Official UK procurement notice
Managing and Monitoring Multi-Tier Supplier Risk
Authority: CADENT GAS LIMITED (Public body)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionCadent is seeking a comprehensive supplier risk management solution and/or managed service that provides ongoing visibility, monitoring and reporting of risk across all tiers of the supply chain, with the ability to integrate risk intelligence into SAP Ariba Risk.
The solution should enable the identification, assessment and proactive management of financial, operational, business continuity, cyber, ESG, compliance, geopolitical and reputational risks affecting suppliers and sub-tier suppliers. It must provide robust risk scoring, real-time or scheduled monitoring, alerts, dashboards and reporting, supported by reliable data sources and auditable evidence.
Cadent requires clear visibility of supplier dependencies and critical supply chain risks, together with the ability to monitor emerging events and disruptions that could impact service delivery.
Suppliers should demonstrate how their solution supports governance, assurance, decision-making and regulatory compliance through scalable reporting, configurable workflows, strong data quality controls and secure information management.
A key requirement is seamless integration with SAP Ariba Risk through appropriate APIs, connectors or data feeds, ensuring supplier risk information remains current, accessible and actionable. The provider must also demonstrate a proven implementation approach, including onboarding, integration, testing, training and ongoing support, together with relevant experience delivering comparable supplier risk management solutions.
CPV: Content management software package · Software-related services · System and support services · System management software package
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedPipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How CADENT GAS LIMITED buys System, storage and content management software package (CPV 4878), and who usually turns up
CADENT GAS LIMITED’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: System, storage and content management software package (CPV 4878) →
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 the winner is registered in the region where that contract was delivered.
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners are registered in West Midlands.
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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 82 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 bid13%
2–332%
4–634%
7+21%
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 estimate42%
Within ±2%25%
Above estimate33%
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 4878Estimate not published
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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 38 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid13%
2–332%
4–634%
7+21%
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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
- Utilities
- 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 Aug 2026, 15:57 BST
- Last source update
- 3 Aug 2026, 15:57 BST
- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-073322- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Not published
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06da41Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
3 Aug 2026 → 1 May 2027 · 3 dates- Planning notice published80 days ago3 Aug 2026, 15:57 BST
- Market engagement66 days ago17 Aug 2026, 23:59 BST
Please email [email protected] for the RFI submission template.
The questions have also been listed below for reference.
- Solution Overview and Risk Coverage
Request for Information: Please provide an overview of your proposed solution and/or service, including the supplier risk domains covered (e.g. financial, operational, business continuity, ESG, cyber, compliance, sanctions, reputational, geopolitical and modern slavery risks), the data sources used, and how supplier risks are identified, assessed, monitored and reported.
Supplier response:
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- Multi-tier supply chain visibility
Request for Information: Please describe how your solution provides visibility across multiple tiers of the supply chain, including supply chain mapping, identification of sub-tier suppliers, critical dependencies, concentration risk, geographic exposure, single points of failure, and monitoring of upstream risk events.
Supplier response:
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- Risk Data Collection, Scoring and Assessment
Request for Information: Please explain how supplier risk data is obtained, consolidated and validated, including supplier-provided information, third-party data, public intelligence and event feeds. Describe your approach to risk scoring, trend analysis, supplier segmentation, prioritisation and supporting rationale.
Supplier response:
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- Monitoring, Alerts and Escalation
Request for Information: Please describe how your solution monitors suppliers on a continuous or scheduled basis, including alert generation, event monitoring, impact assessment, threshold-based notifications, escalation processes, dashboards and reporting of emerging or material risks.
Supplier response:
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- SAP Ariba Risk Integration
Request for Information: Please explain how your solution integrates with SAP Ariba Risk, including available APIs, connectors, file feeds or integration methods, data fields available for transfer, refresh frequency, validation controls, and how risk scores, alerts and supporting evidence are presented within or alongside SAP Ariba Risk.
Supplier response:
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- Reporting, Governance and Auditability
Request for Information: Please describe the reporting and management information available, including supplier-level risk profiles, portfolio dashboards, tiered risk summaries, trends, mitigation actions, evidence records, audit trails and exportable reporting to support governance, audit and assurance activities.
Supplier response:
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- Functional Capability and User Management
Request for Information: Please explain how your solution supports configurable workflows, notifications, supplier segmentation, data extraction, user access controls, role-based permissions, audit history and the maintenance of an auditable record of supplier risk assessments and updates.
Supplier response:
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- Implementation and Support
Request for Information: Please provide details of your proposed implementation approach, including mobilisation, onboarding, data requirements, data mapping, integration activities, testing, validation, training, knowledge transfer, support arrangements, key milestones and indicative implementation timescales.
Supplier response:
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- Security, Information Governance and Experience
Request for Information: Please describe your data security, information governance and confidentiality controls and provide examples of relevant experience delivering similar supplier risk monitoring, multi-tier supply chain visibility and SAP Ariba Risk integration solutions.
Supplier response:
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- Commercial Proposal and Benefits
Request for Information: Please provide your pricing model, including any licences, implementation costs, assumptions, dependencies and limitations, and explain how your solution will improve supplier risk visibility, supply chain resilience, risk-based decision making, governance and ongoing supplier risk management.
Supplier response:
- Today23 Oct 2026
- Contract startsin 190 days1 May 2027, 00:00 BST
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Preliminary market engagement notice published3 Aug 2026, 15:57 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