Telephone-answering services: UK Tenders, Buyers & Competition

CPV 79510000Services · classin Business Services & Consultancy

Open now4deadline in the future or not published
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Tenders you can still bid for.

Notices at tender stage whose deadline has not passed.

Notices, last 12 months8064 contracting authorities · 288 in the catalogue
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Notices published in the last 12 months.

Counted per tender, not per lot, against the 12 months before where shown.

Typical bids per lot320% single-bid · 51 procedures, 36 months
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How many companies usually bid for a lot here.

The middle value of the bid counts that award notices publish, one per lot. Only real competitions count: direct awards and framework places are left out.

Based on 56 lots from 51 competitions, last 36 months. 21 lots are from Procurement Act 2023 notices (bids assessed, middle 7) and 35 from older notices (bids received, middle 2).

Last 36 months.

Typical contract value£930,000median of 79 contract awards, net · not frameworks
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What a contract here is usually worth.

Middle value of published award values, VAT excluded. Framework ceilings are left out because they are not real contract values.

Based on 79 awards with a usable value, last 36 months.

Published values, not actual spend.

Last 36 months.

Deadline to award44 daysmedian · 23 awarded procedures
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How long buyers here take to decide after bids close.

Middle value in days from the deadline to the first award notice, on competitions that published both dates.

Based on 23 decided competitions, last 36 months.

Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.

Last 36 months.

Codes and neighbouring classes

The 8-digit CPV codes notices in this class actually use, and the other classes of the same division

Who buys
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Which buyers publish the most notices here.

Buyers ranked by the number of notices, duplicate names merged.

All notices carrying this code · official UK_CA_TYPE where published (NHS bodies are central government authorities), else derived from the authority name

Buyer type
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What kinds of public bodies buy here.

Notices by the buyer’s type as published, otherwise by its name.

  • Central government 28% (77 notices)
  • Other public bodies 26% (72 notices)
  • Local authorities 20% (56 notices)
  • Housing associations 5% (15 notices)
  • NHS & health 5% (14 notices)
  • Not classified 16% (43 notices)
Contracting authorityTypeNoticesLast 12 monthsOpen now
Karbon HomesOther public bodies1150
The Minister for the Cabinet Office acting through Crown Commercial ServiceCentral government921
British CouncilLocal authorities710
Department for Work & PensionsCentral government520
Department of Health & Social CareCentral government510
Scottish Governmentnot classified411
Dacorum Borough CouncilLocal authorities410
Department for EducationCentral government420
Ministry of DefenceCentral government420
Secretary of State for Health and Social Care acting as part of the Crown through UK Health Security AgencyCentral government410

194 distinct authorities in total · the ten most active shown.

Where the work is delivered
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Where this supplier has delivered.

Delivery regions published on its awarded tenders. A tender with several regions counts in each.

Where the work was, not where the company is based.

Delivery regions (ITL1) published on 181 of 288 notices · a notice covering several regions counts in each · competition columns: contracts awarded in the last 36 months, lots delivered in the region

RegionNoticesBids / lotSME winsLocal wins
Greater London37 · 20%
South East England33 · 18%436%57%
South West England32 · 18%6
East of England31 · 17%
North West England29 · 16%
Wales (Cymru)24 · 13%
East Midlands24 · 13%
North East England23 · 13%
Scotland21 · 12%
West Midlands20 · 11%
Yorkshire and the Humber17 · 9%
Northern Ireland17 · 9%

Local wins = the winner’s registered region is the delivery region. Dashes: fewer than ten observations.

How it is bought
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How work here is packaged.

Notices by commercial tool: a single contract, a framework, or a dynamic purchasing system.

Commercial tool, procedure route and threshold as published on the notice, not a legal-regime claim

Commercial tool
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How work here is packaged.

Notices by commercial tool: a single contract, a framework, or a dynamic purchasing system.

  • Contract 86% (247 notices)
  • Framework 12% (35 notices)
  • Dynamic purchasing system 2% (6 notices)
Procedure route
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Which procedures buyers here use.

Notices by the procedure they declare: open, selective, limited or direct. Open and selective are competitions; limited and direct are not.

  • Open 47% (134 notices)
  • Route not published 24% (69 notices)
  • Selective 21% (60 notices)
  • Limited / restricted 9% (25 notices)
Threshold
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How much of this market is above the legal threshold.

Notices by whether the buyer marked them above or below the threshold that triggers the full rules.

  • Above threshold 88% (60 notices)
  • Below threshold 12% (8 notices)
Typical tender window
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How long bidders get to respond.

Middle value in days from the tender notice to its deadline.

All notices we hold, not just recent ones.

31 daysrobust · n=59median, notice to deadline

Competition

Contracts published in the last 36 months (137) · bid counts per lot from award notices · values are net contract awards, framework and DPS ceilings excluded · SME and local status as declared

Bids per lot · n=56
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How the number of bidders is spread across lots.

Each lot with a published bid count is put in a band: one bid, two to three, four to six, seven or more. Real competitions only.

  • 1 bid 20% (11)
  • 2–3 39% (22)
  • 4–6 11% (6)
  • 7 or more 30% (17)
Contract value, net
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The usual range of contract values here.

The middle half of published award values, VAT excluded, with the middle value marked. Framework ceilings are left out.

Published values, not actual spend.

p25 £337,500median £930,000p75 £10,154,527
interquartile range of 79 awards · p90 £211,876,933
Typical bids per lot
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How many companies usually bid for a lot here.

The middle value of the bid counts that award notices publish, one per lot. Only real competitions count: direct awards and framework places are left out.

Based on 56 lots from 51 competitions, last 36 months. 21 lots are from Procurement Act 2023 notices (bids assessed, middle 7) and 35 from older notices (bids received, middle 2).

Last 36 months.

3robust · n=51middle half 2–7
Competed
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How much of this market is actually put out to competition.

Notices run as an open or selective procedure, out of all notices that say which procedure was used. Direct awards count as not competed.

93 of 108 notices that state a procedure, last 36 months. 29 more give no procedure and are left out.

Last 36 months.

86%robust · n=108
Bids from SMEs
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What share of bids come from small and medium firms.

SME bids divided by all bids, on lots where the buyer published the split.

137 SME bids out of 221, on 46 lots where the buyer published the split.

Last 36 months.

62%robust · n=221
Awards won by SMEs
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What share of contracts go to small and medium firms.

Awards to a single supplier that declared its size. SME divided by all.

29 of 68 awards where the winner declared its size.

Last 36 months.

43%robust · n=68
Won locally
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How much work here goes to companies based in the region.

Contract awards where the winner’s registered address is in this region, out of awards where the address is known.

Registered address, so a national firm with a local branch counts as outside.

Last 36 months.

53%robust · n=49winner registered in the delivery region
Winning award vs estimate
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Do winners come in above or below the buyer’s estimate.

For each lot we compare the published estimate with the award, like for like. Below means the winner was paid less than estimated, above means more.

Based on 33 lots with both an estimate and an award, last 36 months.

A past pattern, not a price to bid.

Last 36 months.

at the estimaterobust · n=3312 below · 5 above
Abandoned
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How often a tender ends with no award.

Notices cancelled, withdrawn or marked unsuccessful, plus terminated ones that never got an award.

3 of 137 notices, last 36 months.

Only what buyers published. Tenders that quietly went nowhere are not counted.

Last 36 months.

2%robust · n=137
Frameworks & DPS: bidders per lot
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How many companies apply to get onto a framework or DPS here.

Middle value per lot, frameworks and dynamic markets only. Getting onto a panel is not the same as winning work, so it is kept separate.

Based on 36 lots from 11 framework and DPS notices, last 36 months.

Last 36 months.

5robust · n=1127 vehicle procedures · admission to a panel, not a contest

Who wins
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Which suppliers win the most here.

Suppliers ranked by the number of tenders won, not by money. A supplier on one big framework with many call-offs does not outrank one that won many separate competitions.

Ranked by distinct procedures won on notices carrying this code, then award records · 418 awards to 157 suppliers · the five most frequent winners hold 20% of contract awards in the last 36 months

Where to submit
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Where bids for this work are submitted.

Notices by the portal in their submission link, where one is published.

E-sourcing portals named in the submission address · 92 of 288 notices name one · each portal page explains registration

JAGGAER / BravoSolution15 notices · 16%
Proactis / ProContract11 notices · 12% · 1 open
Delta eSourcing7 notices · 8%
Public Contracts Scotland (PCS)7 notices · 8% · 1 open
Sell2Wales7 notices · 8%

Open tenders in telephone-answering services

4 live at the nightly build · soonest deadline first

Method

What the numbers on this page are and are not

Which notices count?

Every Find a Tender notice that carries a CPV code starting 7951. A notice with several codes counts in each sector it names. Earliest notice 2021; latest 18 Sept 2026.

Competition figures

Lot-grain contest statistics over the last 36 months: a lot counts where its own CPV codes (or, for single-class notices, the procedure’s) start 7951; contracts and frameworks / DPS are kept apart. Each figure’s own method — grain, window, exclusions and this page’s sample — is behind its ; the long form is on Methodology.

Why no total value or month-by-month chart?

Sums of notice estimates repeat framework ceilings and mix net with gross. Monthly volumes per sector are not shown yet: the catalogue’s CPV coverage per notice changed in May 2026 (compiled records carry every lot’s codes), so a curve would show the catalogue, not the market.