PERMANENT AWARD EVIDENCE

SMS Provider(s) for GOV.UK Notify - Early Market Engagement

GOVERNMENT DIGITAL SERVICE · published 23 Jun 2026. This page preserves the identifiers and current held fields for one Contracts Finder release; it is not an invoice, performance assessment or complete contract history.

Contracts Finder release ID484564ca-28ee-4f67-b410-3c3bb33c8542-903163
Open Contracting ID (OCID)ocds-b5fd17-f7a91e62-2f85-4b0f-b639-fc07ff9d1ce6
Buyer identifierGB-GOR-OT1056
Release typeplanning
PUBLISHED COMMERCIAL FIELDS

Values stay separate.

A tender estimate and an award value answer different questions. Neither is treated as cash paid.

Award value
Not disclosed
award field
Tender value
Not disclosed
tender field
Procurement method
Not stated
Category
Not stated
CPV
32412100
Telecommunications network
Delivery
North West, United Kingdom
No postcode
PUBLISHED DESCRIPTION

What the notice says

The Government Digital Service (GDS), part of the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT), is conducting Early Market Engagement (EME) to research the potential supplier landscape and capabilities for the provision of SMS and RCS Business Messaging (RBM) services via GOV.UK Notify. GOV.UK Notify facilitates digital communications (SMS, email, and post) for over 1,700 public sector organisations. This EME is for market research purposes only to assist the Authority in determining its future strategy. Please note that should a procurement exercise be undertaken, only suppliers that complete a full response to this EME will be considered for inclusion in any subsequent tender process.

Tender statusplanning
STAGE-DATE LEDGER

Reported dates, without an invented lifecycle.

The current projection contains one award release, not a verified chain of planning, tender, award, contract and modification records. Dates are shown in source-field order and are not silently repaired.

  1. 01Notice publishedPublication timestamp on the held release23 Jun 2026
SUPPLIER EVIDENCE

Published names and exact identifiers

A company profile appears only when this release carries a usable company number. Name-only suppliers remain name-only.

No supplier is named in this projection. That does not prove the notice had no supplier in every source version.

SOURCE

Contracts Finder release

Published 23 Jun 2026 · held through the daily award projection · Open Government Licence v3.0.

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