Find a TenderPlanned procurementPreliminary market engagement notice
Published 1 Sept 2026, 11:34 BST

Official UK procurement notice

1140EVNES - Facilities Management Solution (PME)

Authority: Leicester City Council (Local council)

GoodsBelow thresholdSME suitable
Planned pipeline value£120,000pipeline notice, not a live tender
Tender notice expected 30 Nov 2026from the planned procurement notice
Contract term 2 yrsends 31 Jan 2029 · up to 31 Jan 2031 with extensions · starts 1 Feb 2027

What is being bought

Published requirement description

This is a preliminary market engagement to explore what's currently in the market for a facilities management solution.

CPV: Software package and information systems

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published
Lot #1PlannedRenewal 2 yrsSME
Contract period: 1 Feb 2027 – 31 Jan 2029 (2 yrs) · up to 31 Jan 2031 with extensions
Delivery: East MidlandsEligibility: SME eligible
Extensions: Extension options published

Who is likely to bid for this lot ↓

Pipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published

How Leicester City Council buys Software package and information systems (CPV 48), and who usually turns up

Leicester City Council’s own published record, next to the published market for the same work. Frameworks and DPS are kept out: they attract a different number of bids. Whole-market view: Software package and information systems (CPV 48) →

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How the contest usually goes

Winner shares use published awards; bid and price charts use contested lots.

Question for the bid
This buyerLeicester City Council · division 48
What to do with it
How often do SMEs win?
i

How often small and medium firms win.

Share of awards where the winner’s size is known.

The counts under this question show how many awards have a known supplier size.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 6 of 14 known-size awards · market: division 48 · East Midlands, n=367
43%32%

Small firms have won here. Neither number says whether you qualify; it describes who has been winning.

How often do local suppliers win?
i

How often local firms win similar work.

Winners with a registered address in the delivery region, out of awards with a known address.

Here, local means registered in East Midlands.

A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 7 of 18 known-location awards · market: division 48 · East Midlands, n=453
39%10%

Most of this buyer’s recorded winners are registered outside East Midlands. More of this buyer’s work stays local than in this market: 39% against 10%, n=18.

How long to a decision?
i

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.

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

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 16 decided notices · market: division 48 · East Midlands, n=30
78 days66 days

Half of these awards were announced within 78 days of the bid deadline.

How often single-bid or direct?
i

How often work is awarded with no recorded rival.

Direct awards and tenders where every published lot count shows one bid.

Both shares are minimums: some awards have no bid count.

Thin markets produce this too; it is not proof of a tailored specification.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: at least 5 of 24 procurements with awards had no recorded rival · market: division 48 · East Midlands, n=562
21%64%

Missing bid counts may hide more single-bid awards. This share is a minimum.

How many bids did past lots attract?

i

How many bids past lots received.

Each colour is a bid-count range. Only competed lots with a published count are included.

Past bids do not predict this tender.

Last 36 months.

This buyer20 lots with bid counts · broad CPV 48
5% had one bid
The market41 lots with bid counts · division 48 · East Midlands
10% had one bid
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
1 bid5% / 10%
Buyer: 1 of 20 lots with published bid counts. Market: 4 of 41 lots with published bid counts.
2–365% / 46%
Buyer: 13 of 20 lots with published bid counts. Market: 19 of 41 lots with published bid counts.
4–630% / 34%
Buyer: 6 of 20 lots with published bid counts. Market: 14 of 41 lots with published bid counts.
7+0% / 10%
Buyer: 0 of 20 lots with published bid counts. Market: 4 of 41 lots with published bid counts.

How did awards compare with estimates?

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Where winning prices landed against estimates.

Each colour shows awards below, close to or above the published estimate, one lot at a time.

Past prices are a guide, not a bid price.

Last 36 months.

This buyer13 lots with estimate and award · broad CPV 48
46% below estimate
The market26 lots with estimate and award · division 48 · East Midlands
58% below estimate
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
Below estimate46% / 58%
Buyer: 6 of 13 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 15 of 26 lots with an estimate and award.
Within ±2%8% / 19%
Buyer: 1 of 13 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 5 of 26 lots with an estimate and award.
Above estimate46% / 23%
Buyer: 6 of 13 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 6 of 26 lots with an estimate and award.
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Assess each lot
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What past awards tell you about each lot.

See the forecast, this buyer’s earlier suppliers and firms with relevant wins.

No supplier is confirmed as a bidder.

Open a lot for its forecast, this buyer’s previous supplier and possible competitors, from published award history, not a bid list

Lot #124 monthsSME suitablePublished estimate£120k
Expected competition
i

How many bids this lot may attract.

The forecast uses similar past competitions. The bar shows either that forecast or past bid counts; the line below says which.

Each lot shows its own forecast based on its own category; forecasts for different lots of the same notice are not comparative. The bar shows 41 past lots.

A forecast, not a list of bidders.

—No model forecast yet10% single-bid risk
Past bids on 41 similar lots
1 bid10%
4 of 41 similar past lots received 1 bid (10%).
2–346%
19 of 41 similar past lots received 2–3 (46%).
4–634%
14 of 41 similar past lots received 4–6 (34%).
7+10%
4 of 41 similar past lots received 7+ (10%).
Comparable past lots usually drew 3 bids.
Commercial price forecast
i

Where the award price may land.

The forecast uses similar awards and the buyer’s estimate. The band covers the middle half of likely prices.

No comparable awards for this lot yet.

A statistical guide from past awards, not a price to bid.

—No model forecast yet
No comparable awards on record for this lot’s category yet. The published estimate is £120k, and the forecast stays empty until the market has a record to read.

Who has supplied this buyer on similar work?
i

Who has done similar work for this buyer.

Past contracts are matched by buyer, title and type of work.

A past supplier may not bid again.

SupplierThis buyer’s earlier contractLotAward valueWhy listed
Concerto Support ServicesEarlier contractEstate Management & Computer Aided Facility Management (CAFM) Solutionnotice published Aug 2023—£278kMatched as the earlier contract

Who could compete for this lot?
i

Who could compete for this lot?

Firms with relevant past wins. On a framework, we show firms on that agreement.

None is confirmed as a bidder.

Candidate suppliers for this notice have not been worked out yet, so this is not a verdict that nobody fits.

About this data
  • Source. Official UK public procurement notices (Find a Tender), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0. New notices arrive through the day; the figures are rebuilt nightly.
  • Two views, kept apart. The authority’s own track record and the wider market for the same kind of work sit side by side and are never mixed. Where the local picture is too thin, a figure widens to a broader market and says which one it used.
  • Forecasts are labelled. The price forecast and its range, possible competitors and the earlier-work matches are our estimates from past awards: not published facts, not win chances and not price advice. Official notices do not say who is bidding.
  • Every figure shows what it rests on. Not every notice publishes a bid count, a value or a delivery region, so each figure carries the number of records behind it, and one built on few records is marked as such. The on a figure explains it; the counting rules are in the methodology. Spotted something wrong? Tell us.

Procedure terms & legal framework

From the official record
Legal basis
UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
Procurement category
Goods
Notice status
Planned procurement
Procurement threshold
Below threshold
Regulatory regime
Standard
Commercial structure
Stand-alone contract (no framework)
Competition type
Competitive procedure
GPA / WTO covered
Unspecified in notice
Recurring procurement
Unspecified in notice
First published
1 Sept 2026, 11:34 BST
Last source update
1 Sept 2026, 11:34 BST
Authority reference
1140EVNES
FTS notice number
2026/S 000-082557
Latest notice
Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
Classification (CPV)
Software package and information systems
Delivery area
East Midlands (UKF21)
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06ef55 Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice
Submission deadline
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Timeline

1 Sept 2026 → 1 Feb 2027 · 4 dates
  1. Planning notice published49 days ago
    1 Sept 2026, 11:34 BST
  2. Market engagement36 days ago
    14 Sept 2026, 23:59 BST

    Leicester City Council is conducting a pre market engagement to inform the possible upgrade of a facilities management system.

    Interested organisations are invited to review the PME

    document and submit responses using the structured template provided via the

    ProContract (Due North) system by the deadline 14th September 2026.

    This engagement is for information gathering purposes only and does not constitute a call

    for competition. Participation will not confer any advantage in any future procurement

    process. All information will be handled transparently and in accordance with procurement

    regulations.

  3. Today
    20 Oct 2026
  4. Tender notice expectedin 41 days
    30 Nov 2026, 23:59 GMT
  5. Contract startsin 103 days
    1 Feb 2027

Notice history

1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender
  1. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    1 Sept 2026, 11:34 BST
    UK2

Commercial outcome & contract awards

Pipeline notice
Awards (0)
No award published
Contracts (0)
No contract published
Bid statistics
No aggregate bid statistics published

Contracting authority & participating public bodies

Leicester City Council

Contracting authorityPublic authority - sub-central government GB-PPON: PXRT-5737-VBQD City Hall (4th Floor), Leicester, East Midlands, LE1 1FZContact name, email, phone

Official documents & specifications (1)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure