RFP QuestBeta
OpenStage · planning

Department for Education

National Careers Service - "Technical & Live Services " and "Portfolio Support" Joint Pre-Market Engagement Event

IT ServicesCPV 72222300
Value£16.0m
Deadline
Published22 Jun 2026
RegionNationwide
Who to contact
Commercial.DDAT@education.gov.uk

The procurement contact named on the official notice.

Contract value in context
£16.0mtotal contract value
median £120k
this tender£0£17.3m

This is a large award for IT Services — above three-quarters of comparable contracts. Based on 36,449 valued IT Services tenders in our corpus.

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The brief

These procurements will be ran via the GCA Framework "Digital Outcomes and Specialists 7" RM1043.9, Lot 2.

Only suppliers awarded onto this framework Lot shall be invited to participate in this preliminary market engagement event and subsequent further competition.

This event is to alert the market of an upcoming tender opportunity and to provide important context and information ahead of the requirements being launched.

Portfolio Support We are seeking a supplier that will partner with us to maintain and deliver digital products and services to support the Careers and Skills policy outcomes in rainbow teams alongside other suppliers and permanent civil servants.

Key requirements

What the supplier must deliver

01

Only suppliers awarded onto this framework Lot

Only suppliers awarded onto this framework Lot shall be invited to participate in this preliminary market engagement event and subsequent further competition.

02

This event is to alert the market

This event is to alert the market of an upcoming tender opportunity and to provide important context and information ahead of the requirements being launched.

03

We are seeking a supplier that

We are seeking a supplier that will partner with us to maintain and deliver digital products and services to support the Careers and Skills policy outcomes in rainbow teams alongside other suppliers and permanent civil servants.

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Source & provenance
OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06ba47
Stage
planning · Planning
Source
Find a Tender
Buyer ref
058596-2026
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