Official UK procurement notice
Tail Spend Solution 2 · UK public procurement notice
Authority: Crown Commercial Service (Central government)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionCrown Commercial Service, as the Authority, intends to put in place a Pan Government Collaborative Agreement for the provision of a digital platform providing marketplace, catalogue management and autonomous sourcing solutions to facilitate purchasing of goods and services across the public sector, to be utilised by Central Government Departments and all other UK Public Sector Bodies, including but not limited to Local Authorities, Health, Police, Fire and Rescue, Education and Devolved Administrations.The solution aims to deliver end users access to a broad pre-qualified and dynamic supplier base, capable of offering a wide range of goods and services available for purchase and delivery through a digital platform.
The lotting structure of this framework is to be determined as a result of the market engagement.
Further information is included in the Additional Information section VI.3.
CPV: Electronic marketplace retailing services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1Tail Spend Solution 2.0Planned
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
- Past planning notice
- 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
- 2 Jul 2024, 11:41 BST
- Last source update
- 2 Jul 2024, 11:41 BST
- Authority reference
RM6369- FTS notice number
2024/S 000-020076- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-047907Find a Tender
Publisher note: Crown Commercial Service intends to hold market engagement sessions during July and August 2024 for interested parties. The session will cover our objectives of any subsequent procurement exercise and its potential scope. There will be an opportunity to engage with the team to seek further clarification should you have any questions. To participate in an engagement session please email tailmanagement@crowncommercial.gov.uk with the following details by no later than midday on 8 July 2024: The subject of your email should include “RM6369 PIN Interest”. 1. Organisation name 2. Contact name 3. Job title of contact (including responsibility within your organisation) 4. Contact phone number 5. Contact email 6. Organisation website link Crown Commercial Service (CCS) will use an eSourcing system for this competition and reserves the right to use an electronic auction. The eSourcing system we will use is [https://crowncommercialservice.bravosolution.co.uk]. Please note that, to register, you must have a valid DUNS number (as provided by Dun and Bradstreet) for the organisation which you are registering, who will be entering into a contract if invited to do so. The value in II.1.5 is an indicative value. The date in II.3) is the estimated date of publication, please refer to the CCS website page https://www.crowncommercial.gov.uk/agreements/upcoming for updates and monitor Find A Tender Service for the publication of the contract notice. The service that arises from this framework will involve the supplier holding material that has been assigned a protective marking under the Government Security Classifications Scheme (April 2014) of OFFICIAL/SENSITIVE. Bidders will be required to implement their solution in accordance with the RM6369 Schedule, “Security Requirement and Plan”, to meet RM6369 requirements. This will be released at the ITT stage. A Future Opportunity on contract finder can be found here: https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/2f12f7e8-2f67-41f0-9cd7-d5f8728eee43 This prior information notice replaces the previous PIN issued on the 24/06/2024 https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/019293-2024
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
2 Jul 2024 → 30 Apr 2025 · 2 dates- Notice published2 Jul 2024, 11:41 BST
- Tender notice expected30 Apr 2025, 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.