Official UK procurement notice
Information, Advice & Guidance for RBWM
Authority: Royal Borough of Windsor & Maidenhead (Local council)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThe Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead is seeking a Information, Advice and Guidance (IAG) Service to deliver accessible, resident-focused support across Windsor, Maidenhead, and Ascot. The provider will supply multi-channel provision including face-to-face sessions, telephone support, and digital access, alongside community outreach.
Services must be delivered in accordance with defined volume, performance, and requirements to ensure timely issue resolution, crisis prevention, and positive outcomes for borough residents.
CPV: Health and social work services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · value publishedLot #1RenewalPublished value£124,000
What it takes to wini
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).
Evaluation split and conditions of participation as published; the tender pack may add morei
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 sub-criteria (1)
- Technical: 100%
Published award criteria (1)
- Technical
No conditions of participation were published on the notice; check the tender documents.
- Turnover usually expected at this size: about £247,322 (twice the annual value).
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 Royal Borough of Windsor & Maidenhead buys Health and social work services (CPV 85), and who usually turns up
Royal Borough of Windsor & Maidenhead’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: Health and social work services (CPV 85) →
How the contest usually goes
Winner shares use published awards; bid and price charts use contested lots.
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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.
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.
Here, local means registered in South East England.
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners are registered in South East England.
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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.
Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.
Half of these awards were announced within 75 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.
Direct awards or one recorded bid are common here. Check the route before spending time on a bid.
How many bids did past lots attract?
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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.
1 bid14% / 18%
2–329% / 36%
4–657% / 27%
7+0% / 19%
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.
Below estimate0% / 33%
Within ±2%80% / 59%
Above estimate20% / 9%
Assess each lot i
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.
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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 #1Published estimate£124k
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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 360 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid18%
2–336%
4–627%
7+19%
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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.
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.
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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.
No earlier contract of this buyer matches this lot on the published record.
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.
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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), 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- Procedure method
- Open procedure
- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Open for tender
- Procurement threshold
- Above threshold (FTS publication)
- 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
- 15 Jul 2026, 13:27 BST
- Last source update
- 20 Oct 2026, 06:26 BST
- Award evaluation window
- Submission end – 16 Dec 2026
- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-098726- Latest notice
- Tender notice (UK4)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
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How to participate & submission route
Official notice Submit via Jaggaer- Requests to participate (first stage)
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- Tender submission deadline
- 19 Nov 2026, 13:00 GMT
- Clarification deadline
- 10 Nov 2026, 13:00 GMT
- Submission channel
- Official e-sourcing portal
- Electronic submission
- Allowed
- Accepted languages
- en
Timeline
15 Jul 2026 → 1 Apr 2027 · 7 dates- Planning notice published97 days ago15 Jul 2026, 13:27 BST
- Market engagement82 days ago29 Jul 2026, 23:59 BST
The purpose of this soft market testing exercise is to gather feedback from experienced providers of Information, Advice, and Guidance (IAG) services. Through this process, the Council is seeking to understand current market capacity and innovative or highly effective delivery models that achieve the best outcomes for residents. The insights gained from this exercise will directly inform the final procurement strategy and service specification, though this engagement does not constitute a formal call for competition or a tender.
This engagement is being conducted strictly via a written questionnaire, and there are currently no face-to-face or virtual supplier events scheduled for this phase. To participate, interested providers are invited to contact [email protected] to request the market engagement document for review. Please answer all questions where relevant, providing as much detail as possible in the designated supplier response boxes. Where multiple-choice options are provided, the Council still welcomes any supporting rationale or context within the response sections to help us understand your perspective.
All completed questionnaire responses must be returned to [email protected] by 29th July at 13:00, using the subject line "Market Engagement Response: IAG Services" to ensure they are received and processed correctly.
- Tender notice publishedearlier today20 Oct 2026, 06:26 BST
- Today20 Oct 2026
- Clarification questions byin 21 days10 Nov 2026, 13:00 GMT
- Submission deadlinein 30 days19 Nov 2026, 13:00 GMT
- Award decision expected byin 58 days16 Dec 2026, 23:59 GMT
- Contract startsin 163 days1 Apr 2027, 00:00 BST
Notice history
7 events · 3 releases on Find a Tender · since 15 Jul 2026- Preliminary market engagement notice published15 Jul 2026, 13:27 BSTUK2
- Preliminary market engagement notice published15 Jul 2026, 13:29 BSTUK2
- Tender notice published20 Oct 2026, 06:26 BSTUK4
- Published value published: £124,00020 Oct 2026, 06:26 BST
- Status changed to active20 Oct 2026, 06:26 BST
- Procurement method changed20 Oct 2026, 06:26 BST
- Deadline published: 19 Nov 2026, 13:00 GMT20 Oct 2026, 06:26 BST
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 (4)
Official links; attachments are not copiedTender pack and attachments
- Bidding documents and specifications Open Tender will be published on the specified web address. If you wish to participate and are unable to view the Tender, please do get in contact.
Notices published for this procedure
- Tender notice Tender notice on Find a Tender
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender