Find a TenderPlanned procurement
Published 12 Aug 2026, 08:46 BST

Official UK procurement notice

Provisioning and Implementation of a Source-to-Contract Solution

Authority: CERN

Services
Sectors: IT Services & Software (72) Delivery: Switzerland (CH)UK
Planned pipeline value£10,000,000pipeline notice, not a live tender
Tender notice expected 1 Apr 2027from the planned procurement notice

What is being bought

Published requirement description

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.

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

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published
Lot #1CERN being a decentralised organisation, there are several stakeholders involved in…Planned

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 ([email protected]) should be contacted for further detail.

Delivery listed: Switzerland (CH), UK

Who is likely to bid for this lot ↓

Pipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published

Competition for IT services: consulting, software, internet (CPV 72), and who usually turns up

CERN has too little published record in this market to describe on its own. No delivery region is published, so no market column stands beside whatever it has. Frameworks and DPS are kept out: they attract a different number of bids. Whole-market view: IT services: consulting, software, internet (CPV 72) →

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Lot #1CERN being a decentralised organisation, there are several stakeholders involved in…Published estimate£10m

The notice lists UK and non-UK delivery areas for this lot. The figures below use UK market history and may not describe competition across every area.

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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. Published delivery includes UK and non-UK areas, so the UK model may not describe every area. The bar shows 817 past lots.

A forecast, not a list of bidders.

—No model forecast yet13% single-bid risk
Past bids on 817 similar lots
1 bid13%
110 of 817 similar past lots received 1 bid (13%).
2–327%
222 of 817 similar past lots received 2–3 (27%).
4–628%
225 of 817 similar past lots received 4–6 (28%).
7+32%
260 of 817 similar past lots received 7+ (32%).
Comparable past lots usually drew 4 bids.
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No comparable awards for this lot yet.

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—No model forecast yet
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Who has supplied this buyer on similar work?
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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?
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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.

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  • 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.
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Procedure terms & legal framework

From the official record · publisher note attached
Legal basis
CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
Procurement category
Services
Notice status
Planned procurement
Procurement threshold
Unspecified in notice
Regulatory regime
Standard
Commercial structure
Stand-alone contract (no framework)
Competition type
Competitive procedure
GPA / WTO covered
Yes (GPA)
Recurring procurement
Unspecified in notice
First published
12 Aug 2026, 08:46 BST
Last source update
12 Aug 2026, 08:46 BST
Authority reference
MS-5196/FAP
FTS notice number
2026/S 000-076479
Classification (CPV)
IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support
Delivery area
Switzerland (CH)UK
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06e1f1 Find a Tender

Publisher note: This procurement is wholly owned by CERN, with STFC seeking to signpost the requirements 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.

How it was run

Official notice
Submission deadline
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Timeline

12 Aug 2026 → 1 Apr 2027 · 2 dates
  1. Notice published70 days ago
    12 Aug 2026, 08:46 BST
  2. Today
    21 Oct 2026
  3. Tender notice expectedin 161 days
    1 Apr 2027, 00:00 BST

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

CERN

Contracting authorityBody governed by public lawScience, research and development CHE-108.967.751 CH - 1211 Geneva 23, Geneva, CHContact name, email

Official documents & specifications

Official links; attachments are not copied

No document links were published on the notice.