Official UK procurement notice
Technology Services for DBS Next Generation Estate
Authority: Disclosure and Barring Service
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionTechnology Services (AMS/EWS) for DBS Next Generation Estate.
As part of the transition to its next generation technology estate, DBS is seeking suppliers to work with DBS to provide resources into multi-functional teams that comprise the supplier resources, DBS resources and, where applicable, application support/vendor resources. These multi-functional teams will support application management and estate wide technology services.
DBS is considering the procurement approach for these requirements and the responses to this preliminary market engagement will be considered in finalising the approach.
Please note that the proposed procurement approach differs from that envisaged under the previous market engagement conducted under UK2 notice reference 2026/S 000-014104 published 3 October 2025.
Please see the Engagement section of this notice for information on how you can participate in this online market engagement.
CPV: IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedPipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How Disclosure and Barring Service buys IT services: consulting, software, internet (CPV 72), and who usually turns up
Disclosure and Barring Service has little published record in this market. Frameworks and DPS are left out: they draw different bid counts. Whole-market view: IT services: consulting, software, internet (CPV 72) →
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.
No small-firm winners recorded among this authority’s published awards in this sample.
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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 50 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 bid12%
2–328%
4–628%
7+32%
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 estimate46%
Within ±2%38%
Above estimate16%
Assess each lot i
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 72Estimate not published
This lot lists more than one class in CPV 72. The comparison uses that group.
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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 789 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid12%
2–328%
4–628%
7+32%
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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
- 13 May 2026, 16:15 BST
- Last source update
- 13 Jul 2026, 11:53 BST
- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-065550- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-069820Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
13 May 2026 → 1 Sept 2027 · 5 dates- Planning notice published166 days ago13 May 2026, 16:15 BST
- Latest notice published106 days ago13 Jul 2026, 11:53 BST
- Market engagement80 days ago7 Aug 2026, 23:59 BST
Suppliers wishing to participate in this online market engagement should register by emailing DBSTenders@dbs.gov.uk with confirmation that they are registered on Home Office Jaggaer and providing the email address under which they are registered. Suppliers who are not yet registered can do so here: homeoffice.app.jaggaer.com/web/login.html ↗
The market engagement event will be opened for participation in week commencing 27th July 2026 and will be conducted via Jaggaer.
Please note that this market engagement is being conducted entirely online. Suppliers will be asked to provide written responses to a number of questions that will be detailed within the market engagement pack that will be shared via Jaggaer. There will be no face-to-face or virtual direct engagement event.
The market engagement will run for 2 weeks from the opening date. Please ensure you register in good time to enable your participation, noting that a deadline for suppliers to ask any clarification questions in relation to the market engagement will be set at the midpoint of the market engagement period.
Responding to this market engagement is not a mandatory requirement in order to be able to receive the ITT documents or participate in the subsequent tender.
- Tender notice expected10 days ago16 Oct 2026, 23:59 BST
- Today27 Oct 2026
- Contract startsin 308 days1 Sept 2027, 00:00 BST
Notice history
2 events · 2 releases on Find a Tender · since 13 May 2026- Pipeline notice published13 May 2026, 16:15 BSTUK1
- Preliminary market engagement notice published13 Jul 2026, 11:53 BSTUK2
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
- Pipeline notice Pipeline notice on Find a Tender