Official UK procurement notice
Provisioning and Implementation of an Enterprise Resource Planning and Integration Platform Solution
Authority: CERN
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionCERN intends to place a contract for the provision of licences and implementation of an ERP solution. The scope includes software licences, implementation, configuration, integration with CERN business applications, data migration, testing, training and change management activities. The future contract will include an implementation agreement covering an estimated three-year implementation period followed by a separate licencing agreement of 11 years inclusive of optional extensions.
CPV: Enterprise resource planning software package · IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1CERN being a decentralised organisation, there are several stakeholders groups…Planned
CERN being a decentralised organisation, there are several stakeholders groups involved in the capabilities covered by the ERP systems.
These are:
- Accounting (FAP-ACC), in the domains of general accounting, asset accounting, accounts payable, accounts receivable, travel management, personnel accounting and payroll;
- Financial Planning, Control & Treasury (FAP-FPC and FAP-PFS), mainly in the domain of budgeting and treasury, including budget control;
- Procurement & Industrial Services (IPT-PI), in the domains of procurement planning, managing sourcing & tendering, managing supplier contracts, purchasing of materials and services, and managing supplier relationships;
- Services & Supply Chain (SCE-SSC), in the reception of material or services, managing returns and rejections, inventory management and inbound and outbound logistics;
- Business Computing (FAP-BC), for the integration, maintenance and support of the software (both acquired and in-house built tools). 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.
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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 groups…Published estimate£10m
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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, 08:39 BST
- Last source update
- 12 Aug 2026, 08:39 BST
- Authority reference
MS-5197/FAP- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-076475- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06e1efFind 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 Sept 2026 · 2 dates- Notice published71 days ago12 Aug 2026, 08:39 BST
- Tender notice expected52 days ago1 Sept 2026, 00:00 BST
Commercial outcome & contract awards
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Official documents & specifications
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