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Robotic Process Automation and ServiceNow Resourcing Framework Agreement

Buyer: Post Office Limited →

BuyerPost Office Limited
Statusplanned
DeadlineNot published
Value£32,000,000
Published27 May 2026

What is being bought

Lot 1 - Robotic Process Automation Resourcing The future supplier will be expected to provide an accredited Blue Prism Developer and a Business operational support function to support the design, development, administration, management and implementation of automation workflows and IT service enhancements within Post Office, ensuring efficient operations and scalability. It also involves maintaining and managing POL's estate of automations, ensuring they operate seamlessly while following industry-standard development life cycle management and administration management practices. This includes providing augmented resource to support the POL Robotics team as well as operational support covering: • Database maintenance including archiving • Service account management • Monitoring and alerts • Incident management • Patch management • Application support • Windows Infrastructure support Lot 2 - ServiceNow Resourcing Improve the quality, cost and agility when sourcing technical resource for the ServiceNow platforms. Establish a panel of suppliers with contracts, costs and KPIs pre agreed to enable business resourcing needs to be fulfilled at pace. This requirement covers a number of overall scenarios - Post Office Platform Team BAU Resource Augmentation - longer term needs - Post Office Project Team Resource Augmentation - Outcome based delivery

Delivery location

UK, GB

Categories

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

Lot details

Lot 1

No lot description published.

Statusplanned
Contract periodFrom 1 Apr 2027 to 31 Mar 2029
SME suitabilitySuitable for SMEs

What is included

ItemCategoryQuantity
1IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and supportNot 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 727,8981 median · 14.9 average (3,040 of 7,898 with a bid count)1.9 average (3,633 of 7,898 with named award suppliers)Not published
Same buyer242.5 median · 2.5 average (2 of 24 with a bid count)1 average (8 of 24 with named award suppliers)Not published
Delivery region: UK2,4892 median · 31.4 average (847 of 2,489 with a bid count)2.7 average (1,081 of 2,489 with named award suppliers)Not published
Similar published value (0.5×–2×)2092 median · 11 average (3 of 209 with a bid count)4 average (3 of 209 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 agreementYes
Dynamic purchasing systemNot published
Competitive procurementNot published
Recurring requirementNot published
Procurement method rationaleNot published
Rationale classificationsNot published
Special regimeNot published
Covered byNot published
Submission policyNot published
Selection criteriaNot published
Risk detailsNot published

Planning & early market engagement

BudgetValue not published
No-engagement rationaleNot published
Planning documents1
Planning milestones0

No planning milestones published.

Related procurements

No linked framework, prior procurement or reprocurement published.

Documents & submission route

Source data inventory

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

OCIDocds-h6vhtk-06a4ce
Latest release ID049464-2026
Latest release timestampWed May 27 2026 09:46:44 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Sourcefind-a-tender
Official notice URLNot published
Tender statusplanned
Procurement methodNot published
Procurement method detailsCompetitive flexible procedure
Main procurement categoryservices
Above thresholdYes
Legal basis2023/54
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£32,000,000
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
27 May 2026planningUpdate049464-2026
26 May 2026planning049189-2026

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 (2 releases)
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