Official UK procurement notice
IT Service Management (ITSM) System
Authority: Northern Ireland Assembly Commission (Central government)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThe Northern Ireland Assembly Commission are at the outset of preparing for robust, credible and transparent preliminary market engagement exercise to develop a deliverable and affordable option for the IT Service Management (ITSM) System.
The purpose of this preliminary market engagement (PME) is to gather insights and feedback from the market to inform the development of the procurement strategy and specification for ITSM System, as well as assist the Assembly Commission to ensure that the most efficient and effective methods of procurement are considered.
This is not a tender exercise; participation is optional and won't affect future procurement opportunities. Interested suppliers can download the questionnaire and must submit completed forms via the portal's messaging function by 3pm on Wednesday 8 October 2025.
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CPV: IT software development services · Software development services · Software implementation services · Software supply services · Software support services · Software-related services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedProcedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Past planning notice
- 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
- 2 Oct 2025, 10:05 BST
- Last source update
- 2 Oct 2025, 10:05 BST
- FTS notice number
2025/S 000-061558- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Not published
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-05a65eFind a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
2 Oct 2025 → 1 Feb 2026 · 4 dates- Planning notice published385 days ago2 Oct 2025, 10:05 BST
- Tender notice expected363 days ago24 Oct 2025, 23:59 BST
- Market engagement363 days ago24 Oct 2025, 23:59 BST
•Supplier Information Session — 10 October 2025 via Microsoft Teams (60 minutes).
Purpose: provide background, scope and objectives, outline the timeline, explain the demonstration guidelines, Q&A.
•Supplier demonstrations — 13–22 October 2025 via Microsoft Teams (60 minutes).
Suppliers will demonstrate their ITSM solution features, indicative rollout plan, delivery model, integration approach, risks and potential issues, security/compliance and support/SLAs, an indicative range of costs for licensing, implementation, hosting and support.
•PME Questionnaire feedback – 24 October 2025
Suppliers should complete and return the requested information and feedback in the PME questionnaire provided.
- Contract starts264 days ago1 Feb 2026
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Preliminary market engagement notice published2 Oct 2025, 10:05 BSTUK2
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 (1)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender