Official UK procurement notice
Mobile and Data Services · UK public procurement notice
Authority: The Mayor and Commonalty and Citizens of the City of London (Local council)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionAt this stage, we are seeking high-level insight rather than detailed proposals. We are interested in understanding how suppliers could support the City of London with modern and reliable solutions that align with our operational, security, and service delivery needs. The current contract expires at the end of August 2026.
The City of London Corporation and the City of London Police currently use a large number of mobile voice and data connections to support a wide range of services. At present, this includes around 2,500 voice connections and 507 data-only connections for the City, supported by a shared 6TB data bundle. Around 1,615 voice connections and 268 data-only connections for the City of London Police, supported by a shared 4.5TB data bundle.
We are looking to understand how suppliers could provide reliable, secure, and flexible mobile voice and data services to support these users. This includes strong network coverage across the City and beyond, consistent performance for both voice and data, and the ability to support high volumes of users across different roles, from office-based staff to frontline and operational teams.
CPV: Data network management services · Data services · Mobile telephones
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedPipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How The Mayor and Commonalty and Citizens of the City of London buys Mobile telephones (CPV 3225), and who usually turns up
The Mayor and Commonalty and Citizens of the City of London’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: Mobile telephones (CPV 3225) →
How the contest usually goes
Winner shares use published awards; bid and price charts use contested lots.
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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.
Small firms have won here. Neither number says whether you qualify; it describes who has been winning.
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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.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners were registered in the region where that award was delivered.
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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.
Half of these awards have an award date within 41 days of the bid deadline.
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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.
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?
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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.
1 bid6% / 15%
2–324% / 41%
4–636% / 26%
7+34% / 17%
How did awards compare with estimates?
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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.
Below estimate65% / 61%
Within ±2%19% / 29%
Above estimate17% / 10%
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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.
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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 7231Published estimate£980k
This lot is listed as CPV 7231. The table above uses the notice category.
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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 29 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid17%
2–331%
4–634%
7+17%
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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.
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.
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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.
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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
- 27 Jan 2026, 16:09 GMT
- Last source update
- 27 Jan 2026, 16:24 GMT
- Authority reference
prj_949 - Mobile and Data Services- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-007274- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06100dFind a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
27 Jan 2026 → 28 Aug 2026 · 4 dates- Planning notice published272 days ago27 Jan 2026, 16:09 GMT
- Market engagement255 days ago13 Feb 2026, 23:59 GMT
The City of London Corporation is conducting Preliminary Market Engagement in advance of a potential future procurement for Mobile and Data Services. Interested suppliers are invited to complete a PME Questionnaire, which is available via the City of London Corporation Sourcing Portal.
link: cityoflondon.ukp.app.jaggaer.com/esop/toolkit/noticeF… ↗
How to Participate:
Suppliers must log in to the City of London Corporation Sourcing Portal to access and submit the PME Questionnaire. All responses must be submitted through the portal only.
Key Dates:
Deadline for clarification questions: 10 February 2026
Deadline for submission of PME Questionnaires: 13 February 2026
No late submissions will be accepted.
Purpose of the PME:
The PME aims to gather supplier insight to help shape the scope, delivery model, commercial approach, and future procurement strategy.
- Tender notice expected210 days ago30 Mar 2026, 23:59 BST
- Contract starts60 days ago28 Aug 2026, 00:00 BST
Notice history
2 events · 2 releases on Find a Tender · since 27 Jan 2026- Preliminary market engagement notice published27 Jan 2026, 16:09 GMTUK2
- Preliminary market engagement notice published27 Jan 2026, 16:24 GMTUK2
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
Official documents & specifications (2)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender