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title: "UK_1552- Business Continuity Platform"
ocid: "ocds-h6vhtk-079467"
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# UK_1552- Business Continuity Platform

Buyer: British Council  
Current stage: Tender  
OCID: ocds-h6vhtk-079467

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## Summary

The British Council is seeking a single supplier for a business continuity management system (BCMS), a software platform to bring its business continuity programme into one environment. It must provide templates and staff guidance for business impact assessments and continuity plans; hold governance documents; support training, exercises and tracking of resulting actions; assist incident management and emergency communications; and bring compliance and administrative tasks together. The system is intended to improve coordination, clarify roles and responsibilities, and strengthen staff engagement in organisational resilience. The procurement is led by the British Council. The work concerns a digital system for the organisation’s corporate services and country teams; no physical delivery location is identified.

The British Council invited offers through an open competitive flexible procedure. The process reached tender. The enquiry deadline was 10 November 2026 at 23:59 UTC, and the submission deadline was 24 November 2026 at 12:00 UTC. The contract was scheduled to start on 1 February 2027 and run for one year, with three possible one-year extensions at the British Council’s discretion, giving a maximum term to 31 January 2031. The stated gross value is £207,000. There is one lot. The award basis is quality; the detailed criteria are set out in the tender documents. The award decision was scheduled by 11 January 2027 at 23:59 UTC. Submissions may be made electronically in English.

This requirement is suited to suppliers with an established business continuity management platform that can support an organisation operating across corporate services and country teams. Relevant capabilities include configurable business impact assessment and continuity-plan templates, clear user guidance, document and governance management, training and exercise workflows, action tracking, incident management and emergency information sharing. Suppliers should be able to show that the platform can consolidate administrative and compliance activity and support consistent processes across teams, while helping users understand their responsibilities. The British Council indicates that small and medium-sized businesses and voluntary, community and social enterprises are suitable to participate. The requirement is for one supplier and calls for an integrated system rather than separate tools for each element of the continuity programme.

## Notice

The procurement of a Business Continuity Management System (BCMS) will enable a more integrated and automated approach to managing the Business Continuity Management program of the British Council, by supporting corporate services and countries with standardised templates of key documentation (Business Impact Assessment, Business Continuity Plans, Training, Exercising, Response Arrangements), and built-in guidance, as well as analysis of plans and dependencies. The overall goal of this project is to provide a single system in which all BC governance, framework, incident report, exercises etc... will be featured and to clarifies roles and responsibilities within the BC program as well as increase staff's overall engagement in organisational resilience. For this system to be successfully integrated within the British Council's operating environment, the SS&C team will need a single supplier to deliver the following requirements: - Provide clear and easy to navigate business impact analysis, and business continuity plan templates (and accompanying guidance for staff who require additional support during yearly updates) - Act as a repository for all governance documentation of the business continuity program - Contain a training and exercising module, supporting the delivery of plan testing, and ensuring that identifies learning are allocated to relevant staff, actioned, and implemented. - Support the SS&C team's incident management delivery and information dissemination when dealing with emergencies - Support compliance and documentation return and concentrate all BC administrative tasks into one environment

### Lot Information

Lot 1

Renewal: The Contract awarded will be for a duration of 1 year with an option for an extension for up to an additional 3 years at the British Council's discretion, this will be offered in the form of 1 year extensions each time (1+1+1+1).

## Key Details

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication source | Find A Tender Service |
| Latest notice | https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/103054-2026 |
| Notice type | UK4 - Tender Notice |
| Procurement type | Standard |
| Procurement category | Goods |
| Procurement method | Open |
| Procurement method details | Competitive flexible procedure |
| Tender suitability | SME, VCSE |
| Awardee scale | Not specified |
| All stages | Tender |

## Dates

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication date | 30 Oct 2026 |
| Submission deadline | 24 Nov 2026 |
| Future notice date | Not specified |
| Award date | Not specified |
| Contract period | 1 Feb 2027 - 1 Feb 2028 |
| Recurrence | Not specified |

## Values

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Tender value | £207,000 |
| Lots value | £207,000 |
| Awards value | Not specified |
| Contracts value | Not specified |

## Status

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

## Buyer

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Main buyer | British Council |
| Locality | LONDON |
| Postcode area | East London |
| Postcode | E20 1JQ |
| Country | England |
| ITL 1 | TLI London |
| ITL 2 | TLI4 Inner London - East |
| ITL 3 | TLI41 Hackney and Newham |
| Local authority | Newham |
| Electoral ward | Stratford Olympic Park |
| Westminster constituency | Stratford and Bow |
| Delivery location | Not specified |

## CPV Codes

### Divisions

- 48 - Software package and information systems

### Codes

- 48500000 - Communication and multimedia software package
- 48800000 - Information systems and servers

## Release History

- 30 Oct 2026 at 10:41 - Tender - UK4 - Tender Notice - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/103054-2026

## Documents

- https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/103054-2026
  30th October 2026 - Tender notice on Find a Tender
- https://tap.tcsapps.com/tap2/#/bc-supplier-registration
  First time registration, remains the same: https://tap.tcsapps.com/tap2/#/bc-supplier-registration To access once the supplier has been registered, this one has changed: https://tap.tcsapps.com/tap2/#/login-supplier?tenant=BritishCouncil&langCd=en

## Notice URLs

- http://www.britishcouncil.org/
- https://tap.tcsapps.com/tap2/#/login-supplier?tenant=BritishCouncil&langCd=en
- https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2023/54/contents

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