract values, not prices per core, and the number of cores or products bought can differ between the two contracts."},{"q":"Why are totals shown with and without flagged records?","a":"A few very large notices dominate the totals, and 22 published values cover more than the platform purchase: 2 framework ceilings or programmes and 20 agreements in which the platform is one item among others. These include 2 BlueLight Commercial collaborative agreements; participating organisations also published 8 notices for their own shares (£3,642,535 in total), which are counted separately. The total is £729.6m with flagged records and £237.6m without; medians are the headline figures."},{"q":"Why are Horizon and Workspace ONE counted separately?","a":"They are end-user-computing products, not data-centre virtualisation, and have been sold by Omnissa since 1 July 2024. The 62 end-user-computing procurements are a class and platform of their own. 6 core agreements that also include Horizon or Workspace ONE are counted as core and flagged mixed_euc in the data."},{"q":"How is 'before' or 'after' the acquisition decided?","a":"By the published contract start date: on or after 22 November 2023 is after the acquisition. Where no start date is published, the procurement's first notice date is used; the data says which basis applies to each procurement."},{"q":"Why is there no share of all IT notices?","a":"The portals count different units, the bulk copy of Contracts Finder has gaps in some quarters, and the Procurement Act 2023 moved notices between portals, so a share of notices could not be computed on a consistent basis. Counts of procurements are published instead."},{"q":"Can I reuse the data?","a":"Yes. The CSV lists every procurement with links to its source notices. Notice data is published under the Open Government Licence v3.0 (Contracts Finder and Find a Tender: Cabinet Office; Public Contracts Scotland: Scottish Government; Sell2Wales: Welsh Government); the derived tables are released under CC BY 4.0 with attribution to Servnet. No personal data is included."}],"neutrality_note":"To help public-sector organisations plan virtualisation renewals and migrations by showing what comparable bodies have published. Neutral description of published notices; no judgement on any buyer or supplier.","generated_from":"build.py page_block(): every number is formatted from the computed summary; the build fails if the page contains a number that was not produced that way."}}