---
title: "Programme Sapphire: Finance OCM and Workforce Transformation"
ocid: "ocds-h6vhtk-078bb8"
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source: "Find A Tender Service"
current_stage: "Planning"
buyer: "The Mayor and Commonalty and Citizens of the City of London"
published: "2026-10-20"
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# Programme Sapphire: Finance OCM and Workforce Transformation

Buyer: The Mayor and Commonalty and Citizens of the City of London  
Current stage: Planning  
OCID: ocds-h6vhtk-078bb8

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## Summary

The City of London Corporation is planning consultancy to shape and support a Finance function transformation under Programme Sapphire. The work is intended to define how Finance should be structured and operate across the Corporation, and how the organisation should move to that model. It is tied to the Corporation’s Financial Improvement and Transformation Strategy and its implementation of SAP S/4HANA Public Cloud Edition and SAP Analytics Cloud. The Corporation provides local authority services, commercial activities and specialist charitable funds, so the transformation concerns a complex, federated organisation. The planned service combines business and management advice with systems and software consultancy. The delivery location is not stated in the procurement details.

This process is at planning: the Corporation has signalled an intention to procure and is conducting preliminary market engagement; there is no invitation to tender at this stage. The buyer expects the work to run from January to June 2027. No estimated contract value or budget is stated. The procurement is presented as a single lot, with no separate work packages described. The engagement exercise asks suppliers to register on the Corporation’s procurement portal and submit a response by 2 November 2026 at noon. No procurement procedure, award criteria or assessment weights are set out yet. The planning information describes the expected service and timetable, rather than a deadline to bid for the eventual contract.

This work is likely to suit finance transformation and management consultancies able to advise on operating models, organisational structure and transition planning, particularly in a complex public-sector organisation with commercial and charitable activities. Relevant experience would include shaping a high-performing finance function and aligning change to a corporate improvement strategy. Suppliers with SAP S/4HANA Public Cloud Edition and SAP Analytics Cloud expertise may be well placed to connect the finance operating model to the systems being implemented, alongside broader systems and software consultancy capability. The Corporation says its SAP programme already has a systems integrator appointed, so the planned work is specifically about finance transformation enabled by SAP, not simply selecting or implementing a system. Small and medium-sized businesses are considered suitable for the planned contract.

## Notice

The City of London Corporation (the City) is a complex and federated organisation, delivering local authority services, commercial activities and specialist charitable funds. It is implementing SAP S/4HANA Public Cloud Edition and SAP Analytics Cloud, with a systems integrator appointed, in what is believed to be one of the first SAP S/4HANA Public Cloud implementations in UK local government. The City's Financial Improvement and Transformation (FIT) Strategy sets the ambition for a high-performing Finance function. Programme Sapphire and the move to SAP are a key enabler of that ambition. This Preliminary Market Engagement is about Finance transformation enabled by SAP and aligned to the FIT Strategy: defining how the Finance function as a whole should be structured and should operate to support the Corporation's strategy and be successful, and how we transition to it. The return deadline for PME responses is 02/11/2026 by 12:00 noon.

### Planning Information

The PME exercise has been published on https://cityoflondon.ukp.app.jaggaer.com/
Suppliers must register to access and respond to the PME. Registration is free
The PME deadline is 02/11/26 at 12:00 noon

## Key Details

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication source | Find A Tender Service |
| Latest notice | https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/098949-2026 |
| Notice type | UK2 - Preliminary Market Engagement Notice |
| Procurement type | Standard |
| Procurement category | Services |
| Procurement method | Not Specified |
| Procurement method details | Not specified |
| Tender suitability | SME |
| Awardee scale | Not specified |
| All stages | Planning |

## Dates

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication date | 20 Oct 2026 |
| Submission deadline | Not specified |
| Future notice date | Not specified |
| Award date | Not specified |
| Contract period | 1 Jan 2027 - 1 Jun 2027 |
| Recurrence | Not specified |

## Values

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Tender value | Not specified |
| Lots value | Not specified |
| Awards value | Not specified |
| Contracts value | Not specified |

## Status

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Tender status | Planning |
| Lots status | Planning |
| Awards status | Not specified |
| Contracts status | Not specified |

## Buyer

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Main buyer | The Mayor and Commonalty and Citizens of the City of London |
| Locality | CITY OF LONDON |
| Postcode area | Central London |
| Postcode | EC2P 2EJ |
| Country | England |
| ITL 1 | TLI London |
| ITL 2 | TLI4 Inner London - East |
| ITL 3 | TLI43 Haringey and Islington |
| Local authority | Islington |
| Electoral ward | Clerkenwell |
| Westminster constituency | Islington South and Finsbury |
| Delivery location | Not specified |

## CPV Codes

### Divisions

- 72 - IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support
- 79 - Business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing and security

### Codes

- 72220000 - Systems and technical consultancy services
- 72246000 - Systems consultancy services
- 72266000 - Software consultancy services
- 79410000 - Business and management consultancy services

## Release History

- 20 Oct 2026 at 12:22 - Planning - UK2 - Preliminary Market Engagement Notice - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/098949-2026

## Documents

- https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/098949-2026
  20th October 2026 - Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender

## Notice URLs

- https://cityoflondon.ukp.app.jaggaer.com/
- https://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk
- https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2023/54/contents

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