Official UK procurement notice
Digital Financial Support Platform
Authority: Fife Council (Local council)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionDigital Financial Support Platform
CPV: Software package and information systems
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1Fife Council is exploring the potential procurement of a digital platform to support…Planned
Fife Council is exploring the potential procurement of a digital platform to support residents in accessing financial assistance and related support services.
The proposed solution would enable residents, and authorised staff acting on their behalf, to identify, access and apply for financial support from a range of schemes and organisations.
This initiative is intended to improve accessibility, user experience and efficiency in delivering financial support services.
- Scope (Indicative Only)
The Council is seeking information on solutions capable of delivering some or all of the following:
Eligibility checking and signposting to relevant financial support
End-to-end application functionality, including submission to one or more schemes
Access for both self-service users and council staff/caseworkers
Workflow and case management functionality, including tracking application progress and outcomes
Reporting and analytics to support service planning and performance monitoring
Integration with existing council systems (e.g. CRM, revenues and benefits, case management systems)
Compliance with data protection legislation, including GDPR, and appropriate security standards
Accessible, user-friendly design supporting inclusive access (including assisted digital support where required)
Suppliers are invited to highlight any additional relevant functionality or innovative approaches.
- Purpose of Notice
This Prior Information Notice is issued to:
Provide early visibility of a potential future procurement
Understand the range of solutions available in the market
Inform the development of the Council’s requirements and specification
Gather information on delivery models, implementation approaches and indicative costs
This notice is for information only and does not constitute a call for competition.
- Market Engagement
The Council invites suppliers to provide the following information:
Overview of solution and key functionality
Relevant experience, particularly within local government or the public sector
Indicative pricing and commercial models
Implementation approach, including indicative timescales and resource requirements
Integration approach and technical requirements
Any key risks, dependencies or considerations
The Council may undertake further engagement, including supplier briefings, demonstrations or questionnaires. Additional information: Responses are requested not later than 2nd July 2026
Pipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How Fife Council buys Software package and information systems (CPV 48), and who usually turns up
Fife Council’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: Software package and information systems (CPV 48) →
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. The market figure counts awards delivered in Scotland.
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 62 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 bid12% / 0%
2–335% / 32%
4–635% / 27%
7+18% / 41%
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 estimate44% / 80%
Within ±2%44% / 10%
Above estimate11% / 10%
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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.
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 #1Fife Council is exploring the potential procurement of a digital platform to support…CPV 48Published estimate£80k
This lot lists more than one class in CPV 48. The comparison uses that group.
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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 22 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid0%
2–332%
4–627%
7+41%
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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 · publisher note attached- Legal basis
- CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
- Procurement category
- Goods
- Notice status
- Planned procurement
- Procurement threshold
- Unspecified in notice
- 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
- 2 Jun 2026, 09:40 BST
- Last source update
- 2 Jun 2026, 09:40 BST
- Authority reference
CFM0515- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-051702- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
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How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
2 Jun 2026 → 1 Sept 2026 · 2 dates- Notice published144 days ago2 Jun 2026, 09:40 BST
- Tender notice expected53 days ago1 Sept 2026, 00:00 BST
Commercial outcome & contract awards
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Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Official documents & specifications
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