Find a TenderPast planning noticePreliminary market engagement notice
Published 22 Jul 2025, 12:06 BST

Official UK procurement notice

Digital Transformation Solutions and Enterprise Services

Official notice

Authority: Kent County Council (Local council)

Framework agreementServicesAbove threshold
Planned pipeline value£500,000,000pipeline notice, not a live tender
Tender notice expected Date not publishedfrom the planned procurement notice
Framework period 3 yrsends 1 Feb 2029 · starts 2 Feb 2026

What is being bought

Published requirement description

This framework will provide a compliant, flexible, and outcomes-focused route to market for public sector organisations seeking to deliver digital transformation, operational modernisation, and strategic reform. It supports both targeted interventions and end-to-end delivery models across core service areas.

The Framework is structured into five high-level lots, designed to reflect real operational needs and encourage participation from organisations of all sizes including SMEs, VCSEs, and consortia.

Lot 1: Digital and Service Transformation

Scope:

This lot covers services including, but not limited to, the design, delivery, and improvement of digital services and platforms across the public sector. Suppliers may deliver full or partial service areas.

Lot 2: IT, Cloud and Cyber Services

Scope:

This lot covers services including, but not limited to, the design, delivery, and management of digital infrastructure, cloud environments, and cyber security across public sector organisations.

Lot 3: People, Payroll, Pensions and Financial Operations

Scope:

This lot covers services including, but not limited to, the transformation and management of public sector people operations, payroll, pensions, and procurement/payment functions.

Lot 4: Estates, Facilities and Asset Management Technology

Scope:

This lot covers services including, but not limited to, the use of technology, data, and automation to support smart estates management, statutory compliance, and Net Zero delivery.

Lot 5: Strategic Consultancy and Public Sector Reform

Scope:

This lot covers services including, but not limited to, strategic consultancy, organisational reform, and major transformation programme support across the public sector.

To view this notice, please click here:

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CPV: Business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing and security · Financial and insurance services · IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support · Office and computing machinery, equipment and supplies except furniture and software packages · Software package and information systems

How this framework works

From the published notice
Framework period
3 yrs from 2 Feb 2026

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published

What it takes to win
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How this buyer will score bids.

The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).

Evaluation split and conditions of participation as published; the tender pack may add more
What this means for your bid
  • “Digital Transformation Solutions and Enterprise Services” is a framework: the contest is a place on its panel, not a single contract.

Procedure terms & legal framework

From the official record
Legal basis
UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
Procurement category
Services
Notice status
Past planning notice
Procurement threshold
Above threshold (FTS publication)
Regulatory regime
Standard
Commercial structure
Framework agreement
Who may use this agreement
Not stated in the notice; call-off rights may be limited to the establishing authority
Competition type
Competitive procedure
GPA / WTO covered
Unspecified in notice
Recurring procurement
Unspecified in notice
First published
22 Jul 2025, 12:06 BST
Last source update
23 Jul 2025, 12:05 BST
Authority reference
Y26006
FTS notice number
2025/S 000-042323
Latest notice
Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
Classification (CPV)
Business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing and securityFinancial and insurance servicesIT services: consulting, software development, Internet and supportOffice and computing machinery, equipment and supplies except furniture and software packagesSoftware package and information systems
Delivery area
Not published
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-0563ba Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice
Appointment period ends
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Timeline

22 Jul 2025 → 2 Feb 2026 · 3 dates
  1. Planning notice published
    22 Jul 2025, 12:06 BST
  2. Market engagement
    31 Jul 2025, 23:59 BST

    This preliminary market engagement is conducted in accordance with Sections 16 and 17 of the Procurement Act 2023. Its purpose is to inform and shape the upcoming procurement process by engaging with the market in a fair, transparent, and non-discriminatory manner.

    This notice is issued to:

    Invite suppliers to participate in pre-market engagement

    The purpose of this engagement is to:

    Understand market capability and capacity

    Inform the development of the specification and pricing mechanism

    Explore innovative solutions

    Identify potential risks and delivery models

    Encourage feedback on existing framework Y20023 - Managed Services

    Suppliers are invited to participate in the following activities:

    Online questionnaire

    1:1 meetings

    Dates: w/c 21/07/25

    How to participate: Please contact us via the Delta portal messaging service to register your interest in participation of this preliminary engagement notice. Access code 6VH9X56363

    Participation is voluntary and will not affect future tender opportunities.

    All information shared during this engagement will be made available to all interested suppliers to ensure fairness.

    This is not a call for competition.

  3. Contract starts268 days ago
    2 Feb 2026

Notice history

2 events · 2 releases on Find a Tender · since 22 Jul 2025
  1. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    22 Jul 2025, 12:06 BST
    UK2
  2. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    23 Jul 2025, 12:05 BST
    UK2

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

Kent County Council (t/a Procurement Services)

Contracting authorityPublic authority - central government GB-PPON: PYCX-4938-CCHM 1 Abbey Wood Road, West Malling, South East, ME19 4YTContact name, email, phone

Official documents & specifications (2)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure