Procurement policies and thresholds as relevant to software licencing - Find a freedom of information request

Please can you provide information on the authority's procurement policies and thresholds as relevant to software licencing?

In particular:

1. Below what value threshold software licences can be purchased without requiring a competitive tendering process (in £, specifying whether this includes or excludes VAT), and whether this limit applies annually, per individual transaction etc.

Up to what value threshold (in £, specifying whether this includes or excludes VAT), single tender actions / direct awards can be considered.

2. What the policy or process is for deciding whether to use a single tender action / direct award.

3. Whether there is any requirement for software providers to the authority to be members of any procurement frameworks e.g. GCloud If these questions can be most easily answered by sharing the authority's overall procurement policy, please feel free to do so.
 

I can confirm that the information requested is held by Lincolnshire County Council. I have detailed below the information that is being released to you.

1. Lincolnshire County Council’s contract policy and procurement rules (CPPR’s) can be found at the following link https://www.lincolnshire.gov.uk/downloads/file/3195/cpprs-lincolnshire%02county-council

2. Please see the document referred to in the answer to Q1.

3. The Council uses various frameworks including Gcloud. Where a framework is being used then the Council would be obliged to abide by the framework rules