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Department for Work & Pensions
Commercial Strategy and Procurement Delivery Services
Forecast: a planned procurement that is not yet at tender stage.
01/ The notice
Key facts
- Value
- £10,000,000Estimated value stated in the notice
- Deadline (UK time)
- No open deadlineA deadline does not apply to this forecast notice.
- Published
- 12 Feb 2026
- Region
- Not stated
02/ The brief
What the notice says
Not fully read: this is the notice text; attached documents are not read.
A contract for commercial and procurement services, from advisory to leading on or assisting the activities across the end-to-end procurement cycle for both complex and tactical projects/programmes.
The contract will allow us to draw down on two distinct but integrated service lines:
• Service Line A — Commercial Strategy & Complex Programmes (Outcome/Deliverables Led)
Outcome/deliverable defined strategic work for larger or more complex portfolios/programmes/projects. This includes, for example, shaping category and sourcing strategies, designing complex and/or novel commercial models, developing negotiation strategies and benefits cases, and providing commercial assurance with structured knowledge transfer to DWP teams. Delivery is typically multi month and led by a multi disciplinary supplier team.
• Service Line B — Operational Procurement & Surge Delivery (Tactical)
Agile support to existing DWP commercial teams and/or to run smaller, lower value and less complex procurements and in life tasks. E.g., drafting ITT packs, managing evaluations, contracting and variations, mobilisation support, and MI/KPI improvements. Delivery may be resource as a service based (T&M) or fixed fee micro/small package deliverables. It will also enable short notice surge support.
03/ Classification
CPV codes
Common Procurement Vocabulary codes, exactly as the notice lists them. No descriptions are added here.
- 79400000
- 79418000
04/ History
Releases of this notice
3 releases held, oldest first. Dates are UK time.
- 12 Feb 2026Planning notice
Planning notice published 12 February 2026.
Release 012661-2026
View this release on Find a Tender (opens in a new tab) - 12 Feb 2026Planning notice
Planning notice published 12 February 2026. The notice text changed; the source gives no change note.
Release 012687-2026
View this release on Find a Tender (opens in a new tab) - 13 Feb 2026Planning notice update
Planning notice update published 13 February 2026. Stated change: Incorrect engagement deadline submitted.
Release 013212-2026
View this release on Find a Tender (opens in a new tab)
05/ Limits
What the source does not tell us
- None recorded for the fields above. Attached documents are not read, so this is not a full account of the tender.
06/ Questions
About this notice
07/ Related
Where to go next
These links follow a fixed rule applied to this notice’s buyer, text and CPV codes. They are not advice on whether to bid.
- Reference
- ocds-h6vhtk-064e7a
- Source
- Find a Tender
- Stage
- planning · Planning
- Last verified
- Sat 4 Apr 2026, 00:47 BST
- Read at
- Fri 16 Oct 2026, 23:12 BST
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