Find a TenderPlanned procurementPreliminary market engagement notice
Published 12 Dec 2025, 14:00 GMT

Official UK procurement notice

Appropriate Adult Service · The Police and Crime Commissioner for Derbyshire (Dec 2025)

Authority: The Police and Crime Commissioner for Derbyshire (Police & fire)

ServicesAbove thresholdSME suitableVCSE suitable
Planned pipeline value£0pipeline notice, not a live tender
Tender notice expected 27 Feb 2026from the planned procurement notice
Contract term 3 yrsends 1 Sept 2029 · up to 1 Sept 2031 with extensions · starts 1 Sept 2026

What is being bought

Published requirement description

Derbyshire Constabulary's current Appropriate Adult contract is due to expire on 31st August 2026. Derbyshire Constabulary are now assessing the available options so that a business case can be created to move the procurement forwards. To inform the business case, we are reaching out with this Request for Information [RFI] to the market to carry out a full review of appropriate adult services. If the business case is approved, a compliant procurement route will be taken at the point of purchase.

CPV: Guidance and counselling services · Health and social work services · Services provided by youth associations · Social work and related services · Social work services

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published
Lot #1PlannedRenewal 3 yrsSMEVCSE
Contract period: 1 Sept 2026 – 1 Sept 2029 (3 yrs) · up to 1 Sept 2031 with extensions
Delivery: East MidlandsEligibility: SME eligibleVCSE 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

Social work and related services (CPV 8530) in East Midlands, and who usually turns up

The Police and Crime Commissioner for Derbyshire has too little published record in this market to describe on its own. Published market evidence for the same work stands beside whatever it has. Frameworks and DPS are kept out: they attract a different number of bids. 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 bidWhat 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: no supplier sizes published · market: CPV 8530 · East Midlands, n=26
—38%

No supplier sizes published for this authority.

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: 1 of 1 known-location awards · market: CPV 8530 · East Midlands, n=52
1 of 129%

Most of this buyer’s recorded winners are registered in East Midlands.

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: no decision dates published · market: CPV 8530 · East Midlands, n=17
—50 days

Half of these awards were announced within 50 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: exactly 1 of 1 procurements with awards had no recorded rival · market: CPV 8530 · East Midlands, n=50
1 of 144%

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 buyer1 lot with bid counts · all categories · too few to chart
The market22 lots with bid counts · CPV 8530 · East Midlands
18% had one bid
Market · select a colour for counts
1 bid18%
Market: 4 of 22 lots with published bid counts.
2–355%
Market: 12 of 22 lots with published bid counts.
4–623%
Market: 5 of 22 lots with published bid counts.
7+5%
Market: 1 of 22 lots with published bid counts.

How did awards compare with estimates?

i

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 buyer1 lot with estimate and award · all categories · too few to chart
The market20 lots with estimate and award · CPV 8530 · East Midlands
35% below estimate
Market · select a colour for counts
Below estimate35%
Market: 7 of 20 lots with an estimate and award.
Within ±2%65%
Market: 13 of 20 lots with an estimate and award.
Above estimate0%
Market: 0 of 20 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 suitableNo real estimate
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 22 past lots.

A forecast, not a list of bidders.

—No model forecast yet18% single-bid risk
Past bids on 22 similar lots
1 bid18%
4 of 22 similar past lots received 1 bid (18%).
2–355%
12 of 22 similar past lots received 2–3 (55%).
4–623%
5 of 22 similar past lots received 4–6 (23%).
7+5%
1 of 22 similar past lots received 7+ (5%).
Comparable past lots usually drew 2.5 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 real estimate
The buyer published £0 as the estimate (a placeholder, not the contract’s value), so there is nothing to forecast against.

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
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
12 Dec 2025, 14:00 GMT
Last source update
12 Dec 2025, 14:00 GMT
Authority reference
DP1038
FTS notice number
2025/S 000-082510
Latest notice
Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
Classification (CPV)
Guidance and counselling servicesHealth and social work servicesServices provided by youth associationsSocial work and related servicesSocial work services
Delivery area
East Midlands (UKF)
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-05f4e6 Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice
Submission deadline
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Timeline

12 Dec 2025 → 1 Sept 2026 · 4 dates
  1. Planning notice published314 days ago
    12 Dec 2025, 14:00 GMT
  2. Market engagement271 days ago
    23 Jan 2026, 23:59 GMT
  3. Tender notice expected236 days ago
    27 Feb 2026, 23:59 GMT
  4. Contract starts51 days ago
    1 Sept 2026

Notice history

1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender
  1. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    12 Dec 2025, 14:00 GMT
    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

The Police and Crime Commissioner for Derbyshire

Contracting authorityPublic authority - sub-central government GB-PPON: PZLQ-6388-PQDJ Derbyshire Constabulary, Ripley, East Midlands, DE5 3RSContact name, email, phone

Official documents & specifications (1)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure