Awarded contract

ACAS27493 - CO-ARMS Discovery

Details

Supplier(s)
MLC Partners Ltd
Value
£28,400
Duration
3 months
Topic
Research and development services and related consultancy services
Published
9 October 2026

Tender description

***** THIS IS AN AWARD NOTICE, NOT A CALL FOR COMPETITION ***** This procurement is being concluded following a mini competition under the GCA RM6309 - Management Consultancy Framework Four (MCF4) - Lot 1: Business Description of the requirement Conduct a structured Discovery to assess, create a logged in experience portal for the CO's Annual return process and associated services. The supplier will engage stakeholders, analyse current processes, data and integrations, and define user centred requirements. Outputs will include options appraisal, target architecture, roadmap and business case inputs to support procurement of a new logged in experience Portal

Timeline

  1. Completed: Award published9 October 2026
    Current notice
  2. Next: Award date12 October 2026in 2 days
  3. Upcoming: Contract expiry date17 January 2027

About the buyer

UK Shared Business Services - UKSBS is a central government shared services provider whose procurement team runs procurements for public bodies such as UK Research & Innovation. Every competitively tendered procurement runs through the Jaggaer eSourcing Portal, where suppliers register. Lower value opportunities are advertised on Contracts Finder and higher value contracts on Find a Tender. Frameworks hosted by the service, such as one for laboratory consumables, are open to eligible public bodies. Advice on procurement routes and supplier performance sits with the same team. Suppliers to the shared service centre itself have mostly been appointed through Crown Commercial Service frameworks.

Procurement spend from central entities makes up 66% of overall UK public spend.

Over the past 5 years, most of UK Shared Business Services - UKSBS's contract awards have been in business services, software and information systems and research and development.

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  • 73000000 · Research and development services and related consultancy services

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