RFP QuestBeta
OpenStage · planning

Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

DDaT: Digital and Data: Solutions Factory

IT ServicesCPV 72212517
Value£7.5m
Deadline
Published13 Aug 2026
RegionNationwide
Who to contact
TechnologySourcing@fcdo.gov.uk

The procurement contact named on the official notice.

Contract value in context
£7.5mtotal contract value
median £120k
this tender£0£8.1m

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.

When this comes round again

Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office publishes IT Services work continuously — 31 notices, roughly one every 30 days. This is a stream to watch, not a cycle to wait for.

49% of Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office’s awards go to a supplier it has used before.

Which is the argument for getting on the list rather than winning this one. The incumbent is rarely the last winner — it is the roster. See the retention odds by category →


You'll hear when Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office publishes IT Services work again. One email per notice, unsubscribe in one click. We don’t use your address for anything else.

Match for your company
Sign up free to see how well this tender matches your company — the score, the signals that align, and where the gaps are.
The brief

The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) is seeking a specialist delivery partner to establish and operate its first Digital Solutions Factory.

The Solutions Factory will act as a dedicated delivery capability within the Digital, Technology and Security (DTaS) Corporate Services Group, providing a structured and scalable approach to identifying, prioritising, and delivering small-to-medium digital solutions and process automations across the FCDO.

Under DOS 7 (RM1043.9) Lot 2 (Digital Capability and Delivery Partners).

The gates

What this notice demands of you

1 named, none in explicit obligation language. Each one is quoted from the notice.

Crown Commercial Service frameworkFrameworks & routes to market
Under DOS 7 (RM1043.9) Lot 2 (Digital Capability and Delivery Partners).

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.

Buyer intelligence

Make the case to bid

Reveal who to approach at Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, and generate a go-to-market strategy from their news, accounts and people.

Sign up free to unlock buyer intelligence

Free to start. Named contacts come from published notices; the strategy is generated from the buyer’s news, accounts and people.

Deep dive · beta

The full intelligence dossier

Our agent reads Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office’s accounts, hunts live signals, finds the people who decide — and hands you a bid strategy plus a go-to-market influence plan, including what your team should post this week. You approve every paid step.

Sign up free to run a deep dive

Five included while we’re in beta, and the agent asks before it spends on any paid step.

Source & provenance
OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06e339
Stage
planning · Planning
Source
Find a Tender
Buyer ref
077058-2026
View the original notice on Find a Tender

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source data © Crown copyright.

Market context

Who wins this kind of work

The suppliers and buyers around this opportunity — drawn from official award data. Drag to orbit; click a node to explore.

Top suppliers & buyers in IT Services

This view needs WebGL, which this browser has turned off.

Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office’s tender network

This view needs WebGL, which this browser has turned off.
Also open now

Similar open tenders

PACS Solution for New CT Post-Mortem Service

West Northamptonshire Council

Closes 11 Sept 2026IT Services
£85kValue

Production of guidance on producing an effective council data strategy

Improvement and Development Agency for Local Government (IDeA)

Closes 23 Sept 2026IT Services
Value not publishedValue