Official UK procurement notice
Market Engagement For The Applicant Transfer Service (supporting government-to-government migration partnership arrangements)
Authority: Home Office (Central government)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionAs part of its commitment to maintain a resilient and responsive immigration system, the Home Office intends to engage with suppliers for the provision of services under the International Applicant Transfer Service (supporting government-to-government migration partnership arrangements).
The Home Office is considering the establishment of a future-looking commercial arrangement that could be accessed when required to support the lawful transfer of eligible individuals from foreign countries to the UK. Services may include, but are not limited to, travel booking, accommodation, ground transport, operational coordination and associated wrap-around support.
The Home Office is seeking a flexible, responsive and value-for-money managed service solution that can support variable operational volumes and adapt to different service environments where required. The service may require coordination across multiple delivery points and may involve working with local delivery partners or subcontractors to support travel, transport, accommodation and wrap-around service delivery.
This market engagement aims to understand supplier capability, further refine specification, and gather feedback on proposed delivery and commercial approaches. Areas of interest include wrap-around support capability, management information, invoicing, cost transparency, subcontracting arrangements, variable volume pricing and potential future geographic flexibility.
There is no guaranteed volume, level of activity, business, or commitment to call off services under any future contract. Any volumes or scenarios shared during market engagement or any subsequent procurement should be treated as indicative only and for planning purposes.
The content of this Notice, including the nature of services, geographic scope, contract value and start date, is subject to change.
The contract is expected to be awarded in December 2026 and to commence in March 2027 after a mobilisation period. The expected contract length is 4 years, with an option to extend for a further 2 years, subject to operational need, approvals and funding.
For the purposes of this Preliminary Market Engagement Notice, the estimated contract value has been listed a range between £0 to £20m. This figure does not reflect the expected final value of the contract. The actual estimated value is currently being finalised and will be shared later.
CPV: Support services for land, water and air transport · Support services for road transport · Travel agency and similar services · Travel management services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedPipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How Home Office buys Travel agency and similar services (CPV 6351), 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: Travel agency and similar services (CPV 6351) →
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 (authority’s region).
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners are registered in 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% / 25%
2–337% / 25%
4–641% / 31%
7+11% / 19%
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% / 13%
Within ±2%38% / 63%
Above estimate19% / 25%
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 6351Published estimate£20m
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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 22 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid18%
2–341%
4–632%
7+9%
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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
- 3 Aug 2026, 16:08 BST
- Last source update
- 3 Aug 2026, 16:08 BST
- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-073341- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Not published
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06da4aFind a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
3 Aug 2026 → 1 Dec 2026 · 4 dates- Planning notice published80 days ago3 Aug 2026, 16:08 BST
- Market engagement73 days ago10 Aug 2026, 23:59 BST
Participants must first be registered on the Home Office eSourcing Suite. Registration can be completed online at homeoffice.app.jaggaer.com/web/login.html ↗ by selecting the “Register Here” link. A valid DUNS number from Dun & Bradstreet is required for the organisation being registered.
To access the market engagement documents Suppliers must sign the NDA, downloadable via the Home Offices eSourcing suite under Project_20842.
An email should then be sent to [email protected]. The email should be titled Applicant Transfer Service – Expression of Interest and must include expression of interest to be included in the Market Engagement and confirmation of intention to attend the industry day. This email should include the Suppliers name, contact name, email address and contact number.
Once the NDA is signed and the email submission is complete, the Market Engagement documents will be made available via invitation to the PQQ event under Project_20842 on the Home Offices eSourcing suit.
All suppliers participating in the market engagement will be provided with a background note setting out high-level contextual information on the Applicant Transfer Service requirement. This will include sufficient information to enable constructive engagement with the Home Office, while avoiding unnecessary disclosure of sensitive operational detail.
The Home Office intends to engage suppliers through virtual market engagement sessions on Microsoft Teams, supported by a short presentation and structured discussion. These sessions will be used to outline the high-level scope, test supplier capability and appetite, and gather feedback on key areas including wrap-around support, MI and invoicing, cost transparency, subcontracting, variable volumes and future geographic flexibility.
Suppliers may be asked to submit questions in advance using the template provided through the Home Office eSourcing suite. A defined window for submitting questions will be set out in the background note.
All suppliers will receive the same core information through the background note and engagement sessions to support fairness, transparency and equal treatment. Any material clarifications shared during the engagement process will be managed consistently.
Please refer to the background note for further instructions regarding the market engagement activities.
All written engagement with suppliers will be managed through the Home Office eSourcing suite, Jaggaer, except for the initial Expression of Interest email.
- Tender notice expected31 days ago21 Sept 2026, 23:59 BST
- Today22 Oct 2026
- Contract startsin 39 days1 Dec 2026
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Preliminary market engagement notice published3 Aug 2026, 16:08 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