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Published 16 Feb 2026, 13:18 GMT

Official UK procurement notice

Spend Analytics & Savings Tracking

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Authority: BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) (Public body)

ServicesAbove thresholdSME suitable
Sectors: IT Services & Software (72) Delivery: Delivery location not published
Planned pipeline valueValue not publishedpipeline notice, not a live tender
Tender notice expected 30 Nov 2026from the planned procurement notice
Contract term 3 yrsends 28 Feb 2030 · up to 28 Feb 2031 with extensions · starts 1 Mar 2027

What is being bought

Published requirement description

The BBC is conducting early market engagement to understand the capabilities, maturity and implementation requirements of modern Spend Analytics and Savings Tracking platforms.

This activity is exploratory: no procurement process has yet commenced, and all information provided is for fact‑finding only.

We are seeking information from vendors who offer solutions that can:

Organise, cleanse and classify spend data

Provide actionable insights and opportunity identification

Support savings tracking from pipeline creation through to realisation

Integrate with multiple internal and external data sources

Enable reporting for procurement, finance, and business stakeholders

The BBC aims to gain clarity on:

  1. What the current market of spend analytics and savings‑management tools can deliver
  2. What is considered “best‑in‑class” in terms of data connectivity, classification, analytics, and value‑tracking
  3. What typical implementation timelines and resource requirements look like
  4. What dependencies, risks and considerations should be factored into our planning
  5. Indicative commercial models and licensing structures (non‑binding)

The BBC will also be approaching organisations on an ad-hoc basis to understand

CPV: Software programming and consultancy services

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published
Lot #1PlannedRenewal 3 yrsSME
Contract period: 1 Mar 2027 – 28 Feb 2030 (3 yrs) · up to 28 Feb 2031 with extensions
Eligibility: SME eligible
Extensions: Extension options published
72200000 Software programming and consultancy services

Who is likely to bid for this lot ↓

Pipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published

How BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) buys Software programming and consultancy services (CPV 7220), and who usually turns up

BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation)’s own published record, next to the published market for the same work. Frameworks and DPS are kept out: they attract a different number of bids. Whole-market view: Software programming and consultancy services (CPV 7220) →

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How the contest usually goes

Winner shares use published awards; bid and price charts use contested lots.

Question for the bid
This buyerBBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) · division 72
The marketSoftware programming and consultancy services (CPV 7220)
What to do with it
How often do SMEs win?
i

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.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 0 of 4 known-size awards · market: CPV 7220 · Greater London (authority’s region), n=13
0 of 446%

No small-firm winners recorded among this authority’s published awards in this sample.

How often do local suppliers win?
i

How often local firms win similar work.

Winners with a registered address in the delivery region, out of awards with a known address.

Here, local means registered in Greater London (authority’s region).

A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: no winner locations published · market: CPV 7220 · Greater London (authority’s region), n=18
—22%

No winner locations published for this authority. Local means a registered address in Greater London.

How long to a decision?
i

How long buyers here take to decide after bids close.

Middle value in days from the deadline to the first award notice, on competitions that published both dates.

Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 7 decided notices · market: CPV 7220 · UK-wide, n=12
106 days41 days

Half of these awards were announced within 106 days of the bid deadline.

How often single-bid or direct?
i

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.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: exactly 3 of 8 procurements with awards had no recorded rival · market: CPV 7220 · Greater London (authority’s region), n=17
38%76%

Direct awards or one recorded bid are common here. Check the route before spending time on a bid.

How many bids did past lots attract?

i

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.

Last 36 months.

This buyer5 lots with bid counts · broad CPV 72
0% had one bid
The market15 lots with bid counts · CPV 7220 · UK-wide
20% had one bid
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
1 bid0% / 20%
Buyer: 0 of 5 lots with published bid counts. Market: 3 of 15 lots with published bid counts.
2–380% / 13%
Buyer: 4 of 5 lots with published bid counts. Market: 2 of 15 lots with published bid counts.
4–60% / 20%
Buyer: 0 of 5 lots with published bid counts. Market: 3 of 15 lots with published bid counts.
7+20% / 47%
Buyer: 1 of 5 lots with published bid counts. Market: 7 of 15 lots with published bid counts.

How did awards compare with estimates?

i

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.

Last 36 months.

This buyer13 lots with estimate and award · all categories
8% below estimate
The market10 lots with estimate and award · CPV 7220 · UK-wide
40% below estimate
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
Below estimate8% / 40%
Buyer: 1 of 13 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 4 of 10 lots with an estimate and award.
Within ±2%85% / 30%
Buyer: 11 of 13 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 3 of 10 lots with an estimate and award.
Above estimate8% / 30%
Buyer: 1 of 13 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 3 of 10 lots with an estimate and award.
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Assess each lot
i

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 #1CPV 722036 monthsSME suitableEstimate not published
Expected competition
i

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 90 past lots.

A forecast, not a list of bidders.

—No model forecast yet8% single-bid risk
Past bids on 90 similar lots
1 bid8%
7 of 90 similar past lots received 1 bid (8%).
2–332%
29 of 90 similar past lots received 2–3 (32%).
4–631%
28 of 90 similar past lots received 4–6 (31%).
7+29%
26 of 90 similar past lots received 7+ (29%).
Comparable past lots usually drew 4 bids.
Commercial price forecast
i

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.

—Estimate not published
The buyer published no estimate for this lot, so there is nothing to forecast against. A price prediction here would be a number about a number we do not have.

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.

No earlier contract of this buyer matches this lot on the published record.

Who could compete for this lot?
i

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
Legal basis
UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
Procurement category
Services
Notice status
Planned procurement
Procurement threshold
Above threshold (FTS publication)
Regulatory regime
Standard
Commercial structure
Stand-alone contract (no framework)
Competition type
Competitive procedure
GPA / WTO covered
Unspecified in notice
Recurring procurement
Unspecified in notice
First published
16 Feb 2026, 13:18 GMT
Last source update
16 Feb 2026, 13:18 GMT
FTS notice number
2026/S 000-013844
Latest notice
Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
Classification (CPV)
Software programming and consultancy services
Delivery area
Not published
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-0654e3 Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice
Submission deadline
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Timeline

16 Feb 2026 → 1 Mar 2027 · 4 dates
  1. Planning notice published246 days ago
    16 Feb 2026, 13:18 GMT
  2. Market engagement228 days ago
    6 Mar 2026, 23:59 GMT

    Please engage with this RFI via our e-Plaform: bbc.ukp.app.jaggaer.com/go/69292033019C66999078 ↗

    We are seeking information in relation to:

    1. Current market capabilities
    2. Data/System Intergration (ERP)
    3. Functionality of the proposed system
    4. Savings Logging and Tracking functionality
    5. Implementation Approach & Timelines.

    Deadline for RFI submission is 06/03/2026; 14:00 GMT.

  3. Today
    20 Oct 2026
  4. Tender notice expectedin 41 days
    30 Nov 2026, 23:59 GMT
  5. Contract startsin 131 days
    1 Mar 2027

Notice history

1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender
  1. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    16 Feb 2026, 13:18 GMT
    UK2

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

BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation)

Contracting authorityPublic authority - sub-central government GB-PPON: PJRB-3233-GTQL Broadcasting House, Portland Place, London, London, W1A 1AAContact email

Official documents & specifications (1)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure