Official UK procurement notice
Low-code/Power Platforms · UK public procurement notice
Authority: Home Office (Central government)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThe Home Office is seeking to engage with suppliers interested in delivering digital professional services for a future procurement.
The requirement is still being developed, and this preliminary market engagement will be used to test supplier appetite, understand market capability, and help refine the final requirement and procurement approach.
The potential future requirement may include, but is not limited to, improving operational efficiency through automation using low-code and no-code technologies (e.g. Power Platform).
More detail on requirements will be provided upon the signing and returning of the NDA.
This is not a call for competition or an invitation to tender. The Home Office reserves the right to amend the scope, procurement route, commercial model and timetable following market engagement and internal approvals.
For the purposes of this Preliminary Market Engagement Notice, the estimated contract value has been calculated based on information currently available. This figure is indicative only and is subject to change. The Contracting Authority reserves the right to amend, update, or vary the estimated value and makes no commitment or guarantee as to the final contract value in any future procurement.
The proposed CPV codes are intended to reflect the current anticipated scope of the requirement, including digital professional services, low-code development, automation, systems integration, and associated consultancy services. The final list may be amended following market engagement.
The Home Office reserves the right to amend the details provided at Market Engagement process at a later date if needed. Any changes will be updated on the Preliminary Market Engagement Notice and communicated through Jaggaer.
CPV: IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support · Information technology requirements review services · Information technology services · Office automation software development services · Programming services of systems and user software · Software development services · Software implementation services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1PlannedRenewal
Pipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How Home Office buys Programming services of packaged software products (CPV 7221), 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: Programming services of packaged software products (CPV 7221) →
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% / 0%
2–337% / 31%
4–641% / 31%
7+11% / 38%
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% / 42%
Within ±2%38% / 58%
Above estimate19% / 0%
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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 #1CPV 7221Published estimate£18m
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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 13 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid0%
2–331%
4–631%
7+38%
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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
- 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
- 8 Jun 2026, 15:46 BST
- Last source update
- 8 Jun 2026, 15:46 BST
- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-053914- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06b00dFind a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
8 Jun 2026 → 1 Dec 2026 · 4 dates- Planning notice published135 days ago8 Jun 2026, 15:46 BST
- Market engagement120 days ago23 Jun 2026, 23:59 BST
This Preliminary Market Engagement relates to the Home Office’s potential future Low-code/Power Platforms procurement.
The requirement is currently under development. The purpose of this engagement is to test supplier appetite, understand market capability, gather views on potential delivery and commercial models, and support the Authority in refining the requirement and procurement approach.
The engagement process will be conducted in the stages outlined below. Further phases of engagement may be introduced prior to the launch of any formal procurement process.
- To express an interest in participating, suppliers must first be registered on the Home Office eSourcing Suite. Registration can be completed online at:
homeoffice.app.jaggaer.com/web/login.html ↗
Please note that, in order to register, suppliers must have a valid DUNS number (provided by Dun & Bradstreet) for the legal entity that would enter into any resulting contract.
Suppliers wishing to participate should submit an Expression of Interest email using the following details:
Email address: [email protected]
Email subject line: Expression of Interest – LC/PP – NDA Request – [DUNS Number]
The email must include:
- Supplier name (as registered on Companies House)
- DUNS number
- Jaggaer Account ID
- Contact details for the nominated representative, including:
- Name
- Job title
- Email address
- Contact telephone number
- Once the above steps have been completed, suppliers will be granted access to the Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA) event within Jaggaer.
- Suppliers will then be required to complete and return the NDA via Jaggaer for Authority countersignature by 18/06/2026.
- Suppliers whose NDAs have been countersigned will be granted access to the Request for Information (RFI) from 16/06/2026 via Jaggaer. Information provided at the RFI stage should not be shared with anyone that is not bound by the NDA.
The RFI will provide additional information regarding the Authority’s current thinking, the strategic and operational context, the indicative scope of the potential future requirement, and the areas on which supplier feedback is being sought.
Information provided within the RFI will be high-level and indicative only. It should not be interpreted as a final specification, statement of requirements, procurement strategy, or commitment to procure. All documentation will remain draft and subject to amendment. The Home Office reserves the right to amend the documentation and may choose not to adopt all feedback received.
- Suppliers will have the opportunity to submit clarification questions. The deadline for submission of clarification questions is 13:00 18/06/2026.
- The Home Office will provide answers to the clarification questions by 17:30 on 19/06/2026
- Suppliers are required to submit their RFI responses by the engagement deadline of 23/06/2026. Participants should ensure that sufficient time is allowed to complete the NDA process and submit any responses or feedback prior to the closure of the event.
Please note:
- The dates provided above are indicative only and remain subject to change.
- The Home Office reserves the right to amend the Preliminary Market Engagement process at any stage if required.
- Any updates or changes will be communicated via the Preliminary Market Engagement Notice and through Jaggaer.
- Tender notice expected58 days ago24 Aug 2026, 23:59 BST
- Today21 Oct 2026
- Contract startsin 40 days1 Dec 2026
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Preliminary market engagement notice published8 Jun 2026, 15:46 BSTUK2
Commercial outcome & contract awards
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- 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