Find a TenderPlanned procurementPreliminary market engagement notice
Published 10 Aug 2026, 13:03 BST

Official UK procurement notice

Continuous Improvement Action Tracker software

Procurement agent: Department for Energy Security & Net Zero·On behalf of: UKSBS

GoodsBelow thresholdSME suitable
Planned pipeline value£0pipeline notice, not a live tender
Tender notice expected Date not publishedfrom the planned procurement notice
Contract term 1 yrends 31 Mar 2028 · up to 31 Mar 2029 with extensions · starts 1 Apr 2027

What is being bought

Published requirement description

Continuous Improvement Action Tracker software to support the effective management, monitoring and reporting of Continuous Improvement Activities (CIAs) across ICS Commercial. The solution is intended to replace the current manual, Excel-based process with a more efficient, reliable and sustainable system.

CPV: Software package and information systems · Software supply services

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published
Lot #1PlannedRenewal 1 yrSME
Contract period: 1 Apr 2027 – 31 Mar 2028 (1 yr) · up to 31 Mar 2029 with extensions
Delivery: LondonEligibility: SME eligible
Extensions: Extension options published

Who is likely to bid for this lot ↓

Pipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published

How UKSBS buys Software-related services (CPV 7226), and who usually turns up

UKSBS’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) →

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How the contest usually goes

Winner shares use published awards; bid and price charts use contested lots.

Question for the bid
This buyerUKSBS · division 72
The marketSoftware-related services (CPV 7226) · Greater London
What to do with it
How often do SMEs win?
i

How often small and medium firms win.

Share of awards where the winner’s size is known.

The counts under this question show how many awards have a known supplier size.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 0 of 8 known-size awards · market: CPV 7226 · Greater London, n=86
0%26%

No small-firm winners recorded among this authority’s published awards in this sample.

How often do local suppliers win?
i

How often local firms win similar work.

Winners with a registered address in the delivery region, out of awards with a known address.

Here, local means registered in Greater London.

A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 0 of 8 known-location awards · market: CPV 7226 · Greater London, n=81
0%42%

Most of this buyer’s recorded winners are registered outside Greater London.

How long to a decision?
i

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.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: no decision dates published · market: CPV 7226 · Greater London, n=5
—237 days

Half of these awards were announced within 237 days of the bid deadline.

How often single-bid or direct?
i

How often work is awarded with no recorded rival.

Direct awards and tenders where every published lot count shows one bid.

Both shares are minimums: some awards have no bid count.

Thin markets produce this too; it is not proof of a tailored specification.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: at least 8 of 9 procurements with awards had no recorded rival · market: CPV 7226 · Greater London, n=126
89%71%

Direct awards or one recorded bid are common here. Check the route before spending time on a bid.

How many bids did past lots attract?

i

How many bids past lots received.

Each colour is a bid-count range. Only competed lots with a published count are included.

Past bids do not predict this tender.

Last 36 months.

This buyer1 lot with bid counts · all categories · too few to chart
The market8 lots with bid counts · CPV 7226 · Greater London
0% had one bid
Market · select a colour for counts
1 bid0%
Market: 0 of 8 lots with published bid counts.
2–338%
Market: 3 of 8 lots with published bid counts.
4–60%
Market: 0 of 8 lots with published bid counts.
7+63%
Market: 5 of 8 lots with published bid counts.

How did awards compare with estimates?

i

Where winning prices landed against estimates.

Each colour shows awards below, close to or above the published estimate, one lot at a time.

Past prices are a guide, not a bid price.

Last 36 months.

This buyer2 lots with estimate and award · all categories · too few to chart
The market7 lots with estimate and award · CPV 7226 · Greater London
57% below estimate
Market · select a colour for counts
Below estimate57%
Market: 4 of 7 lots with an estimate and award.
Within ±2%0%
Market: 0 of 7 lots with an estimate and award.
Above estimate43%
Market: 3 of 7 lots with an estimate and award.
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Assess each lot
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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 722612 monthsSME suitableNo real estimate
Expected competition
i

How many bids this lot may attract.

The forecast uses similar past competitions. The bar shows either that forecast or past bid counts; the line below says which.

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 162 past lots.

A forecast, not a list of bidders.

—No model forecast yet7% single-bid risk
Past bids on 162 similar lots
1 bid7%
12 of 162 similar past lots received 1 bid (7%).
2–332%
52 of 162 similar past lots received 2–3 (32%).
4–629%
47 of 162 similar past lots received 4–6 (29%).
7+31%
51 of 162 similar past lots received 7+ (31%).
Comparable past lots usually drew 4 bids.
Commercial price forecast
i

Where the award price may land.

The forecast uses similar awards and the buyer’s estimate. The band covers the middle half of likely prices.

No comparable awards for this lot yet.

A statistical guide from past awards, not a price to bid.

—No real estimate
The buyer published £0 as the estimate (a placeholder, not the contract’s value), so there is nothing to forecast against.

Who has supplied this buyer on similar work?
i

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.

Who could compete for this lot?
i

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.
  • Every figure shows what it rests on. Not every notice publishes a bid count, a value or a delivery region, so each figure carries the number of records behind it, and one built on few records is marked as such. The on a figure explains it; the counting rules are in the methodology. Spotted something wrong? Tell us.

Procedure terms & legal framework

From the official record
Legal basis
UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
Procurement category
Goods
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
10 Aug 2026, 13:03 BST
Last source update
10 Aug 2026, 13:03 BST
Authority reference
DDaT26352
FTS notice number
2026/S 000-075717
Latest notice
Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
Classification (CPV)
Software package and information systemsSoftware supply services
Delivery area
UK
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06e01a Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice
Submission deadline
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Timeline

10 Aug 2026 → 1 Apr 2027 · 3 dates
  1. Planning notice published72 days ago
    10 Aug 2026, 13:03 BST
  2. Market engagement57 days ago
    24 Aug 2026, 23:59 BST

    Expression of Interest - response to be submitted via email to [email protected] before 17:00pm Monday 24th August 2026

    If you would like to participate in the Expression of Interest and view the specific requirements please contact [email protected] referencing DDaT26352.

  3. Today
    21 Oct 2026
  4. Contract startsin 162 days
    1 Apr 2027, 00:00 BST

Notice history

1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender
  1. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    10 Aug 2026, 13:03 BST
    UK2

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

3 public bodies on the notice

Department for Energy Security & Net Zero

Procurement agentPublic authority - central government GB-PPON: PDHQ-2163-WYMH 55 Whitehall, London, London, SW1A 2HPContact email

Clients of the procurement agent

Official documents & specifications (1)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure