Pre-tender

Skills England Web-based Services - Development, Support & Maintenance

Details

Value
£1,000,000
Topic
Information technology services
Published
20 August 2026

Tender description

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) intends to procure a supplier to provide development, support, maintenance and continuous improvement services for Skills England's web-based digital services and supporting technology estate. The requirement includes application support, cloud hosting management, API development and maintenance, service enhancements, security updates, technical improvements and specialist digital delivery capability to support ongoing digital development and enhancements. The contract will support services used for the development, publication and management of occupational standards, apprenticeships and technical education products. It is envisioned that the DWP will procure these services using the Digital Outcomes and Specialists 7 (RM1043.9) framework. The resulting contract is likely to be structured as a 2+1+1. This information is provided for market awareness purposes only and does not commit the Authority to any particular procurement route or contract duration.

Timeline

  1. Completed: Pre-tender published20 August 2026
    Current notice

About the buyer

The Department For Work and Pensions (DWP) delivers the State Pension and working-age benefits to millions of claimants, and buys as a central government ministerial department with its own commercial teams. Framework agreements are called off through the Government Commercial Agency using Public Sector Contract terms. Suppliers can join its low value purchasing system freely, with no cap on numbers. Dynamic purchasing systems cover welfare-to-work and employment support opportunities.

Over the past 5 years, most of DWP's contract awards have been in education and training, IT services and business services.

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