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Cadent Gas IT Consultancy & IT Technical Capability Dynamic Purchasing System

IT ServicesCPV 72000000

Value£100.0m

Deadline22 Nov 2026

Published22 Nov 2023

RegionNationwide

Timeline

Published 22 Nov 202386 days leftCloses 22 Nov 2026

Who to contact

box.itandcorporateservicestenders@cadentgas.com

The procurement contact named on the official notice.

Contract value in context

£100.0mtotal contract value

median £120k

this tender£0£108.0m

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.

When this comes round again

CADENT GAS LIMITED has published 9 IT Services notices, about every 7 months. On that rhythm the next one is expected around January 2027.

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The brief

Cadents IT Consultancy and Technical Capability DPS has been established to enable Cadent to access a wide array of suppliers to help fulfil our IT requirements as we progress through our agile transformation roadmap.

The DPS can be accessed through the link below, https://supplierregistration.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/dps/cg

The gates

What this notice demands of you

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

Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS)Frameworks & routes to market

Cadent Gas IT Consultancy & IT Technical Capability Dynamic Purchasing System

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.

What it takes to bid this

45–80 daysof bid-team effort

£30.8k–£54.8kat typical UK bid-team rates

Typical UK bid effort for the £10m+ 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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