Contract for provision, development and maintenance of Contracts Finder and Find a Tender websites
This is notification of our intention to let a contract using the Digital Outcomes and Specialists Framework 4 : https://www.crowncommercial.gov.uk/agreements/RM1043.6 The scope of the requirement will be for the provision, development and maintenance of two e-notification services, Contracts Finder (CFS) and Find a Tender (FTS) This will cover hosting, support and development of all environments for both systems.
We intend to commence the procurement in mid to late January About Find a Tender (FTS) Find a Tender will launch at the end of the Transition Period.
It is the UK's free to use replacement for the EU's Tenders Electronic Daily portal.
It is anticipated Find a Tender will have over 60,000 registered users and handle over 50,000 individual notices pa.
Contracting authorities are legally required to use the service to publish procurement information above certain value thresholds (>£100k).
Contracting authorities can publish 24 different notice types, according to the Regulation, procedure and stage within the procurement process.
They may publish either directly through a web-based user interface or via a registered eSender.
It lets suppliers search for high value public sector, utilities and works contracts, typically above £118,000, across the whole of the UK.
Users can create an account to get email updates and save searches.
About Contracts Finder (CFS) Contracts Finder is the UK's free to use procurement-advertising portal.
It has been live since 2011.
The Public Contracts Regulations 2015 require the majority of non-devolved public bodies to publish opportunities and awards above certain low value thresholds ( £10,000 in central government and £25,000 in the wider public sector) on Contracts Finder.
Contracts Finder has over 62,000 registered users.
Of its registered supplier users, 68% are SMEs.
In 2019/20, over 50,000 individual notices were published on Contracts Finder.
Contracting authorities have a choice of four notices that they can publish according to their needs.
Both FTS and CFS provide a range of OCDS compliant data outputs for re-use and both are integrated with the CCS-owned Supplier Registration Service for user registration.
The successful supplier will need to develop both systems in support of the rules reform agenda being flexible to emerging needs and work to integrate these existing systems with ongoing initiatives.
What the supplier must deliver
This will cover hosting, support and development
This will cover hosting, support and development of all environments for both systems.
Contracting authorities are legally required to use
Contracting authorities are legally required to use the service to publish procurement information above certain value thresholds (>£100k).
Both FTS and CFS provide a range
Both FTS and CFS provide a range of OCDS compliant data outputs for re-use and both are integrated with the CCS-owned Supplier Registration Service for user registration.
The successful supplier will need to develop
The successful supplier will need to develop both systems in support of the rules reform agenda being flexible to emerging needs and work to integrate these existing systems with ongoing initiatives.
Derived from the notice text — always confirm against the original documents.
Make the case to bid
Reveal who to approach at Crown Commercial Service, and generate a go-to-market strategy from their news, accounts and people.
The full intelligence dossier
Our agent reads Crown Commercial Service’s accounts, hunts live signals, finds the people who decide — and hands you a bid strategy plus a go-to-market influence plan, including what your team should post this week. You approve every paid step.
Ask me about this tender, the buyer, who wins their work, or whether you should bid.
- OCID
- 79d1786f-ecf4-4d34-b803-865ba6f73fef
- Stage
- preprocurement · Closed
- Source
- Contracts Finder
- Buyer ref
- DOS-Transparency Systems
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source data © Crown copyright.
Who wins this kind of work
The suppliers and buyers around this opportunity — drawn from official award data. Drag to orbit; click a node to explore.
Top suppliers & buyers in IT Services
Crown Commercial Service’s tender network
Assembling the network…