Find a TenderPlanned procurementPreliminary market engagement notice
Published 20 Jan 2026, 14:05 GMT

Official UK procurement notice

Regulatory Case Management and Integrated Document Management Solution

Authority: London Borough of Barnet (Local council)

ServicesAbove threshold
Planned pipeline value£2,133,333pipeline notice, not a live tender
Tender notice expected Date not publishedfrom the planned procurement notice
Contract term 4 yrsends 31 Mar 2031 · up to 31 Mar 2035 with extensions · starts 1 Apr 2027

What is being bought

Published requirement description

The London Borough of Barnet is undertaking Pre-Market Engagement (PME) to gather insights and inform its procurement strategy for a comprehensive regulatory case management solution with integrated electronic document and records management capabilities. This solution will support multiple council services by streamlining workflows, ensuring compliance, and improving user experience.

Purpose of Engagement: Assess market capability and interest, Gather feedback on proposed service requirements, Understand innovation and best practices, Inform the final procurement approach.

Scope of Services:

Our current platform supports end-to-end case management and document handling across the following service areas:

Planning

Building Control

Gazetteer (LLPG/LSG)

Public Protection (including Community Safety, Counter Fraud, Environmental Health, Food Safety, Scientific Services, Trading Standards)

Commercial and Property Licensing

Housing Regulatory Services

The future solution should deliver:

Integrated case and document management for Regulatory Services.

Workflow automation to improve efficiency and compliance.

Robust search and retrieval capabilities, including metadata and Gazetteer integration.

Scalable architecture (cloud-native or SaaS preferred) with strong security and accessibility compliance.

Interoperability with existing council systems (GIS, CRM, finance, and reporting tools).

Online license application and payment functionality, as well as mobile inspection solutions

Ideally a full Gazetteer Management System solution including:

Full GMS solution for LLPG and LSG Type 3 LSG (including ASD)

Commitment to ensuring solution keeps pace with requirements and best practice to allow authority to deliver compliant LLPG and LSG commitments under DSA

Ability to maintain BLPU provenance polygons

Efficient workflows including batch process for updating multiple properties based on common address change scenarios

Comprehensive access to authority (and relevant database tables) data to support bespoke data extraction and reporting (expectation of select access to database tables and views, or comprehensive API)

Ability to store a limited number of local (non-DTF field) data including officer notes

If not a full GMS solution, then:

BS7666 compliant gazetteer tool for use by system modules

Automation of imports and updates, both Full and sequential Change Only Updates, in latest DTF specification

Commitment to maintain gazetteer tool in line with national best practice and specifications Solution for non-DTF data use including BLPU provenance polygons Supplier Engagement.

We want to hear from a range of suppliers, including local and national SMEs, to ensure a best-value mix and assess the benefits and dis-benefits of different delivery models. This includes:

A like-for-like replacement for our current integrated platform.

Modular or disaggregated approaches that deliver case management and document management capabilities across one, several, or all of the above service areas.

Suppliers should demonstrate:

Proven experience in delivering regulatory case management solutions for local authorities.

Integrated Electronic Document & Records Management (EDRMS) functionality.

Compliance with UK data protection, accessibility, and security standards.

Innovation in areas such as cloud deployment, AI-assisted document classification, and user experience design.

Contract Details

Estimated Total Value: Up to £266k annually

Contract Term: To be determined as part of pre-market exercise. Current contract is a 3-year term, though end solution may be multiple call-off contracts.

Engagement Process:

Supplier Engagement Event: Tuesday 3 February 2026 2pm – 4pm via Microsoft Teams.

Interested suppliers should confirm their participation in the Supplier Engagement Event by midday Monday 2nd February to Joshua Henry [email protected]. Please ensure Email subject is named 'Regulatory Case Management Pre Market Engagement Event'

To view this notice, please click here:

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CPV: Document management services · Document management software package · Document management system · Information systems or technology planning services · Planning systems

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published

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

How London Borough of Barnet buys Document creation software package (CPV 4831), and who usually turns up

London Borough of Barnet’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: Document creation software package (CPV 4831) →

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How the contest usually goes

Winner shares use published awards; bid and price charts use contested lots.

Question for the bid
This buyerLondon Borough of Barnet · all categories
What to do with it
How often do SMEs win?
i

How often small and medium firms win.

Share of awards where the winner’s size is known.

The counts under this question show how many awards have a known supplier size.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 14 of 26 known-size awards · market: CPV 4831 · UK-wide, n=17
54%41%

Small firms have won here. Neither number says whether you qualify; it describes who has been winning.

How often do local suppliers win?
i

How often local firms win similar work.

Winners with a registered address in the delivery region, out of awards with a known address.

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.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 23 of 34 known-location awards · market: CPV 4831 · UK-wide, n=10
68%50%

Most of this buyer’s recorded winners were registered in the region where that award was delivered.

How long to a decision?
i

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.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 10 decided notices · market: division 48 · Greater London, n=28
54 days63 days

Half of these awards have an award date within 54 days of the bid deadline.

How often single-bid or direct?
i

How often work is awarded with no recorded rival.

Direct awards and tenders where every published lot count shows one bid.

Both shares are minimums: some awards have no bid count.

Thin markets produce this too; it is not proof of a tailored specification.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: at least 17 of 31 procurements with awards had no recorded rival · market: CPV 4831 · UK-wide, n=25
55%80%

Direct awards or one recorded bid are common here. Check the route before spending time on a bid.

How many bids did past lots attract?

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How many bids past lots received.

Each colour is a bid-count range. Only competed lots with a published count are included.

Past bids do not predict this tender.

Last 36 months.

This buyer17 lots with bid counts · all categories
24% had one bid
The market53 lots with bid counts · division 48 · Greater London
21% had one bid
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
1 bid24% / 21%
Buyer: 4 of 17 lots with published bid counts. Market: 11 of 53 lots with published bid counts.
2–341% / 21%
Buyer: 7 of 17 lots with published bid counts. Market: 11 of 53 lots with published bid counts.
4–624% / 42%
Buyer: 4 of 17 lots with published bid counts. Market: 22 of 53 lots with published bid counts.
7+12% / 17%
Buyer: 2 of 17 lots with published bid counts. Market: 9 of 53 lots with published bid counts.

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.

Last 36 months.

This buyer13 lots with estimate and award · all categories
0% below estimate
The market33 lots with estimate and award · division 48 · Greater London
61% below estimate
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
Below estimate0% / 61%
Buyer: 0 of 13 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 20 of 33 lots with an estimate and award.
Within ±2%85% / 15%
Buyer: 11 of 13 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 5 of 33 lots with an estimate and award.
Above estimate15% / 24%
Buyer: 2 of 13 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 8 of 33 lots with an estimate and award.
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Assess each lot
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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.

Open a lot for its forecast, this buyer’s previous supplier and possible competitors, from published award history, not a bid list

Lot #1CPV 483148 monthsPublished estimate£2.1m
Expected competition
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How many bids this lot may attract.

The forecast uses similar past competitions. The bar shows either that forecast or past bid counts; the line below says which.

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 53 past lots.

A forecast, not a list of bidders.

—No model forecast yet21% chance of a single bid
Past bids on 53 similar lots
1 bid21%
11 of 53 similar past lots received 1 bid (21%).
2–321%
11 of 53 similar past lots received 2–3 (21%).
4–642%
22 of 53 similar past lots received 4–6 (42%).
7+17%
9 of 53 similar past lots received 7+ (17%).
Comparable past lots usually drew 4 bids.
Commercial price forecast
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Where the award price may land.

The forecast uses similar awards and the buyer’s estimate. The band covers the middle half of likely prices.

No comparable awards for this lot yet.

A statistical guide from past awards, not a price to bid.

—No model forecast yet
No comparable awards on record for this lot’s category yet. The published estimate is £2.1m, and the forecast stays empty until the market has a record to read.

Who has supplied this buyer on similar work?
i

Who has done similar work for this buyer.

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?
i

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
20 Jan 2026, 14:05 GMT
Last source update
20 Jan 2026, 14:05 GMT
FTS notice number
2026/S 000-004858
Latest notice
Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
Classification (CPV)
Document management servicesDocument management software packageDocument management systemInformation systems or technology planning servicesPlanning systems
Delivery area
London (UKI71)
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-060a0f Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice
Submission deadline
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Timeline

20 Jan 2026 → 1 Apr 2027 · 3 dates
  1. Planning notice published279 days ago
    20 Jan 2026, 14:05 GMT
  2. Market engagement213 days ago
    27 Mar 2026, 23:59 GMT

    Supplier Engagement Event: Tuesday 3 February 2026 2pm – 4pm via Microsoft Teams.

    Interested suppliers should confirm their participation in the Supplier Engagement Event by midday Monday 2nd February to Joshua Henry [email protected]. Please ensure Email subject is named 'Regulatory Case Management Pre Market Engagement Event'

  3. Today
    27 Oct 2026
  4. Contract startsin 155 days
    1 Apr 2027, 00:00 BST

Notice history

1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender
  1. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    20 Jan 2026, 14:05 GMT
    UK2

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

London Borough of Barnet

Contracting authorityPublic authority - sub-central government GB-PPON: PQGD-7479-CGVN Barnet Council, 2 Bristol Avenue, Colindale, London, London, NW9 4EWContact name, email, phone

Official documents & specifications (1)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure