Official UK procurement notice
Benefits System · UK public procurement notice
Authority: CADENT GAS LIMITED (Public body)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionWe currently have our Benefits systems with two providers and are looking to integrate into one system. By doing this we wish to improve the employee experience, giving better operational efficiency, commercial savings and data integration with our internal systems.
We use one provider for the current recognition solution in place accessed via a branded portal with Single Sign-On (SSO).
We then have another provider to supply via a branded portal with Single Sign-On (SSO) and app:
- Flexible Benefits plan enabling online selection of salary and benefits and requires compatibility with SAP/SuccessFactors Employee Central.
- TRS historically provided annually in paper form; future solution to be online, device-accessible, and capable of more frequent updates (near real-time where appropriate).
- Discount shopping gives access to a wide range of discounts and offers. This offers; across a variety of categories, discounted high street gift cards, vouchers and e-codes.
Key requirements:
- Available to support all four services: Recognition (including career milestones), Total Reward Statements (TRS), Flexible Benefits (MyChoices) and Discount Shopping (MyOffers)
- Ideally an application system, and also desktop enabled with SSO.
- 'Library' functionality where employees can access policies/procedures documentation.
- Ability to personalize with Cadent branding.
- MI & Analytics: Real-time self-service MI including tax reporting, portal visits, redemptions, usage by geography and org structure, spend reporting, values selection, top vendors, social wall interactions, platform uptime.
- Project Management: Transition planning, annual renewal management, and continuous improvement.
- Cadent account manager helpdesk service available on telephone and email.
- Cadent employee helpdesk service available on telephone and email (instant chat also preferable).
- Comms support including push notifications
CPV: Benefit services · Human resources management consultancy services · Personnel and payroll services · Software-related services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedPipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How CADENT GAS LIMITED buys Software-related services (CPV 7226), and who usually turns up
CADENT GAS LIMITED’s own published record, next to the published market for the same work. Frameworks and DPS are kept out: they attract a different number of bids. Whole-market view: Software-related services (CPV 7226) →
How the contest usually goes
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How often small and medium firms win.
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Small firms have won here. Neither number says whether you qualify; it describes who has been winning.
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How often local firms win similar work.
Winners with a registered address in the delivery region, out of awards with a known address.
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners are registered outside the delivery region.
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How long buyers here take to decide after bids close.
Middle value in days from the deadline to the first award notice, on competitions that published both dates.
Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.
Half of these awards were announced within 82 days of the bid deadline.
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How often work is awarded with no recorded rival.
Direct awards and tenders where every published lot count shows one bid.
The buyer’s share is a minimum: some awards have no bid count.
Thin markets produce this too; it is not proof of a tailored specification.
Direct awards or one recorded bid are common here. Check the route before spending time on a bid.
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What past awards tell you about each lot.
See the forecast, this buyer’s earlier suppliers and firms with relevant wins.
No supplier is confirmed as a bidder.
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What past awards tell you about each lot.
See the forecast, this buyer’s earlier suppliers and firms with relevant wins.
No supplier is confirmed as a bidder.
Open a lot for its forecast, this buyer’s previous supplier and possible competitors, from published award history, not a bid list
Lot #1CPV 7226Estimate not published
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How many bids this lot may attract.
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Each lot shows its own forecast based on its own category; forecasts for different lots of the same notice are not comparative. The bar shows 60 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid15%
2–328%
4–632%
7+25%
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Where the award price may land.
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No comparable awards for this lot yet.
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Who has done similar work for this buyer.
Past contracts are matched by buyer, title and type of work.
A past supplier may not bid again.
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Who has done similar work for this buyer.
Past contracts are matched by buyer, title and type of work.
A past supplier may not bid again.
No earlier contract of this buyer matches this lot on the published record.
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Who could compete for this lot?
Firms with relevant past wins. On a framework, we show firms on that agreement.
None is confirmed as a bidder.
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Who could compete for this lot?
Firms with relevant past wins. On a framework, we show firms on that agreement.
None is confirmed as a bidder.
Candidate suppliers for this notice have not been worked out yet, so this is not a verdict that nobody fits.
About this data
- Source. Official UK public procurement notices (Find a Tender), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0. New notices arrive through the day; the figures are rebuilt nightly.
- Two views, kept apart. The authority’s own track record and the wider market for the same kind of work sit side by side and are never mixed. Where the local picture is too thin, a figure widens to a broader market and says which one it used.
- Forecasts are labelled. The price forecast and its range, possible competitors and the earlier-work matches are our estimates from past awards: not published facts, not win chances and not price advice. Official notices do not say who is bidding.
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Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Planned procurement
- Procurement threshold
- Below threshold
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 20 Jan 2026, 10:06 GMT
- Last source update
- 20 Jan 2026, 10:06 GMT
- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-004646- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06098bFind a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
20 Jan 2026 → 10 Aug 2026 · 4 dates- Planning notice published275 days ago20 Jan 2026, 10:06 GMT
- Tender notice expected264 days ago30 Jan 2026, 23:59 GMT
- Market engagement264 days ago30 Jan 2026, 23:59 GMT
If you are interested in this requirement, please email [email protected] by 30th January 2025 2pm to receive the RFI documentation.
- Contract starts73 days ago10 Aug 2026, 00:00 BST
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Preliminary market engagement notice published20 Jan 2026, 10:06 GMTUK2
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Pipeline notice- Awards (0)
- No award published
- Contracts (0)
- No contract published
- Bid statistics
- No aggregate bid statistics published
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Official documents & specifications (1)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender