Contracts Finder notice
Provision of Accelerating AI-Enablement at the GCA
Authority: GOVERNMENT COMMERCIAL AGENCY
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionA three-phase consulting programme to accelerate AI integration within government procurement operations. The core objective is to help the GCA improve productivity and digital capability by identifying AI opportunities, evaluating vendors, and supporting proofs of concepts.
Phase 0 - Discovery: Review business operations across GCA, based on the business plan and GCF strategy contemplate the extent that workload would increase with increased volumes, from this develop an opportunity long-list, and define four clear problem or opportunity statements.
Phase 1 - AI Garage (Optional): Evaluates four AI vendors in a structured event to demonstrate practical delivery, validate capability, and shortlist suppliers for the POC stage.
Phase 2 - Proof of Concepts (Optional): Provides advisory and assurance support for one to four 90-day POCs funded by GCA to manage setup, governance, and early course corrections. (Note: OSP does not run the POCs day-to-day; delivery remains the responsibility of the selected supplier and the GCA team).
Published procurement details
- Procedure
- Call-off from a framework agreement
- Buyer reference
- CCTS26A66.
- Category
- Services
- Tender status
- Complete
- Award status
- Active
- Suitable for SMEs
- No
- Suitable for voluntary, community and social enterprises
- No
- Tender deadline
- Procurement method
- Selective
- Item 1: Delivery locations as published
- London, United Kingdom
Key dates
Published dates- Award decision3 Jul 2026
- Contract starts7 Jul 2026
- Notice published22 Jul 2026
- Contract ends31 Mar 2027
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
- GOVERNMENT COMMERCIAL AGENCYContracting authority
- Identifier
- supplierregistration.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/6sQD8uds · GB-SRS
- URL
- https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/crown-commercial-service
Suppliers named on the notice
- ONE SUPPLY PLANET LTDSupplier
- Voluntary, community or social enterprise
- No
- Business size
- SME
Official documents & specifications (3)
Official links; attachments are not copiedTender pack and attachments
Notices published for this procedure
Source record
- Source
- Contracts Finder
- Notice language
- en
- Release reference
- ocds-b5fd17-080a142a-d5ab-4790-9d71-0c1d296ae927-2026-07-22T15:40:53+01:00
- Published
- 22 Jul 2026
- Latest update
- 22 Jul 2026
- Procedure reference
- ocds-b5fd17-080a142a-d5ab-4790-9d71-0c1d296ae927
- Contract reference
- ocds-b5fd17-080a142a-d5ab-4790-9d71-0c1d296ae927-1