Official UK procurement notice
HR - ICS - Pay progression digital assessment tool
Authority: Department for Energy Security & Net Zero (Central government)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThe HR team within ICS Integrated Corporate Services, part of the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero is seeking to engage with the market in advance of a potential future procurement, for the provision of a digital solution to help support manage pay progression across the pay scale for approximately 4,000 staff.
This notice aims to inform suppliers of a forthcoming supplier event to be held via teams on Monday 15th December.
We invite interested parties to share details of systems that can support pay progression and streamline processes by reducing administrative tasks through digital solutions.
We are interested in solutions that offer:
- Automated pay progression functionality aligned with ICS pay structures and policies
- Integration capabilities with existing HR and payroll systems such as workday
- Compliance with relevant employment and data protection standards
- User-friendly interfaces for HR teams, managers, and staff
- Robust reporting and audit features to support governance and transparency
- Scalable architecture to accommodate future workforce changes
CPV: IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support · Software package and information systems
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedPipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How Department for Energy Security & Net Zero buys Software package and information systems (CPV 48), and who usually turns up
Department for Energy Security & Net Zero’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: Software package and information systems (CPV 48) →
How the contest usually goes
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How often small and medium firms win.
Share of awards where the winner’s size is known.
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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.
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
No winner locations published for this authority. Local means a registered address in the delivery region.
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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 41 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.
The buyer’s share is a minimum: 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 bid10%
2–330%
4–640%
7+20%
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 estimate46%
Within ±2%46%
Above estimate8%
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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 #1Published estimate£400k
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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 379 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid15%
2–331%
4–632%
7+22%
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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- 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
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 3 Dec 2025, 10:39 GMT
- Last source update
- 4 Dec 2025, 09:19 GMT
- Authority reference
PRJ_6201- FTS notice number
2025/S 000-079569- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-05edafFind a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
3 Dec 2025 → 20 Apr 2026 · 4 dates- Planning notice published323 days ago3 Dec 2025, 10:39 GMT
- Market engagement313 days ago12 Dec 2025, 23:59 GMT
The aim of this market engagement is to explore available digital solutions, understand technological capabilities, and inform the market of the future competition. This exercise will help support any potential future procurement approach.
If your organisation would like to attend the pre market engagement session via Teams on Monday 15th December 14:00 GMT ,
please can you confirm via email to [email protected] with the title
"PME EVENT Pay progression tool"
if you would like to attend. Please confirm
- Name of Organisation
- Name of Attendees & positions
No later than Friday 12th December 17:00 GMT.
We loook forward to hearing from you.
- Tender notice expected261 days ago2 Feb 2026, 23:59 GMT
- Contract starts185 days ago20 Apr 2026, 00:00 BST
Notice history
2 events · 2 releases on Find a Tender · since 3 Dec 2025- Preliminary market engagement notice published3 Dec 2025, 10:39 GMTUK2
- Preliminary market engagement notice published4 Dec 2025, 09:19 GMTUK2
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
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender