Official UK procurement notice
Scottish Electronic Tax System (SETS)
Authority: Revenue Scotland
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionRevenue Scotland is seeking information from the market in relation to the next version of / replacement for its existing tax administration platform, SETS.
The current platform supports the collection and operational management of devolved Scottish taxes. It enables taxpayers and their agents to submit tax returns and make payments to Revenue Scotland, and enables staff to process returns, manage taxpayer records through a number of statutory processes, reconcile inbound & outbound payments with tax declared, and undertake tax compliance activity and operational casework.
CPV: Business transaction and personal business software package · IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support · Industry specific software package · Programming services of application software
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1Revenue Scotland is seeking a strategic partner to help it deliver and support a…Planned
Revenue Scotland is seeking a strategic partner to help it deliver and support a cloud-hosted tax administration and case management platform for the collection and operational management of devolved taxes in Scotland.
The system will manage tax data, support staff in administering tax returns and taxpayer records, and enable efficient case management of statutory tax management processes, workflow automation, and integration with external systems.
Additionally, the solution needs to provide reporting capabilities in terms of management information and data export to our own analytics platform. We anticipate additional taxes and legislative change being introduced over the lifetime of the contract, and so the solution should be flexible enough to easily accommodate new functionality.
Through this Prior Information Notice, Revenue Scotland wishes to consider the fullest range of modern, UK-based cloud-based solutions which support:
- A portal for taxpayers and agents to view, edit and submit tax information
- case management
- workflow automation
- operational processing
- integration with other corporate systems such as our finance (general ledger) systems, contact management (telephony), and third-party print and post solutions.
The next version of SETS will support at least five taxes and must provide a highly configurable and scalable platform capable of supporting evolving tax policy and operational requirements. Currently up to 80 back-office staff users across a range of different functional teams use the platform.
Revenue Scotland welcomes engagement from suppliers with experience of delivering platforms capable of supporting complex administration and case management. Additional information: This contract may be split into lots, where market intelligence has suggested this to be viable and beneficial
Pipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How Revenue Scotland buys IT services: consulting, software, internet (CPV 72), and who usually turns up
Revenue Scotland has little published record in this market. Frameworks and DPS are left out: they draw different bid counts. Whole-market view: IT services: consulting, software, internet (CPV 72) →
How the contest usually goes
Winner shares use published awards; bid and price charts use contested lots.
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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.
Across this market, small firms won 37% of awards with a known supplier size.
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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.
Across this market, 26% of winners were registered in the delivery region.
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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 50 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.
Across this market, at least 61% of awarded procurements had no recorded rival.
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.
1 bid10%
2–330%
4–628%
7+32%
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.
Below estimate69%
Within ±2%22%
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 #1Revenue Scotland is seeking a strategic partner to help it deliver and support a…CPV 72Estimate not published
This lot lists more than one class in CPV 72. 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 105 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid10%
2–330%
4–628%
7+32%
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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.
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.
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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.
- 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
- 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
- 8 Apr 2026, 08:44 BST
- Last source update
- 8 Apr 2026, 08:44 BST
- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-031698- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-067d72Find a Tender
Publisher note: This Prior Information Notice (PIN) is to support Revenue Scotland in understanding the market and the available services. Any additional information/documentation will be added to the attachment area when available. A Request for Information (RFI) survey will shortly be published to gauge further insight into the services available. Organisations should familiarise themselves with the requirements and should note interest if they are able and interested in tendering for this opportunity. Please answer the survey questions and return responses to [email protected] by 23:59 Wednesday 6 May 2026. Revenue Scotland is planning to hold an Information Day for suppliers. More information will be available within the RFI document. Please note, by noting interest your organisation is agreeing to further engagement with Revenue Scotland. All information contained within this PIN and any attached documents are subject to change. Revenue Scotland is under no obligation to act upon any information provided and will do so at its own discretion. 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=828744. (SC Ref:828744)
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
8 Apr 2026 → 2 Nov 2026 · 2 dates- Notice published200 days ago8 Apr 2026, 08:44 BST
- Today25 Oct 2026
- Tender notice expectedin 8 days2 Nov 2026
Commercial outcome & contract awards
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- No award published
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Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Official documents & specifications
Official links; attachments are not copiedNo document links were published on the notice.