Tender

IT Service and Software Development Provider for the Development and Support of the OS Maps Product

  • ORDNANCE SURVEY LIMITED

UK4: Tender notice - Procurement Act 2023 - view information about notice types

Notice identifier: 2025/S 000-067626

Procurement identifier (OCID): ocds-h6vhtk-051baf (view related notices)

Published 22 October 2025, 5:14pm



Scope

Reference

TS.0330

Description

Ordnance Survey Ltd (OS) is Britain's national mapping agency and is responsible for the surveying, production, maintenance and marketing of a wide range of geospatial data products.

The Consumer business unit of Ordnance Survey, generally managed by OS's subsidiary company Ordnance Survey Leisure Limited (OSLL), provides customers with information, products and services that make outdoor activities more enjoyable, accessible, and safe.

The Consumer business are responsible for the Consumer Estate. The Consumer Estate is the collective term used for the Products that are in scope of this procurement. This consists of:

• OS Maps Website

• OS Maps Webapp

• OS Maps App (Android and IOS)

• Custom Made

• Admin panel Webapp

• GIS data and mapping & transformer services.

• Backend Cloud Platform Service including 3 international data centres, a suite of more than 30 API's, multiple plugin services and 3rd party SaaS integrations.

The Consumer Estate is currently, hosted, developed, supported and maintained by a third-party supplier. OS are looking for a Supplier who can transition the existing estate and then provide engineering and test resource to work with our OS Product Management Team to iterate and enhance the products in the Consumer Estate (as defined above), so we continue to meet the needs of our customers. We are also looking for this Supplier to host, support and maintain the Consumer Estate.

Total value (estimated)

  • £55,000,000 excluding VAT
  • £66,000,000 including VAT

Above the relevant threshold

Contract dates (estimated)

  • 1 September 2026 to 31 August 2029
  • Possible extension to 31 August 2033
  • 7 years

Description of possible extension:

2 x optional 24 month extensions

Main procurement category

Services

CPV classifications

  • 72200000 - Software programming and consultancy services
  • 72227000 - Software integration consultancy services
  • 72266000 - Software consultancy services

Contract locations

  • UKJ32 - Southampton

Submission

Enquiry deadline

7 November 2025, 5:00pm

Submission type

Requests to participate

Deadline for requests to participate

17 November 2025, 12:00pm

Submission address and any special instructions

https://in-tendhost.co.uk/os/aspx/Home

Bidders must register and submit their Tender response via OS's In-Tend portal linked above.

Tenders may be submitted electronically

Yes

Languages that may be used for submission

English

Award decision date (estimated)

15 May 2026

Recurring procurement

Publication date of next tender notice (estimated): 28 February 2029


Award criteria

This table displays the award criteria of the lot
Name Description Type
Simple description

Please see Instructions for Tendering in the Tender Documents.

Price

Weighting description

Please see Instructions for Tendering in the Tender Documents.


Other information

Conflicts assessment prepared/revised

Yes


Procedure

Procedure type

Competitive flexible procedure

Competitive flexible procedure description

PSQ Stage

ITT Stage

Presentations and BAFO (best and final) pricing

Please refer to PSQ Instructions document within the Tender Documents.


Contracting authority

ORDNANCE SURVEY LIMITED

  • Companies House: 09121572

Explorer House Adanac Drive

Southampton

SO16 0AS

United Kingdom

Contact name: Alex Oakley

Email: alex.oakley@os.uk

Region: UKJ36 - Central Hampshire

Organisation type: Public undertaking (commercial organisation subject to public authority oversight)