Pre-Market Engagement for Home Office Quality Assurance & Testing (QAT) Contracts
The UK Home Office (referred to hereafter as the Authority) is inviting prospective bidders to take part in a series of pre-market engagement activities for the Authority's planned QAT procurements.
The Authority currently has a number of contracts for QAT capability, aligned to portfolios across the Home Office.
The future commercial strategy is to consolidate these services into two core testing capability contracts by Autumn 2027.
The exact scope, duration and values of the new contracts is still to be confirmed, however the current expectation is that each contract will have a minimum term of 3-years, with a maximum spend of £150m (including any extensions).
The intention is to compete these contracts via the GCA Dynamic Purchasing System, RM6148, however the pre-market engagement is open to all suppliers.
Before any tender activity is launched, the Authority wi…
What the supplier must deliver
Support in the transformation from a Programme
Support in the transformation from a Programme SDLC to a Product SDLC, including using experience gained from other clients to help shape and drive the change.
Support in the transformation from Quality Assurance
Support in the transformation from Quality Assurance to Quality Engineering, including using experience gained from other clients to help shape and drive the change.
This engagement shall start with an in-person
This engagement shall start with an in-person event from 10:30 until 13:00 on Monday 27th July at the TechUK office in London; 10 Saint Bride St, London, EC4A 4AD.
Each supplier may bring a maximum
Each supplier may bring a maximum of 2 delegates to the day, and should confirm who these individuals are no later than 17:00 (BST) on Thursday 23rd July.
Once registered against this opportunity, you should
Once registered against this opportunity, you should submit a response to the 'Qualification Envelope' with the names and email addresses for the 2 delegates who you plan to attend the event.
Derived from the notice text — always confirm against the original documents.
- OCID
- 76b20993-42be-4209-9b09-e46661735243
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- preprocurement · Open
- Source
- Contracts Finder
- Buyer ref
- tender_519756/1581639
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