Artificial Intelligence as a Service Delivery Partner - Early Engagement Notice
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The Home Office will be adopting the Government Commercial Agency (GCA) Dynamic Purchasing System (RM6200) for Artificial Intelligence as the route to market.
This market engagement notice is to notify the AI supplier community of the potential opportunity and to enable suppliers to register or align themselves via the GCA Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS).
Therefore, to be able to submit a tender and participate, you must be registered as a supplier on the Dynamic Purchasing System ASAP.
Please note that this can take up to 15 days; Be registered on the DPS by following the below link by COP 5th November 2026 https://supplierregistration.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/organisation/register The Home Office will pull a shortlist on 6th November 2026 based on the available suppliers being registered and available on the AI Dynamic Purchasing System.
Please note that it is the Suppliers responsibility to ensure they are registered on the DPS and showing live prior to this date.
Please note only suppliers who get shortlisted will be added and invited to the ITT tender stage and be able to view & submit a bid via the GCA Public Procurement Gateway portal.
If you do not hear from the Home Office this means your company has not been successful with the shortlisting process.
The Home Office is looking to award a 3-year contract with the option to extend for a further 1 year.
The Home Office requires an AI delivery partner to maintain, enhance and develop it's AI as a Service platform capability which provides reusable AI services, multi-cloud infrastructure and an assured delivery model to business areas across Home Office.
If you have any queries concerning this Market Engagement Notice, these should be sent to HODigitalCentralContracts@homeoffice.gov.uk.
Please include "Project_21011" in the email subject for any correspondence.
Disclaimer: 1.
This early market engagement notice does not indicate that any procurement activity has started, will start, nor that your organisation has been granted any special status.
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The Home Office is not bound to any course of action (including concluding a contract with any supplier) as a result of early market engagement.
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The Home Office reserves the right to issue anonymised outputs from early procurement market engagement to all potential providers.
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The Home Office reserves the right to amend the scope or timing of early procurement market engagement at any time.
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During the ITT stage suppliers are to communicate only via the GCA Public Procurement Gateway portal Crown Commercial Service C&SM and not to contact any Home Office individuals.
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Participation in early procurement market engagement activity is undertaken at the participants' own cost and expense.
What the notice asks for
Therefore, to be able to submit
Therefore, to be able to submit a tender and participate, you must be registered as a supplier on the Dynamic Purchasing System ASAP.
The Home Office requires an AI delivery
The Home Office requires an AI delivery partner to maintain, enhance and develop it's AI as a Service platform capability which provides reusable AI services, multi-cloud infrastructure and an assured delivery model to business areas across Home Office.
Sentences from the notice that state an obligation, surfaced automatically and shown in the order they appear. Not an exhaustive list — always confirm against the tender documents.
What this notice demands of you
1 named in obligation language, 1 mentioned. Each one is quoted from the notice.
Therefore, to be able to submit a tender and participate, you must be registered as a supplier on the Dynamic Purchasing System ASAP.
During the ITT stage suppliers are to communicate only via the GCA Public Procurement Gateway portal Crown Commercial Service C&SM and not to contact any Home Office individuals.
Matched against the notice text, so this is a floor — the tender pack will demand things the notice never mentions. “Says must” means the quoted sentence itself used obligation language; anything ambiguous is left as a mention.
What it takes to bid this
Typical UK bid effort for the value not published — mid-band assumed band — an estimate, not a quote.
Qualify & bid/no-bid ~10% · SQ / PQQ ~20% · Written response ~55% · Review & presentation ~15%
Typical for this category — confirm against the ITT pack
- Hold at bidCyber Essentials Plus (often mandatory for gov IT)
- Hold at bidISO 27001 (information security)
- Plan for deliveryData protection / DPIA readiness
- Show at bidComparable references / case studies
- Hold at bidFinancial standing (accounts, often ~2× contract value turnover)
- Hold at bidInsurance cover (PL / EL, often PI)
- Show at bidSocial value commitments
Hold at bid = pass/fail conditions of participation. Show at bid = scored in the quality response. Plan for delivery = contract obligations from day one.
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- preprocurement · Open
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- Contracts Finder
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