Official UK procurement notice
Core Applications and Management Service (CAMS) - UK2
Authority: Ministry of Defence (Central government)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThe Ministry of Defence Police (MDP) is seeking to procure a replacement suite of operational Control Room and, Crime and Intelligence reporting applications to be hosted within the MOD Cloud hosting environment. The requirement includes integration into the Ministry of Defence Service Management Framework (SMF) to deliver operational service management for the operational control room and, crime and intelligence reporting applications.
CPV: Command, control, communication systems · Information technology requirements review services · Software configuration services · Software implementation services · Software supply services · Software support services · Systems support services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1Planned
Pipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How Ministry of Defence buys Systems and technical consultancy services (CPV 7222), and who usually turns up
Ministry of Defence’s published record next to the market for the same work. Frameworks and DPS are left out: they draw different bid counts. Whole-market view: Systems and technical consultancy services (CPV 7222) →
How the contest usually goes
Winner shares use published awards; bid and price charts use contested lots.
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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.
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.
Local means the winner is registered in the region where that award was delivered.
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners were registered outside the region where that award was delivered.
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How long buyers here take to decide after bids close.
Middle value in days from the bid deadline to the award date, on competitions that published both.
Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.
Half of these awards have an award date within 41 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.
Both shares are minimums: 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.
How many bids did past lots attract?
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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.
1 bid63% / 13%
2–327% / 32%
4–610% / 24%
7+0% / 30%
How did awards compare with estimates?
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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.
Below estimate61% / 42%
Within ±2%22% / 45%
Above estimate17% / 14%
Assess each lot i
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 7225Published estimate£31m
This lot is listed as CPV 7225. The table above uses the notice category.
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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 18 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid22%
2–344%
4–617%
7+17%
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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.
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.
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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.
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.
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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.
- 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
- Services
- Notice status
- Planned procurement
- Procurement threshold
- Above threshold (FTS publication)
- Regulatory regime
- Defence & security
- 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, 17:00 GMT
- Last source update
- 19 Jun 2026, 14:38 BST
- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-058147- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-060a71Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
20 Jan 2026 → 2 Nov 2026 · 5 dates- Planning notice published277 days ago20 Jan 2026, 17:00 GMT
- Latest notice published127 days ago19 Jun 2026, 14:38 BST
- Tender notice expected115 days ago1 Jul 2026, 23:59 BST
- Market engagement106 days ago10 Jul 2026, 23:59 BST
Following receipt of responses to the RFI (the RFI information can be found by clicking on the 'view related notices' section), the Authority is planning to hold 1-2-1's with industry to explore in further detail areas as it looks to develop its strategy.
The 1-2-1 sessions will take place over teams with the agenda to be confirmed. A response to the RFI is not a prerequisite to being able to participate in the 1-2-1's, however it would be helpful to the Authority to have RFI responses if you have not completed one yet.
To register your interest please contact us via email using the details in the Contracting Authority section of this notification. In your email, please provide a primary point of contact as well as information on your companies capabilities and relevant experience of delivering similar capabilities.
Places are limited and therefore the Authority reserves the right to cap the number of engagements.
As a reminder of the early market engagement completed to date:
An Industry Engagement Day for the Core Applications and Management Service (CAMS) RFI was held on 28 January 2026 via Microsoft Teams. The purpose of the event was to provide an overview of the requirement and give potential suppliers an opportunity to ask questions. For transparency and to support all suppliers in preparing their responses, the presentation slides, event transcript, and Q&A from the session are now available at the following link: contracts.mod.uk/esop/guest/go/opport… ↗
Defence Digital has also published the recording of the Industry Day. The session provides valuable insight into the programme’s objectives, timelines, and approach, helping to break down barriers to entry and ensure all interested suppliers—large or small—have equal access to the information shared on the day.
By making this recording openly available, we’re committed to enabling a broader and more diverse market to contribute to shaping CAMS and to ensuring an inclusive and fair procurement process. The Industry Day recording can be found here: youtu.be/OQqN3QlPXFw ↗
As requested during the event, we have also created a Supplier Register, which enables suppliers to view the contact details of those who attended and may support collaboration / partnerships for this RFI; this can be accessed via the following link: forms.office.com/e/UDBxdyQKJN ↗
- Today24 Oct 2026
- Contract startsin 8 days2 Nov 2026
Notice history
6 events · 5 releases on Find a Tender · since 20 Jan 2026- Preliminary market engagement notice published20 Jan 2026, 17:00 GMTUK2
- Pipeline notice published21 Jan 2026, 10:23 GMTUK1
- Status changed to planned21 Jan 2026, 10:23 GMT
- Preliminary market engagement notice published10 Feb 2026, 16:10 GMTUK2
- Preliminary market engagement notice published19 Jun 2026, 12:39 BSTUK2
- Preliminary market engagement notice published19 Jun 2026, 14:38 BSTUK2
Published amendments (1)
A correction to previous email address.
Routine re-releases (5)
- 2026-01: 2 releases · 20 Jan 2026, 21 Jan 2026
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 (5)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender
- Pipeline notice Pipeline notice on Find a Tender
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender