Official UK procurement notice
Ofcom Skilled Persons · UK public procurement notice
Authority: Ofcom (Public body)
Ofcom are keen to engage with suitably experienced suppliers capable of delivering a 'Skilled Persons' service. The Skilled Persons' report powers under the Online Safety Act are new powers for Ofcom.
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionOfcom are keen to engage with suitably experienced suppliers capable of delivering a 'Skilled Persons' service.
The Skilled Persons' report powers under the Online Safety Act are new powers for Ofcom. This Preliminary Market Engagement (PME) exercise seeks feedback from the market and particularly from experienced experts who specialise in any of the identified Work Areas (detailed in the PME document), through responses to the PME Questionnaire .
We are keen to engage to better understand the market in relation to:
- the work areas and how they are grouped;
- the different contracting models;
- the different payment mechanisms; and
- how to cost for the services of a Skilled Persons' report.
The PME document can be found on Ofcom's eSourcing portal. Please see 'Engagement process description' below.
CPV: IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support · Systems and technical consultancy services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedPipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How Ofcom buys Systems and technical consultancy services (CPV 7222), and who usually turns up
Ofcom’s published record next to the market for the same work. Frameworks and DPS are left out: they draw different bid counts. Whole-market view: Systems and technical consultancy services (CPV 7222) →
How the contest usually goes
Winner shares use published awards; bid and price charts use contested lots.
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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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Local means the winner is registered in the region where that award was delivered.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners were registered in the region where that award was delivered.
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Half of these awards have an award date within 48 days of the bid deadline.
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Both shares are minimums: some awards have no bid count.
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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1 bid29% / 14%
2–341% / 33%
4–618% / 25%
7+12% / 28%
How did awards compare with estimates?
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Below estimate14% / 40%
Within ±2%29% / 46%
Above estimate57% / 14%
Assess each lot i
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Open a lot for its forecast, this buyer’s previous supplier and possible competitors, from published award history, not a bid list
Lot #1CPV 7222Published estimate£2.0m
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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 133 past lots.
1 bid14%
2–333%
4–625%
7+28%
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No comparable awards for this lot yet.
Who has supplied this buyer on similar work? i
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No earlier contract of this buyer matches this lot on the published record.
Who could compete for this lot? i
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Candidate suppliers for this notice have not been worked out yet, so this is not a verdict that nobody fits.
About this data
- Estimates, labelled. The price range, possible competitors and earlier-work matches are our estimates from past awards, not published facts, win chances or price advice. The buyer’s own record and the wider market are shown apart, never mixed.
- Source. Official UK public procurement notices (Find a Tender and Contracts Finder), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0, updated through the day and rebuilt nightly. Not every figure uses both feeds, and each one shows how many records it rests on: see 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
- 29 Sept 2026, 13:18 BST
- Last source update
- 29 Sept 2026, 13:18 BST
- Authority reference
C20262747/COM-00183- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-091871- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-077c72Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
29 Sept 2026 → 31 Aug 2027 · 4 dates- Planning notice published45 days ago29 Sept 2026, 13:18 BST
- Market engagement14 days ago29 Oct 2026, 23:59 GMT
The purpose of this preliminary market engagement (PME) questionnaire is to seek input from market participants to inform and help us inform our procurement strategy.
The PME will provide Ofcom with the opportunity to obtain insight into how potential Suppliers might approach delivery of the service in question and gain an understanding of the capability/interest from the market.
This PME will be in the form of a questionnaire, and possibly some discussion between the Ofcom Project Team and interested Suppliers.
If you would like to participate in the PME exercise, please access the PME document available via Ofcom's Jaggaer procurement portal at ofcom.ukp.app.jaggaer.com ↗.
To access the PME documents interested suppleirs will need to be registered as a supplier on the Ofcom Jaggaer esourcing portal. Visit the URL above and click on 'Register here'.
When registered log-in to Ofcom's Jaggaer esourcing portal and go to the PQQ page 'pqq_100 - Ofcom Skilled Persons', complete the questionnaire, attach it where indicated in the Technical envelope and Submit.
Clarification questions can be submitted via the messaging facility within pqq_100.
The closing deadline for submitting completed questionnaires is 12 noon, 29 October 2026.
- Today13 Nov 2026
- Tender notice expectedin 139 days1 Apr 2027, 23:59 BST
- Contract startsin 290 days31 Aug 2027, 00:00 BST
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Preliminary market engagement notice published29 Sept 2026, 13:18 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