Official UK procurement notice
Management Service Provider for Case Management Inventory (LSCMI) IT Application
Authority: Scottish Government (Central government)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionScottish Ministers seek a Service Provider for the Management of a Level of Service Case Management Inventory (LSCMI) IT Application. This application includes a Level of Risk and Serious harm of re-offending Assessment and Management tool, along with hosting the Caledonian module and MF2C module. Both modules are used to record and assess those within these two rehabilitation programmes. The LSCMI Application is used by all 32 Scottish Local Authorities, and 17 Scottish Prison Establishments.
CPV: Information technology services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1Scottish Ministers are seeking a Management Service Provider for Level of Service Case…Planned
Scottish Ministers are seeking a Management Service Provider for Level of Service Case Management Inventory (LSCMI) IT Application.
The LSCMI IT Application hosts the LSCMI Risk Management and Assessment Tool. It is currently used by all 32 Scottish Local Authorities and 17 Scottish Prison Establishments and is a critical tool in assessing risk to the public with regards to re-offending.
The LSCMI Licence which allows Scottish Prison Service and all Local Authorities to use the tool is contracted to the Scottish Government through Canadian owners – MHS (Multi-Health Services).
This service includes managing the Application Helpdesk along with providing all patches, updates and fixes to the application. The service provider will also be responsible for actioning any agreed change requests and any new IT developments within the application. Additional information: The initial contract period is anticipated to be 60 months with the option to extend by up to a further 24 months.
The maximum contract sum is not anticipated to exceed 600000 GBP per contract year.
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How Scottish Government buys Systems and technical consultancy services (CPV 7222), and who usually turns up
Scottish Government’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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1 bid25% / 7%
2–30% / 33%
4–60% / 13%
7+75% / 47%
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Below estimate70% / 88%
Within ±2%20% / 13%
Above estimate10% / 0%
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Lot #1Scottish Ministers are seeking a Management Service Provider for Level of Service Case…CPV 7222Published estimate£4.2m
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1 bid7%
2–333%
4–613%
7+47%
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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.
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Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record · publisher note attached- Legal basis
- CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Planned procurement
- Procurement threshold
- Unspecified in notice
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Yes (GPA)
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 1 Oct 2026, 14:31 BST
- Last source update
- 1 Oct 2026, 14:31 BST
- Authority reference
CASE/865187- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-092895- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-077ebbFind a Tender
Publisher note: Interested organisations are requested to register their interest by reviewing and completing the attached Microsoft Form Request for Information. Please complete the Microsoft Form Request for Information document below as fully as possible to inform this requirement and allow Scottish Government to review responses. You will require to copy and paste the link below into your browser for access. https://forms.cloud.microsoft/e/NfVERE1hw9 Please submit your response by 12:00 noon on 22 October 2026. Depending on the level of interest generated by this Prior Information Notice, the Scottish Government reserves the right to host a Suppliers’ Day. NOTE: To register your interest in this notice and obtain any additional information please visit the Public Contracts Scotland Web Site at https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/Search/Search_Switch.aspx?ID=843514. (SC Ref:843514)
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
1 Oct 2026 → 30 Oct 2026 · 2 dates- Notice published26 days ago1 Oct 2026, 14:31 BST
- Today28 Oct 2026
- Tender notice expectedin 46h30 Oct 2026
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