Provision of a Strategic Partnership for Delivery of Intelligent Intake Orchestration & Autonomous Sourcing Service

Official notice

Authority: Government Commercial Agency (Central government)

Award under framework

Sectors: IT Services & Software (72) Delivery: UK

Awarded value£20,000,000published award · exc. VAT

Awarded 16 Oct 2026

Awarded to Cognizant Worldwide Ltd

What is being bought

Published requirement description

Government Commercial Agency (GCA) is the Buyer and is procuring a digital procurement assistant tool to support users through key stages of the procurement journey via GCA's current and future commercial agreements, including frameworks, dynamic markets and other commercial routes to market.

It provides an end-to-end journey including intake triage, AI-supported requirement search, and AI-assisted tender document generation.

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published

Lot #1Awarded

Delivery: UK

72222300 Information technology services

Procedure terms & legal framework

From the official record

Procedure method: Award under framework
Legal basis: UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
Notice status: Awarded
Procurement threshold: Unspecified in notice
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: 16 Oct 2026, 14:15 BST
Last source update: 22 Oct 2026, 16:28 BST
Authority reference: CCTS26A53
FTS notice number: 2026/S 000-100159
Latest notice: Contract details notice (UK7)
Delivery area: UK
Official registry OCID: ocds-h6vhtk-07899f Find a Tender

Related procedures1

Call-off under framework Technology Services 4

Notice history

3 events · 2 releases on Find a Tender · since 16 Oct 2026

Contract award notice published
16 Oct 2026, 14:15 BST
UK6
Contract details notice published
22 Oct 2026, 16:28 BST
UK7
Contract signature expected
22 Oct 2026, 23:59 BST
scheduled

Commercial outcome & contract awards

Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast

Awards 1

Awarded value £20,000,0001 award exc. VAT

Contracts signed 1latest 21 Oct 2026

Awarded to	Value	Date	Status
Cognizant Worldwide Ltd26 Oct 2026 – 31 Mar 2030 · up to 30 Sept 2031Extensions: additional extensions: one or more of up to 18 months in the aggregate.	£20,000,000	16 Oct 2026	Awarded

Contracts

Contract 1 · Cognizant Worldwide Ltd
Signed
21 Oct 2026
Value
£20,000,000
Period
26 Oct 2026 – 31 Mar 2030 · up to 30 Sept 2031 with extensions
Status
active
Extensions
additional extensions: one or more of up to 18 months in the aggregate.
3 agreed KPIs: KPI 3: End-to-End Cycle Time Reduction PRT · KPI 6: Service Adoption · KPI 7: Channel Shift
- KPI 3: End-to-End Cycle Time Reduction PRT
- KPI 6: Service Adoption
- KPI 7: Channel Shift

Contracting authority & participating public bodies

Government Commercial Agency

Contracting authorityPublic authority - central government GB-PPON: PBZB-4962-TVLR The Capital, Old Hall Street, Liverpool, North West, L3 9PPContact email, phone

Bidders & participating suppliers

1 commercial party on the notice

COGNIZANT WORLDWIDE LIMITEDAwarded supplierGB-COH: 07195160GB-PPON: PLNV-6475-MRXW 280 Bishopsgate, London, London, EC2M 4AGContact email

Official documents & specifications (3)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Tender pack and attachments

Signed contract contractSigned contractZIP

Notices published for this procedure

Contract details notice contractContract details noticeUK7Contract details notice on Find a Tender22 Oct 2026, 16:28 BST
Contract award notice awardContract award noticeUK6Contract award notice on Find a Tender16 Oct 2026, 14:15 BST