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Published 1 May 2025, 17:28 BST

Official UK procurement notice

Website Hosting Services · UK public procurement notice

Authority: Care Quality Commission (Central government)

ServicesSME suitable
Planned pipeline value£2,780,957pipeline notice, not a live tender
Tender notice expected 2 Nov 2026from the planned procurement notice
Contract term 2 yrsends 31 Oct 2029 · starts 1 Nov 2027

What is being bought

Published requirement description

This is a UK1 Pipeline notice.

Hosting of CQC Website and Provider Portal.

Planned sourcing route: Call-off from CCS Framework Agreement RM1557.15 G-Cloud 15, Lot3 Cloud Support.

CPV: IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published

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

How Care Quality Commission buys IT services: consulting, software, internet (CPV 72), and who usually turns up

Care Quality Commission’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: IT services: consulting, software, internet (CPV 72) →

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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 buyerCare Quality Commission · division 72
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: 2 of 6 known-size awards · market: no supplier sizes published
33%—

Small firms have won here. Neither number says whether you qualify; it describes who has been winning.

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.

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

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 1 of 1 known-location awards · market: no winner locations published
1 of 1—

Most of this buyer’s recorded winners are registered in the delivery region.

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: no decision dates published · market: no decision dates published
——

No decision dates published to compare.

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 buyer’s 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: at least 10 of 11 procurements with awards had no recorded rival · market: no bid counts or routes published
91%—

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

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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 #124 monthsSME suitablePublished estimate£2.8m
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 814 past lots.

A forecast, not a list of bidders.

—No model forecast yet13% single-bid risk
Past bids on 814 similar lots
1 bid13%
109 of 814 similar past lots received 1 bid (13%).
2–327%
221 of 814 similar past lots received 2–3 (27%).
4–628%
225 of 814 similar past lots received 4–6 (28%).
7+32%
259 of 814 similar past lots received 7+ (32%).
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.

—No model forecast yet
No comparable awards on record for this lot’s category yet. The published estimate is £2.8m, and the forecast stays empty until the market has a record to read.

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
Unspecified in notice
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
1 May 2025, 17:28 BST
Last source update
20 Feb 2026, 11:42 GMT
FTS notice number
2026/S 000-015590
Latest notice
Pipeline notice (UK1)
Classification (CPV)
IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support
Delivery area
North East (UKC)North West (UKD)Yorkshire & Humber (UKE)East Midlands (UKF)West Midlands (UKG)East of England (UKH)London (UKI)South East (UKJ)
+1 moreSouth West (UKK)
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-050bd2 Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice
Submission deadline
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Timeline

1 May 2025 → 1 Nov 2027 · 4 dates
  1. Planning notice published
    1 May 2025, 17:28 BST
  2. Latest notice published242 days ago
    20 Feb 2026, 11:42 GMT
  3. Today
    20 Oct 2026
  4. Tender notice expectedin 14 days
    2 Nov 2026, 23:59 GMT
  5. Contract startsin 377 days
    1 Nov 2027

Notice history

2 events · 2 releases on Find a Tender · since 1 May 2025
  1. Pipeline notice published
    1 May 2025, 17:28 BST
    UK1
  2. Pipeline notice published
    20 Feb 2026, 11:42 GMT
    UK1
Published amendments (1)

Updated Description planned sourcing route; procurement dates; and revised the estimated contract dates.

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

Care Quality Commission

Contracting authorityPublic authority - central government GB-NHS: 8HN02 · GB-PPON: PBJZ-7139-JTHN Citygate, Gallowgate, Newcastle upon Tyne, North East, NE1 4PAContact email

Official documents & specifications (2)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure

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