Oldham Metropolitan Borough Council
Intelligent Automation (RPA) Capability Development and Automation Delivery Partner
The procurement contact named on the official notice.
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.
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.
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.
20% of Oldham Metropolitan Borough Council’s awards go to a supplier it has used before.
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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
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
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- tender · Open
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