Tendering opportunities

Where to find tendering opportunities

Live opportunities

• Public Contracts Scotland
• Contracts Finder - Listing of government procurement contracts and tenders
• Government Procurement Service eSourcing portal - Access limited to those registered with the Government Procurement Service
• Opportunities at the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) - List of current tenders run by DWP
• Subscribe to Intellect's OJEU tender notification service - Business Enquiries (members only)

Future opportunities

• Contract Pipeline - Indicates potential future government ICT and FM procurement initiatives
• Procurement Pipeline - GPS table of future procurements

List of Framework Agreements(.xls) - Includes existing and possible future frameworks. Some frameworks have multiple lots; scroll to the right on the spreadsheet to view full details.

Feedback to Cabinet Office on live and past procurements

The government mystery shopper service allows suppliers to provide feedback online (click here to go directly to the form) and anonymously on any live or past procurements.

Statistics

Statistics on public spending

• Public Expenditure Statistical Analyses (PESA) trends in public expenditures - HM Treasury data on public sector spend
• PESA spending breakdown (More in-depth) - HM Treasury detailed breakdown of public sector spend
• Public Sector Statistics on Hardware, Software, Services, Telecommunications, and Staff provided by Kable (members-only)

Central government

• Central Government Spending Breakdown- HM Treasury
• Government departmental spending, July 2011- HM Treasury data on provisional outturns for each central and cross-government department's expenditures

Local government

• Local Government Financing and Expenditures- HM Treasury breakdown of local government spend from 2006-2015 (projected values after 2010-2011 fiscal year)

Education

• education.gov.uk – Database for Department for Education research and statistics

Healthcare

• National Health Service Information Centre

Gov ICT Strategy

Government ICT Strategy

Public Services Network

• PSN main page– Outlines the government's Public Service Network initiative
• Highlights from Government ICT Strategy Documents- Intellect summary focusing on four areas: Cloud computing, Greening government ICT, End-user devices, and ICT capability

Green ICT

• Greening Government: ICT Strategy- Outlines government ICT plan regarding a more environmentally friendly ICT strategy
• Technology industry feedback on draft greening government ICT strategy- summary from Intellect

G-cloud

• IA guidance for G-Cloud- Published May 2012
• G-Cloud Strategy- Published March 2011
• Intellect resource page on G-cloud– Portal to various G-Cloud-related links and articles
• G- Cloud Blog- HM Government listing of G-Cloud-related blog posts

Open source

• Open source procurement toolkit– Documents advising procurers on best practice for evaluating open source solutions

End User Device Programme

• Government End User Device Strategy- sets the context of the programme and what it is looking to achieve i.e. opening up the provision of devices from the tightly bundled traditional offerings to encourage competition and flexibility, setting out the vision, principles and emerging views on standards
• Conceptual Framework- intended for consumption by government departments in their procurement of EUD services, and by suppliers to ensure that any EUD-related services and solutions they propose are aligned to the framework

Moratorium process

• Cabinet Office controls guidance actions and processes document- Provides guidance to central governmental organisations on how to implement the Cabinet Office moratoria 'actions and processes'
• Cabinet Office Moratorium Exceptions- Link to Excel spreadsheet listing exceptions to the moratorium on discretionary spend for consulting, ICT, recruitment, marketing, and property

Reform agendas

Wider public service reform agendas
Government business plans

• Data.gov business plans- - Portal to Whitehall departments' business plans
• Intellect extracts from government business plans - November 2010

SME agenda

• SME Cabinet Office report- one year on- Update on Cabinet Office SME agenda
• Central government action plans -Whitehall departmental outlines on facilitating opportunities for SMEs
• Innovation Launch Pad -Cabinet Office event providing SMEs an opportunity to pitch their business proposals to Government
• SME reform announcements - February 2011
• Homepage for Stephen Allott, Crown Representative for SMEs

Open public services

• Open public services 2012- Description of government reform in creating more open public services
• Open Public Services White Paper- Government explanation of rationale behind open public services initiatives
• Intellect Response to White Paper

Welfare reform

• Welfare Reform Act of 2012– Overview of WRA, including the Universal Credit policy
• Universal Credit Briefing Policies-Collection of documents relating to DWP's Universal Credit policy

Open data

• Making Open Data Real– Analysis on the uses and future of Open Data in the public sector
• Ordnance Survey- Provides detailed geographic data on all of UK
• Implementing Transparency- National Audit Office report on the government's success in implementing its open public data initiatives
• police.uk- Link to crime maps and other law enforcement information
• legislation.gov.uk - Comprehensive listing of all UK government legislation, including devolved government legislation

Transparency

• data.gov.uk- Database of government statistics and initiatives
• No. 10 website- Version of the above from the Prime Minister's office
• Transparency in Procurement and Contracting Report- Spreadsheet detailing government departmental transparency in regards to the tendering process
• Home Office Supplier Factsheet - Info for suppliers to the Home Office in regards to procurement and contracting

Stakeholder maps

Stakeholder maps

• Intellect stakeholder maps for central government, local government, education, healthcare and transport (members-only) – Intellect-created mind maps of key players in Central Government, Education, Healthcare, Local Government, and Transport; Last updated in May 2011 (new updates coming soon)
• No. 10 version, including Whitehall and the devolved governments
• Data.gov.uk, including central government and wider public sector- Organisational charts of all central and cross-government departments