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OpenStage · planning

Office for Students

AI Project Delivery & Development

IT ServicesCPV 72200000
Value£833,333
Deadline
Published2 Jan 2026
RegionNationwide

£833,333 — stated in the notice

Who to contact
procurement@officeforstudents.org.uk
0117 931 7149

The procurement contact named on the official notice.

Contract value in context
£833ktotal contract value
median £120k
this tender£0£3.5m

This is a large award for IT Services — above three-quarters of comparable contracts. Based on 36,449 valued IT Services tenders in our corpus.

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The brief

The Data team in the Office for Students works as an enabler to the whole organisation providing insight and data as well as collecting and assuring data from higher education providers and supporting internal processes with automation and data visualisation.We have identified internal processes that can be transformed with AI and automation.

Making use of our data platform (Azure and Databricks) we can provide significant time savings and improve process consistency.

Development and exploitation of the platform will be key deliverables of this contract, as well as upskilling Data colleagues.

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Requirements

What the notice asks for

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Making use of our data platform (Azure

Making use of our data platform (Azure and Databricks) we can provide significant time savings and improve process consistency.

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Source & provenance
OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-05feb8
Stage
planning · Planning
Source
Find a Tender
Buyer ref
000035-2026
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