Lot 1
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Buyer: BRITISH COUNCIL(THE) →
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The British Council is seeking to established a Closed framework for 4-6 suppliers, on a 2+2+2 basis. This initiative will enable the organisation to complement internal teams with external expertise, ensuring it can respond quickly to evolving business and technology demands. Through this procurement, the British Council intends to establish contractual relationships with specialist suppliers who will deliver specific statements of work, as issued through the framework award process. All professionals will remain employed and managed by the supplier(s) but will be rapidly deployed to deliver specific British Council project delivery needs. Suppliers will be expected to provide suitably qualified and experienced professionals across the following areas of expertise, including but not limited to: Software Engineering, DevOps/SRE, Quality Assurance/Testing/Engineering, Data Engineering, Business Analysis, Technical Architecture, Project Management, Scrum Master, Delivery Management.
No lot description published.
Award criteria
Award criteria — ITT to confirm award criteria
| Item | Category | Quantity |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Systems and technical consultancy services, Computer support and consultancy services, Computer network services | Not published |
Benchmarked against retained Find a Tender procedures with CPV division 72. The category anchor is Systems and technical consultancy services (72220000); this is a deliberately broad market comparator. The comparison is shown at several levels rather than pretending one company or region is always the best benchmark.
| Comparison set | Procedures | Reported bids per procedure | Named award suppliers | Price evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Market: CPV division 72 | 4,202 | 1 median · 7.9 average (1,403 of 4,202 with a bid count) | 1.7 average (1,618 of 4,202 with named award suppliers) | Not published |
| Same buyer | 1 | Not published | Not published | Not published |
| Similar published value (0.5×–2×) | 140 | 2 median · 11 average (3 of 140 with a bid count) | 4 average (3 of 140 with named award suppliers) | Not published |
“Reported bids” is an official aggregate, sometimes reported per lot; it is the closest available competition measure. “Named award suppliers” are winners, not all applicants.
Not enough comparable procedures currently publish both a GBP tender value and a usable lowest-valid-bid value to calculate a responsible price-reduction benchmark. Tenderline deliberately does not infer a saving from named award suppliers or from missing award values.
No planning milestones published.
No linked framework, prior procurement or reprocurement published.
Diagnostic view. “Not published” means this current release does not provide a value.
| OCID | ocds-h6vhtk-05e1c5 |
|---|---|
| Latest release ID | 026924-2026 |
| Latest release timestamp | Tue Mar 24 2026 15:11:09 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) |
| Source | find-a-tender |
| Official notice URL | https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/026924-2026 |
| Tender status | active |
| Procurement method | selective |
| Procurement method details | Competitive flexible procedure |
| Main procurement category | services |
| Above threshold | Yes |
| Legal basis | 2023/54 |
| Tender period: start | Not published |
| Tender period: end | Not published |
| Expression of interest deadline | 2026-03-31T11:00:00+01:00 |
| Enquiry deadline | 2026-03-18T10:00:00Z |
| Award period: start | Not published |
| Award period: end | 2026-06-18T23:59:59+01:00 |
| Submission method details | Please register an account on our procurement portal and submit and questions and responses via this portal: https://tap.tcsapps.com/tap2/#/bc-supplier-registration |
| Submission languages | en |
| Electronic catalogue policy | Not published |
| Total tender value | £45,000,000 |
| Tender lots in source | 1 |
| Tender items in source | 1 |
| Tender documents in source | 3 |
| Awards in latest release | 0 |
| Contracts in latest release | 0 |
| Parties in latest release | 1 |
| Date | Event | Reference |
|---|---|---|
| 24 Mar 2026 | tenderUpdate | 026924-2026 |
| 3 Mar 2026 | tenderUpdate | 019127-2026 |
| 3 Mar 2026 | tenderUpdate | 019117-2026 |
| 2 Mar 2026 | tender | 018582-2026 |
| 26 Nov 2025 | planningUpdate | 077284-2025 |
| 14 Nov 2025 | planning | 074095-2025 |
Unmodified official OCDS data retained by Tenderline for this procurement process.
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