Official UK procurement notice
ACE 1128 ITQ Youth Voice Sector Insight and Evidence
Authority: The Arts Council of England (Central government)
Arts Council England (ACE), the national development agency for creativity and culture, are seeking a suitably qualified supplier to undertake a research and mapping exercise to establish a baseline understanding of youth voice practice across the arts and cultural sector in England. The purpose of this commission is to build a robust evidence base on youth voice practice across the sector, identifying strengths, gaps, challenges and opportunities. The successful supplier will be required to produce outputs that are accessible and understandable to young people aged 14 and above.
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionArts Council England (ACE), the national development agency for creativity and culture, are seeking a suitably qualified supplier to undertake a research and mapping exercise to establish a baseline understanding of youth voice practice across the arts and cultural sector in England.
The purpose of this commission is to build a robust evidence base on youth voice practice across the sector, identifying strengths, gaps, challenges and opportunities. Findings will inform future organisational development, sector support activity and potential investment priorities relating to youth voice.
ACE is seeking a supplier to design and deliver an appropriate research methodology combining desk research, evidence review and quantitative data collection. This will include a sector-wide survey of arts and cultural organisations, with sector professionals and practitioners responding on behalf of their organisations. Additional qualitative research methods are welcomed where considered feasible within the available budget and timescale.
The successful supplier will be required to produce outputs that are accessible and understandable to young people aged 14 and above.
Further details on the requirements are provided within the ITQ, which can be requested via email from [email protected]
All correspondence in relation to this quotation (including clarifications and submissions) should be address to: Abir Tobji, Senior Manager, Youth Engagement. Email: [email protected]
CPV: Design and execution of research and development · Development consultancy services · Education and training services · Evaluation consultancy services · Research and development consultancy services · Research and development services and related consultancy services · Research consultancy services · Services provided by youth associations
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · value publishedLot #1Published value£20,833
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How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
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How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
Published award criteria (2)
- Price
- Quality
No conditions of participation were published on the notice; check the tender documents.
- Price carries 15 of 100 points: a 10% discount moves about 1.5 points. The method statement decides this lot, not the discount.
- Turnover usually expected at this size: about £41,667 (twice the annual value).
Price arithmetic assumes straight proportional scoring; the tender pack may use another formula. Turnover is an indicative market norm (≈2× annual value), not a published condition.
Competition analysis · published record, not a forecast of who will bid
How The Arts Council of England buys Miscellaneous membership organisations services (CPV 9813), and who usually turns up
The Arts Council of England’s published record next to the market for the same work. Frameworks and DPS are left out: they draw different bid counts. Whole-market view: Miscellaneous membership organisations services (CPV 9813) →
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Small firms have won here. Neither number says whether you qualify; it describes who has been winning.
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How often local firms win similar work.
Winners with a registered address in the delivery region, out of awards with a known address.
Local means the winner is registered in the region where that award was delivered.
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners were registered in the region where that award was delivered.
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How long buyers here take to decide after bids close.
Middle value in days from the bid deadline to the award date, on competitions that published both.
Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.
Half of these awards have an award date within 41 days of the bid deadline.
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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.
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Past bids do not predict this tender.
1 bid20%
2–370%
4–60%
7+10%
How did awards compare with estimates?
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Where winning prices landed against estimates.
Awards below, close to or above the estimate, per lot. The buyer side adds below-threshold contracts with a pre-award estimate; an award inside a published range counts as close.
Past prices are a guide, not a bid price.
Below estimate60% / 29%
Within ±2%40% / 71%
Above estimate0% / 0%
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Lot #1CPV 9813Published estimate£21k
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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 10 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid20%
2–370%
4–60%
7+10%
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Where the award price may land.
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No comparable awards for this lot yet.
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A past supplier may not bid again.
No earlier contract of this buyer matches this lot on the published record.
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None is confirmed as a bidder.
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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 and Contracts Finder), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0. New notices arrive through the day; the figures are rebuilt nightly. Contracts Finder appears in live search, the Retender Radar, contract pages, organisation counts, the earlier contracts and past suppliers on a tender's competition panel, the buyer's decision figure and its award against estimate; the other analytical figures are built from Find a Tender notices.
- 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- Procedure method
- Below threshold - open competition
- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Open for tender
- 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
- 10 Nov 2026, 16:14 GMT
- Last source update
- 10 Nov 2026, 16:14 GMT
- Authority reference
ACE 1128 ITQ- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-106838- Latest notice
- Tender notice (UK4)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-07b8eeFind a Tender
How to participate & submission route
Official notice Submit via portal- Requests to participate (first stage)
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- Tender submission deadline
- 30 Nov 2026, 10:00 GMT
- Clarification deadline
- 22 Nov 2026, 23:59 GMT
- Submission channel
- Official e-sourcing portal
- Electronic submission
- Allowed
All correspondence in relation to this quotation (including clarifications and submissions) should be address to: Abir Tobji, Senior Manager, Youth Engagement. Email: [email protected]
Timeline
10 Nov 2026 → 14 Dec 2026 · 4 dates- Tender notice publishedjust passed10 Nov 2026, 16:14 GMT
- Today10 Nov 2026
- Clarification questions byin 12 days22 Nov 2026, 23:59 GMT
- Submission deadlinein 19 days30 Nov 2026, 10:00 GMT
- Contract startsin 33 days14 Dec 2026
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Tender notice published10 Nov 2026, 16:14 GMTUK4
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Nothing awarded yet- Awards (0)
- No award published
- Contracts (0)
- No contract published
- Bid statistics
- No aggregate bid statistics published
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Official documents & specifications (1)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Tender notice Tender notice on Find a Tender