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ITT (CF) - Digital Preservation System - UID 226M

Open United Kingdom Software & IT systems

Buyer Historic England

19 days left

Key facts

Closes
09:30 (UTC)
Estimated value
€1.4M
€1,369,572 · converted from GBP
Procedure
Open procedure
  1. Published
  2. Today
  3. Deadline open for 26 days
  4. Awarded pending

Bidding window

25 days from publication to deadline

Usual length

Notices of this kind (United Kingdom, open procedure, above the EU threshold) give a median of 30 days, half of them between 26 and 36 days, based on 1,871 notices of the last two years.

This buyer usually gives 26 days (median of its last 21 calls for tender).

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Summary

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Historic England is carrying out a Preliminary Market Engagement (PME) to better understand the marketplace for Digital Preservation Systems (DPS) and to help shape future procurement requirements. The engagement aims to increase understanding of available DPS solutions, identify common and differentiating capabilities, understand implementation approaches, and explore pricing and support models. Insights gathered will inform the requirements of a future procurement. This exercise is a market research activity only: it is not a procurement and is not intended to identify a preferred supplier.

Description

Historic England wishes to procure a full SaaS digital preservation system to enable the care of Historic England’s existing digital archive content, and to facilitate long-term care of data sets which are being created by Historic England teams, and which do not currently form part of the Digital Archive. The requirement is for a system which provides full digital preservation capabilities in line with the OAIS reference model, ISO14721. The solution must include data hosting of the content stored in the Digital Archive in a cyber-secure environment as set out in the technical specification which forms part of this procurement pack. Full details of this project can be found in the ITT.

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  1. In your favour:

    Do we meet every eligibility criterion?

    Open procedure: any interested supplier may submit a bid.

  2. Your call:

    Can we deliver this with the team we have?

    Estimated at €1.4M.

  3. Your call:

    Do we have two comparable references?

    Comparable work is in Software & IT systems.

  4. In your favour:

    Is the deadline realistic for a proper offer?

    19 days left, 14 of them working days.

  5. Your call:

    Is there a margin at the likely winning price?

    In this country this kind of contract is usually awarded for between €68,836 and €391,689.

  6. Your call:

    Do we know this buyer?

    The buyer has 40 notices in the register and no pattern of winners yet.

Can I bid?

  • Open procedure: any interested supplier may submit a bid.
  • Documents in English.

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Source: Find a Tender Service (UK Cabinet Office / Crown Commercial Service)

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What this market pays

The buyer has too few awards of its own in this sector, so this is the range of the last 1,015 awards for Software & IT systems in United Kingdom.

This notice
€1.4M
Median award
€150,980
Middle half of past awards
€68,836 to €391,689

The estimate is larger than three in four past awards.

Award values as published by the official sources. Use them as a guide, not a rule: scope, lots and duration differ between contracts.

The buyer

Full buyer profile

Historic England

United Kingdom

notices in the register
40
awards
16

Who wins its contracts

Many suppliers
different companies won its awards
14
of the awards went to the three most frequent winners
21%
of its calls state an estimated value
91%

Based on 14 awards with a named winner over the last 3 years. Counted by award, not by value, because lot and framework amounts are not comparable. Concentrated means the three most frequent winners took 65% or more of the awards; many suppliers, under 35% with at least ten different winners.

One dot per award, on the day it was signed, sized by its value. A ring is an award with no published value.

This buyer has no award history in this sector yet. Usual winners, Software & IT systems - United Kingdom

Company Wins Total awarded Last win
SOFTCAT PLC 83 €66.7M Oct 2026
COMPUTACENTER (UK) LIMITED 56 €9.4M Oct 2026
PHOENIX SOFTWARE LIMITED 43 €116.5M Oct 2026
Computacenter 31 €16.6M Sep 2026
Civica UK Limited 30 €8.9M Oct 2026

Based on 1153 awards with a linked company profile over the last 2 years.

12 open tenders right now

Market context

Larger than 76% of the open notices in Software & IT systems across Europe.

open now in Software & IT systems
1,881
median open notice
€300,000

Who wins in this market

Many suppliers

United Kingdom · Software & IT systems

different companies won awards here
554
of the awards went to the three most frequent winners
16%
buyers awarded contracts here
408

Based on 1,153 awards with a named winner over the last 3 years. Counted by award, not by value, because lot and framework amounts are not comparable. Concentrated means the three most frequent winners took 65% or more of the awards; many suppliers, under 35% with at least ten different winners.

Change history

Every time an official source republished this notice with different content. We watch every source we index, including regional copies of the same notice.

  1. Read before bidding
    Title
    Was: PME - Digital Preservation System (DPS) (UID 226M)
    Now: ITT (CF) - Digital Preservation System - UID 226M
    Main CPV code
    Was: 48311100
    Now: 48329000
    Estimated value
    Was: €257,160
    Now: €1,369,572 +433%
    Submission deadline
    not stated
    Now: November 4, 2026, 09:30
    Scope and criteria
    The description was expanded. Re-read it before you bid.
    Procedure
    not stated
    Now: Open procedure
    Estimated value
    Was: €220,000
    Now: €1,160,000 +427%
  2. Read before bidding
    Status
    Was: Upcoming
    Now: Open
    Estimated value
    Was: €257,238
    Now: €257,160
  3. Status
    Was: Open
    Now: Upcoming

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