TenderlineUK
Procurement Intelligence
Search
Find a TenderPast planning noticePreliminary market engagement notice
Published 8 Oct 2025, 11:03 BST

Official UK procurement notice

Home Office - Auto-translation and transcription Request for Information

Official notice

Authority: Home Office (Central government)

ServicesAbove thresholdSME suitable
Sectors: 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 1 moends 31 Oct 2025 · starts 8 Oct 2025

What is being bought

Published requirement description

The Home Office Migration & Borders System (which includes Asylum & Human Rights Operations, Border Force, Immigration Enforcement, Visas, Status & Immigration (VSI) and Passports, Citizenship & Civil Registration (PCCR)) is conducting market research to gather information regarding automated translation and transcription technologies to further understand both current and potential future market capabilities.

This Request for Information (RFI) is issued solely for information purposes and does not constitute a Request for proposal, Request for Quotation, or invitation to bid.

The Home Office have identified three distinct but interrelated types of requirements. These include interpreting, translation and transcription.

CPV: Foreign language translation software development services

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published
Lot #1Planned 1 moSME
Contract period: 8 Oct 2025 – 31 Oct 2025 (1 mo)
Delivery: UKEligibility: SME eligible
72212740 Foreign language translation software development services

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
Stand-alone contract (no framework)
Competition type
Competitive procedure
GPA / WTO covered
Unspecified in notice
Recurring procurement
Unspecified in notice
First published
8 Oct 2025, 11:03 BST
Last source update
21 Oct 2025, 12:19 BST
FTS notice number
2025/S 000-067065
Latest notice
Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
Classification (CPV)
Foreign language translation software development services
Delivery area
UK
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-05aa4d Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice
Submission deadline
—

Timeline

8 Oct 2025 → 31 Oct 2025 · 4 dates
  1. Contract starts388 days ago
    8 Oct 2025, 00:00 BST
  2. Planning notice published388 days ago
    8 Oct 2025, 11:03 BST
  3. Latest notice published375 days ago
    21 Oct 2025, 12:19 BST
  4. Market engagement364 days ago
    31 Oct 2025, 23:59 GMT

    This is a request for information regarding automated translation and transcription technologies to further understand both current and potential future market capabilities.

    Suppliers interested in taking part in this RFI exercise should contact Laura Bogdanova (Laura.Bogdanova1@homeoffice.gov.uk) for a copy of the Auto-translation and transcription Request for Information document which includes background, supporting information and the RFI questions. A copy of a Home Office signed NDA will also be sent to participating suppliers for them to countersign and to return with their responses to the RFI questions. Supplier responses and NDA should also be returned to Laura Bogdanova (Laura.Bogdanova1@homeoffice.gov.uk) by 17:00 on Friday 31 October 2025.

    Thank you in advance for your interest and we appreciate you taking the time to respond to our request for information.

    Kind regards

    HO Commercial Team

Notice history

2 events · 2 releases on Find a Tender · since 8 Oct 2025
  1. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    8 Oct 2025, 11:03 BST
    UK2
  2. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    21 Oct 2025, 12:19 BST
    UK2
Published amendments (1)

Dear Suppliers We have made one change to the below notice in Procurement Description (Scope section). The change has been made to the paragraph 'The Home Office have identified three distinct but interrelated types of requirements. These include interpretation, translation and transcription.' It is now changed to 'The Home Office have identified three distinct but interrelated types of requiremen…

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

Home Office

Contracting authorityPublic authority - central government GB-PPON: PWGC-6513-PQLZ 2 Marsham Street, London, London, SW1P 4DFContact name, email

Official documents & specifications (2)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure