Official UK procurement notice
Digital Configurator · UK public procurement notice
Authority: Department for Education (Central government)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThe Digital Configurator proposes a new DfE digital tool that will automate and standardise early-stage feasibility design for school buildings. It will translate the tools developed within the Department’s design standards into an intelligent rule-based digital environment, enabling the automatic generation of block models, site layouts, compliance checks, 3D visualisations and exportable design data. The tool will be a core enabler of consistent, compliant and efficient feasibility development across the school estate. The configurator shall be developed to enable ‘smart’ analysis of common changes and other compliance challenges.
The successful supplier will undertake a phased programme to design, build, test and support the release of the Digital Configurator. The Digital Configurator supplier will benefit from a report, with pattern book compliant designs, which can be used, alongside the Department’s New Model Designs to train and test the configurators’ outputs.
The Department intends to publish a market engagement notice and undertake market engagement in May-June 2026. The Department is considering a call-off from Construction Professional Services 2 (RM6356) or an Open Procedure tender. If we proceed with RM6356, the specific lot will be determined as the project develops.
Read more about the Construction Framework 2025 here: www.gov.uk/government/publicati… ↗
CPV: Architectural, construction, engineering and inspection services · Construction consultancy services · Construction management services · Custom software development services · Design consultancy services · Industry specific software package · Project and design preparation, estimation of costs · Project management software development services · Systems and technical consultancy services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1PlannedRenewal
Pipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How Department for Education buys Programming services of packaged software products (CPV 7221), and who usually turns up
Department for Education’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: Programming services of packaged software products (CPV 7221) →
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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.
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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.
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Half of these awards have an award date within 49 days of the bid deadline.
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Direct awards and tenders where every published lot count shows one bid.
Both shares are minimums: some awards have no bid count.
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Missing bid counts may hide more single-bid awards. This share is a minimum.
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How many bids past lots received.
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Past bids do not predict this tender.
1 bid9% / 4%
2–335% / 33%
4–624% / 33%
7+31% / 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 estimate39% / 47%
Within ±2%50% / 33%
Above estimate11% / 19%
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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.
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What past awards tell you about each lot.
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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 7221Published estimate£1.6m
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How many bids this lot may attract.
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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 81 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid4%
2–333%
4–633%
7+30%
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Where the award price may land.
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No comparable awards for this lot yet.
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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.
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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.
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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
- Award under framework
- 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
- 7 May 2026, 16:33 BST
- Last source update
- 20 May 2026, 10:01 BST
- Authority reference
project_10399 - Digital Configurator- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-046121- Latest notice
- Pipeline notice (UK1)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-0693d6Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
7 May 2026 → 25 Sept 2026 · 5 dates- Planning notice published170 days ago7 May 2026, 16:33 BST
- Latest notice published157 days ago20 May 2026, 10:01 BST
- Market engagement143 days ago3 Jun 2026, 23:59 BST
Market engagement events:
To register for the events below, you will need to create a Jaggaer account via the following link:
Link: education.app.jaggaer.com/web/login.html ↗
Once you have created an account, you will need to access our opportunity notice for Event 754 – Digital Configurator Market Engagement. To do this, log in to Jaggaer and select the Published Opportunities tab, which can be found under the Sourcing drop-down menu. Our opportunity notice can be accessed via the following link:
Link: education.app.jaggaer.com/esop/guest/go/opport… ↗
Once you have accessed our opportunity notice, you will be able to register your intention to participate via Event 754 - Digital Configurator, Market Engagement. Within this event, the DfE will broadcast invitations to our market engagement events, via the Jaggaer messaging function. It is your responsibility to access these broadcasts and forward our invitations to the relevant colleagues within your organisation.
- Meet the Buyer event and Q&A session
The Department will be hosting a presentation via Microsoft Teams on the dates below:
21 May 2026, 10:00 till 11:00 (deadline to register 20 May 12:00)
During this event, DfE personnel involved in the project will outline our requirements, the indicative timeline and our procurement approach. There will be an opportunity to ask questions at the end of the session. The DfE will send out our final invitation message on the 20th May. It is your responsibility to access these messages, and forward the invitations to your relevant colleagues.
- Market Engagement Questionnaire
Following our market engagement presentation, the DfE will publish a market engagement questionnaire. This will be live from 22 May until 3 of June, and will be used to inform our procurement approach.
- Tender notice expected103 days ago13 Jul 2026, 23:59 BST
- Contract starts30 days ago25 Sept 2026, 00:00 BST
Notice history
5 events · 2 releases on Find a Tender · since 7 May 2026- Preliminary market engagement notice published7 May 2026, 16:33 BSTUK2
- Pipeline notice published20 May 2026, 10:01 BSTUK1
- Published value updated to £1,583,33320 May 2026, 10:01 BSTwas £1,583,333
- Status changed to planned20 May 2026, 10:01 BST
- Procurement method changed20 May 2026, 10:01 BST
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
- Pipeline notice Pipeline notice on Find a Tender
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender