Official UK procurement notice
Procurement of Construction Consultant Management Software
Authority: Dundee City Council (Local council)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionDundee City Council intends to procure a construction consultant resource and project management system to improve the planning, allocation and monitoring of architectural, engineering and specialist consultancy resources across its capital and housing programmes. The system will complement existing corporate and client-side systems, including Civica, by providing enhanced resource planning, capacity forecasting, workload visibility, timesheet reporting and management information. The objective is to improve service efficiency, strengthen forward planning, support evidence-based resource decisions and provide greater assurance over programme delivery, capacity utilisation and value for money.
CPV: Construction project management services · Industry specific software package · Project management software package · Software package and information systems
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1Dundee City Council is undertaking this Prior Information Notice (PIN) and market…Planned
Dundee City Council is undertaking this Prior Information Notice (PIN) and market engagement exercise to better understand the solutions currently available within the market for construction consultant resource and project management software. The information gathered will assist the Council in developing its procurement strategy, refining its requirements and determining the most appropriate route to market.
As part of this exercise, the Council intends to invite selected suppliers to participate in product demonstrations, currently anticipated to take place during early October 2026 (please note, these dates are indicative only). These demonstrations will provide an opportunity for the Council to gain a greater understanding of available solutions, functionality, implementation approaches and delivery models.
Suppliers wishing to be considered for participation in the demonstration stage are requested to complete and return the attached questionnaire. The information provided will be used solely for market engagement purposes and to assist the Council in identifying suppliers whose solutions appear capable of meeting the Council's requirements.
Completed questionnaires should be submitted by 12 Noon on 25 September 2026 to trina.forbes@dundeecity.gov.uk. Suppliers who do not submit a completed questionnaire will not be considered for participation in the demonstration stage.
The Council reserves the right to limit the number of demonstrations undertaken and participation in this market engagement exercise will not confer any advantage or disadvantage in any subsequent procurement process. Additional information: This PIN is issued for market engagement purposes only and will not be used to evaluate, select or exclude suppliers in any future procurement process. Information received will help Dundee City Council understand the market, develop its requirements and determine the most appropriate procurement approach. Participation is voluntary and does not commit the Council to proceed.
Pipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How Dundee City Council buys Scheduling and productivity software package (CPV 4833), and who usually turns up
Dundee City Council’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: Scheduling and productivity software package (CPV 4833) →
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.
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 62 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.
The market share is a minimum: 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 bid21% / 0%
2–329% / 32%
4–645% / 27%
7+5% / 41%
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 estimate53% / 80%
Within ±2%26% / 10%
Above estimate21% / 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 #1Dundee City Council is undertaking this Prior Information Notice (PIN) and market…CPV 4833Estimate 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 22 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid0%
2–332%
4–627%
7+41%
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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 · publisher note attached- Legal basis
- CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
- Procurement category
- Goods
- 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
- 10 Sept 2026, 14:36 BST
- Last source update
- 10 Sept 2026, 14:36 BST
- Authority reference
DCC/IT/107/26- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-085951- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06f6f4Find a Tender
Publisher note: Please ensure that you have fully reviewed all attached documentation and completed the attached questionnaire. Completed questionnaires must be submitted no later than 12:00 noon on 25 September 2026 and returned by email to trina.forbes@dundeecity.gov.uk. 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=842714. (SC Ref:842714)
How it was run
Official noticeTender documents are also served through a separate tool: http://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk ↗
- Submission deadline
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Timeline
10 Sept 2026 → 19 Oct 2026 · 2 dates- Notice published47 days ago10 Sept 2026, 14:36 BST
- Tender notice expected8 days ago19 Oct 2026, 00:00 BST
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.