Official UK procurement notice
Oracle Cloud · UK public procurement notice
Authority: Cornwall Council (Local council)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionFor the provision of Oracle Cloud Fusion licences.
Expected to be direct awarded via Lot 1: Enterprise Software of the Crown Commercial Services (CCS) Back Office Software 2 Framework (RM6285)
CPV: Software package and information systems
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1PlannedRenewal
Pipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How Cornwall Council buys Software package and information systems (CPV 48), and who usually turns up
Cornwall Council’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: Software package and information systems (CPV 48) →
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 South West England.
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners are registered in South West England.
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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 39 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 bid12% / 23%
2–346% / 23%
4–615% / 42%
7+27% / 12%
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 estimate18% / 68%
Within ±2%64% / 32%
Above estimate18% / 0%
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 #1Published estimate£6.1m
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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 26 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid23%
2–323%
4–642%
7+12%
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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- Procedure method
- Direct award
- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Goods
- Notice status
- Direct award proposed
- Procurement threshold
- Above threshold (FTS publication)
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Direct award (no call for competition)
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 11 Jan 2026, 22:01 GMT
- Last source update
- 27 May 2026, 15:47 BST
- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-049848- Latest notice
- Pipeline notice (UK1)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-060353Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
11 Jan 2026 → 1 Dec 2027 · 5 dates- Planning notice published282 days ago11 Jan 2026, 22:01 GMT
- Market engagement258 days ago4 Feb 2026, 23:59 GMT
ROUTE TO MARKET
Cornwall Council currently procure their Oracle Fusion platform direct from Oracle. The contract ends in November 2027, so we are coming to the market to ensure we have a continued licensing agreement to allow us to seamlessly continue supporting the business needs of the Council after that date.
Cornwall Council has not yet determined its preferred procurement route. Preliminary market engagement is being used to help inform this decision. At this stage, the Council is not committed to either a competitive tender process or a direct award. All transparency notices, and any tender notices where applicable, will be published on the Central Digital Platform via the Find a Tender Service.
RFI QUESTIONS AND INDICATIVE PRICING
- Please provide an estimated cost for the ongoing annual licencing of the Oracle software and any related services.
- Please confirm that you can provide the required modules of Oracle Fusion as detailed within the RFI.
- Please detail your service level agreement and provide an example copy as part of your response.
- Please explain what flexibility you can provide on licensing volumes and types within the length of the contact.
- Please confirm what additional capabilities you can provide around software asset management above those already provided by Oracle.
- What level of service do you provide around product roadmap visibility and client specific adoption.
- What support do you provide towards support and maintenance, adopting and testing of existing and new modules.
- If the Council chooses to run a competitive tender, which route to market would you advise we take (Framework, DPS, CDP, etc.)
Please email [email protected] for a PDF file that provides the licence volumes to be used for providing indicative pricing.
- Latest notice published147 days ago27 May 2026, 15:47 BST
- Today21 Oct 2026
- Tender notice expectedin 104 days1 Feb 2027, 23:59 GMT
- Contract starts1 Dec 2027
Notice history
4 events · 2 releases on Find a Tender · since 11 Jan 2026- Preliminary market engagement notice published11 Jan 2026, 22:01 GMTUK2
- Pipeline notice published27 May 2026, 15:47 BSTUK1
- Status changed to planned27 May 2026, 15:47 BST
- Procurement method changed27 May 2026, 15:47 BST
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Official documents & specifications (2)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Pipeline notice Pipeline notice on Find a Tender
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender