Official UK procurement notice
Bloomberg Renewal 2025 · UK public procurement notice
Authority: Financial Conduct Authority·Consortium: 2 public authorities
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThey FCA required daily access to market data. Some of the risks in this requirement is not in place: It would limit the FCA's ability to bring successful criminal and regulatory action.
FCA may not effectively review alerts from our surveillance system, with a risk to our commitment to clean markets. The FCA could not monitor for orderly markets. The data and insight that Bloomberg can provide is key for departments to be able to deliver on its
market monitoring objective. There is no viable alternative product. Major policy would go without empirical support, in short evidence-based policy making would be severely impacted. Retaining Bloomberg license is critical for the FCA to complete our statutory objective of 1/ promoting competition and 2/ consumer protection. We are increasingly encouraged to rely on more existing data within the FCA and enhance those with publicly available data. Bloomberg licences is critical to enhance regulatory returns and allow us to perform our function of financial analysis. Internal departments would impact the ability to conduct real-time surveillance of the UK market. Monitoring key funds and relevant investments, market trends and volatility and cross-referencing company information (to test its veracity) in various complex Supervisory efforts would become difficult.
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedProcedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Procedure method
- Direct award
- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Notice status
- Awarded without competition
- Procurement threshold
- Unspecified in notice
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Direct award (no call for competition)
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 4 Apr 2025, 12:59 BST
- Last source update
- 19 Jun 2026, 18:48 BST
- Authority reference
C3275- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-058276- Latest notice
- Contract termination notice (UK11)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-04fd4eFind a Tender
- Why no open competition
- Single Suppliers Intellectual Property Exclusive Rights
- Published justification
Only Bloomberg can provide the licenses required.
- Risks
They FCA required daily access to market data. Some of the risks in this requirement is not in place:
- It would limit the FCA's ability to bring successful criminal and regulatory action.
- FCA may not effectively review alerts from our surveillance system, with a risk to our commitment to clean markets. The FCA could not monitor for orderly markets.
- The data and insight that Bloomberg can provide is key for departments to be able to deliver on its market monitoring objective. There is no viable alternative product.
- Major policy would go without empirical support, in short evidence-based policy making would be severely impacted.
- Retaining Bloomberg license is critical for the FCA to complete our statutory objective of 1/ promoting competition and 2/ consumer protection. We are increasingly encouraged to rely on more existing data within the FCA and enhance those with publicly available data. Bloomberg licences is critical to enhance regulatory returns and allow us to perform our function of financial analysis.
- Internal departments would impact the ability to conduct real-time surveillance of the UK market.
- Monitoring key funds and relevant investments, market trends and volatility and cross-referencing company information (to test its veracity) in various complex Supervisory efforts would become difficult.
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
23 May 2025 → 19 Jun 2026 · 2 dates- Standstill ends23 May 2025, 23:59 BST
- Notice published129 days ago19 Jun 2026, 18:48 BST
Notice history
7 events · 4 releases on Find a Tender · since 4 Apr 2025- Transparency notice published4 Apr 2025, 12:59 BSTUK5
- Contract award notice published14 May 2025, 15:48 BSTUK6
- Buyer details updated14 May 2025, 15:48 BST
- Contract signature expected24 May 2025, 23:59 BSTscheduled
- Contract details notice published4 Mar 2026, 16:14 GMTUK7
- Buyer details updated4 Mar 2026, 16:14 GMT
- Contract termination notice published19 Jun 2026, 18:48 BSTUK11
Routine re-releases (4)
- 2025-04: 1 release · 4 Apr 2025
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast| Awarded to | Value | Date | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| BLOOMBERG FINANCE L.P.Bloomberg Licenses24 May 2025 – 14 May 2026 | US$746,040 | 31 Mar 2025 | Awarded |
Contracts
Bloomberg Renewal 2025 · BLOOMBERG FINANCE L.P.
- Signed
- 12 May 2025
- Value
- US$895,248
- Period
- 15 May 2025 – 14 May 2026
- Status
- terminated, Contract Term naturally concluded.
- Final value
- US$802,680
- Termination
- contractCompleted
No agreed KPIs: Not applicable.
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
2 public bodies on the noticeConsortium members and other public bodies
- THE FINANCIAL CONDUCT AUTHORITYContracting authorityPublic undertaking
Bidders & participating suppliers
1 commercial party on the notice- BLOOMBERG LPAwarded supplier
Official documents & specifications (4)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Contract termination notice Contract termination notice on Find a Tender
- Contract details notice Contract details notice on Find a Tender
- Contract award notice Contract award notice on Find a Tender
- Transparency notice Transparency notice on Find a Tender