Official UK procurement notice
Scottish Electronic Tax System (SETS)
Authority: Revenue Scotland
Revenue 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. 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.
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.
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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The counts under this question show how many awards have a known supplier size.
Across this market, small firms won 42% of awards with a known supplier size.
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Local means the winner is registered in the region where that award was delivered. The market figure counts awards delivered in Scotland.
Across this market, 24% of winners were registered in the delivery region.
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Half of these awards have an award date within 50 days of the bid deadline.
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The market share is a minimum: some awards have no bid count.
Across this market, at least 61% of awarded procurements had no recorded rival.
How many bids did past lots attract?
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1 bid10%
2–331%
4–628%
7+32%
How did awards compare with estimates?
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Below estimate69%
Within ±2%22%
Above estimate10%
Assess each lot i
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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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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 104 past lots.
1 bid10%
2–331%
4–628%
7+32%
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No comparable awards for this lot yet.
Who has supplied this buyer on similar work? i
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No earlier contract of this buyer matches this lot on the published record.
Who could compete for this lot? i
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Candidate suppliers for this notice have not been worked out yet, so this is not a verdict that nobody fits.
About this data
- Estimates, labelled. The price range, possible competitors and earlier-work matches are our estimates from past awards, not published facts, win chances or price advice. The buyer’s own record and the wider market are shown apart, never mixed.
- Source. Official UK public procurement notices (Find a Tender and Contracts Finder), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0, updated through the day and rebuilt nightly. Not every figure uses both feeds, and each one shows how many records it rests on: see 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
- 28 Sept 2026, 14:49 BST
- Last source update
- 28 Sept 2026, 14:49 BST
- Authority reference
RS-2026-06- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-091497- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-077ba9Find a Tender
Publisher note: Further to the Prior Information Notice (PIN) published on 8 April 2026, Revenue Scotland is pleased to share the draft Terms and Conditions (T&Cs), Statement of Requirements (SOR), and Pricing Schedule with interested organisations. By providing these key documents at this stage, Revenue Scotland is seeking anonymised feedback from the market via Microsoft Forms. All comments received will be reviewed and considered as part of the finalisation process before the procurement progresses to the tender stage. To support the Route to Market, Revenue Scotland is also keen to gauge the level of market interest based on all information shared to date, including the information presented during the supplier engagement event held on 1 May 2026, please use the link to the Microsoft Forms to provide your feedback. . https://forms.cloud.microsoft/e/Qdvi6Rx18Q . The Microsoft Forms will close on the 12 October 2026 at 12:00 Noon. Please ensure you have your feedback inputted by this time. Revenue Scotland will not take any other form of feedback. Please note, by noting interest your organisation is agreeing to further engagement with Revenue Scotland. All information contained within this PIN and the previous 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=843972. (SC Ref:843972)
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
28 Sept 2026 → 11 Jan 2027 · 2 dates- Notice published45 days ago28 Sept 2026, 14:49 BST
- Today13 Nov 2026
- Tender notice expectedin 58 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.