Find a TenderPlanned procurementPipeline notice
Published 21 May 2026, 15:23 BST

Official UK procurement notice

Anchor Hanover Group Life Insurance

Authority: Anchor Hanover Group (Public body)

ServicesCompetitive flexible procedureAbove threshold
Planned pipeline value£3,000,000pipeline notice, not a live tender
Tender notice expected 1 Dec 2026from the planned procurement notice
Contract term 2 yrsends 31 Mar 2029 · starts 1 Apr 2027

What is being bought

Published requirement description

Anchor Hanover Group is planning to look for a single provider to deliver comprehensive Group Life Insurance (Death in Service) benefits for its workforce.

CPV: Life insurance services

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published

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

How Anchor Hanover Group buys Insurance services (CPV 6651), and who usually turns up

Anchor Hanover Group’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: Insurance services (CPV 6651) →

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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 buyerAnchor Hanover Group · division 66
The marketInsurance services (CPV 6651) · UK-wide
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 6651 · UK-wide, n=830
0 of 22%

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.

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

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 3 of 4 known-location awards · market: CPV 6651 · UK-wide, n=526
3 of 440%

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 6651 · UK-wide, n=99
—64 days

Half of these awards have an award date within 64 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.

The market share is a minimum: some awards have no bid count.

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

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 5 procurements with awards; rival share unknown · market: CPV 6651 · UK-wide, n=453
—33%

Awards are recorded, but published direct routes and bid counts do not establish this buyer’s share.

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.

Last 36 months.

This buyer5 lots with bid counts · broad CPV 66
0% had one bid
The market703 lots with bid counts · CPV 6651 · UK-wide
28% had one bid
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
1 bid0% / 28%
Buyer: 0 of 5 lots with published bid counts. Market: 194 of 703 lots with published bid counts.
2–360% / 45%
Buyer: 3 of 5 lots with published bid counts. Market: 318 of 703 lots with published bid counts.
4–640% / 26%
Buyer: 2 of 5 lots with published bid counts. Market: 183 of 703 lots with published bid counts.
7+0% / 1%
Buyer: 0 of 5 lots with published bid counts. Market: 8 of 703 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 buyer10 lots with estimate and award · all categories
60% below estimate
The market247 lots with estimate and award · CPV 6651 · UK-wide
44% below estimate
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
Below estimate60% / 44%
Buyer: 6 of 10 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 108 of 247 lots with an estimate and award.
Within ±2%10% / 33%
Buyer: 1 of 10 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 82 of 247 lots with an estimate and award.
Above estimate30% / 23%
Buyer: 3 of 10 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 57 of 247 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 665124 monthsPublished estimate£3.0m
Expected competition
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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 703 past lots.

A forecast, not a list of bidders.

—No model forecast yet28% chance of a single bid
Past bids on 703 similar lots
1 bid28%
194 of 703 similar past lots received 1 bid (28%).
2–345%
318 of 703 similar past lots received 2–3 (45%).
4–626%
183 of 703 similar past lots received 4–6 (26%).
7+1%
8 of 703 similar past lots received 7+ (1%).
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 £3.0m, 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
JENSTEN INSURANCE BROKERS (EAST) LIMITEDLive contractAnchor Insurance Servicesruns to Jun 2029Insurance and related services associated with Terrorism and/or Political (Non Pool-Re)—Matched as the earlier contract
Arthur J. Gallagher Insurance Brokers LtdLive contractAnchor Insurance Servicesruns to Jun 2029Insurance and related services for all Property, legal liability and other general (non-life) insurable risks, as required.—Matched as the earlier contract
ZURICH INSURANCE COMPANY LTDLive contractAnchor Insurance Servicesruns to Jun 2029Insurance and related services associated with Motor—Matched as the earlier contract
Jensten Insurance Brokers (London & SE) LimitedLive contractAnchor Insurance Servicesruns to Jun 2029Insurance and related services associated with Cyber—Matched as the earlier contract

Who could compete for this lot?
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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
Competitive flexible procedure
Legal basis
UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
Procurement category
Services
Notice status
Planned procurement
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
21 May 2026, 15:23 BST
Last source update
21 May 2026, 15:23 BST
FTS notice number
2026/S 000-047248
Latest notice
Pipeline notice (UK1)
Classification (CPV)
Life insurance services
Delivery area
North East (UKC)North West (UKD)Yorkshire & Humber (UKE)East Midlands (UKF)West Midlands (UKG)East of England (UKH)London (UKI)South East (UKJ)
+1 moreSouth West (UKK)
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-069f96 Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice
Submission deadline
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Timeline

21 May 2026 → 1 Apr 2027 · 3 dates
  1. Planning notice published155 days ago
    21 May 2026, 15:23 BST
  2. Today
    23 Oct 2026
  3. Tender notice expectedin 39 days
    1 Dec 2026, 23:59 GMT
  4. Contract startsin 159 days
    1 Apr 2027, 00:00 BST

Notice history

1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender
  1. Pipeline notice published
    21 May 2026, 15:23 BST
    UK1

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

Anchor Hanover Group

Contracting authorityPublic authority - sub-central government GB-MPR: 7843 · GB-PPON: PYBH-1339-MTCJ 2 Godwin Street, Bradford, Yorkshire & Humber, BD1 2STContact email

Official documents & specifications (1)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure

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