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Oldham Metropolitan Borough Council

Intelligent Automation (RPA) Capability Development and Automation Delivery Partner

IT ServicesCPV 72220000
Value£200k
Deadline31 Aug 2026
Published6 Aug 2026
RegionNationwide
Timeline
Published 6 Aug 202624 days leftCloses 31 Aug 2026
Who to contact
commercial.procurementunit@oldham.gov.uk

The procurement contact named on the official notice.

How to submit
Open the submissions portal

Tenders to be submitted electronically via The Chest https://www.the-chest.org.uk/ Notification origin:- Project ID: DN825199 Project title: Intelligent Automation (RPA) Capability Development and Automation Delivery Partner Organisation: Oldham Council Portal: The Chest To access the supplier login for The Chest (the North West procurement and e-tendering portal), go to the ProContract Login Page or visit the main portal at The Chest and click on the suppliers' area to sign in with your username and password.

The submission route named on the official notice.

Contract value in context
£200ktotal contract value
median £120k
this tender£0£3.5m

This sits in the upper-middle of the IT Services band — a substantial contract for the sector. Based on 36,449 valued IT Services tenders in our corpus.

When this comes round again

Oldham Metropolitan Borough Council has published 3 IT Services notices, about every 66 months. On that rhythm the next one is expected around February 2032.

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The brief

Oldham Council is seeking to appoint a specialist Intelligent Automation partner to establish a sustainable Robotic Process Automation capability while delivering a programme of automations across Council services.

The Council's objective is not simply to buy development resource.

The requirement is to build an internal automation capability that can be sustained beyond the initial contract period through knowledge transfer, governance, training, reusable assets and operational enablement.

What it takes to bid this

1220 daysof bid-team effort
£8.2k£13.7kat typical UK bid-team rates

Typical UK bid effort for the £100k–£1m 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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Source & provenance
OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06de38
Stage
tender · Open
Source
Find a Tender
Buyer ref
074910-2026
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