Digital Outcomes and Specialists 7

Summary

This framework agreement, let under the Procurement Act 2023, gives all sector organisations access to agile development and user-centred design services including individual Digital, Data and Technology (DDaT) specialist roles.

Updates

19/6/2025: The tender deadline has been extended to 3pm Friday 27 June

Description

RM1043.9 Digital Outcomes and Specialists 7 combines our current RM1043.8 Digital Outcomes 6 framework and RM6263 Digital Specialists and Programmes frameworks.

This framework enables public sector organisations to procure suppliers to deliver digital, data, and technology services in line with government policies, standards and best practices.

The scope for this framework contract supports delivery across all service manual agile life cycle phases (discovery, alpha, beta, live and retirement) to deliver application development and user-centred design services to build great digital products and services that meet citizen needs.

Benefits

  • small and medium enterprises (SME) friendly
  • access a large pool of agile methodology specialists
  • access to DDaT capability
  • Government Digital Service Service Standard assured
  • flexible call-off award procedures

Product Types

Lot 1 – Digital Outcomes: allows buyers to procure suppliers to deliver specific, outcome-based digital projects in line with agile methodologies and government digital standards.

Lot 2 – Digital Capability and Delivery Partners: allows buyers to procure suppliers to support the delivery of long-term digital transformation programmes, capability-building initiatives, and strategic resource augmentation.

Lot 3 – Digital Specialists: allows buyers to procure individual digital specialists with expertise in specific digital roles. These specialists support defined projects, services and transformation initiatives by bringing targeted skills into existing teams.

Lot 4 – User Research Studios and Participants: allows buyers to hire studio space or recruit user research participants to test digital services.

Customer engagement

As part of the RM1043.9: Digital Outcomes and Specialists 7 (DOS7) tender, bidders are required to complete and submit a certificate of Technical Ability Certificates (TAC) for Lot 2.

Bidders will complete the TAC by selecting relevant capabilities and will need the customer to sign the TAC before submitting it to CCS.

Make sure to sign any TACs that bidders ask you to sign in support of the DOS 7 procurement.

Pre-market customer engagement started with the following webinars, slides are available below:

The question and answers from the market engagement sessions are available below:

Supplier engagement

For details of future sessions including topics to be discussed and dates the surgeries will be held, as well as a link to sign up for the surgeries, please visit the CCS events page.

Pre-market supplier engagement started with the following webinars, slides are available below:

The question and answers from the market engagement sessions are available here:

The slides and question and answers from the PPN supplier update sessions are available here:

Important links

Planned procurement notice Read planned procurement notice

Read preliminary market engagement notice
Contract notice in Find a Tender (FTS) View FTS notice
Tender documents Download tender documents

Timeline

Activity Estimated dates
Pre-market engagement Autumn 2024 to Spring 2025
Drafting of procurement documents Winter 2024 to Spring 2025
Publication of FTS notice Spring 2025
Framework award February 2026 to Spring 2026