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Engineering Framework

Buyer: British Business Bank Plc →

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BuyerBritish Business Bank Plc
StatusClosed
Deadline1 Jul 2026
Value£24,500,000
Published18 Jun 2026

What is being bought

This notice continues on from the: Qualifying Planned Procurement Notice (Procurement identifier (OCID): ocds-h6vhtk-068860) allowing BBB to reduce the timescales for this exercise. Pre Market Engagement Notice (Procurement identifier (OCID): ocds-h6vhtk-068750) The Bank intends to establish a multi-year, multi-supplier framework agreement for the provision of engineering services. As part of its ongoing technology transformation, including the expansion of its digital estate, the Bank requires timely and flexible access to specialist external resource across a range of technology, design and delivery disciplines. The framework is structured into a number of Lots and will establish a panel of pre-qualified suppliers capable of delivering services across, but not limited to, the following areas: Lot 1: Software Engineering and Applications Design Lot 2: Artificial Intelligence (AI) Suppliers - AI, Automation and Intelligent Systems Design Lot 3: Service Design Lot 4: DevOps – Platform Engineering Lot 5: Product Design and User Interface Design Lot 6: Digital Services and Web Product Development The framework is intended to provide the Bank with a compliant and efficient route to market for the call-off of services, enabling: Rapid access to appropriately skilled resources Supplementation of internal capacity and capability Mitigation of delivery and programme risk Acceleration of delivery across priority initiatives The framework will also support the development of a diverse, scalable and resilient supplier base, capable of supporting both short-term delivery requirements and longer-term strategic transformation objectives. For more information about this opportunity, please visit the eSourcing portal at: https://www.delta-esourcing.com/tenders/UK-UK-Sheffield:-Information-technology-services./7Y34D8JA7V To respond to this opportunity, please click here: https://www.delta-esourcing.com/respond/7Y34D8JA7V

Delivery location

UK, GB · UK, GB · UK, GB · UK, GB · UK, GB · UK, GB

Categories

Information technology services 72222300Software-related services 72260000Software support services 72261000Software development services 72262000

Lot details

– Software Engineering and Application Design

This Lot provides access to suppliers with specialist capabilities in software engineering, applications design and modern digital delivery. It enables the Buyer to design, build, modernise and support high-quality digital products and services aligned to user needs, organisational strategy and secure engineering standards.

Statusactive
Value£4,600,000
Contract periodFrom 14 Sept 2026 to 13 Sept 2030
SME suitabilitySuitable for SMEs

Award criteria
Price (35%)
Quality Criteria (65%)

Artificial Intelligence (AI) suppliers - AI, Automation, and Intelligent Systems Design

This Lot provides access to suppliers with specialist capabilities in AI, automation and intelligent systems design. It enables the Buyer to rethink and transform how they use people, data, technology and processes through the safe, ethical and effective adoption of AI

Statusactive
Value£3,000,000
Contract periodFrom 14 Sept 2026 to 13 Sept 2030
SME suitabilitySuitable for SMEs

Award criteria
Quality (65%)
Price (35%)

Service Design

This Lot enables rapid procurement of expert service design capability. It supports the Buyer to redesign or create services that are user-centred, accessible, efficient and operationally sustainable, ensuring end-to-end alignment between people, processes, policy and technology. Suppliers under this Lot can provide individual designers, multidisciplinary teams or full end-to-end service redesign capability. Specialists may embed within agile delivery teams or support discovery, alpha, beta and live phases to ensure services are usable, accessible, efficient and sustainable.

Statusactive
Value£4,000,000
Contract periodFrom 14 Sept 2026 to 13 Sept 2030
SME suitabilitySuitable for SMEs

Award criteria
Price (35%)
Quality (65%)

DevOps – Platform Engineering

This Lot enables rapid procurement of expert DevOps and platform engineering capabilities. It supports the Buyer to modernise infrastructure, enhance service reliability, adopt cloud-native delivery models and accelerate secure, automated delivery of digital services.

Statusactive
Value£3,100,000
Contract periodFrom 14 Sept 2026 to 13 Sept 2030
SME suitabilitySuitable for SMEs

Award criteria
Quality (65%)
Price (35%)

Product Design and User Interface Design

This Lot enables rapid procurement of specialist Product Design and UI/UX expertise to create high quality, accessible, and production ready digital interfaces. It ensures the Buyer can access designers who translate user needs and service requirements into intuitive, visually consistent and scalable digital products, supported by robust design systems, interaction patterns and developer ready assets. By providing access to end-to-end UI/UX capability across all delivery phases, this Lot helps teams build modern digital products that meet usability and accessibility standards, reduce friction for users and accelerate efficient front-end development.

Statusactive
Value£3,000,000
Contract periodFrom 14 Sept 2026 to 13 Sept 2030
SME suitabilitySuitable for SMEs

Award criteria
Criterion 1 (65%)
Criterion 2 (35%)

Digital Services and Website Estate (Digital Experience Platform Support)

This Lot relates exclusively to the British Business Bank’s external website estate and associated marketing digital platforms. The appointed supplier will act as a single strategic partner to the Marketing function, responsible for the end-to-end delivery, support, and continuous improvement of the Bank’s public-facing website(s), currently hosted on the Acquia Drupal platform.

Statusactive
Value£6,800,000
Contract periodFrom 14 Sept 2026 to 13 Sept 2030
SME suitabilitySuitable for SMEs

Award criteria
Quality (65%)
Price (35%)

What is included

ItemCategoryQuantity
1Information technology services, Software-related services, Software support services, Software development servicesNot published
Lot 2Information technology services, Software development services, Software support services, Software-related servicesNot published
Lot 3Information technology services, Software-related services, Software support services, Software development servicesNot published
Lot 4Information technology services, Software-related services, Software support services, Software development servicesNot published
Lot 5Information technology services, Software development services, Software support services, Software-related servicesNot published
Lot 6Information technology services, Software development services, Software support servicesNot published

Comparable-procurement analytics

Benchmarked against retained Find a Tender procedures with CPV division 72. The category anchor is Information technology services (72222300); this is a deliberately broad market comparator. The comparison is shown at several levels rather than pretending one company or region is always the best benchmark.

Comparison setProceduresReported bids per procedureNamed award suppliersPrice evidence
Market: CPV division 725,7531 median · 14.6 average (2,068 of 5,753 with a bid count)1.9 average (2,465 of 5,753 with named award suppliers)Not published
Same buyer7Not publishedNot publishedNot published
Delivery region: UK1,8191 median · 33.3 average (583 of 1,819 with a bid count)2.8 average (751 of 1,819 with named award suppliers)Not published
Similar published value (0.5×–2×)17214 median · 15 average (3 of 172 with a bid count)4 average (3 of 172 with named award suppliers)Not published

“Reported bids” is an official aggregate, sometimes reported per lot; it is the closest available competition measure. “Named award suppliers” are winners, not all applicants.

Price-outcome signal

Not enough comparable procedures currently publish both a GBP tender value and a usable lowest-valid-bid value to calculate a responsible price-reduction benchmark. Tenderline deliberately does not infer a saving from named award suppliers or from missing award values.

Procurement strategy & market signals

Framework agreementYes
Dynamic purchasing systemNot published
Competitive procurementNot published
Recurring requirementNot published
Procurement method rationaleNot published
Rationale classificationsNot published
Special regimeNot published
Covered byNot published
Submission policyallowed
Selection criteriaNot published
Risk detailsNot published

Planning & early market engagement

BudgetNot published
No-engagement rationaleNot published
Planning documents0
Planning milestones0

No planning milestones published.

Related procurements

No linked framework, prior procurement or reprocurement published.

Documents & submission route

Source data inventory

Diagnostic view. “Not published” means this current release does not provide a value.

OCIDocds-h6vhtk-068750
Latest release ID057477-2026
Latest release timestampThu Jun 18 2026 10:30:19 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Sourcefind-a-tender
Official notice URLhttps://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/057477-2026
Tender statusactive
Procurement methodopen
Procurement method detailsCompetitive flexible procedure
Main procurement categoryservices
Above thresholdYes
Legal basis2023/54
Tender period: startNot published
Tender period: end2026-07-01T12:00:00+01:00
Expression of interest deadlineNot published
Enquiry deadline2026-06-24T12:00:00+01:00
Award period: startNot published
Award period: end2026-09-14T23:59:59+01:00
Submission method detailshttps://delta-esourcing.com/respond/7Y34D8JA7V Access Code 7Y34D8JA7V
Submission languagesen
Electronic catalogue policyNot published
Total tender value£24,500,000
Tender lots in source6
Tender items in source6
Tender documents in source2
Awards in latest release0
Contracts in latest release0
Parties in latest release1

Notice history

DateEventReference
18 Jun 2026tender057477-2026
21 Apr 2026planning036071-2026

All source data

Unmodified official OCDS data retained by Tenderline for this procurement process.

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Complete JSON history (2 releases)
18 Jun 2026 · 057477-2026 · tender
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21 Apr 2026 · 036071-2026 · planning
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