Official UK procurement notice
Support for CEC Digital Products
Authority: The Careers and Enterprise Company (Public body)
What is being bought2 lots · detail below
Published requirement descriptionWe are seeking to procure expert technical support to maintain, develop and enhance the capabilities of our digital products and services.
For more information about this opportunity, please visit the eSourcing portal at:
https://www.delta-esourcing.com/tenders/UK-UK-London:-Educational-software-development-services./53Y927A793
To respond to this opportunity, please click here:
https://www.delta-esourcing.com/respond/53Y927A793
How the procedure runs: This procurement will use a Competitive Flexible Procedure comprising a two-stage process with an optional third stage. Stage 1 will assess supplier capability and suitability through a PSQ and evaluated questions. Shortlisted suppliers will be invited to Stage 2 to submit detailed technical and commercial tenders. An optional Stage more…
3 presentation stage may be undertaken where closely ranked bids require further assessment. Award will be made to the supplier submitting the Most Advantageous Tender.
CPV: Educational software development services · Information technology services
Lots and requirements (2)Procurement structure
2 lots · all with a published value (£15,600,000 together) · same evaluation weights on every lotLot #1Core SupplierRenewalPublished value£15,000,000
- Value
- £15,000,000 exc. VAT · £15,000,000 inc. VAT
- Extensions
- The contract will be awarded for an initial term of three (3) years commencing in September 2027. The contracting authority reserves the right to extend the contract for a further period or periods of up to twenty-four (24) months in total.
Lot #2Learning Management System SupplierRenewalPublished value£600,000
- Value
- £600,000 exc. VAT · £600,000 inc. VAT
- Extensions
- The contract will be awarded for an initial term of three (3) years commencing on 1 September 2027. The contracting authority reserves the right to extend the contract by up to a further twenty-four (24) months, in one or more periods.
What it takes to wini
How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
Evaluation split and conditions of participation as published — the tender pack may add morei
How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
Published sub-criteria (2)
- Criterion 2 — 75%
- Criterion 1 — 25%
No conditions of participation were published on the notice; check the tender documents.
Competition analysis · published record, not a forecast of who will bid
Programming services of packaged software products (CPV 7221) in Greater London — and who usually turns up
The Careers and Enterprise Company has too little published record in this market to describe on its own; the Greater London market stands beside whatever it has. Frameworks and DPS are kept out: they attract a different number of bids. Whole-market view: Programming services of packaged software products (CPV 7221) →
How the contest usually goes
Left: this authority. Right: the market where the work is delivered. Bids and award-vs-estimate pairs are per lot, from contested contracts only — direct awards (including PA 2023 transparency notices) report one bid by definition and are left out. On Procurement Act 2023 notices the count is the tenders assessed at the final stage, not every submission received; pairs compare like with like (VAT-exclusive, or VAT-inclusive on both sides). Empty means nothing was published, not filled in from elsewhere.
The Careers and Enterprise Company
contract notices in 36 months: 1 in division 72 (1 route not published) · 3 in all categories (1 route not published)
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How many companies usually bid for work like this.
Middle value of published bid counts, one per lot, for this buyer or this region in the same sector.
Nothing published for this buyer in this sector: no bid reports published.
Nothing is filled in from UK-wide numbers. An empty tile means nothing usable was published.
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How often only one company bid.
Share of lots that received exactly one bid, on the same competitions as the bids figure.
Nothing published for this buyer in this sector: no bid reports published.
High means a thin market or an incumbent that is hard to beat.
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Do awards for work like this land above or below the estimate.
Estimate against award per lot, for this buyer or this region in the same sector.
Nothing published for this buyer in this sector: no comparable estimate → award pairs.
A past pattern, not a price to bid.
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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.
Nothing published for this buyer in this sector: no award dates published.
Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.
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How often this buyer changes a notice after publishing it.
Middle number of amendments per notice. Deadline extensions and corrections both count.
Based on this buyer’s tenders in all categories, last 24 months: 5 notices.
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How often this buyer awards without a competition.
Direct or limited awards as a share of its notices that say which procedure was used. These routes are legal in defined cases. This is just the record.
Nothing published for this buyer in this sector: no notices in this market.
Greater London · Programming services of packaged software products (CPV 7221)
contract notices delivered in Greater London in 36 months: 105 in CPV 7221 (47 competed, 32 route not published) · 719 in division 72 (320 competed, 191 route not published)
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How many companies usually bid for work like this.
Middle value of published bid counts, one per lot, for this buyer or this region in the same sector.
Based on this region’s tenders in this sector (CPV 7221), last 36 months: 17 lots. 9 lots are from Procurement Act 2023 notices (bids assessed, middle 3) and 8 from older notices (bids received, middle 3.5).
Nothing is filled in from UK-wide numbers. An empty tile means nothing usable was published.
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How often only one company bid.
Share of lots that received exactly one bid, on the same competitions as the bids figure.
Based on this region’s tenders in this sector (CPV 7221), last 36 months: 17 lots.
High means a thin market or an incumbent that is hard to beat.
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Do awards for work like this land above or below the estimate.
Estimate against award per lot, for this buyer or this region in the same sector.
Based on this region’s tenders in this sector (CPV 7221), last 36 months: 10 pairs.
A past pattern, not a price to bid.
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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.
Based on this region’s tenders in this sector (CPV 7221), last 36 months: 10 notices.
Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.
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How much of this market goes to small and medium firms.
SME bidders where buyers published the split, otherwise SME winners.
Based on this region’s tenders in this sector (CPV 7221), last 36 months: 10 lots.
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How much work like this goes to companies based in the delivery region.
Awards in this category delivered here where the winner’s registered address is in the region.
Based on this region’s tenders in this sector (CPV 7221), last 36 months: 38 awards.
Registered address, so a national firm with a local branch counts as outside.
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Where this tender’s estimate would land if the usual pattern repeats.
We apply the buyer’s usual movement between estimate and award (or the region’s) to the estimate on this notice.
This notice gives one total for several lots, so we show the percentage but do not turn it into pounds.
A benchmark, not a price to bid.
Coverage and what to read with care
- Each tile explains itself. The on a figure says what it is, how it is counted and which scope this notice’s own record came from (class, division, all categories, or the authority’s 24-month row). The two columns are never blended and nothing is filled from a UK-wide figure; an empty tile means the source published nothing usable. Long form: Methodology.
- Coverage. Roughly 40 % of notices publish a bid count; about half publish an ITL1 delivery location, so the market column reads the authority’s registered region when the notice has none (labelled). About 30 % of award-vs-estimate pairs are exact matches — the buyer published the award at the estimate. n is on every figure; a thin sample is muted, never hidden.
- “Match” and “relevance” are model scores from the nightly matcher, not published facts. Find a Tender does not publish who is bidding. Never shown: contact details, payment behaviour, or a recommended price.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Procedure method
- Competitive flexible procedure
- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Open for expressions of interest
- Procurement threshold
- Above threshold (FTS publication)
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Yes (GPA, CPTPP)
- Recurring procurement
- No (one-off requirement)
- First published
- 2 Oct 2026, 18:33 BST
- Last source update
- 2 Oct 2026, 18:33 BST
- Award evaluation window
- Submission end — 21 Dec 2026, 23:59 GMT
- Authority reference
1169- Latest notice
- Tender notice (UK4)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-078034Find a Tender
- How it runs
This procurement will use a Competitive Flexible Procedure comprising a two-stage process with an optional third stage. Stage 1 will assess supplier capability and suitability through a PSQ and evaluated questions. Shortlisted suppliers will be invited to Stage 2 to submit detailed technical and commercial tenders. An optional Stage 3 presentation stage may be undertaken where closely ranked bids require further more…
assessment. Award will be made to the supplier submitting the Most Advantageous Tender.
How to participate & submission route
Official notice Submit via Delta eSourcing- Expression of interest (EOI)
- 27 Oct 2026, 17:00 GMT
- Tender submission deadline
- 27 Oct 2026, 17:00 GMT
- Clarification deadline
- 21 Oct 2026, 17:00 BST
- Submission channel
- Official e-sourcing portal
- Electronic submission
- Allowed
- Accepted languages
- en
Timeline
6 published dates · Europe/London- Tender notice publishedearlier today2 Oct 2026, 18:33 BST
- Clarification questions byin 19 days21 Oct 2026, 17:00 BST
- Expressions of interest byin 25 days27 Oct 2026, 17:00 GMT
- Submission deadlinein 25 days27 Oct 2026, 17:00 GMT
- Award decision expected byin 80 days21 Dec 2026, 23:59 GMT
- Contract startsin 333 days1 Sept 2027, 00:00 BST
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Nothing awarded yet- Awards (0)
- No award published
- Contracts (0)
- No contract published
- Bid statistics
- No aggregate bid statistics published
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Tender notice published2 Oct 2026, 18:33 BSTUK4
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Official documents & specifications (2)
Official links; attachments are not copiedTender pack and attachments
- Conflict of interest declarationNot published
Notices published for this procedure
- Tender notice Tender notice on Find a Tender