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Published 15 Oct 2026, 10:20 BST

Official UK procurement notice

CSM BUSINESS SERVICE MANAGEMENT PLATFORM AND IMPLEMENTATION PARTNER

Official notice Competition analysis

Authority: Ministry of Defence (Central government)

ServicesAbove thresholdSME suitableVCSE suitable
Sectors: IT Services & Software (72) Delivery: UK
Planned pipeline value£100,000,000pipeline notice, not a live tender
Tender notice expected 26 Oct 2026from the planned procurement notice
Contract term 3 yrsends 28 Jan 2030 · up to 28 Jan 2032 with extensions · starts 29 Jan 2027

What is being bought

Published requirement description

This Request for Information (RFI) seeks market feedback following the Authority’s market-engagement event on 8 October 2026. Responses will inform the procurement strategy, commercial model and Statements of Requirements for both procurements, with the aim of supporting effective competition and value for money

CPV: Information technology services

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published
Lot #1PlannedRenewal 3 yrsSMEVCSE
Contract period: 29 Jan 2027 – 28 Jan 2030 (3 yrs) · up to 28 Jan 2032 with extensions
Delivery: UKEligibility: SME eligibleVCSE eligible
Extensions: Extension options published
72222300 Information technology services

Who is likely to bid for this lot ↓

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 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: Systems and technical consultancy services (CPV 7222) →

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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 buyerMinistry of Defence · division 72
The marketSystems and technical consultancy services (CPV 7222) · Greater London (authority’s region)
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: 34 of 119 known-size awards · market: CPV 7222 · Greater London (authority’s region), n=100
29%46%

Small firms have won here. Neither number says whether you qualify; it describes who has been winning.

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 (authority’s region).

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

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 11 of 25 known-location awards · market: CPV 7222 · Greater London (authority’s region), n=125
44%49%

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: 6 decided notices · market: CPV 7222 · Greater London (authority’s region), n=12
41 days68 days

Half of these awards were announced within 41 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 95 of 146 procurements with awards had no recorded rival · market: CPV 7222 · Greater London (authority’s region), n=144
65%60%

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 buyer30 lots with bid counts · broad CPV 72
63% had one bid
The market15 lots with bid counts · CPV 7222 · Greater London (authority’s region)
0% had one bid
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
1 bid63% / 0%
Buyer: 19 of 30 lots with published bid counts. Market: 0 of 15 lots with published bid counts.
2–327% / 47%
Buyer: 8 of 30 lots with published bid counts. Market: 7 of 15 lots with published bid counts.
4–610% / 40%
Buyer: 3 of 30 lots with published bid counts. Market: 6 of 15 lots with published bid counts.
7+0% / 13%
Buyer: 0 of 30 lots with published bid counts. Market: 2 of 15 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 buyer91 lots with estimate and award · all categories
63% below estimate
The market12 lots with estimate and award · CPV 7222 · Greater London (authority’s region)
33% below estimate
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
Below estimate63% / 33%
Buyer: 57 of 91 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 4 of 12 lots with an estimate and award.
Within ±2%22% / 50%
Buyer: 20 of 91 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 6 of 12 lots with an estimate and award.
Above estimate15% / 17%
Buyer: 14 of 91 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 2 of 12 lots with an estimate and award.
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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.

Open a lot for its forecast, this buyer’s previous supplier and possible competitors, from published award history, not a bid list

Lot #1CPV 722236 monthsSME suitablePublished estimate£100m
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 15 past lots.

A forecast, not a list of bidders.

—No model forecast yet0% single-bid risk
Past bids on 15 similar lots
1 bid0%
0 of 15 similar past lots received 1 bid (0%).
2–347%
7 of 15 similar past lots received 2–3 (47%).
4–640%
6 of 15 similar past lots received 4–6 (40%).
7+13%
2 of 15 similar past lots received 7+ (13%).
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 model forecast yet
No comparable awards on record for this lot’s category yet. The published estimate is £100m, and the forecast stays empty until the market has a record to read.

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.

No supplier with a record in this category fits this lot yet.

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 match score 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
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
15 Oct 2026, 10:20 BST
Last source update
16 Oct 2026, 11:19 BST
FTS notice number
2026/S 000-097827
Latest notice
Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
Classification (CPV)
Information technology services
Delivery area
UK
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-078833 Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice
Submission deadline
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Timeline

15 Oct 2026 → 29 Jan 2027 · 5 dates
  1. Planning notice published4 days ago
    15 Oct 2026, 10:20 BST
  2. Latest notice published3 days ago
    16 Oct 2026, 11:19 BST
  3. Today
    19 Oct 2026
  4. Market engagementin 5 days
    23 Oct 2026, 23:59 BST

    Please complete the responses to the questions contained in a word document, saved in pdf, ensuring that you stick to the requested word counts

    The document should be returned to us at:

    [email protected]

    And should be entitled:

    Supplier Name - Project_715920493_RFI_Response

  5. Tender notice expectedin 8 days
    26 Oct 2026, 23:59 GMT
  6. Contract startsin 102 days
    29 Jan 2027

Notice history

3 events · 3 releases on Find a Tender · since 15 Oct 2026
  1. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    15 Oct 2026, 10:20 BST
    UK2
  2. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    16 Oct 2026, 08:17 BST
    UK2
  3. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    16 Oct 2026, 11:19 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

Ministry of Defence

Contracting authorityPublic authority - central government GB-PPON: PHVX-4316-ZVGZ MOD Head Office – Main Building, London, London, SW1A 2HBContact name, email

Official documents & specifications (3)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure