Official UK procurement notice
West Sussex CC - RFI - Highway Network Management Systems
Authority: West Sussex County Council (Local council)
Sectors: IT Services & Software (72) Delivery: Delivery location not published
Published estimate£500,000≈ £100k / year · £600,000 inc. VAT
Tender notice expected 1 Apr 2027from the planned procurement notice
Contract term 5 yrsup to 7 yrs with extensions · starts 1 Apr 2028
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThe Council is engaging with the market to gather insights from suppliers to help shape and inform any future procurement activity related to a consolidated and more integrated Highways Network Management software solution that meets the functional requirements of the team.
More details about the current software position are in the RFI document located on the Atamis platform
CPV: Software-related services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1Lot 1PlannedRenewal
- Extensions
- Extension options published
72260000 Software-related services
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
- No (one-off requirement)
- First published
- 2 Oct 2026, 14:35 BST
- Last source update
- 2 Oct 2026, 14:35 BST
- Authority reference
C25587- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Not published
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-077fe0
How it was run
- Submission deadline
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Timeline
4 published dates · Europe/London- Planning notice publishedjust passed2 Oct 2026, 14:35 BST
- Market engagementin 21 days23 Oct 2026, 23:59 BST
The aim of the pre-market engagement activity is to: 1. Share the Council’s intention for a potential future purchase of software 2.Engage with suppliers to understand what their proposed approach to delivering the requirements would be, which may be used to help inform the overall delivery more…
approach and commercial strategy (including scope, delivery, market capacity and commercial approaches) 3.Understand what the market can offer in terms of skills and experience, including any innovative technology, to support the Council’s future roadmap. The pre-market engagement will be carried out via the Council's Atamis Portal, interested suppliers should register their interest and access the Request for Information document by completing the following steps: 1. Register on the Portal: https://atamis-7669.my.site.com/ProSpend__CustomCommunitiesLogin 2. Express Interest on the Portal: Suppliers should navigate to the 'Find Opportunities' page, click on the title of the opportunity (West Sussex CC - RFI - Highway Network Management Systems C25587, and click Register Interest. You will be prompted to log-in at this point. 3. ) Locate the Project under Find Opportunities and review the RFI and upload a response by 12.00 on 23 October 2026 - Tender notice expectedin 181 days1 Apr 2027, 23:59 BST
- Contract starts1 Apr 2028, 00:00 BST
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Pipeline notice- 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- Preliminary market engagement notice published2 Oct 2026, 14:35 BSTUK2
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Official documents & specifications (1)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender