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Provisioning and Implementation of a Source-to-Contract Solution

Buyer: CERN →

BuyerCERN
Statusplanned
DeadlineNot published
Value£10,000,000
Published12 Aug 2026

What is being bought

CERN intends to place a contract for the provision and Implementation of a Source-to-Contract Solution. The scope includes the supply of licenses, including support, software maintenance (including all updates and upgrades) and hosting for a software solution (the "Solution") to manage the S2C business capabilities and processes, It also includes the Supply of services to support the design, implementation, testing and deployment, transformation and change management of the above-mentioned S2C solution. This Contract shall be awarded to a Firm or a Group of Firms (maximum 2) who will cover the whole scope among them.

Delivery location

UK · CH

Categories

IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support 72000000

Lot details

Lot 1

CERN being a decentralised organisation, there are several stakeholders involved in the capabilities covered by the S2C systems. These are: • Procurement & Industrial Services (IPT-PI), as primary users of the S2C solution in the domains of sourcing, tendering, and contract and supplier management: • Business Computing (FAP-BC), for the integration, maintenance and support of the solution (both acquired or in-house built). The capabilities as currently defined in scope are listed below, these can still be adapted before the Invitation to Tender to be launched no later than Q1 2027. • Manage procurement: • Procurement planning; • Manage sourcing and tendering; • Manage contracts; • Manage supplier information, performance and risk; • Manage supplier communications; • Manage purchase orders. Additional information: This procurement/requirement is wholly owned by CERN, with STFC seeking to signpost the opportunity to UK based suppliers. UK HMG retains no involvement, oversight or engagement in the procurement, and are acting to signpost to CERN/STFC from FTS and/or other centralised digital platforms only. UK HMG has no further information to share and will not respond to any further questions or engagements relating to the potential procurement. In all instances, Sara Fletcher (sara.fletcher@stfc.ac.uk) should be contacted for further detail.

Statusplanned

What is included

ItemCategoryQuantity
1Not publishedNot published

Comparable-procurement analytics

Benchmarked against retained Find a Tender procedures with CPV division 72. The category anchor is IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support (72000000); 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 726,9041 median · 15.4 average (2,592 of 6,904 with a bid count)1.9 average (3,088 of 6,904 with named award suppliers)Not published
Same buyer2Not publishedNot publishedNot published
Delivery region: UK2,1791 median · 32.3 average (728 of 2,179 with a bid count)2.8 average (933 of 2,179 with named award suppliers)Not published
Similar published value (0.5×–2×)3409 median · 9 average (2 of 340 with a bid count)1 average (2 of 340 with named award suppliers)Not 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 byGPA
Submission policyNot published
Selection criteriaNot published
Risk detailsNot published

Planning & early market engagement

BudgetNot published
No-engagement rationaleNot published
Planning documents0
Planning milestones0

No planning milestones published.

Related procurements

No linked framework, prior procurement or reprocurement published.

Documents & submission route

No documents are published in the current source record.

Source data inventory

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

OCIDocds-h6vhtk-06e1f1
Latest release ID076479-2026
Latest release timestampWed Aug 12 2026 07:46:46 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Sourcefind-a-tender
Official notice URLNot published
Tender statusplanned
Procurement methodNot published
Procurement method detailsNot published
Main procurement categoryservices
Above thresholdNot published
Legal basis32014L0024
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£10,000,000
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
12 Aug 2026planning076479-2026

All source data

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

Complete current OCDS release JSON
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Complete JSON history (1 releases)
12 Aug 2026 · 076479-2026 · planning
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