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Awarded · ResultStage · contract

OFFICE FOR STANDARDS IN EDUCATION, CHILDRENS SERVICES AND SKILLS

Inspection Services Digital Support

IT ServicesCPV 72000000
Value£8.3m
Awarded16 Jan 2026
Published15 Apr 2026
RegionLondon
Outcome — awarded

This is a contract result notice, not an open opportunity. Details from the official award data.

Contract value in context
£8.3mtotal contract value
median £120k
this tender£0£9.0m

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.

The brief

CON 1608 - Inspection Services Digital Support - 01/04/2026 - 31/03/2028 To provide specialist skills to support new digital services and enhancements to existing ones within Inspection Services under agreed work packages.

This may involve developing new services or contributing to digital products at any stage of their lifecycle, from pre-discovery through to live.

Work will be defined through smaller work packages that set out scope, cost and duration as needs emerge.

Including engineering, research, design, product, delivery and architecture capabilities.

This may be delivered as a full delivery team or work collaboratively as part of a multidisciplinary group alongside Ofsted staff.

Requirements

What the notice asks for

01

Inspection Services Digital Support

Inspection Services Digital Support.

02

To provide specialist skills to support new

To provide specialist skills to support new digital services and enhancements to existing ones within Inspection Services under agreed work packages.

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The gates

What this notice demands of you

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

Ofsted registrationRegulator registrations
This may be delivered as a full delivery team or work collaboratively as part of a multidisciplinary group alongside Ofsted staff.

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Source & provenance
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Stage
contract · Contract
Source
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CON 1608
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