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Published 8 Sept 2026, 15:11 BST

Official UK procurement notice

Employee Voice Pre Market Engagement

Authority: Ofcom (Public body)

GoodsAbove threshold
Sectors: Software Packages & ERP (48)Business Services & Consultancy (79) Delivery: UK
Budget not disclosed Value not published
Tender notice expected Date not publishedfrom the planned procurement notice
Contract term 4 yrsstarts 1 Apr 2027

What is being bought

Published requirement description

Organisations are invited to take part in the pre maket engagement seek input from market participants to inform and help Ofcom inform our procurement strategy for our employee voice programme.

Ofcom currently relies on an annual colleague survey as the primary means of gathering measurable feedback on employee experience. This model does not provide sufficiently timely or agile insight into emerging colleague experience, culture, engagement and organisational challenges. As a result, there is a risk that feedback is gathered too infrequently to support timely action and evidence-based decision making.

The opportunity is to explore how to procure a pulse survey tool that enables shorter, more frequent colleague surveys, as well as the ability to run multiple surveys in parallel across different populations and topics. This would support a more agile employee listening model, provide quicker insight into priority issues, and strengthen the link between colleague feedback and visible action.

CPV: Software package and information systems · Survey analysis services · Survey services

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published
Lot #1Lot 1Planned 4 yrs
Contract period: 1 Apr 2027 — 31 Mar 2031 (4 yrs)Delivery: UK
48000000 Software package and information systems79311000 Survey services79311300 Survey analysis services

Procedure terms & legal framework

From the official record
Legal basis
UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
Procurement category
Goods
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
No (one-off requirement)
First published
8 Sept 2026, 15:11 BST
Last source update
8 Sept 2026, 15:11 BST
Authority reference
COM-00161
Latest notice
Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
Classification (CPV)
Software package and information systemsSurvey analysis servicesSurvey services
Delivery area
UK
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06f4cd

How it was run

Submission deadline
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Timeline

3 published dates · Europe/London
  1. Planning notice published13 days ago
    8 Sept 2026, 15:11 BST
  2. Market engagementin 9 days
    29 Sept 2026, 23:59 BST
    The purpose of this preliminary market engagement (PME) questionnaire is to seek input from market participants to inform and help us inform our procurement strategy. The PME will provide Ofcom with the opportunity to obtain insight into the available Employee Voice solutions on the market, how more…potential Suppliers might approach delivery of the good(s)/service(s) in question and gain an understanding of the capability/interest from the market. This PME will be in the form of a questionnaire, and possibly some discussion between the Ofcom Project Team and interested Suppliers. If you would like to participate in the PME exercise, please access the PME document available via Ofcom's Jaggaer procurement portal at https://ofcom.ukp.app.jaggaer.com/. To access the PME documents interested suppleirs will need to be registered as a supplier on the Ofcom Jaggaer esourcing portal. Visit the URL above and click on 'Register here'. If already registered log-in to Ofcom's Jaggaer esourcing portal and go to the PQQ page 'pqq_98 - Employee Voice RFI', complete the questionnaire, attach it where indicated in the Technical envelope and Submit. Clarification questions can be submitted via the messaging facility within the pqq_98. The closing deadline for submitting completed questionnaires is 12 noon, 29 September 2026.
  3. Contract startsin 192 days
    1 Apr 2027, 00:00 BST

Commercial outcome & contract awards

Pipeline notice
Awards (0)
No award published
Contracts (0)
No contract published
Bid statistics
No aggregate bid statistics published

Notice history

1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender
  1. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    8 Sept 2026, 15:11 BSTUK2

Contracting authority & participating public bodies

Ofcom

Contracting authorityPublic authority - sub-central government GB-PPON: PQQZ-1663-NWMN Riverside House, 2a Southwark Bridge Road, London, London, SE1 9HA [email protected]

Official documents & specifications (1)

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