Stage 3 Pilot - HMRC's Competition to Identify Deliberate Evasion and Help Close the Tax Gap
HM Revenue & CustomscontractFind a Tender ↗Ref ocds-h6vhtk-055ed0Procurement Act 2023SME suitableactive
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Suppliers
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1 SME
Lots
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2 awarded
Published
16 Feb 2026
Description
Stage 3 Pilot contract as part of HMRC's competition. Providing 12 months for suppliers to further develop their ideas.
Scope
- Reference
- SR2559456746
- Commercial tool
- Standalone contract
- Contract dates
- 12 Feb 2027 to 11 Feb 2028Possible extension to 11 Feb 2031
Any contract for delivery awarded at the end of the competition will have multiple extension options in the format of 1 year base contract term + 1 year extension + 1 year extension + 1 year extension. Use of the extension options will be driven by contract performance.
- CPV classifications
- 4800000072000000
- Contract locations
- UK, United Kingdom
- Particular suitability
- Small and medium-sized enterprises (SME)
Award criteria
Criteria the buyer will use to evaluate bids.
| Name | Description | Type | Weighting |
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| Stage 1 - Skills and Capabilities - Delivering for HMRC | Criteria Question 1 for Stage 1 of the multi-stage competition. SKILLS AND CAPABILITIES - Delivering for HMRC With reference to Attachment B - Specification - Stage 1 and Attachment C - Slides from Launch Event 21st July, please demonstrate your skills, ability and capacity to deliver against closing the tax gap by identifying deliberate evasion behaviour. Your response must include: a) An overview of your capabilities as an organisation, b) If bidding in partnership or consortium, an overview of the members within the partnership or consortium and your expected division of responsibilities and capabilities. This question will be scored based on how well the response answers the question and any evaluation criteria included in the question in line with the scoring matrix contained in Table 1 above. Your written transcript response and video submission will be evaluated together. | quality | 25.00% |
| Stage 1 - Proposal - Helping to Close the Tax Gap by Identifying Deliberate Evasion Behaviour | Criteria Question 2 for Stage 1 of the multi-stage competition. PROPOSAL - Helping to Close the Tax Gap by Identifying Deliberate Evasion Behaviour. With reference to Attachment B - Specification - Stage 1 and Attachment C - Slides from Launch Event 21st July, please set out your proposed solution for helping to close the tax gap by identifying deliberate evasion behaviour. Your proposed solution does not need to be fully developed at this initial stage, but your response must make clear that your idea is fundamentally viable and deliverable for HMRC within the available timeframe. Your response must include: a) Solution: An overview of your proposed solution, b) Benefits: How your proposed solution will help solve the problem and contribute to closing the tax gap by identifying deliberate evasion behaviour. Your idea must be within HMRC's remit to implement and deliver: for example, your proposed solution should not require major policy changes. c) Implementation: High-level consideration of what dependent inputs from HMRC and/or third parties your solution would need or benefit from in its implementation. (Note: Prior knowledge of HMRC's internal structure, teams and systems is not required for this part and will gain no additional credit - answer this part using industry standard or common-sense terminology). d) Timing: Confirmation that your proposed solution can be developed for implementation in the timeline set out in these tender instructions. This question will be scored based on how well the response answers the question and any evaluation criteria included in the question in line with the scoring matrix contained in Table 1 above. Bidders must score at least 50 unweighted points on this question to be eligible to proceed to stage 2. Scoring 50 or higher is no guarantee of being shortlisted for stage 2. Your written transcript response and video submission will be evaluated together. | quality | 75.00% |
Submission & procedure
- Procedure
- Competitive flexible procedure
Award details· 2 awards
Awarded supplier(s), contract period and value as published in the award notice.
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Awarded to
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CH 01337451