Find a TenderPlanned procurement
Published 5 Oct 2026, 09:54 BST

Official UK procurement notice

National School of Government and Public Services

Authority: Cabinet Office

Services
Budget not disclosedValue not published
Tender notice expected 1 Jan 2027from the planned procurement notice

What is being bought

Published requirement description

Cabinet Office intends to procure a robust, industry-standard Software as a Service (SaaS) Learning Management System (LMS) through the Government Commercial Agency's (GCA) RM6219 Learning and Training Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS), to support the new National School of Government and Public Services Learning & Development (L&D) offering.

The LMS will provide a scalable platform to support a user base of over 558,000 users and must meet mandatory security and information assurance requirements, including UK hosting of data and adherence to Secure by Design principles.

Mandatory Requirements

Security and information assurance requirements, specifically mandatory UK hosting of data and adherence to 'Secure by Design' requirements

Scalable and accessible to support over 558,000 users

Please note - The mandatory requirement must be met by all potential bidders

Essential requirements

Core LMS capability (i.e. learning catalogue, content tagging)

Booking and administration functionality

Admin controls for end-to-end of central delivery offer and repository

Migration support (for catalogue of learning)

Quality data, including feedback, reporting and evaluation

The requirement is for the provision of the LMS platform and associated implementation/support services. L&D content supplied by the LMS provider is out of scope; the platform will be used to host internally developed learning content.

CPV: Computer support and consultancy services · Computer-related management services · Custom software development services · E-learning services · Information technology services · Programming services of application software · Software package and information systems · Training services

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published
Lot #1The procurement will be conducted through the Government Commercial Agency's (GCA) RM6219 Learning and Training Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS)Planned
The procurement will be conducted through the Government Commercial Agency's (GCA) RM6219 Learning and Training Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS). Please see link to the Framework Agreement - https://www.gca.gov.uk/agreements/RM6219 Only appointed suppliers on the Learning and Training DPS who meet our essential requirements, will be invited to bid for this procurement. We encourage interested suppliers to complete their application to join the RM6219 Learning and Training DPS by 30th October 2026 at the latest, with the aim of being appointed onto the DPS in time for us to start our call off pr…
Delivery: UK
48000000 Software package and information systems72212000 Programming services of application software72230000 Custom software development services72510000 Computer-related management services72600000 Computer support and consultancy services80420000 E-learning services

Procedure terms & legal framework

From the official record
Legal basis
CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
Procurement category
Services
Notice status
Planned procurement
Procurement threshold
Unspecified in notice
Regulatory regime
Standard
Commercial structure
Stand-alone contract (no framework)
Competition type
Competitive procedure
GPA / WTO covered
Unspecified in notice
Recurring procurement
No (one-off requirement)
First published
5 Oct 2026, 09:54 BST
Last source update
5 Oct 2026, 09:54 BST
Classification (CPV)
Computer support and consultancy servicesComputer-related management servicesCustom software development servicesE-learning servicesInformation technology servicesProgramming services of application softwareSoftware package and information systemsTraining services
Delivery area
UK
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-078060

How it was run

Submission deadline
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Timeline

2 published dates · Europe/London
  1. Notice publishedearlier today
    5 Oct 2026, 09:54 BST
  2. Tender notice expectedin 88 days
    1 Jan 2027, 00:00 GMT

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

Cabinet Office

Contracting authorityBody governed by public lawGeneral public services GB-COH: 05756325 70 Whitehall, London, London, SW1A2AS

Official documents & specifications

Official links; attachments are not copied

No document links were published on the notice.