UK Public Sector Contracts & Tenders

Somerset NHS Foundation Trust are undertaking this Pre-Market Engagement for a Finance and Procurement Purchase to Pay System to better understand the market and help inform future procurement activity.

Border Security Command Maritime (BSCM) operates a fleet of eleven sea going patrol craft operating in both UK National and International waters. This consists of five Cutters and six Coastal Patrol Vessels. Supported by a fleet of nine Rigid Hull Inflatable Boats (RHIBs) and eight Tactical Watercraft (TWC). The fleet of Cutters and CPVs are in full operational use across the whole of the United Kingdom and as such require up to date navigational charts and publications to ensure safe navigation and compliance with SOLAS and their relevant regulating bodies. We are seeking information on the provision of replacement ECDIS and Gyro compass units to four (4) Cutters and up to six (6) Coastal Patrol Vessels (CPV). It is likely that the Statement of Requirements (SOR) will include works spread across the following key areas. They are: A. ECDIS units B. Gyro Compasses C. Uninterruptable Power Supply (UPS) D. Connection to vessels Emergency Power supply E. Bridge computer for ENP and T&P The full requirement will be provided at Tender stage.

This preliminary market research is a Request For Information (RFI) to inform NHSBSA of a content management system. This will be used by NHSBSA. Further details can be found in the RFI document itself. To access the RFI document and provide a response to NHSBSA, you will need to register via Atamis, the Health Family e-Commercial System (found at: https://atamis-1928.my.site.com/s/Welcome). Once you register an account, navigate towards the "View our Live Opportunities" page. From this page, you can find this specific RFI opportunity, with the following details: Title: W230508 NHS Jobs Content Management System Ref: C436583 This will allow you to access the documentation or register for the opportunity. Any communication regarding this RFI should be made via the Messaging functionality within Atamis.

County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust and Synchronicity Care Limited are inviting suppliers to take part in pre-market engagement, to review the procurement opportunity to provide a lease car management service. The suitable supplier must provide the administrative and management service of offering available cars to the employees of the trust; inclusive of salary sacrifice, salary deduction, lead-in vehicles and business use vehicles. The pre-market engagement will contribute to finalising the Service Specification and Technical Questions, an Open Tender is expected to be published in Atamis in July 2026.

Sheffield City Council is seeking feedback from providers in the market to help shape the new Dementia Day Activities service. This market engagement covers the two parts of the service: under 65 young on-set and over 65s.

The Council are inviting suppliers to participate in preliminary engagement to gain insight from the market with the purpose of making any potential future framework opportunity well framed, feasible, focused and of likely interest to the market. We are seeking interest from fitness companies, including gym based and pool based, who are interested in delivering exercise classes within our Leisure Facilities and Community Settings across County Durham. A variety of informal agreements are currently in place across the Council. We now intend to formalise these arrangements by establishing a new framework that will support improved consistency and quality. This notice forms part of our preliminary market engagement, offering you the opportunity to share feedback and comments before the framework is released for formal tender submissions. Please note the contract value is based on the total framework value over a 4 year period and is expected to include a range of providers, so this opportunity is particularly suitable for SMEs.

Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council (RMBC) are keen to further understand where the market stands in terms of an upcoming opportunity for the decarbonisation of 15 commercial buildings, to be delivered in the 2026/27 financial year. Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council is progressing a multi-year commercial building decarbonisation programme aligned with its commitment to achieve net-zero operational emissions by 2030. The Council has already initiated upgrades at several smaller sites, measures such as ASHP, LED lighting, solar PV, BEMS and insulation works. In the 2026/27 financial year, we intend to progress the decarbonisation of a further 15 buildings within our commercial estate. Each site has already undergone a detailed decarbonisation survey, providing tailored recommendations for the most effective route to reducing emissions.

The Home Office is considering procuring UK housing market residential sales and rental market data for use as market intelligence to inform a range of operational delivery and strategic decision making. As part of this activity, the Home Office is undertaking preliminary market engagement (in the form of a Market Engagement Questionnaire) to gather insights and feedback from the market to help shape and refine the potential requirements ahead of any formal procurement process. The content of this Notice, including the nature of works and services and the start date of the contract, may be subject to change. For the purposes of this Preliminary Market Engagement Notice, the estimated contract value has been listed as £0. This figure does not reflect the expected final value of the contract. The actual estimated value is currently being finalised and will be shared at a later date.

Delivery of supported living services, including the promotion of daily living skills, for approximately 12 individuals with low to medium learning disabilities, housed in self-contained residential flats.

This Contract is for the digitisation of building control records. This involves the process of converting information onto an electronic format and the database management of such information held electronically. The Service provided is compatible with the Councils existing software systems. Scanned copies of all original documentation and drawings to be uploaded to a secure share point site following digitisation. The Contractor liaises with the nominated officer and other relevant Council staff as necessary throughout the contract period. The Council currently digitises its Building Control records for the following reasons: To reduce in-house storage of hardcopy records and to comply with retention and disposal schedules. Faster access to information (thus reducing staff time and saving money); Disaster recovery/business continuity; Currently only Building Regulation Full Plans applications are processed in batches of approximately 20 applications per week for digitisation, however this process may be widened to include all Building Regulations and Licensing applications. In addition, it may be widened in future to include street naming and numbering documentation and site inspection diaries when required.

Warwickshire Fire and Rescue Service (WFRS) is exploring approaches to having a modern, intuitive, and fully integrated Competency, Training and Learning Management Solution designed to support the whole organisation. The platform must enable effective recording, management, and maintenance of competence across all staff groups, providing a single, reliable source of truth for training, learning, assessment, qualifications, and ongoing professional development. The solution should support day‑to‑day operational and organisational needs by offering tools that consolidate training and learning, provide clear visual indicators of achievement and progression, enable structured learning pathways, support formal and informal assessments, and enhance appraisal processes. It must deliver strong organisational assurance by evidencing competence in line with all applicable UK regulatory requirements, while also meeting both National Fire Standards and local service‑specific processes, procedures, and competency frameworks.

*This notice is intended to direct suppliers to the Mercell platform for participation* Participation for this RFI can be found on Mercell.com at the following link: https://ted.europa.eu/en/notice/-/detail/184045-2026 UK MOD link to Opportunity (not for participation): https://contracts.mod.uk/esop/guest/go/opportunity/detail?opportunityId=60934 Dear Industry Partner, I am pleased to inform you that the Joint Commando Craft (JCC) Project, which now incorporates the Commando Insertion Craft (CIC), will publish a Request for Information on the Mercell procurement platform. This Project is part of the Lunna House Agreement, the broader UK-Norway defence partnership, which reflects the depth and ambition of bilateral cooperation across a range of high-value capability areas. The JCC Project is a joint endeavour to develop up to 30 next-generation vessels in support of surface manoeuvre operations by Commando forces. The RFI represents a significant milestone as the Project moves into a new phase, and we welcome engagement from all suppliers who can contribute to this exciting opportunity. The RFI can be found on Mercell.com at the following link: https://ted.europa.eu/en/notice/-/detail/184045-2026 Returns are requested no later than 24th of April 2026. We ask that all engagement, questions, and submissions are conducted through Mercell. This ensures a fair and transparent process for all parties. We look forward to re-engaging with industry as this Project gathers pace. *This notice is intended to direct suppliers to the Mercell platform for participation*

The Home Office (the Authority) has a statutory duty under Section 55 of the Borders, Citizenship and Immigration Act 2009 to discharge its immigration and asylum functions having regard to the need to safeguard and promote the welfare of children in the UK. This includes Unaccompanied Asylum-Seeking Children (UASC) who arrive in the UK and enter the immigration system without a parent or guardian. The Support Services for UASC ensure that their immediate needs are met upon arrival in Kent, or elsewhere, prior to entering the care of a local authority. Additionally, there is a need to ensure UASC have access to information and support to help them navigate the asylum process. The services will operate alongside, and in collaboration with the Authority and a range of other services and Authority suppliers, to enable the effective operation of the system to manage and support UASC. It is recognised that service users may require only one, or a combination of these services at any given time. Therefore, all services areas must be available, but would be delivered on an as-required basis, according to the needs of each individual case. The core service areas are: Service Area 1: Deliver Services at Kent Intake Unit (KIU) Service Area 2: Delivery of Future Orientation Sessions The Home Office is still considering all of its options with regards to aggregation and disaggregation. One optional service line that may be included within the procurement is: Service Area 3: Signposting, Advice and/or Referral Services. Information relating to the delivery of this service will be included within the market engagement, and a decision will be made regarding its inclusion closer to the publication of the ITT. The content of this Notice, including the estimated contract value and indicative contract timelines, is subject to change.

Poplar HARCA are looking to engage with Suppliers in relation to an upcoming procurement for a Fire Remedial Works Contract. This is intended to appoint one Supplier to the Contract and the Contract will relate to circa GBP300,000.00 to GBP400,000.00 per annum (excluding VAT).

This market engagement aims to gather insight from structural engineering providers to help the Council design an effective procurement approach for calculation checking and emergency dangerous‑structure support services.

Carmarthenshire County Council wishes to seek provision for Safeguarding Training for Group B & Group C, meeting the New National Minimum Standards. The training sessions will need to be delivered face to face and ideally during evenings and weekends to accommodate the Early Years and Childcare sector. The Council invites interested organisations to register their interest and request further information in relation to the provision of this service. This invitation is issued for information‑gathering and early market engagement purposes only and does not constitute a commitment to proceed with any future procurement process.

Leicestershire County Council is undertaking preliminary market engagement to understand current capabilities and innovations in the messaging space, in particular relating to Secure Email Gateway (SEG) solutions. This is not an invitation to bid, this is solely a request for information (RFI) and no direct business will be awarded as a result of completing this RFI. Responding to this document does not advantage or disadvantage any supplier in any possible future procurement process.

The RBWM is seeking a partner organisation to undertake the day-to-day operational management of a council owned homeless hostel facility. The building is situated within Maidenhead and was newly refurbished in late 2025. It is configured to house a maximum of 12 statutory homeless household and 7 former rough sleepers. The management arrangements will involve the council retaining ownership of the building, the control of all nominations, and decisions with respect to move on accommodation. All residents nominated to the facility will have licence agreements with the council and be charged a rent which will be set and collected by the council. Responsibility for any non-payment of rents will rest will the council. The cost of repairs and works to the building will rest with the council. The provider will act as the council's agent in operational management of the building and the non-rent account management of residents. This will include activities such as - greeting households and letting the accommodation, arranging and ordering repair and void works, cleaning, resolving disputes between residents, and ensuring the facility is managed in a safe, orderly and statutorily complaint manner. While a full range of management activity is not required out of working hours, any management presence shall include a 24 staff presence on site and the ability to book residents into the facility and respond to emergencies outside of normal office hours. We would be looking to procure this on a 3+1 basis. We invite suppliers to respond to a short survey: https://forms.cloud.microsoft/e/rWR9zwZ4Vn to help shape our procurement strategy. Interested supplier must respond by 24/04 (12pm).

The West of England Mayoral Combined Authority (MCA) is seeking to engage the market to help design and develop its scope of the provision of public relation/ communication support for key projects being delivered by the MCA, including: the Spatial Development Strategy; West Innovation Arc; Mass Transit. The engagement will also focus on the planned commercial modelling expected for this contract. The nature of these projects is highly political with various key stakeholders both internally and externally within the community. They will require support for public consultation.

Loughborough University, on behalf of the National Centre for Sport and Exercise Medicine – East Midlands (NCSEM-EM), is conducting pre-market engagement to explore viable healthcare partnership models for expanding clinical services, diagnostic imaging, and sport and exercise medicine provision at our Olympic legacy facility. We seek market intelligence to inform whether to proceed to formal procurement and, if so, how best to structure specifications, commercial models, and procurement approach. Partnership with healthcare provider(s) to operate and/or expand: •Clinical services: Sport and exercise medicine, musculoskeletal medicine, physiotherapy, rehabilitation, orthopaedics •Diagnostic imaging: 3T MRI, X-ray, DXA, ultrasound, C-arm fluoroscopy •Operating model Purpose-built facility at Loughborough University campus: •11 clinical consulting rooms (~1,500 sq ft) •343 sq m rehabilitation/gait laboratory •Advanced diagnostic suite (3T MRI, X-ray, DXA, ultrasound, C-arm) •Reception, IT infrastructure, security, parking Any partner must: •Hold (or be able to obtain) CQC registration for proposed services •Demonstrate alignment with sport and exercise medicine focus (not general acute healthcare) •Contribute to teaching / Research This is an academic healthcare partnership, not a purely commercial tenancy. For more information about this opportunity, please visit the Delta eSourcing portal at: https://www.delta-esourcing.com/tenders/UK-UK-Loughborough:-Health-services./ZBJ86Z66CZ To respond to this opportunity, please click here: https://www.delta-esourcing.com/respond/ZBJ86Z66CZ