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The State of Technology Procurement in London

Updated 24 September 2026

Procurement rules and London tender notices

The Procurement Act 2023 applies to procurements started on or after 24 February 2025 by contracting authorities in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, and by UK-wide public bodies. Procurements that started before 24 February 2025 continue under the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 until they finish. Notices under the Procurement Act 2023 are published on Find a Tender, the UK government's central digital platform.

For London, the Lucius catalog indexes open notices from Find a Tender and Contracts Finder. The Lucius catalog has no separate feed for London; its London notices come from the national feeds. Lucius AI also keeps a live index of 230,000+ public tenders from 15 official sources in 170+ countries.

Market figures and tender deadlines

On 24 September 2026, across the whole UK, not only London, the catalog held 39 open notices whose text mentions technology, drawn from Find a Tender, Contracts Finder and TED. Of the 37 with a deadline in the next 12 months, 30 (81%) were due to close within 30 days, and the median time left was 21 days. The other 2 have deadlines more than a year away. Across all sectors, 1,654 notices were open in the same scope.

Example open technology notices in London

In a different set covering open technology notices with London as their delivery region, matched by the catalog's IT Services sector tag or specific title words on 24 September 2026, active tenders included:

• Digital Inclusion service for Asylum Seekers and Displaced People, published on Find a Tender by London Borough of Croydon, closing in September 2026.
• City of London, HRA, Maintenance of Lifts and Platform Lifts, published on Find a Tender by The Mayor and Commonalty and Citizens of the City of London, closing in September 2026.
• Online Harms Digital Youth Work Pilot Programme, published on Find a Tender by Mayor's Office for Policing and Crime, closing in October 2026.
• Contract for the supply of a Housing Revenue Account Business 30-Year Planning Solution, published on Find a Tender by London Borough of Waltham Forest, closing in September 2026.
• Body Worn Video, published on Find a Tender by London Ambulance Service NHS Trust, closing in October 2026.

Contracting authorities publishing in London

Across all open notices in this set, 7 different buyers were publishing. The most active were The Mayor and Commonalty and Citizens of the City of London with 2 notices, London Ambulance Service NHS Trust with 1 notice, London Borough of Croydon with 1 notice, London Borough of Richmond Upon Thames with 1 notice, and London Borough of Waltham Forest with 1 notice.

Responsibilities of bid managers and core features

Bid managers lead the decision on whether to bid on incoming tenders. Lucius AI reads a public-sector tender pack and gives a bid/no-bid verdict on the tender to inform the team.

Bid managers also own the compliance matrix and the plan for the submission, while assigning questions to contributors and tracking progress to the deadline. To help manage this work, Lucius AI extracts every requirement into a register, with a citation to the page each requirement comes from, and builds a compliance matrix from that requirement register.

Before submission sign-off, bid managers review contract and commercial terms with the commercial or legal lead, and they raise clarification questions with the buyer within the clarification period. Lucius AI scans the contract terms for commercial risk, such as liquidated damages, liability caps and indemnities, providing clear reference points for the team.

Drafting from past bids and exporting files

When preparing the response documents, the software drafts responses from the company's own past bids, kept in its Bid Library. Bid teams retain full control over editing, checking and finalising the material.

Once the compliance matrix, risk scan and initial drafts are ready, Lucius AI exports its work to Word, Excel and PDF.

Bidders into London technology contracts compete under Find a Tender, Contracts Finder, JCT/NEC4 frameworks and Crown Commercial Service agreements. Sector-specific compliance bars include GovTech framework prior art, public-sector accessibility (WCAG 2.2 AA), open standards and exit assistance. When a tender asks for any of them, Lucius lists that requirement with its page and a quote from the source.