Official UK procurement notice
Scottish Climate Intelligence Service - Data Platform
Authority: Improvement Service
The Scottish Climate Intelligence Service are procuring a single data platform to support the design and delivery of effective programmes of area-wide emissions reduction across Scotland. The platform will provide the ability to aggregate, analyse and visualise data on emissions sources with the costs and benefits of actions for emissions reduction and mitigation of climate impact.
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThe Scottish Climate Intelligence Service are procuring a single data platform to support the design and delivery of effective programmes of area-wide emissions reduction across Scotland. The platform will provide the ability to aggregate, analyse and visualise data on emissions sources with the costs and benefits of actions for emissions reduction and mitigation of climate impact. It will enable presentation of data at local, regional and national levels to critical stakeholders to embed climate impact into future decision-making.
CPV: Analytical or scientific software package · Analytical, scientific, mathematical or forecasting software package · Software package and information systems · Statistical software package
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1A critical component of the Scottish Climate Intelligence Service is the…Planned
A critical component of the Scottish Climate Intelligence Service is the implementation of a common data platform to support the design, management, and delivery of action plans for area-wide emissions reduction by local authorities across Scotland. The platform will enable consistency of approach and adoption of best practice methodologies across local authorities and their delivery partners. The SCIS data platform will be procured by the Improvement Service and managed by the Climate Intelligence Service on behalf of the 32 local authorities and Scottish Government.
Pipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How Improvement Service buys Software package and information systems (CPV 48), and who usually turns up
Improvement Service has little published record in this market. Frameworks and DPS are left out: they draw different bid counts. Whole-market view: Software package and information systems (CPV 48) →
How the contest usually goes
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How often small and medium firms win.
Share of awards where the winner’s size is known.
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No small-firm winners recorded among this authority’s published awards in this sample.
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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. The market figure counts awards delivered in Scotland.
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
No winner locations published for this authority. Local means a registered address in the region where that award was delivered.
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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.
Half of these awards have an award date within 62 days of the bid deadline.
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How often work is awarded with no recorded rival.
Direct awards and tenders where every published lot count shows one bid.
The market share is a minimum: some awards have no bid count.
Thin markets produce this too; it is not proof of a tailored specification.
Missing bid counts may hide more single-bid awards. This share is a minimum.
How many bids did past lots attract?
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How many bids past lots received.
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Past bids do not predict this tender.
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4–627%
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How did awards compare with estimates?
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Where winning prices landed against estimates.
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Past prices are a guide, not a bid price.
Below estimate80%
Within ±2%10%
Above estimate10%
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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.
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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 #1A critical component of the Scottish Climate Intelligence Service is the…CPV 48Estimate not published
This lot lists more than one class in CPV 48. The comparison uses that group.
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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 22 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid0%
2–332%
4–627%
7+41%
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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. Contracts Finder contracts appear on the Retender Radar, not yet in these figures.
- 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 · publisher note attached- Legal basis
- CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
- Procurement category
- Goods
- 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
- 4 Nov 2026, 11:23 GMT
- Last source update
- 4 Nov 2026, 11:23 GMT
- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-104585- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-07b2b6Find a Tender
Publisher note: Interested parties are asked to complete the survey found in the below link below. Please note this survey will close 18 November 2026. https://www.cognitoforms.com/ScotlandExcel1/ScottishClimateIntelligenceDataPlatform Please note that documentation from the previous procurement exercise has been provided alongside this Prior Information Notice for background and reference purposes only. These documents are intended to provide interested parties with an indication of the nature and scope of the previous requirement and should not be interpreted as representing the final scope, specification, requirements, commercial model or contractual arrangements for any future procurement exercise. The SCIS is currently undertaking market engagement to help inform the development of its future requirements and procurement approach. The scope and structure of any subsequent procurement may therefore differ from the documents provided. Interested parties should respond to the market engagement questionnaire based on their current market offering and experience, rather than treating the previous tender documentation as a definitive statement of the future requirement. Scotland Excel may then invite a representative group from those interested parties to conduct Teams meetings in regards to the tender development. NOTE: To register your interest in this notice and obtain any additional information please visit the Public Contracts Scotland Web Site at https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/Search/Search_Switch.aspx?ID=847529. (SC Ref:847529)
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
4 Nov 2026 → 11 Jan 2027 · 2 dates- Notice published2h ago4 Nov 2026, 11:23 GMT
- Today4 Nov 2026
- Tender notice expectedin 67 days11 Jan 2027
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
Official documents & specifications
Official links; attachments are not copiedNo document links were published on the notice.