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prj_16023 - HMCTS Third Party Courts Data Licence

Buyer: Ministry of Justice →

BuyerMinistry of Justice
Statusplanning
DeadlineNot published
Value£0
Published18 Feb 2026

What is being bought

The principle of open justice is crucial. His Majesty’s Courts and Tribunals Service (HMCTS) is committed to supporting greater transparency of courts and tribunals data. We are seeking to engage with potential applicants for the new courts and tribunals non-exclusive third party data licence which will grant successful licence applicants permission to undertake computational analysis of information published by the Court and Tribunal Hearings Service (CaTH) (https://www.court-tribunal-hearings.service.gov.uk/). The information available under this licence will in time encompass all hearing lists for all courts and tribunals administered by HMCTS and registers of outcomes from the criminal courts. Other information may be made available in the future. The information will be available to successful licence applicants in a standard, machine-readable form through CaTH’s application programming interface (API). The purpose of this market engagement is to understand the views of potential applicants for the licence on topics including: 1. Other information that HMCTS should seek to prioritise and publish via CaTH; 2. The implications of HMCTS’s proposed retention terms for data provided under the licence; 3. Potential data re-use purposes 4. Restrictions on the use of the data 5. Security measures that licensees will have to have in place 6. Restrictions on where globally data can be processed We are interested in hearing from a range of organisations and individuals, including, but not limited to: journalists and the accredited news media; lawtech firms and legal publishers; research institutes and compliance or data analytics firms. The findings from this market engagement will help to inform the development of the licence and its payment model. This session will not cover the detail of the application process for a licence. We are aiming to share this detail in April 2026. Event Details HMCTS invites interested organisations to attend a virtual market engagement event on 04th March 2026 which will be delivered via MS Teams and take place 10:00 – 11:30 (UK). Agenda: - Introduction and purpose of the market engagement - An overview of the licence - What data would be shared under the licence and onwards re-use - Implications of proposed retention terms - Pricing Model - Next steps for further engagement Key questions to explore: - For what purpose would you seek to computationally re-use courts and tribunals listing and registers of outcomes data? - What functionality/capability/information would you like from the CaTH service beyond what is currently available? - What barriers (barring exemptions under data protection law) would HMCTS’s proposed retention terms place in being able to perform computational analysis for your proposed use case? - Would HMCTS’s proposed and future pricing model place unreasonable barriers that would prevent you/your organisation being able to reasonably afford a licence? Interested parties are required to complete the following actions: 1. Register for an account through the MoJ Sourcing Portal at https://ministryofjusticecommercial.bravosolution.co.uk 2. Navigate to the left side menu and click on 'PQQs Open to All Suppliers' > find and click on ‘PQQ_567 - HMCTS Third Party Courts Data Licence - Market Engagement’ - for the avoidance of doubt this is not an actual PQQ but just a space on our sourcing system to coordinate market engagement activities. There are no mandatory actions to take. 3. Interested parties must express an interest by clicking 'Express interest' and will then be able to view the detail relating to market engagement in the ‘My Response’ tab. The event will be recorded and made available for the duration of the engagement activity. Legal disclaimer: this recording is for private, authorised viewing only and may not be redistributed. The session will have the opportunity for Q&A on submission, with questions answered following the session in writing, these will be published in the attachments tab on the MoJ Sourcing Portal. Following the event, HMCTS will distribute a questionnaire to attendees to gain further information and insight to the topics covered in the session. The ‘PQQ_567 - HMCTS Third Party Courts Data Licence - Market Engagement’ area will be the forum used to communicate future events or communications in relation to the market engagement activity. The Engagement deadline in this notice reflects the closing date for questionnaire submission by Suppliers following the session. Contract dates and transparency notice details are not reflective of licence dates.

Categories

Data services 72300000

Lot details

Lot 1

No lot description published.

Statusplanning
Contract periodFrom 1 May 2026 to 1 May 2026
SME suitabilitySuitable for SMEs

What is included

ItemCategoryQuantity
1Data servicesNot published

Comparable-procurement analytics

Benchmarked against retained Find a Tender procedures with CPV division 72. The category anchor is Data services (72300000); this is a deliberately broad market comparator. The comparison is shown at several levels rather than pretending one company or region is always the best benchmark.

Comparison setProceduresReported bids per procedureNamed award suppliersPrice evidence
Market: CPV division 728,8261 median · 14.3 average (3,433 of 8,826 with a bid count)1.9 average (4,114 of 8,826 with named award suppliers)Not published
Same buyer7Not publishedNot publishedNot published

“Reported bids” is an official aggregate, sometimes reported per lot; it is the closest available competition measure. “Named award suppliers” are winners, not all applicants.

Price-outcome signal

Not enough comparable procedures currently publish both a GBP tender value and a usable lowest-valid-bid value to calculate a responsible price-reduction benchmark. Tenderline deliberately does not infer a saving from named award suppliers or from missing award values.

Procurement strategy & market signals

Framework agreementNot published
Dynamic purchasing systemNot published
Competitive procurementNot published
Recurring requirementNot published
Procurement method rationaleNot published
Rationale classificationsNot published
Special regimeNot published
Covered byNot published
Submission policyNot published
Selection criteriaNot published
Risk detailsNot published

Planning & early market engagement

BudgetValue not published
No-engagement rationaleNot published
Planning documents1
Planning milestones1
MilestoneTypeDueStatus
Market engagement will be undertaken in a phased approach. Full instructions can be found in the body of the notice.engagement11 Mar 2026scheduled

Related procurements

No linked framework, prior procurement or reprocurement published.

Documents & submission route

Source data inventory

Diagnostic view. “Not published” means this current release does not provide a value.

OCIDocds-h6vhtk-065756
Latest release ID014988-2026
Latest release timestampWed Feb 18 2026 17:15:24 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Sourcefind-a-tender
Official notice URLNot published
Tender statusplanning
Procurement methodNot published
Procurement method detailsNot published
Main procurement categoryservices
Above thresholdNo
Legal basis2023/54
Tender period: startNot published
Tender period: endNot published
Expression of interest deadlineNot published
Enquiry deadlineNot published
Award period: startNot published
Award period: endNot published
Submission method detailsNot published
Submission languagesNot published
Electronic catalogue policyNot published
Total tender value£0
Tender lots in source1
Tender items in source1
Tender documents in source0
Awards in latest release0
Contracts in latest release0
Parties in latest release1

Notice history

DateEventReference
18 Feb 2026planningUpdate014988-2026
18 Feb 2026planningUpdate014975-2026
18 Feb 2026planningUpdate014973-2026
18 Feb 2026planningUpdate014971-2026
18 Feb 2026planning014901-2026

All source data

Unmodified official OCDS data retained by Tenderline for this procurement process.

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18 Feb 2026 · 014973-2026 · planningUpdate
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18 Feb 2026 · 014901-2026 · planning
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