How to win: Provision of Remote Agile Application Development Services

A services contract from CERN, worth £10,000,000. Below: what it involves and how to write a winning bid for it.

Buyer

CERN

Value

£10,000,000

About this contract

CERN intends to place several contracts for the provision of remote agile application development services. The Services currently support a contractor workforce of approximately one hundred professionals across a variety of technical and functional profiles. The Services shall include: software design and development, application maintenance and support, systems integration, quality assurance and testing, user experience and business analysis, deployment and operational support activities, user support, technical consultancy related to software engineering and application architecture. The present Market Survey will be followed by the issue of an Invitation to Tender to qualified and selected Firms and Group of Firms in August 2026 for contracts to start in Q1 2027 for a duration of five years. The future Invitation to Tender will be adjudicated on a best-value-for-money basis. To request the technical specification and market survey documents, please contact Sara Fletcher ([email protected]) of the Science, Technology and Facilities Council (STFC). STFC are acting as UK liasions for the purchasing organisation, CERN.

How to win contracts like this

✓Answer against the marking scheme, not the question text — CERN scores each response, so map your evidence to the published criteria and weightings.
✓At £10,000,000, expect quality and social value to carry a large share of the score — price alone rarely wins services work.
✓Show recent, comparable delivery: name similar services contracts you've delivered for public bodies, with measurable outcomes.
✓Start early: deadlines are tight and a strong bid takes iteration.

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