Upcoming
Provision of Remote Agile Application Development Services
Cern · Public body
In brief
Cern has announced plans to buy IT and software work. This is an early notice: there is nothing to bid on yet, but it tells you a tender may follow.
The estimated value is £10,000,000 excluding VAT.
Built from the notice's own fields. Always check the official notice before you bid.
Can I win this?
Competition
Typical: a median of 5 bids per contract for IT and software contracts across the UK (from 1288 awards in the last 12 months).
What the notice says
CERN intends to place several contracts for the provision of remote agile application development services. The Services currently support a contractor workforce of approximately one hundred professionals across a variety of technical and functional profiles.
The Services shall include: software design and development, application maintenance and support, systems integration, quality assurance and testing, user experience and business analysis, deployment and operational support activities, user support, technical consultancy related to software engineering and application architecture.
The present Market Survey will be followed by the issue of an Invitation to Tender to qualified and selected Firms and Group of Firms in August 2026 for contracts to start in Q1 2027 for a duration of five years. The future Invitation to Tender will be adjudicated on a best-value-for-money basis.
To request the technical specification and market survey documents, please contact Sara Fletcher ([email removed]) of the Science, Technology and Facilities Council (STFC).
STFC are acting as UK liasions for the purchasing organisation, CERN.
How to bid
- Read the full notice on Find a Tender, including any tender documents it links to.
- Follow the submission instructions in the notice; it does not name an e-tendering portal.
Timeline
- Prior information notice · notice 063398-2026
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From notice 063398-2026 on Find a Tender, first published 7 July 2026. We last checked for changes on 27 September 2026.