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title: "Spatial Development Strategy digital platform"
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current_stage: "Award"
buyer: "Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Combined Authority"
published: "2026-10-21"
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# Spatial Development Strategy digital platform

Buyer: Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Combined Authority  
Current stage: Award  
OCID: ocds-h6vhtk-078c6b

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## Summary

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority commissioned a digital spatial-planning platform to support its Spatial Development Strategy. The platform is intended to assess land suitability for development using multiple spatial data layers and agreed growth parameters. The work also covers developing those parameters from existing strategies and policies, and producing growth scenarios to test against a place vision and the Local Growth Plan. The resulting scenarios are intended to support engagement. The platform must interoperate with the Authority’s existing State of the Region evidence platform. Delivery covers Cambridgeshire and Peterborough.

The procurement is complete and was directly awarded to Prior + Partners, whose previous work developing and testing a digital approach to growth scenarios informed the selection. The award is pending; the contract period is 3 November 2026 to 31 May 2027, with signature scheduled by 2 November 2026. The award date is 21 October 2026. The award value is £205,000 excluding VAT (£246,000 including VAT). The procurement was a single lot, marked suitable for SMEs. The scope requires co-development and testing of a platform for strategic spatial planning across the wider Cambridgeshire and Peterborough area, including land suitability assessment, dynamic scenario testing and integration with existing evidence systems.

For future work of this kind with the Combined Authority, credible suppliers will need to combine digital spatial-planning capability with research and development consultancy. Relevant experience includes integrating multiple spatial datasets, building tools that assess land against agreed growth parameters, and enabling flexible testing of growth scenarios. Suppliers should be able to translate strategies and policies into usable planning parameters and work collaboratively with the Authority to specify, co-design and test a platform. Experience adapting a proven approach from a smaller geography to strategic planning across a wider area would be particularly relevant. The requirement also demonstrates the importance of interoperability with the Authority’s State of the Region evidence platform and of producing scenarios that can be tested against a place vision and Local Growth Plan.

## Notice

To develop the Spatial Development Strategy, CPCA requires: a digitally based platform able to assess land suitability for development against a range of data layers and growth parameters. Development of appropriate growth parameters that draw from a number of existing strategies and policies Support to develop growth scenarios to test against a place vision and the Local growth plan in order to have scenarios ready for engagement in May 2027

### Procurement Information

CPCA is seeking to co-develop and test a digitally enabled spatial planning platform specifically designed to support the preparation of its Spatial Development Strategy (SDS). Prior & Partners has previously developed and tested a digitally led approach to growth scenarios at a smaller geographical scale. The proposed commission would involve further development and testing of that approach to establish its suitability for strategic spatial planning across the wider Cambridgeshire and Peterborough geography. The development requirements include integrating multiple spatial datasets, assessing land suitability against agreed growth parameters, enabling dynamic scenario testing and ensuring interoperability with CPCA's existing State of the Region evidence platform. The proposed work is intended to test whether the existing approach can be adapted and developed into a suitable model for SDS preparation, with CPCA directly involved in specifying, co-designing and testing the resulting platform.

## Key Details

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication source | Find A Tender Service |
| Latest notice | https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/099271-2026 |
| Notice type | UK5 - Transparency Notice |
| Procurement type | Standard |
| Procurement category | Services |
| Procurement method | Direct |
| Procurement method details | Direct award |
| Tender suitability | SME |
| Awardee scale | Large |
| All stages | Award |

## Dates

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication date | 21 Oct 2026 |
| Submission deadline | Not specified |
| Future notice date | Not specified |
| Award date | Not specified |
| Contract period | 3 Nov 2026 - 31 May 2027 |
| Recurrence | Not specified |

## Values

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Tender value | Not specified |
| Lots value | Not specified |
| Awards value | £205,000 |
| Contracts value | Not specified |

## Status

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Tender status | Complete |
| Lots status | Complete |
| Awards status | Pending |
| Contracts status | Not specified |

## Buyer

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Main buyer | Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Combined Authority |
| Locality | HUNTINGDON |
| Postcode area | Peterborough |
| Postcode | PE29 3TN |
| Country | England |
| ITL 1 | TLH East (England) |
| ITL 2 | TLH4 Cambridgeshire and Peterborough |
| ITL 3 | TLH42 Cambridgeshire CC |
| Local authority | Huntingdonshire |
| Electoral ward | Huntingdon North |
| Westminster constituency | Huntingdon |
| Delivery location | Not specified |

## Supplier

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Number of suppliers | 1 |
| Supplier names | PRIOR + PARTNERS LIMITED |

## CPV Codes

### Divisions

- 72 - IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support
- 73 - Research and development services and related consultancy services

### Codes

- 72000000 - IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support
- 73200000 - Research and development consultancy services

## Release History

- 21 Oct 2026 at 09:37 - Award - UK5 - Transparency Notice - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/099271-2026

## Documents

- https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/099271-2026
  21st October 2026 - Transparency notice on Find a Tender

## Notice URLs

- https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2023/54/contents

## Provenance

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