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Published 21 Oct 2026, 10:55 BST

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All-Age Advocacy Service · UK public procurement notice

Official notice Competition analysis

Authority: Bracknell Forest Council (Local council)

ServicesAbove thresholdLight touch regimeSME suitableVCSE suitable
Sectors: Health & Social Care (85) Delivery: South East (UKJ11)
Planned pipeline value£625,000pipeline notice, not a live tender
Tender notice expected 22 Feb 2027from the planned procurement notice
Contract term 3 yrsends 30 Sept 2030 · up to 30 Sept 2032 with extensions · starts 1 Oct 2027

What is being bought

Published requirement description

Bracknell Forest Council is carrying out market engagement for the procurement of a new All-Age Advocacy Service. Advocacy providers are invited to complete a questionnaire. Responses will help shape the service specification, outcomes framework, contract model, and delivery expectations. We welcome insight from providers on good practice, innovation, market sustainability and opportunities to improve outcomes for people using advocacy services.

CPV: Social work and related services

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published
Lot #1PlannedRenewal 3 yrsSMEVCSE
Contract period: 1 Oct 2027 – 30 Sept 2030 (3 yrs) · up to 30 Sept 2032 with extensions
Delivery: South EastEligibility: SME eligibleVCSE eligible
Extensions: Extension options published
85300000 Social work and related services

Who is likely to bid for this lot ↓

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

How Bracknell Forest Council buys Social work and related services (CPV 8530), and who usually turns up

Bracknell Forest Council’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: Social work and related services (CPV 8530) →

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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 buyerBracknell Forest Council · division 85
The marketSocial work and related services (CPV 8530) · South East England
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: 0 of 2 known-size awards · market: CPV 8530 · South East England, n=22
0 of 236%

No small-firm winners recorded among this authority’s published awards in this sample.

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.

Local means the winner is registered in the region where that award was delivered. The market figure counts awards delivered in South East England.

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

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 3 of 6 known-location awards · market: CPV 8530 · South East England, n=41
50%41%

Most of this buyer’s recorded winners were registered in the region where that award was delivered.

How long to a decision?
i

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.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: no decision dates published · market: CPV 8530 · South East England, n=31
—55 days

Half of these awards have an award date within 55 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 3 of 6 procurements with awards had no recorded rival · market: CPV 8530 · South East England, n=57
50%54%

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?

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 buyer12 lots with bid counts · all categories
17% had one bid
The market33 lots with bid counts · CPV 8530 · South East England
45% had one bid
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
1 bid17% / 45%
Buyer: 2 of 12 lots with published bid counts. Market: 15 of 33 lots with published bid counts.
2–350% / 36%
Buyer: 6 of 12 lots with published bid counts. Market: 12 of 33 lots with published bid counts.
4–625% / 15%
Buyer: 3 of 12 lots with published bid counts. Market: 5 of 33 lots with published bid counts.
7+8% / 3%
Buyer: 1 of 12 lots with published bid counts. Market: 1 of 33 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 buyer11 lots with estimate and award · all categories
18% below estimate
The market23 lots with estimate and award · CPV 8530 · South East England
22% below estimate
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
Below estimate18% / 22%
Buyer: 2 of 11 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 5 of 23 lots with an estimate and award.
Within ±2%82% / 74%
Buyer: 9 of 11 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 17 of 23 lots with an estimate and award.
Above estimate0% / 4%
Buyer: 0 of 11 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 1 of 23 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 #1CPV 853036 monthsSME suitablePublished estimate£625k
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 33 past lots.

A forecast, not a list of bidders.

—No model forecast yet45% chance of a single bid
Past bids on 33 similar lots
1 bid45%
15 of 33 similar past lots received 1 bid (45%).
2–336%
12 of 33 similar past lots received 2–3 (36%).
4–615%
5 of 33 similar past lots received 4–6 (15%).
7+3%
1 of 33 similar past lots received 7+ (3%).
Check who supplied similar work and whether the route limits bidders.
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 £625k, 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.

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.

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
Services
Notice status
Planned procurement
Procurement threshold
Above threshold (FTS publication)
Regulatory regime
Light touch regime
Commercial structure
Stand-alone contract (no framework)
Competition type
Competitive procedure
GPA / WTO covered
Unspecified in notice
Recurring procurement
Unspecified in notice
First published
21 Oct 2026, 10:55 BST
Last source update
21 Oct 2026, 10:55 BST
Authority reference
DN833554
FTS notice number
2026/S 000-099344
Latest notice
Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
Classification (CPV)
Social work and related services
Delivery area
South East (UKJ11)
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-078c8c Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice
Submission deadline
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Timeline

21 Oct 2026 → 1 Oct 2027 · 4 dates
  1. Planning notice published2 days ago
    21 Oct 2026, 10:55 BST
  2. Today
    23 Oct 2026
  3. Market engagementin 19 days
    11 Nov 2026, 23:59 GMT

    Bracknell Forest Council is carrying out market engagement for the procurement of a new All-Age Advocacy Service.

    Advocacy providers are invited to complete a questionnaire. Responses will help shape the service specification, outcomes framework, contract model, and delivery expectations. We welcome insight from providers on good practice, innovation, market sustainability and opportunities to improve outcomes for people using advocacy services.

    The deadline for returning completed questionnaires is 17:00 11th November 2026.

    Please use the below link to access the advert to find the questionnaire. Questionnaires can be submitted to us via the messaging function on the portal.

    procontract.due-north.com/Procurer/Advert/View ↗

  4. Tender notice expectedin 122 days
    22 Feb 2027, 23:59 GMT
  5. Contract startsin 342 days
    1 Oct 2027, 00:00 BST

Notice history

1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender
  1. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    21 Oct 2026, 10:55 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

Bracknell Forest Borough Council

Contracting authorityPublic authority - sub-central government GB-PPON: PJMT-6544-CVZD Time Square, Bracknell, South East, RG12 1JDContact name, email, phone

Official documents & specifications (1)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure