Official UK procurement notice
Provision of Passport Manufacturing and Personalisation Services
Authority: Home Office (Central government)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThe Home Office is seeking to engage with suppliers interested in delivering a secure, end-to-end passport manufacturing and personalisation service. This includes the secure design artwork, manufacturing, and personalisation of UK passports and related travel documents under a new contract to replace the current agreement. This is a third round of market engagement following up on the first round which concluded in August 2025 and the second round which concluded in February 2026. The procurement is anticipated to start later in 2026.
HM Passport Office (HMPO) issues approximately 8 million passports annually and is the sole provider of passports to British nationals globally. The current contract, held by Thales, covers:
- UK e-passports and variants for Crown Dependencies and British Overseas Territories
- Official, Diplomatic, Emergency, and Temporary e-passports
- Biometric Travel Documents (BTDs) for UK Visas and Immigration, including those issued to stateless persons and refugees
- Secure laminate for Emergency Travel Documents (ETDs)
The new contract will be procured through a competitive tender process and must ensure continuity of service, compliance with international passport
standards, and support for future innovations.
Please note that the listed Total Value (Estimated) and Contract Dates (Estimated) are provisional and subject to revision. The Total Value (Estimated) range is currently £400m - £575m, excluding VAT. For location, the United Kingdom is the primary delivery location, however, certain elements of the service may be delivered from offshore facilities, subject to compliance with security and regulatory standards.
Potential Requirements:
The future contract may include:
- Secure design and manufacture of UK e-passports and variants
- Personalisation of travel documents, including biometric and visual data
- Production of Emergency Travel Documents (ETDs) and potential future products (e.g., Digital Travel Credentials)
- Integration with HMPO systems and support for future transformation
- Disaster recovery and business continuity provisions
- Transition and mobilisation planning
- Provisions for crypto technologies and contingency solutions
CPV: Biometric sensors · Computer equipment and supplies · Digital printing services · Identification ID press machines · Information technology services · Packaging and related services · Personal identification accessories · Printing and related services · Security-type printed matter · Stamps, cheque forms, banknotes, stock certificates, trade advertising material, catalogues and manuals
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1Planned
Pipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How Home Office buys Systems and technical consultancy services (CPV 7222), and who usually turns up
Home Office’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) →
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How often local firms win similar work.
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Local means the winner is registered in the region where that award was delivered.
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners were registered outside the region where that award was delivered.
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How long buyers here take to decide after bids close.
Middle value in days from the bid deadline to the award date, on competitions that published both.
Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.
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.
Thin markets produce this too; it is not proof of a tailored specification.
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How many bids did past lots attract?
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Past bids do not predict this tender.
1 bid11% / 13%
2–337% / 33%
4–641% / 24%
7+11% / 30%
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 estimate46% / 42%
Within ±2%34% / 45%
Above estimate20% / 14%
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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.
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What past awards tell you about each lot.
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No supplier is confirmed as a bidder.
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Lot #1CPV 3019Published estimate£480m
This lot is listed as CPV 3019. The table above uses the notice category.
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How many bids this lot may attract.
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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 24 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid8%
2–333%
4–638%
7+21%
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Where the award price may land.
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No comparable awards for this lot yet.
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A past supplier may not bid again.
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Who has done similar work for this buyer.
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A past supplier may not bid again.
No earlier contract of this buyer matches this lot on the published record.
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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- 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
- 11 Jul 2025, 15:13 BST
- Last source update
- 24 Apr 2026, 15:27 BST
- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-037686- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-055dd6Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
11 Jul 2025 → 1 Aug 2028 · 5 dates- Planning notice published11 Jul 2025, 15:13 BST
- Latest notice published184 days ago24 Apr 2026, 15:27 BST
- Market engagement164 days ago13 May 2026, 23:59 BST
This is the third round of market engagement for the Passport Manufacturing and Personalisation (PMP) procurement.
To express an interest, participants must first be registered on the Home Office’s eSourcing Portal (JAGGAER). If you have not yet registered, this can be done online at: homeoffice.app.jaggaer.com/web/login.html ↗
by following the Register Here link. Those who have already signed an NDA as part of their participation in an earlier RFI in relation to this procurement will not be required to sign a new NDA but should still notify HMPO of their desire to be registered for the upcoming RFI.
- Please note: To register, you must have a valid DUNS number (as provided by Dun & Bradstreet) for the organisation which you are registering and which would be entering into a contract if invited to do so.
- Registering on JAGGAER does not provide immediate access to the market engagement event. Once registered, a user must express interest in this specific procurement by emailing:
with the subject line:
“Passport Manufacturing and Personalisation – Expression of Interest”
The email should include:
- Organisation name (as registered on JAGGAER)
- Contact name
- Email address
- Telephone number
- DUNS number
- Once the above steps are completed, participants that have not previously completed an NDA will be granted access to the Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA) event in JAGGAER.
- Participants must complete and return their signed NDA via JAGGAER in order to be added to the Market Engagement Event. Please do this by Wednesday 13th May 2026. Suppliers will gain access to the supplier briefing document in the Market Engagement Event from Thursday 14th May 2026.
- The Round 3 Market Engagement Briefing Event will be held Monday 18th May 2026. This virtual event will provide an overview of the opportunity, outline the procurement timeline, and present the R3 supplier briefing document. Details and timings will be shared with attendees upon their registration and signing of NDAs.
- The supplier Clarification Question (CQ) submission period will run from Thursday 14th May to Wednesday 20th May. Suppliers may submit questions during this time via JAGGAER.
- The Home Office will respond to all CQs by Friday 29th May 2026.
- Participants should ensure they allow sufficient time to complete the NDA process and submit any responses or feedback before the event closes.
- Today25 Oct 2026
- Tender notice expectedin 23 days16 Nov 2026, 23:59 GMT
- Contract starts1 Aug 2028, 00:00 BST
Notice history
4 events · 3 releases on Find a Tender · since 11 Jul 2025- Preliminary market engagement notice published11 Jul 2025, 15:13 BSTUK2
- Preliminary market engagement notice published5 Dec 2025, 14:45 GMTUK2
- Preliminary market engagement notice published24 Apr 2026, 15:27 BSTUK2
- Published value updated to £480,000,00024 Apr 2026, 15:27 BSTwas £300,000,000
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 (3)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender