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Published 10 Feb 2026, 11:52 GMT

Official UK procurement notice

Hosting Capability Supplier Procurement

Official notice Competition analysis

Authority: Home Office (Central government)

ServicesAward under frameworkAbove threshold
Sectors: IT Services & Software (72) Delivery: Delivery location not published
Planned pipeline value£183,000,000pipeline notice, not a live tender · 1 value update
Tender notice expected Date not publishedfrom the planned procurement notice
Contract term 5 yrsends 10 May 2032 · up to 10 May 2034 with extensions · starts 11 May 2027

What is being bought

Published requirement description

The Home Office Enterprise Networks & Infrastructure function is preparing an award with competition to procure a Hosting Capability Supplier. The successful supplier will provide a comprehensive 24x7x365 operational support capability, alongside outcome-based engineering, transformation, and service delivery services across the Home Office technology estate. The objective is to establish a simplified and integrated operating model that delivers improved service resilience, enhanced automation, accelerated technology transformation, and a single point of accountability for hosting-related services.

The scope of the requirement is expected to include:

  • Platform services spanning on-premise, cloud and hybrid environments.
  • Hosting, cloud, network and infrastructure operational support and engineering services.
  • Legacy infrastructure and application support, including the transformation and modernisation of services to align with future-state technology strategies.
  • Technology services covering datacentre, platform, storage, backup, virtualisation, operating systems, network infrastructure, cloud services and associated management tooling.

The Hosting Capability Supplier will absorb service elements currently delivered through the Home Office's Network Capability Services (NCS) and Private IaaS contracts that are not provided by internal Networks & Infrastructure engineering teams. This includes integrating operational support capabilities into a single commercial construct, simplifying supplier engagement, reducing contractual complexity, and removing longstanding interdependencies across the hosting, platform, cloud, network, and infrastructure landscape.

The successful supplier will be expected to work collaboratively with internal engineering teams, strategic technology partners, and other service providers to support an integrated service management model and deliver continuous service improvement. The supplier will also support the transition from legacy technologies and applications, driving resilience, automation, transformation, and operational excellence whilst maintaining businesscritical services throughout the contract lifecycle.

CPV: Information technology services

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published
Lot #1PlannedRenewal 5 yrs
Contract period: 11 May 2027 – 10 May 2032 (5 yrs) · up to 10 May 2034 with extensions
Extensions: Extension options published
72222300 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 Home Office buys Systems and technical consultancy services (CPV 7222), and who usually turns up

Home Office’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 buyerHome Office · division 72
The marketSystems and technical consultancy services (CPV 7222) · Greater London (authority’s region)
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: 6 of 34 known-size awards · market: CPV 7222 · Greater London (authority’s region), n=157
18%41%

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. The market figure counts awards delivered in Greater London (authority’s region).

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

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 1 of 5 known-location awards · market: CPV 7222 · Greater London (authority’s region), n=131
20%47%

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 · Greater London (authority’s region), n=15
—65 days

Half of these awards have an award date within 65 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 26 of 45 procurements with awards had no recorded rival · market: CPV 7222 · Greater London (authority’s region), n=220
58%59%

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 buyer27 lots with bid counts · all categories
11% had one bid
The market18 lots with bid counts · CPV 7222 · Greater London (authority’s region)
0% had one bid
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
1 bid11% / 0%
Buyer: 3 of 27 lots with published bid counts. Market: 0 of 18 lots with published bid counts.
2–337% / 39%
Buyer: 10 of 27 lots with published bid counts. Market: 7 of 18 lots with published bid counts.
4–641% / 44%
Buyer: 11 of 27 lots with published bid counts. Market: 8 of 18 lots with published bid counts.
7+11% / 17%
Buyer: 3 of 27 lots with published bid counts. Market: 3 of 18 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 buyer35 lots with estimate and award · all categories
46% below estimate
The market16 lots with estimate and award · CPV 7222 · Greater London (authority’s region)
38% below estimate
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
Below estimate46% / 38%
Buyer: 16 of 35 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 6 of 16 lots with an estimate and award.
Within ±2%34% / 44%
Buyer: 12 of 35 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 7 of 16 lots with an estimate and award.
Above estimate20% / 19%
Buyer: 7 of 35 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 3 of 16 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 722260 monthsPublished estimate£183m
Expected competition
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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 18 past lots.

A forecast, not a list of bidders.

—No model forecast yet0% chance of a single bid
Past bids on 18 similar lots
1 bid0%
0 of 18 similar past lots received 1 bid (0%).
2–339%
7 of 18 similar past lots received 2–3 (39%).
4–644%
8 of 18 similar past lots received 4–6 (44%).
7+17%
3 of 18 similar past lots received 7+ (17%).
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.

—No model forecast yet
No comparable awards on record for this lot’s category yet. The published estimate is £183m, and the forecast stays empty until the market has a record to read.

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.

Restricted route (Stage 2 ITT / Shortlist): Bidding is restricted to invited candidates who qualified at Stage 1. Uninvited suppliers cannot participate in this round.

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
Procedure method
Award under framework
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
Call-off under a framework
Competition type
Competitive procedure
GPA / WTO covered
Unspecified in notice
Recurring procurement
Unspecified in notice
First published
10 Feb 2026, 11:52 GMT
Last source update
22 Sept 2026, 09:57 BST
Authority reference
Project_20218
FTS notice number
2026/S 000-089445
Latest notice
Pipeline notice (UK1)
Classification (CPV)
Information technology services
Delivery area
Not published
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-064c47 Find a Tender
Related procedures1

How it was run

Official notice
Submission deadline
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Timeline

10 Feb 2026 → 11 May 2027 · 4 dates
  1. Planning notice published258 days ago
    10 Feb 2026, 11:52 GMT
  2. Latest notice published35 days ago
    22 Sept 2026, 09:57 BST
  3. Today
    27 Oct 2026
  4. Market engagementin 10 days
    6 Nov 2026, 23:59 GMT

    Suppliers, including those who are registered to provide services via Lot 4 of the Government Commercial Agency (GCA) Technology Services 4 framework (reference number RM6190), are invited to a market engagement event on the 8th September 2026. This event will take place at TechUK - 10 St Bride Street, London, EC4A 4AD.

    A maximum of two representatives from each organisation will be permitted to attend the event. Please register for the event by sending an email to: Hosting-Feedback@homeoffice.gov.uk with the name of your representatives.

    Subsequent to the event, details on how to formally register your interest in the procurement will be provided.

  5. Contract startsin 195 days
    11 May 2027, 00:00 BST

Notice history

8 events · 5 releases on Find a Tender · since 10 Feb 2026
  1. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    10 Feb 2026, 11:52 GMT
    UK2
  2. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    4 Mar 2026, 12:01 GMT
    UK2
  3. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    24 Aug 2026, 10:24 BST
    UK2
  4. Published value updated to £183,000,000
    24 Aug 2026, 10:24 BST
    was £85,000,000
  5. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    3 Sept 2026, 11:17 BST
    UK2
  6. Pipeline notice published
    22 Sept 2026, 09:57 BST
    UK1
  7. Status changed to planned
    22 Sept 2026, 09:57 BST
  8. Procurement method changed
    22 Sept 2026, 09:57 BST
Routine re-releases (5)
  • 2026-03: 1 release · 4 Mar 2026
  • 2026-02: 1 release · 10 Feb 2026

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 email

Official documents & specifications (5)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure