Home Office Quality Assurance and Testing (QAT) contracts pre-market engagement event

Registration

Registration for this event is managed by the Home Office, not techUK. To register your interest, please use the Home Office eSourcing Portal:

Please note, suppliers must confirm the names of their delegates no later than 17:00 on Thursday 23 July. There is a limit of two delegates per supplier.

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The Home Office (referred to hereafter as the Authority) is inviting prospective bidders to take part in a series of pre-market engagement activities for the Authority’s planned Quality Assurance & Testing (QAT) procurements.

The Authority currently has a number of contracts for QAT capability, aligned to portfolios across the Home Office. The future commercial strategy is to consolidate these services into two core testing capability contracts by Autumn 2027. The exact scope, duration and values of the new contracts are still to be confirmed; however, the current expectation is that each contract will have a minimum term of three years, with a maximum spend of £150m (including any extensions). The intention is to compete for these contracts via the GCA Dynamic Purchasing System, RM6148, however the pre-market engagement is open to all suppliers.

Before any tender activity is launched, the Authority wishes to invite feedback from prospective bidders on the proposed strategy and gather information that will help it to refine its procurement and contracting approach further.

Key topics

Key topics that the Authority wishes to explore include, but are not limited to:

• Route to market

• Transition approach

• Key Performance Indicators and contractual incentives (i.e. Service Credits)

• Cost drivers

• The use of innovation and AI to drive efficiency

• Roles and capability

• Tooling and hardware

• Removing barriers for SMEs

• Support in the transformation from a Programme SDLC to a Product SDLC, including using experience gained from other clients to help shape and drive the change

• Support in the transformation from Quality Assurance to Quality Engineering, including using experience gained from other clients to help shape and drive the change

How to register

Suppliers can register their interest in this event by registering an account on the Authority’s eSourcing Portal (https://homeoffice.app.jaggaer.com) and navigating to the opportunity titled ‘pqq_823 – Pre-Market Engagement for Home Office Quality Assurance & Test Engineering (QAT) Contracts’. Once registered against this opportunity, you should submit a response to the ‘Qualification Envelope’ with the names and email addresses of the two delegates who you plan to attend the event.

Please note: expressions of interest for this opportunity should NOT be sent via email and must be made as instructed via the eSourcing Portal above.

Following the event

Following the event, a Request for Information questionnaire will be issued to all suppliers who have expressed an interest in the opportunity. Attendance at the in-person event is not mandatory for this but is encouraged to help your understanding.

Further information

The Authority’s published Digital Strategy may prove useful in understanding the context of the changes it is seeking to make: Home Office 2030 Digital Strategy