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Soft Market Test for Geographic Information Systems (GIS)

Geographic information systems (GIS or equivalent)
IT services: consulting
software development
+2 more
South West (UKK)
Published value
£1,600,000
Submission deadline Not published
Lots published1
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Tenderline Synopsis: Cornwall Council: "Soft Market Test for Geographic Information Systems (GIS)". Published status: planning. Published value: £1,600,000. 1 published lot. Submission deadline not published. See the official notice for participation instructions.
Contracting AuthorityCornwall CouncilScope & CategoriesNot publishedSubmission Window
planning
No deadline published
Submission GatewayDirect notice routeLegal Basis & RegimeStandard procurementEstimated Value (exc. VAT)£1,600,000
Bidder Intelligence · Authority Profile: Cornwall Council
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Derived from OCDS awards & bid statistics
Published history for Cornwall Council. These figures describe retained records, not a forecast of bids or a measure of buyer bias.
Average Price Reduction
Not availableInsufficient comparable data
Requires at least 5 comparable procedures
Competition Density
5.3Bids / Report
18.2% of reports have one bid
Supplier ConcentrationHigh Concentration
StayathomeTop vendor: 94.5% of attributable value
Payment Terms
Check noticePublished terms
Payment obligations depend on the applicable regime and contract. Consult the official documents.
Coverage: 74 active published awards; 11 bid reports (which may be per lot). Supplier values exclude multi-supplier awards, frameworks and DPS, and use GBP only. They are published award values, not payments. Price reduction compares single-lot, single-award, single-supplier GBP procedures with explicitly non-framework/non-DPS status; increases remain in the average. Unpublished data stays unknown. Awarded suppliers are winners, not all bidders.
Historical Awarded Suppliers With This Authority:
Supplier NameHistoric AwardsAttributable GBP Value
Stayathome1 win£57,000,000
BELL GROUP LTD1 win£2,600,000
Dash Logistic Services Ltd1 win£330,000
Urban Biodiversity CIC1 win£125,000
Savills (UK) Ltd1 win£80,000
Procedure terms
Contracting AuthorityCornwall Council
Procedure methodNot published
Procurement categoryNot published
Statusplanning
Framework / DPSNot published
CompetitionNot published
Above thresholdNot published
Legal basisNot published
Tender period startsNot published
Clarification deadlineNot published
Electronic submissionNot published
Submission languagesNot published
Published31 Jul 2025, 14:05 BST
Last source update31 Jul 2025, 14:05 BST
Recurring procurementNot published
ClassificationGeographic information systems (GIS or equivalent), IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support, Software package and information systems
Delivery area
South West (UKK)
OCIDocds-h6vhtk-056a3c
What is being bought
A comprehensive overview of Cornwall Council's Geographic Information System (GIS) platform and detailed description of the Council's GIS contract requirements can be attained by emailing Alex Kirk (Alex.Kirk@cornwall.gov.uk) and Elaine Bennett (Elaine.Bennett@cornwall.gov.uk) to request copies of the Request for Information (RFI) and draft Statement of Requirements (SoR) documents. A brief overview is provided below. Cornwall Council currently procure their Enterprise Geographic Information System (GIS) platform from ESRIUK. The contract ends in mid February 2026, so we are coming to the market to ensure we have a single integrated platform in place to allow us to seamlessly continue supporting the business needs of the Council after that date. An overview of the environment in which the platform will need to operate and the GIS services we currently provide is given below for your information. We are also focusing on the areas of development within this industry segment and how they will enable us to align the delivery of the GIS service with the wider technical and strategic aims of the Council over the next ten years on a 5 year plus 5 year basis. To that end, the solution must be a Software as a Service (SaaS) platform that includes a professional GIS product or links to one client-side. The platform and migration methodology must enable us to seamlessly continue to support the business needs of the Council whilst removing the dependency on on-premises or Council cloud hosted server solutions by 2030 at the latest. Any submission must clearly show that the offer will allow for both the continuation of services and migration to cloud hosted (SaaS) services for server-based functionality and data storage with no dependency on on-premise servers and no or minimal dependency on Cornwall Council’s Azure infrastructure. We are aware that the current platform is large scale and complex meaning that the migration to a SaaS service will require extensive assessment and planning to ensure its success. Therefore, we are seeking a detailed and costed migration plan as part of this tender with the view to assessing the likely impacts and costs of migration, but the delivery of that migration will not be in scope.
What changed
From the official release history
  1. Published value updated to £1,600,000
    31 Jul 2025, 14:05 BST
  2. Status changed to planning
    31 Jul 2025, 14:05 BST
  3. Official notice release published
    31 Jul 2025, 14:05 BST
  4. Buyer information updated
    31 Jul 2025, 14:05 BST
Lots and requirements (1)
Published by the contracting authority
  • Lot 1 · #1
    Individual lot title not published
    planning
    Published valueNot published
    The source published no individual title or description for this lot.
    Contract periodNot published
    EligibilityNot published
    Options / renewalNot published
Timeline
  1. Pipeline notice
    31 Jul 2025, 14:05 BST
  2. Procedure published
    31 Jul 2025, 14:05 BST
  3. engagement
    15 Aug 2025, 23:59 BST · scheduled
    Cornwall Council is issuing a preliminary market engagement notice via the Central Digital Platform to determine if there's suitable suppliers and software solutions within the market to meet the Council's Geographic Information System (GIS) contract requirements. The Council's existing GIS contract ends mid-February 2026 and any alternative software and services must be able to provide a seamless continuation of the Council's broad, mature and fully integrated GIS related service offerings. Cornwall Council has prepared a Request for Information (RFI) document and a draft Statement of Requirements (SoR) document. The RFI provides further background around this engagement exercise and includes a series of questions that suitable suppliers are invited to respond to. The SoR lists all of the Council's mandatory and optional GIS contract requirements. Suitable suppliers are invited to complete a check-box exercise to confirm which GIS contract requirements in the SoR they are capable of delivering for the Council. If you wish to participate in this market engagement exercise, please contact Alex Kirk (Alex.Kirk@cornwall.gov.uk) and Elaine Bennett (Elaine.Bennett@cornwall.gov.uk) via email to request copies of the RFI and SoR documents for completion and submission.
Commercial outcome and competition
AwardsNo award published
ContractsNo contract published
Bid statisticsNo aggregate bid statistics published
Buyer and organisations in this procedure

Cornwall Council

Contracting authority GB-PPON-PYRH-9827-DWLP
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Documents (1)
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Related procedures (0)
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Planning and rationale
Planning budgetNot published
No-engagement rationaleNot published
Procedure rationaleNot published