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title: "P2026-255 - UK Digital Twin Centre - Technology Access Programme (TAP)"
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# P2026-255 - UK Digital Twin Centre - Technology Access Programme (TAP)

Source: [Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/p2026-255-uk-digital-twin-centre-technology-access-programme-tap-ocds-h6vhtk-07b82b). UK public procurement intelligence compiled from official UK procurement notices.

> **Notice summary:** The Digital Twin Design Centre, based in Belfast, delivers programmes to help businesses across the UK to demystify, demonstrate, and deploy digital twins. With expert support, test environments and tools to experiment and validate, combined with shared learnings from industry use cases, it offers a practical route to adoption.

## Key Information
- **Status:** ACTIVE (open for submissions, 80 days left when this document was generated)
- **Buyer:** [Digital Catapult](https://tenderline.uk/buyers/digital-catapult-coh-07964699)
- **Published Value:** £160,000 (GBP)
- **Submission Deadline:** 29 January 2027 at 12:00 GMT
- **Lots:** 1
- **Procurement Method:** Below threshold - open competition
- **Main Category:** services
- **Classifications (CPV):** IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support
- **Delivery Location:** UK
- **Legal Basis:** UKPGA 2023/54
- **Official Documents:** 3 published documents & notices ([view on Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/p2026-255-uk-digital-twin-centre-technology-access-programme-tap-ocds-h6vhtk-07b82b#documents))
- **OCID:** `ocds-h6vhtk-07b82b`

## Before you bid
Deciding whether to bid? The Tenderline page for this tender carries the competition and buyer analysis this notice does not:

- **Expected competition:** about 5 bids (model forecast), with the distribution from past awards in the same market.
- **Who could compete:** suppliers who have won similar work, and who holds the current contract.
- **Buyer track record:** earlier work for this buyer, its unexpired awards, and how its awards compared with its estimates.
- **Price forecast:** £148k, 7% below the buyer's estimate (middle 50%: £128k-£160k), with the comparable awards behind it.

- **What it takes to win:** selection and award criteria, lot by lot.
- **Contract history:** what this tender replaces, and every notice in the procedure.

[Open the competition and buyer analysis](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/p2026-255-uk-digital-twin-centre-technology-access-programme-tap-ocds-h6vhtk-07b82b#tl-md)

## Submission
- **Submission Platform:** [mytenders.co.uk](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mytenders.co.uk)
- **How to bid:** https://tenderline.uk/tenders/p2026-255-uk-digital-twin-centre-technology-access-programme-tap-ocds-h6vhtk-07b82b#participate

## Description
The Digital Twin Design Centre, based in Belfast, delivers programmes to help businesses across the UK to demystify, demonstrate, and deploy digital twins. With expert support, test environments and tools to experiment and validate, combined with shared learnings from industry use cases, it offers a practical route to adoption

## Lots (1)
### Lot 1: Untitled lot
- **Lot id:** `1`
- **Status:** active
- **CPV codes:** 72000000
- **Delivery regions:** UK
- **Delivery countries in notice:** GB
- **Estimated Value:** £160,000

- **Contract Period:** 08/02/2027 to 07/02/2028

## Provenance and Official Sources
- **Official Notice:** [Find a Tender notice](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.find-tender.service.gov.uk%2FNotice%2F106488-2026)
- **Last Source Update:** 2026-11-10T09:20:22.000Z
- **This document generated:** 2026-11-10T09:58:41.833Z
- **Machine API:** https://tenderline.uk/api/public/tenders/ocds-h6vhtk-07b82b