Financial Benchmarking & Insights Tool Continuous Improvement

Tender description

DfE requires a single supplier or consortium of suppliers with exceptional experience of building data products/services to support, maintain and develop our Financial Benchmarking & Insights Tool. The successful supplier will need to demonstrate the capability to ensure the reliable operation and ongoing optimisation of an established service, while continuously iterating the product in response to evolving user needs and policy priorities. Timeline Invitation to Tender documents published: 08/09/2026 Deadline for submission of supplier clarification questions: 17/09/2026 at 16:00pm Responses to clarification questions published by DfE: 21/09/2026 at 16:00pm Tender submission deadline: 05/10/2026 at 10:00am Commencement of evaluation process: 06/10/2026 Notification of Contract award and feedback issued: 02/11/2026 Contract award notice published: 23/11/2026 Anticipated Contract start date: 01/12/2026 These timelines are indicative only. Competition type Single stage competitive selection process How to apply DfE is using our e‑Sourcing portal to run this Invitation to Tender (ITT). To participate, suppliers must register on the Jaggaer portal: https://education.app.jaggaer.com. Once registered, DfE can invite your organisation to the tender. Please complete registration by 14:00 on 15 September. All ITT communications will be managed through the DfE portal. Suppliers must use the portal to access tender documents, submit clarification questions, and upload tender responses. We have emailed eligible suppliers with the bid pack/instructions. We will use the following filters under Lot 1; Microsoft Azure, Databricks, Microsoft Azure Data Factory and Microsoft Azure Databricks, Microsoft Azure App Service, Microsoft Excel and Microsoft Teams, Govuk Design System, Microsoft Azure Sql Database and Microsoft Sql Server, Github, Microsoft Azure Devops Services, Microsoft Azure Pipelines, Python and Terraform, Microsoft Windows Server, Microsoft and Microsoft Azure Firewall.