Official UK procurement notice
Defence's Digital Workplace · UK public procurement notice
Authority: Ministry of Defence (Central government)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionFuture Managed Service Provider (MSP) Requirement – Defence's Digital Workplace
Defence Digital intends to award a future contract for a Managed Service Provider (MSP) to assume responsibility for, operate, and further develop Defence’s End-User Services at the OFFICIAL tier.
As part of this process, Defence Digital is commencing Early Market Engagement (EME) to inform and shape the requirement, and to engage with potential suppliers ahead of formal procurement activities.
Scope of Services
Services are delivered through a suite of MOD-owned technology solutions, including SaaS, PaaS, IaaS, and on-premise systems.
These capabilities are grouped into Foundation, Workplace, and Platform Management services.
The environment supports over 200,000 end-users across the UK and overseas, accessing services via:
Desktop terminals
Laptops
Mobile devices (phones and tablets)
Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI)
Contractor Responsibilities
Transition services from the incumbent supplier and deliver outcomes aligned with the Authority’s Service Management Framework (SMF).
Sustain current services while enabling and delivering technical change to:
Improve user experience
Scale services to meet fluctuating user demand
Maintain resilience against the evolving cyber threat landscape
CPV: Information systems and servers · Information technology services · Maintenance and repair of information technology equipment
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedPipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How Ministry of Defence buys Maintenance and repair of office machinery (CPV 5031), 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: Maintenance and repair of office machinery (CPV 5031) →
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 in 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 63 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 bid59% / 22%
2–327% / 44%
4–614% / 22%
7+0% / 11%
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 estimate60% / 33%
Within ±2%22% / 50%
Above estimate18% / 17%
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 5031Published estimate£750m
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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 1,281 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid16%
2–330%
4–628%
7+27%
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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- Procedure method
- Open procedure
- 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 Dec 2025, 15:14 GMT
- Last source update
- 5 Jan 2026, 14:51 GMT
- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-000372- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
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How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
15 Dec 2025 → 1 May 2028 · 5 dates- Planning notice published314 days ago15 Dec 2025, 15:14 GMT
- Latest notice published293 days ago5 Jan 2026, 14:51 GMT
- Market engagement86 days ago31 Jul 2026, 23:59 BST
The DDW project team will host a series of events as part of its Early Market Engagement for the Defence Digital Workplace requirement.
Supplier Engagement
- Interested suppliers are invited to provide a response to the Request for Information (RFI) in the link provided: contracts.mod.uk/esop/guest/go/opport… ↗
- All RFI submissions must be submitted through the messaging function on the Opportunity listing landing page.
- Please send any questions you may have relating to the RFI to [email protected]
- Details regarding participation in subsequent Market Engagements will be shared with suppliers who express interest prior to the planned events.
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Planned EME Activities
- Request for Information (RFI): January 2026
- Industry Days: Expected March and June 2026
- Tender notice expected83 days ago3 Aug 2026, 23:59 BST
- Today25 Oct 2026
- Contract starts1 May 2028, 00:00 BST
Notice history
3 events · 2 releases on Find a Tender · since 15 Dec 2025- Pipeline notice published15 Dec 2025, 15:14 GMTUK1
- Preliminary market engagement notice published5 Jan 2026, 14:51 GMTUK2
- Published value published: £750,000,0005 Jan 2026, 14:51 GMT
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 (2)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender
- Pipeline notice Pipeline notice on Find a Tender