Official UK procurement notice
Environment, Build, Support and Administration (EBSA)
Authority: Home Office (Central government)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThe Home Office intends to publish a Tender for the EBSA Procurement under Technology Services 4 (TS4), Lot 5 on 12th December 2025.
Deadline: 5th December 2025, all suppliers must:
Register an interest at [email protected], requesting the releavnt forms.
Make a declaration regarding any conflict of interest (perceived or actual).
If you previously attended a Market Engagement Event, your signed Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA) remains valid for the duration of the procurement.
All interested parties must:
Sign the Home Office NDA.
Review and complete the Conflict of Interest form, declaring either:
No conflict, or
Conflict identified.
If a conflict is declared, the Home Office will decide whether an Ethical Wall Agreement is required. This agreement must outline how the supplier will manage the conflict internally and then be returned for Home Office consideration.
All interested parties must return all documents by 5pm 5th December 2025 to receive the ITT pack.
Purpose: To ensure an open and transparent procurement process and mitigate any unfair advantage, perceived or otherwise.
Description
EBSA provides a highly secure and scalable build, test, deployment and run capability for CNI and non-CNI applications for Migration and Borders within the Home Office.
EBSA key information
- Hosts around 250 programme/product teams, 3,000 users, and major programmes, including Crossing the Border, Electronic Travel Authorisation (ETAs) and Immigration Case Management.
- Multiple tenancy in a secure manner that adheres to the security requirements for each programme of work
- Provides service management for the hosted tenants.
- The existing service is provided by Capgemini.
- The successful bidder will be required to provide a product- centric managed service for EBSA, ensuring optimal performance, security, and cost-efficiency.
- Responsibilities will include infrastructure platform support, management, monitoring, backup and disaster recovery, compliance, updates, managing & delivering remediation of technical debt etc.
- The successful bidder will maintain near 24/7 platform availability, implement best practices as per the policy direction of Home Office Digital and help with cloud strategy, scalability, and resource optimisation for seamless operations.
- Working with the Home Office to deliver efficiency improvement and support the 2030 Digital Strategy
CPV: Business analysis consultancy services · Programming services · System and support services · Systems consultancy services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · value publishedLot #1PlannedRenewalPublished value£200,000,000
Pipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How Home Office buys Systems analysis and programming services (CPV 7224), and who usually turns up
Home Office’s own published record, next to the published market for the same work. Frameworks and DPS are kept out: they attract a different number of bids. Whole-market view: Systems analysis and programming services (CPV 7224) →
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.
Here, local means registered in Greater London.
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners are registered outside Greater London.
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How long buyers here take to decide after bids close.
Middle value in days from the deadline to the first award notice, on competitions that published both dates.
Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.
Half of these awards were announced within 116 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 bid11% / 17%
2–337% / 17%
4–641% / 33%
7+11% / 33%
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% / 40%
Within ±2%38% / 60%
Above estimate19% / 0%
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 7224Published estimate£200m
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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 162 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid7%
2–332%
4–629%
7+31%
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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
- 29 Oct 2025, 14:36 GMT
- Last source update
- 20 Nov 2025, 16:47 GMT
- Award evaluation window
- Submission end – 19 Jun 2026
- Authority reference
Prj9595- FTS notice number
2025/S 000-075832- Latest notice
- Planned procurement notice (UK3)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-05d65bFind a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
- 6 Feb 2026, 23:59 GMT
- Accepted languages
- en
Timeline
29 Oct 2025 → 20 Aug 2026 · 7 dates- Planning notice published357 days ago29 Oct 2025, 14:36 GMT
- Latest notice published335 days ago20 Nov 2025, 16:47 GMT
- Market engagement334 days ago21 Nov 2025, 23:59 GMT
This is the first round of market engagement for the Environment, Build, Support and Administration (EBSA) procurement under the Technology Services 4 (TS4) framework.
No additional rounds of engagement are planned as previous market engagement was delivered when EBSA was being procured under the TS3 framework.
Please note the following steps for participation in this round:
- To express an interest, participants must first be registered on the Home Office's eSourcing Portal (JAGGAER). If you have not yet registered, this can be done online at:
homeoffice.app.jaggaer.com/web/login.html ↗
by following the Register Here link.
Please note: To register, you must have a valid DUNS number (as provided by Dun & Bradstreet) for the organisation which you are registering and which would be entering into a contract if invited to do so.
- Registering on JAGGAER does not provide immediate access to the market engagement event. Once registered, a user must express interest in this specific procurement by emailing:
with the subject line:
"EBSA - Expression of Interest"
The email should include:
- Organisation name (as registered on JAGGAER)
- Contact name
- Email address
- Telephone number
- DUNS number
- Confirmation that you have bid to be on the TS4 framework via CCS
- Once the above steps are completed, participants will be granted access to the Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA) event in JAGGAER.
- Participants must complete and return their signed NDA via JAGGAER in order to be added to the Market Engagement Event, which includes access to the supplier briefing document and further instructions. Please do this by Friday 7 November.
- Ahead of the Market Engagement event, the Home Office will share some of the draft ITT documentation with potential suppliers so they have early sight of content which will be discussed at the event. The Home Office will be requesting written feedback on this documentation until Friday 21 November 2025 and any feedback submitted after this deadline will not be considered. The Home Office will provide further instruction on the written feedback request when they share documentation. The documentation will be draft, with the Home Office reserving the right to amend the documents and to not implement all feedback received.
- The TS4 Market Engagement Briefing Event will be held virtually on Tuesday 18 November 2025. This event will provide an overview of the opportunity, outline the procurement timeline and process, as well as present on topics which may include:
- Instructions to Bidders
- Evaluation Criteria
- Service Levels/KPIs
- In addition to written feedback on the draft ITT documentation, there will be a supplier Clarification Question (CQ) submission period from Tuesday 18 November to Friday 21 November. Suppliers may submit questions during this time via JAGGAER.
- The Home Office will respond to all CQs with a final published response set on Friday 28 November 2025.
- Participants should ensure they allow sufficient time to complete the NDA process and submit any responses or feedback before the event closes.
- Tender notice expected313 days ago12 Dec 2025, 23:59 GMT
- Submission deadline257 days ago6 Feb 2026, 23:59 GMT
- Award decision expected by124 days ago19 Jun 2026, 23:59 BST
- Contract starts63 days ago20 Aug 2026, 00:00 BST
Notice history
5 events · 2 releases on Find a Tender · since 29 Oct 2025- Preliminary market engagement notice published29 Oct 2025, 14:36 GMTUK2
- Planned procurement notice published20 Nov 2025, 16:47 GMTUK3
- Status changed to planned20 Nov 2025, 16:47 GMT
- Procurement method changed20 Nov 2025, 16:47 GMT
- Deadline published: 6 Feb 2026, 23:59 GMT20 Nov 2025, 16:47 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
- Planned procurement notice Planned procurement notice on Find a Tender
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender