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Regional Data Platform

Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Combined Authority

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30 Oct 2026 at 15:17

UK2 - Preliminary Market Engagement Notice
Summary of the contracting process

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority is planning a regional data platform. The intended requirement covers data services and supporting IT, including data capture, analysis and management, database services, and data network management and support. The market engagement will help shape the platform’s requirements and delivery approach, including migration, integration, administration and ongoing support. The Authority also wants to explore interoperability, data portability, future development and effective exit arrangements. The platform is intended to support an operational minimum viable product. Delivery is associated with the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough area, including Huntingdon and Peterborough. This is an early-stage proposal: the Authority is consulting suppliers to understand available products, services and delivery models before deciding the final scope and approach. The procurement has not yet been launched.

The process is at planning and there is no invitation to tender. The Authority is conducting preliminary market engagement to refine the requirement, procurement strategy, commercial model, timetable and specification; it is not obliged to proceed. A Microsoft Teams presentation is scheduled for 17 November 2026, with wider market engagement intended throughout November 2026. Suppliers are expected to register through the In-tend portal to attend; the Authority plans to circulate presentation materials and a questionnaire afterwards, and may seek further information or demonstrations. The Authority intends to start a procurement in January 2027, subject to change. Its stated aim is to test feasibility of an operational minimum viable product by May 2027. The planned contract period is March 2027 to March 2030, with possible extension to March 2031. No procedure, evaluation criteria or contract value has yet been set out.

This engagement is relevant to suppliers able to provide a regional data platform and combine data engineering and management with implementation and continuing operational support. Providers with experience in data migration, system integration, administration, data analysis, capture and database or network services are well placed to contribute to shaping the requirement. The Authority is seeking market insight on technical and service approaches, delivery models, pricing and contract structures, whole-life costs, cost drivers, and risks and dependencies. It also wants to hear how solutions can support interoperability, portability of data, future development and effective exit, as well as innovative or alternative approaches that may deliver the intended outcomes more effectively or economically. Suppliers can inform the design before the procurement is defined. Taking part in engagement does not confer an advantage or create a right in any future competition, and choosing not to take part will not prejudice a supplier.

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Notice Information

Notice Title

Regional Data Platform

Notice Description

1.1. This market engagement exercise is being run in accordance with Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority's (the Authority) Contract Procedure Rules and (if relevant) the Procurement Act 2023. 1.2. The purpose of this exercise is to help the Authority, and the market prepare for a potential procurement in the future. It will be managed in a way that ensures no supplier is given an unfair advantage or distort competition. 1.3. Participation in this market engagement exercise does not infer any rights or advantage in relation to any future procurement process. Potential responders will not be prejudiced in any future procurement processes by either responding or not responding to this soft market test exercise. 1.4. All information provided to and received from suppliers in relation to this market engagement is confidential. However, please be aware that the Authority is subject to the disclosure requirements of the FOI Act and that any information we hold is liable to disclosure under that Act. For this reason, we strongly advise that any information you consider to be confidential is labelled as such. In the event that a request is made for disclosure under FOI, the request will be dealt with in accordance with the legislation. 1.5. This market engagement is being used to: * develop and refine the Authority's requirements and approach to the potential procurement; * understand the range of suppliers, products, services and delivery models available in the market; * test the feasibility of delivering the proposed scope and an operational minimum viable product by May 2027; * understand potential technical, service and implementation approaches, including options for migration, integration, administration and ongoing support; * test potential procurement, contracting, pricing and commercial structures; * understand likely implementation and whole-life costs, principal cost drivers and opportunities to achieve value for money; * identify significant technical, commercial, delivery, information-governance and operational risks and dependencies; * understand how different approaches would support interoperability, data portability, future development and effective exit arrangements; and * identify innovative or alternative approaches that could deliver the intended outcomes more effectively or economically. * Developing the Authority's requirements and approach to the procurement. * Identifying suppliers that may be able to supply the Authority's requirement. 1.6. In undertaking this market engagement, the Authority is not obliged to proceed with the procurement to which it relates. 1.7. In compliance with the Procurement Act 2023, this market engagement has been advertised on the government's Find a Tender service via a Preliminary Market Engagement Notice. 1.8. The Authority reserve the right to utilise agreements from the Public Contract Regulations 2015 where these are deemed as delivering the best outcome for their needs. Date and Time: 17 November 2026 16:00-16:50

Planning Information

3.1. The Authority will hold a preliminary market engagement presentation using Microsoft Teams. Suppliers wishing to attend should register via the In-trend e-procurement portal with organisation name, attendees names, attendees job titles and email addresses of all attendees (if one person is responding on behalf of multiple). Registered suppliers will receive a Microsoft Teams invitation before the meeting. Following the session, the Authority will circulate the presentation materials and a written questionnaire to interested suppliers. Responses will be used to refine the requirement, procurement strategy, commercial model, timetable and future specification. Following analysis of the questionnaire, the Authority may request further information, demonstrations or presentations to verify responses contained within the questionnaire. Any such activity will be managed in a way that maintains equal treatment, protects commercially sensitive information and avoids giving any supplier an unfair advantage. Participation in the presentation or questionnaire is not a condition of participation in any future procurement. 3.2. Market engagement will be conducted throughout November 2026, and it is intended that a procurement will be started during January 2027 (subject to change). https://in-tendhost.co.uk/cambridgeshirepeterborough-ca

Notice Details

Publication & Lifecycle

Open Contracting ID
ocds-h6vhtk-0794e3
Publication Source
Find A Tender Service
Latest Notice
https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/103348-2026
Current Stage
Planning
All Stages
Planning

Procurement Classification

Notice Type
UK2 - Preliminary Market Engagement Notice
Procurement Type
Standard
Procurement Category
Services
Procurement Method
Not Specified
Procurement Method Details
Not specified
Tender Suitability
Not specified
Awardee Scale
Not specified

Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)

CPV Divisions

72 - IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support

CPV Codes

72000000 - IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support

72300000 - Data services

72313000 - Data capture services

72315000 - Data network management and support services

72316000 - Data analysis services

72320000 - Database services

72322000 - Data management services

Notice Value(s)

Tender Value
Not specified
Lots Value
Not specified
Awards Value
Not specified
Contracts Value
Not specified

Notice Dates

Publication Date
30 Oct 20263 days ago
Submission Deadline
Not specified
Future Notice Date
4 Jan 20273 months to go
Award Date
Not specified
Contract Period
1 Mar 2027 - 1 Mar 2030 3-4 years
Recurrence
Not specified

Notice Status

Tender Status
Planning
Lots Status
Planning
Awards Status
Not Specified
Contracts Status
Not Specified

Buyer & Supplier

Contracting Authority (Buyer)

Main Buyer
Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Combined Authority
Contact Name
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Contact Email
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Contact Phone
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Buyer Location

Locality
HUNTINGDON
Postcode
PE29 3TN
Postcode Area
Peterborough
Country
England
Major Region (ITL 1)
TLH East (England)
Basic Region (ITL 2)
TLH4 Cambridgeshire and Peterborough
Small Region (ITL 3)
TLH42 Cambridgeshire CC
Delivery Location
TLH11 Peterborough, TLH12 Cambridgeshire CC
Local Authority
Huntingdonshire
Electoral Ward
Huntingdon North
Westminster Constituency
Huntingdon

Further Information

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