Official UK procurement notice
National School of Government and Public Services
Authority: Cabinet Office (Central government)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionCabinet Office intends to procure a robust, industry-standard Software as a Service (SaaS) Learning Management System (LMS) through the Government Commercial Agency's (GCA) RM6219 Learning and Training Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS), to support the new National School of Government and Public Services Learning & Development (L&D) offering.
The LMS will provide a scalable platform to support a user base of over 558,000 users and must meet mandatory security and information assurance requirements, including UK hosting of data and adherence to Secure by Design principles.
Mandatory Requirements
Security and information assurance requirements, specifically mandatory UK hosting of data and adherence to 'Secure by Design' requirements
Scalable and accessible to support over 558,000 users
Please note - The mandatory requirement must be met by all potential bidders
Essential requirements
Core LMS capability (i.e. learning catalogue, content tagging)
Booking and administration functionality
Admin controls for end-to-end of central delivery offer and repository
Migration support (for catalogue of learning)
Quality data, including feedback, reporting and evaluation
The requirement is for the provision of the LMS platform and associated implementation/support services. L&D content supplied by the LMS provider is out of scope; the platform will be used to host internally developed learning content.
CPV: Computer support and consultancy services · Computer-related management services · Custom software development services · E-learning services · Information technology services · Programming services of application software · Software package and information systems · Training services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1The procurement will be conducted through the Government Commercial Agency's (GCA)…Planned
The procurement will be conducted through the Government Commercial Agency's (GCA) RM6219 Learning and Training Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS). Please see link to the Framework Agreement - www.gca.gov.uk/agreements/RM6219 ↗
Only appointed suppliers on the Learning and Training DPS who meet our essential requirements, will be invited to bid for this procurement. We encourage interested suppliers to complete their application to join the RM6219 Learning and Training DPS by 30th October 2026 at the latest, with the aim of being appointed onto the DPS in time for us to start our call off procurement. We will not be able to invite suppliers to bid that are not appointed by the time we start the procurement, so we urge you to apply as soon as possible.
The procurement process will be run on our own procurement portal: e-Sourcing - crowncommercialservice.bravosolution.co.uk/web/login.html ↗.
Suppliers must also be registered here with details that match their DPS application. Any suppliers that are not registered on this platform by the time we launch our competition will not be included in the competition. The dedicated link above is for Supplier registration, including guidance documents and Customer Service Centre details, should you require help.
Note that there will be a 1% levy payable by suppliers to GCA on the payment amounts received from awarded contracts, so suppliers are encouraged to factor this in. A levy is standard across GCA agreements. It funds GCA operating costs and enables the benefits that the commercial agreements provide.
For a list of supplier minimum requirements and instructions on how to apply to join the RM6219 Learning and Training DPS, download GCA's quick supplier guide.
Pipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How Cabinet Office buys Systems and technical consultancy services (CPV 7222), and who usually turns up
Cabinet 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) →
How the contest usually goes
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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.
No winner locations published for this authority. Local means a registered address 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 48 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.
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Past bids do not predict this tender.
1 bid13%
2–333%
4–624%
7+30%
How did awards compare with estimates?
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Where winning prices landed against estimates.
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Past prices are a guide, not a bid price.
Below estimate42%
Within ±2%45%
Above estimate14%
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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 #1The procurement will be conducted through the Government Commercial Agency's (GCA)…CPV 7222Estimate not published
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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 135 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid13%
2–333%
4–624%
7+30%
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- 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
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 5 Oct 2026, 09:54 BST
- Last source update
- 5 Oct 2026, 09:54 BST
- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-093641- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-078060Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
5 Oct 2026 → 1 Jan 2027 · 2 dates- Notice published22 days ago5 Oct 2026, 09:54 BST
- Today26 Oct 2026
- Tender notice expectedin 66 days1 Jan 2027
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
Official links; attachments are not copiedNo document links were published on the notice.