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# 5G Mobile Private Network - PIN for Pre-procurement market engagement

Source: [Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/5g-mobile-private-network-pin-for-pre-procurement-market-engagement-ocds-h6vhtk-034579). UK public procurement intelligence compiled from official UK procurement notices.

> **Tenderline Executive Summary:** Digital Catapult: "5G Mobile Private Network - PIN for Pre-procurement market engagement". Published status: planned. Planned Pipeline Value: Value not published. 1 published lot. Submission deadline not published. See the official notice for participation instructions.

## Key Information
- **Status:** PLANNED (no submission deadline published)
- **Buyer:** [Digital Catapult](https://tenderline.uk/buyers/digital-catapult-coh-07964699)
- **Planned Pipeline Value:** Value not published (currency not published)
- **Submission Deadline:** Not published
- **Lots:** 1
- **Procurement Method:** Not published
- **Main Category:** goods
- **Classifications (CPV):** Networks
- **Delivery Location:** UKN0
- **Legal Basis:** CELEX 32014L0024
- **OCID:** `ocds-h6vhtk-034579`

## Before you bid
Deciding whether to bid? The Tenderline page for this tender carries the competition and buyer analysis this notice does not:

- **Expected competition:** how many bids lots like this attract, from past awards in the same market.
- **Who could compete:** suppliers who have won similar work, and who holds the current contract.
- **Buyer track record:** earlier work for this buyer, its unexpired awards, and how its awards compared with its estimates.
- **Price forecast:** the commercial price range for each lot, with the middle 50% of comparable awards.

- **What it takes to win:** selection and award criteria, lot by lot.
- **Contract history:** what this tender replaces, and every notice in the procedure.

[Open the competition and buyer analysis](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/5g-mobile-private-network-pin-for-pre-procurement-market-engagement-ocds-h6vhtk-034579#tl-md)

## Description
The purpose of this PIN is to advise all interested suppliers of Digital Catapult's intention of a future procurement for 5G Mobile Private Network.
Digital Catapult has entered into a 5 year project with other 7 partners to deploy a private 5G network and
run a technology and innovation acceleration programme in Northern Ireland.
This pre-market engagement and the potential future procurement process specifically relates to a turnkey
solution and support until Nov 2026 (or until end of the program) for 5G Mobile Private Network (5G MPN)
at two adjacent sites located in Northern Ireland.
Through this pre-market engagement process, Digital Catapult seeks to understand the turnkey solutions readily available in the marketplace to meet its current requirements; potential issues and limitations; realistic timescales for the service provision and delivery at Northern Ireland; clear R17 upgrade roadmap.
Our intention is to procure a single contractor capable of meeting all our requirements, and a future
procurement exercise shall be run in the next months under the Public Contract Regulations 2015.
This pre-market engagement will help us to better understand the market and to help with specification and tender documentation development for our future tender.
This Prior Information Notice (PIN) is issued solely for the purpose of conducting supplier pre-market engagement. Interested parties will not be prejudiced or advantaged by any response to this document, to the PIN, or by questions raised or lack thereof to them, or
attendance to the supplier pre-market engagement event.
This PIN does not constitute a call for competition.

## Lots (1)
### Lot 1: Untitled lot
- **Lot id:** `1`
- **Status:** planned

- **Delivery regions:** UKN

- **Description:** 5G Mobile Private Network (5G MPN) which is based on the 3GPP standards Release 16 and upgradable to Release 17 during the expected four year (or until Nov 2026) lifetime of the project.
For the purpose of this pre-market engagement please consider “...

## Provenance and Official Sources
- **Official Notice:** [Find a Tender notice](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.find-tender.service.gov.uk%2FNotice%2F016084-2022)
- **Last Source Update:** 2022-06-13T07:55:34.000Z
- **This document generated:** 2026-10-28T20:49:13.707Z
- **Machine API:** https://tenderline.uk/api/public/tenders/ocds-h6vhtk-034579