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Published 22 Sept 2026, 12:31 BST

Official UK procurement notice

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Authority: HM Revenue & Customs (Central government)

ServicesAbove thresholdSME suitable
Sectors: Software Packages & ERP (48)IT Services & Software (72) Delivery: UK
Planned pipeline valueValue not publishedpipeline notice, not a live tender
Tender notice expected Date not publishedfrom the planned procurement notice
Contract term 3 yrsends 31 Jan 2030 · starts 1 Feb 2027

What is being bought

Published requirement description

HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) is undertaking Preliminary Market Engagement to better understand current market capability, available technologies, delivery approaches and commercial models for the provision of a Document Fraud Detection capability. The engagement is intended to inform HMRC's future procurement strategy and requirements and does not constitute a call for competition.

HMRC is seeking market insight regarding solutions capable of supporting document fraud detection and authentication activities, including:

  • Document forgery detection
  • Metadata analysis
  • AI-generated fraud detection
  • Cross-document analysis
  • Cross-case duplication detection
  • Fraud scoring approaches
  • Integration with existing HMRC systems
  • Security and operational support models
  • Market maturity
  • Routes to market

The engagement will help HMRC validate assumptions, understand supplier capability, refine requirements and inform any future procurement approach. Participation in this engagement will not confer any advantage or disadvantage in any future procurement process.

CPV: Information technology services · Software package and information systems

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published
Lot #1Planned 3 yrsSME
Contract period: 1 Feb 2027 – 31 Jan 2030 (3 yrs)
Delivery: UKEligibility: SME eligible
48000000 Software package and information systems72222300 Information technology services

Who is likely to bid for this lot ↓

Pipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published

How HM Revenue & Customs buys Systems and technical consultancy services (CPV 7222), and who usually turns up

HM Revenue & Customs’s published record next to the market for the same work. Frameworks and DPS are left out: they draw different bid counts. Whole-market view: Systems and technical consultancy services (CPV 7222) →

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How the contest usually goes

Winner shares use published awards; bid and price charts use contested lots.

Question for the bid
This buyerHM Revenue & Customs · division 72
The marketSystems and technical consultancy services (CPV 7222) · UK-wide
What to do with it
How often do SMEs win?
i

How often small and medium firms win.

Share of awards where the winner’s size is known.

The counts under this question show how many awards have a known supplier size.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 2 of 18 known-size awards · market: CPV 7222 · UK-wide, n=624
11%47%

Small firms have won here. Neither number says whether you qualify; it describes who has been winning.

How often do local suppliers win?
i

How often local firms win similar work.

Winners with a registered address in the delivery region, out of awards with a known address.

Local means the winner is registered in the region where that award was delivered.

A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 0 of 1 known-location awards · market: CPV 7222 · UK-wide, n=477
0 of 141%

Most of this buyer’s recorded winners were registered outside the region where that award was delivered.

How long to a decision?
i

How long buyers here take to decide after bids close.

Middle value in days from the bid deadline to the award date, on competitions that published both.

Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: no decision dates published · market: CPV 7222 · UK-wide, n=73
—48 days

Half of these awards have an award date within 48 days of the bid deadline.

How often single-bid or direct?
i

How often work is awarded with no recorded rival.

Direct awards and tenders where every published lot count shows one bid.

Both shares are minimums: some awards have no bid count.

Thin markets produce this too; it is not proof of a tailored specification.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: at least 18 of 24 procurements with awards had no recorded rival · market: CPV 7222 · UK-wide, n=936
75%58%

Direct awards or one recorded bid are common here. Check the route before spending time on a bid.

How many bids did past lots attract?

i

How many bids past lots received.

Each colour is a bid-count range. Only competed lots with a published count are included.

Past bids do not predict this tender.

Last 36 months.

This buyer18 lots with bid counts · all categories
17% had one bid
The market135 lots with bid counts · CPV 7222 · UK-wide
13% had one bid
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
1 bid17% / 13%
Buyer: 3 of 18 lots with published bid counts. Market: 18 of 135 lots with published bid counts.
2–356% / 33%
Buyer: 10 of 18 lots with published bid counts. Market: 44 of 135 lots with published bid counts.
4–622% / 24%
Buyer: 4 of 18 lots with published bid counts. Market: 33 of 135 lots with published bid counts.
7+6% / 30%
Buyer: 1 of 18 lots with published bid counts. Market: 40 of 135 lots with published bid counts.

How did awards compare with estimates?

i

Where winning prices landed against estimates.

Each colour shows awards below, close to or above the published estimate, one lot at a time.

Past prices are a guide, not a bid price.

Last 36 months.

This buyer10 lots with estimate and award · all categories
30% below estimate
The market95 lots with estimate and award · CPV 7222 · UK-wide
41% below estimate
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
Below estimate30% / 41%
Buyer: 3 of 10 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 39 of 95 lots with an estimate and award.
Within ±2%70% / 45%
Buyer: 7 of 10 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 43 of 95 lots with an estimate and award.
Above estimate0% / 14%
Buyer: 0 of 10 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 13 of 95 lots with an estimate and award.
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Assess each lot
i

What past awards tell you about each lot.

See the forecast, this buyer’s earlier suppliers and firms with relevant wins.

No supplier is confirmed as a bidder.

Open a lot for its forecast, this buyer’s previous supplier and possible competitors, from published award history, not a bid list

Lot #1CPV 722236 monthsSME suitableEstimate not published
Expected competition
i

How many bids this lot may attract.

The forecast uses similar past competitions. The bar shows either that forecast or past bid counts; the line below says which.

Each lot shows its own forecast based on its own category; forecasts for different lots of the same notice are not comparative. The bar shows 135 past lots.

A forecast, not a list of bidders.

—No model forecast yet13% chance of a single bid
Past bids on 135 similar lots
1 bid13%
18 of 135 similar past lots received 1 bid (13%).
2–333%
44 of 135 similar past lots received 2–3 (33%).
4–624%
33 of 135 similar past lots received 4–6 (24%).
7+30%
40 of 135 similar past lots received 7+ (30%).
Comparable past lots usually drew 4 bids.
Commercial price forecast
i

Where the award price may land.

The forecast uses similar awards and the buyer’s estimate. The band covers the middle half of likely prices.

No comparable awards for this lot yet.

A statistical guide from past awards, not a price to bid.

—Estimate not published
The buyer published no estimate for this lot, so there is nothing to forecast against. A price prediction here would be a number about a number we do not have.

Who has supplied this buyer on similar work?
i

Who has done similar work for this buyer.

Past contracts are matched by buyer, title and type of work.

A past supplier may not bid again.

No earlier contract of this buyer matches this lot on the published record.

Who could compete for this lot?
i

Who could compete for this lot?

Firms with relevant past wins. On a framework, we show firms on that agreement.

None is confirmed as a bidder.

Candidate suppliers for this notice have not been worked out yet, so this is not a verdict that nobody fits.

About this data
  • Source. Official UK public procurement notices (Find a Tender), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0. New notices arrive through the day; the figures are rebuilt nightly.
  • Two views, kept apart. The authority’s own track record and the wider market for the same kind of work sit side by side and are never mixed. Where the local picture is too thin, a figure widens to a broader market and says which one it used.
  • Forecasts are labelled. The price forecast and its range, possible competitors and the earlier-work matches are our estimates from past awards: not published facts, not win chances and not price advice. Official notices do not say who is bidding.
  • Every figure shows what it rests on. Not every notice publishes a bid count, a value or a delivery region, so each figure carries the number of records behind it, and one built on few records is marked as such. The on a figure explains it; the counting rules are in the methodology. Spotted something wrong? Tell us.

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
Unspecified in notice
First published
22 Sept 2026, 12:31 BST
Last source update
24 Sept 2026, 14:07 BST
Authority reference
SR3311241951
FTS notice number
2026/S 000-090603
Latest notice
Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
Classification (CPV)
Information technology servicesSoftware package and information systems
Delivery area
UK
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-07776d Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice
Submission deadline
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Timeline

22 Sept 2026 → 1 Feb 2027 · 4 dates
  1. Planning notice published34 days ago
    22 Sept 2026, 12:31 BST
  2. Latest notice published32 days ago
    24 Sept 2026, 14:07 BST
  3. Today
    27 Oct 2026
  4. Market engagementin 3 days
    30 Oct 2026, 23:59 GMT

    HMRC intends to undertake a structured programme of Preliminary Market Engagement to help inform the development of requirements, procurement strategy and commercial approach for the proposed Document Fraud Detection capability.

    The engagement is being undertaken to improve HMRC's understanding of market capability, validate key assumptions and inform the design of any future procurement.

    Stage 1 - Supplier Webinar

    HMRC intends to hold a supplier engagement webinar on Thursday 29th October on Microsoft Teams. The webinar will provide suppliers with an overview of the programme, the business challenge, the outcomes HMRC is seeking to achieve and the areas where market feedback is sought.

    The webinar will provide suppliers with an opportunity to understand the proposed requirement, ask questions and provide initial observations on market capability, delivery approaches and emerging technologies.

    Webinar Date: Thursday, 29th October 2026

    Stage 2 - Supplier Questionnaire

    Following the webinar, HMRC intends to issue a structured supplier questionnaire to interested suppliers.

    The questionnaire is expected to seek feedback on:

    • Supplier capability and solution maturity
    • Document fraud detection functionality
    • Technical architectures and deployment models
    • Integration approaches and APIs
    • Security and operational considerations
    • Commercial and licensing models
    • Implementation considerations and risks
    • Market maturity
    • Routes to market

    Responses will be reviewed and analysed by HMRC and used to refine requirements, validate assumptions, inform commercial strategy and shape any future procurement approach.

    Participation in the engagement is entirely voluntary. Suppliers who do not participate in this activity will not be excluded from, or disadvantaged in, any future procurement process.

    Registration

    Please register your interest by:

    o Organisation name

    o Contact name

    o Email address

    o Telephone number

    o HMRC Ariba Account ID (if required)

  5. Contract startsin 96 days
    1 Feb 2027

Notice history

3 events · 3 releases on Find a Tender · since 22 Sept 2026
  1. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    22 Sept 2026, 12:31 BST
    UK2
  2. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    22 Sept 2026, 14:49 BST
    UK2
  3. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    24 Sept 2026, 14:07 BST
    UK2
Published amendments (2)

Revised contact email address

Update on dates

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

HM Revenue & Customs

Contracting authorityPublic authority - central government GB-PPON: PVMW-8599-JZNJ 100 Parliament Street, London, London, SW1A 2BQContact email

Official documents & specifications (3)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure