Early market engagement for Government Project Delivery website delivery partner

Synopsis

An early market engagement session about supporting and improving projectdelivery.gov.uk, the central digital platform for Government Project Delivery.

You’ll hear from the service owner, service manager and senior content designer about the service, its users and ambitions for the service over the next few years.

This is one of 3 sessions. The same event takes place on 13 April 2026 and 15 April 2026.

Description

This session gives suppliers an early view of the requirement to support projectdelivery.gov.uk as it moves from beta to live and into a ‘run and improve’ phase, in line with the Service Standard and the Technology Code of Practice.

Government Project Delivery plans to go to market to appoint a delivery partner through Digital Outcomes and Specialists (DOS) 7, Lot 1, with the aim of mobilising a supplier in October 2026.

The platform

projectdelivery.gov.uk is the award-winning central digital platform for the project delivery function and profession. It is the single front door for project delivery services, knowledge and community across central government. It:

• supports around 14,000 registered users with about 20,000 unique visitors and 40,000 page views a month
• hosts guidance and tools, including The Teal Book, Government Functional Standard for Project Delivery, Project Delivery Capability Framework and the Government Projects Academy
• supports private spaces, for example, an area for Fast Stream cohorts
• delivers transactional services such as assessment and interview booking

The platform underpins a wider strategy to:

• elevate the profession with a single place for learning, accreditation and development
• standardise delivery with common tools, standards and templates across departments
• support collaboration and rapid learning with community spaces, events, blogs and news

It is now core part of how the function is managed internally and externally, improving quality, consistency and efficiency of project delivery across government.

The opportunity

To move the website from ‘open beta’ to ‘go live’ as set out by the Service Standard and will increase the site’s resilience for business continuity.

This is a well funded 2 year contract with an optional one year extension.

The contract will be based on fixed costs for known functionality and a time and materials rate card budget for continuous improvement. The expected value of the contract is proportionate to the aspiration.

The overarching draft outcomes for the contract are:

• migrating the website to a cloud hosting platform with disaster recovery
• supporting and maintaining the ongoing hosting of the site and disaster recovery following migration
• providing appropriate service support for security and availability
• delivering select known functionality as set out in the roadmap
• resolving the identified pain points and implementing changes to the website to address the original discovery’s recommendations, that have not been implemented
• understand the evolving user and business needs since the public launch of the website in February 2025 by conducting a delta discovery
• implement recommendations in response to the delta discovery, subject to light business cases for ‘continuous improvement’

What the session is for

This session gives suppliers an early view of the contract requirements and a chance to:

• ask informal questions
• help shape our approach and the contract requirements before we publish the invitation to tender

If you attended a similar engagement run in late 2024 for DOS6, you should still attend as the opportunity has changed significantly.

What the session will cover

You will:

• hear from the service owner, service manager and senior content designer
• get an overview of the service, its users and what ‘run and improve’ means in practice
• discuss the delivery partner role and how we expect to work with a supplier
• ask questions, test assumptions and highlight risks, constraints and dependencies

What you’ll learn

By the end of the session, you will:

• understand the purpose and objectives of projectdelivery.gov.uk
• understand the role of the delivery partner and the outcomes we are seeking
• have had the opportunity to ask questions
• have had the opportunity to influence the requirements
• be better placed to decide whether you may want to bid

Agenda

• Introduction to the service owner, service manager and senior content designer (5 minutes)
• What is the GPD website and its purpose (5 minutes)
• How has the service evolved (15 minutes)
• What outcomes from the contract are we looking for? (15 minutes)
• Break- opportunity to explore the site (10 minutes)
• What would the ideal working relationship look like? (5 minutes)
• What are the procurement and contract timescales? (10 minutes)
• Questions and answers (20- 25 minutes)

Booking

Book using the details registered for your place on DOS 7. Bookings that do not align to the DOS 7 registration details will not be approved for data privacy reasons.

Review registrations details published by Crown Commercial Service on their website.

You may forward the invite details to other members in your organisation to attend.

Bookings close 7 April at 10am.

After the session

Everyone who registers will receive an email with:

• the slides presented
• a consolidated list of questions and answers from all 3 sessions
• a survey to complete to give feedback, anonymous suggestions and their estimate for a suitable contractual value

The slides and questions and answers from all 3 sessions will also be published on the tender opportunities page and be included formally as part of the invitation to tender.

Relevant links

To get the most out of the session, please review:

• About Government Project Delivery – Government Project Delivery
• Projectdelivery.gov.uk proposition – Government Project Delivery
• Roadmap for projectdelivery.gov.uk – Government Project Delivery

Enquiries

For any questions, please contact the team at [email protected].