Artificial Intelligence as a Service Delivery Partner - Early Engagement Notice

The Home Office will be adopting the Government Commercial Agency (GCA) Dynamic Purchasing System (RM6200) for Artificial Intelligence as the route to market. This market engagement notice is to notify the AI supplier community of the potential opportunity and to enable suppliers to register or align themselves via the GCA Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS).

Therefore, to be able to submit a tender and participate, you must be registered as a supplier on the Dynamic Purchasing System ASAP. Please note that this can take up to 15 days;

The Home Office is looking to award a 3-year contract with the option to extend for a further 1 year. The Home Office requires an AI delivery partner to maintain, enhance and develop it's AI as a Service platform capability which provides reusable AI services, multi-cloud infrastructure and an assured delivery model to business areas across Home Office.

If you have any queries concerning this Market Engagement Notice, these should be sent to HODigitalCentralContracts@homeoffice.gov.uk. Please include "Project_21011" in the email subject for any correspondence.

Disclaimer:

1. This early market engagement notice does not indicate that any procurement activity has started, will start, nor that your organisation has been granted any special status.

2. The Home Office is not bound to any course of action (including concluding a contract with any supplier) as a result of early market engagement.

3. The Home Office reserves the right to issue anonymised outputs from early procurement market engagement to all potential providers.

4. The Home Office reserves the right to amend the scope or timing of early procurement market engagement at any time.

5. During the ITT stage suppliers are to communicate only via the GCA Public Procurement Gateway portal Crown Commercial Service C&SM and not to contact any Home Office individuals.

6. Participation in early procurement market engagement activity is undertaken at the participants' own cost and expense.

Additional information:

The Home Office intends to use the following filters in the DPS to shortlist suppliers. It is the responsibility of suppliers to manage and maintain up to date filters to ensure they are included in upcoming opportunities. Filters are subject to change based on business need and requirements.

Applicability & Value Analyses, Use Case Pilots, Research & Development (R&D), Design & Build, Implementation, Product and Service Maintenance, Virtual Assistants and Chatbots, Federated Learning, Computer Vision, Natural Language Processing (NLP), Machine Learning (ML), Deep Learning, Artificial Neural Networks, Generative AI, Speech Recognition, Frontier LLM's, Expert Systems, Neural Networks / Deep Learning, Fuzzy Logic, Data Visualisation and Reporting, Data Governance and Management, Enhanced Decision Support, Predictive AI, Central Government.

The Home Office intends to issue a Request for Information (RFI) to the suppliers registered on the AI DPS with the above filters on 8th September 2026. If you are not currently registered on the DPS and/or have not selected these filters as part of your application, you will not receive the RFI. If you have not received the RFI and wish to be included in this process, please email HODigitalCentralContracts@homeoffice.gov.uk. Please include "Project_21011" in the email subject for any correspondence.