Provision of National Digital Twin Programme- Intergration Architecture

Department for Business and Trade

Published: Nov 6, 2025

Updated: Jun 17, 2026

Source: uk_contracts_finder

This tender has been awarded

Awarded to Answer Digital UK Limited — £1,000,000

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About This Opportunity

Award notice from Department for Business and Trade (United Kingdom) — Provision of National Digital Twin Programme- Intergration. ICT & digital. Awarded to.

This is a services contract in the information and communication technology and architecture and engineering sectors, with a focus on geospatial systems, Data Analytics and Architectural Design. Located in United Kingdom, Europe, this opportunity is open to firms and consortiums, with an estimated budget of GBP 1.0 million.

Published through UK Contracts Finder, a national government procurement portal. Public procurement tenders follow the country's national bidding regulations and may have specific eligibility and documentation requirements for services in the information and communication technology sector. Service contracts are typically evaluated on both technical quality and price, and may require bidders to demonstrate relevant experience and qualified personnel. This contract has already been awarded. The information is published for transparency and market intelligence purposes.

Description

The Department for Business and Trade (DBT) is driving economic growth across the UK by supporting businesses to invest, grow, and export, thereby creating jobs and opportunities nationwide.

The NDTP, a critical initiative within DBT, aims to enable trusted, secure, and resilient information sharing across sectors and to facilitate better decision making through advanced data visualization and analytics.

The NDTP requires services to further develop and enhance the IA, a critical component that supports the management and sharing of information across organisations. The IA combines technology and policy to ensure that the right information is available to the right people at the right time, with a particular emphasis on data quality and security.

The IA is being developed as an open-source solution, enabling organisations to deploy, adapt, and extend the architecture without dependency on the original developer.

The primary objectives of this initiative are to provide services that support the design, development, and deployment of the IA. The Supplier will be responsible for enhancing the IA's capabilities, ensuring robust security measures, and contributing to the NDTP's goal of releasing as much of the developed codebase as possible under the MIT license, in accordance with Government Digital Service (GDS) advice. . CPV: Data services (72300000). Procedure: Call-off from a dynamic purchasing system. Suitable for SMEs. Suitable for VCSEs

Data provenance

This notice is sourced from UK Contracts Finder and was originally published on November 6, 2025. Last refreshed 9 days ago. Reference: tender_502097/1530017. BidsFactory mirrors official procurement notices and links back to the source for full legal text.

About Department for Business and Trade

Department for Business and Trade has issued 87 procurement notices on BidsFactory, including 0 currently open and 87 awarded contracts. Activity concentrates in Information & Communication Technology, Education & Training, and Consulting. All notices are published for United Kingdom. Notices are distributed via UK Contracts Finder and UK FTS - Find a Tender Service. Most recent publication: June 17, 2026.

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How much was the contract awarded for?

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