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Programme Sapphire: Finance OCM and Workforce Transformation

Issued by The Mayor and Commonalty and Citizens of the City of London · via UK Find a Tender Service

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Published
20 Oct 2026
Closes
2 Nov 2026
Reference
ocds-h6vhtk-078bb8
Location
United Kingdom
Sector
IT & Telecom
Type
services

At a glance

The Mayor and Commonalty and Citizens of the City of London in United Kingdom has published a request for information in it & telecom: “Programme Sapphire: Finance OCM and Workforce Transformation”. Submissions close on 2 November 2026, 10 days from today. Quote reference ocds-h6vhtk-078bb8 in any correspondence with the buyer. FreeTender has recorded 23 notices from this buyer since 2026, 19 of them currently open. There are 212 open it & telecom notices in United Kingdom on FreeTender. Bids are submitted to the buyer through UK Find a Tender Service, not through FreeTender.

Details

The City of London Corporation (the City) is a complex and federated organisation, delivering local authority services, commercial activities and specialist charitable funds. It is implementing SAP S/4HANA Public Cloud Edition and SAP Analytics Cloud, with a systems integrator appointed, in what is believed to be one of the first SAP S/4HANA Public Cloud implementations in UK local government. The City's Financial Improvement and Transformation (FIT) Strategy sets the ambition for a high-performing Finance function. Programme Sapphire and the move to SAP are a key enabler of that ambition. This Preliminary Market Engagement is about Finance transformation enabled by SAP and aligned to the FIT Strategy: defining how the Finance function as a whole should be structured and should operate to support the Corporation's strategy and be successful, and how we transition to it. The return deadline for PME responses is 02/11/2026 by 12:00 noon.

Context for bidders

We hold 23 notices from The Mayor and Commonalty and Citizens of the City of London, going back to August 2026 — 19 of them still open. They buy mostly in Construction & Infrastructure, Financial & Professional Services and Water & Environment. There are 212 open IT & Telecom tenders in United Kingdom. This one closes in 10 days.

Before you bid on this tender

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  • Confirm the exact closing date and time (and time zone) on the official portal — deadlines are strict and can be revised by a corrigendum.
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  • Prepare any earnest-money deposit (EMD) or bid security and the required formats early; missing or wrongly-formatted documents are a common cause of rejection.
  • Note how bids must be submitted (online or physical), in what format, and whether a digital signature or portal registration is required.
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