Official UK procurement notice
Charity Partner · UK public procurement notice
Authority: CADENT GAS LIMITED (Public body)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionService Capability Areas
Cadent is seeking information on suppliers' capabilities across the following areas. For each area, please describe your organisation's experience and approach.
Charity Law & DAF Guidance
o Ability to provide guidance on charity legislation, charitable fund administration, and the operation of a Donor‑Advised Fund (DAF).
Donor‑Advised Grant Distribution
o Capability to accept funds into a DAF and act on donor recommendations for distributing grants to charitable causes.
Branded DAF Management
o Experience managing and administering a branded DAF (e.g. "The Cadent Foundation") holding irrevocable donations and distributing funds in line with the Charity Partner's charitable objects.
Broad Charitable Scope
o Be able to fund any charitable purpose for public benefit, including internationally.
Trust Administration Capability
o Confirmation of authorisation to administer charitable trusts and applicable fee structures
Governance & Advisory Support
o Attend relevant board or committee meetings as an impartial advisor, providing expert guidance on DAF governance and compliance.
Due Diligence & Compliance
o Conduct full due diligence on all grant recipients, including charity verification and compliance with UK charity law.
Reporting & Statements
o Provide regular statements (e.g. monthly) showing donations received, grants made, fees charged, and the current balance of the DAF.
Online Fundraising Platform
o To enable users to raise money through fundraising, with key services including creating donation pages, organising events, and processing payments for charities.
The information contained herein is provisional and may be amended or updated.
CPV: Public relations management services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedPipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How CADENT GAS LIMITED buys Business and management consultancy services (CPV 7941), and who usually turns up
CADENT GAS LIMITED’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: Business and management consultancy services (CPV 7941) →
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.
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 82 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 bid15%
2–320%
4–624%
7+40%
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 estimate43%
Within ±2%48%
Above estimate9%
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 #1CPV 7941Estimate not published
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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 278 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid15%
2–320%
4–624%
7+40%
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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- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Planned procurement
- 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
- 21 May 2026, 08:38 BST
- Last source update
- 26 May 2026, 15:06 BST
- Authority reference
CadentCharityPartner- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-048898- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-069e56Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
21 May 2026 → 20 Nov 2026 · 4 dates- Planning notice published155 days ago21 May 2026, 08:38 BST
- Latest notice published150 days ago26 May 2026, 15:06 BST
- Market engagement139 days ago5 Jun 2026, 23:59 BST
Request for Information
Please provide a brief overview of your organisation, including your charitable status, governance structure, and years of experience operating Donor‑Advised Funds.
Please confirm whether your organisation can meet the service capabilities set out in this RfI. Where requirements cannot be fully met, please clearly identify the exceptions and provide details of any alternative proposals.
Please provide an indicative and transparent pricing structure for the services outlined in this RfI, including a breakdown of fees, charging mechanisms, and any key assumptions.
Please confirm whether there are any additional services, considerations, or risks that you believe Cadent should be aware of in relation to the scope outlined in this RfI.
Contact
You can provide your information via emailing [email protected] with your proposal outlining your services and capabilities.
This RfI is issued for information gathering purposes only and does not constitute a commitment to procure services or appoint a supplier.
- Today23 Oct 2026
- Contract startsin 28 days20 Nov 2026
Notice history
2 events · 2 releases on Find a Tender · since 21 May 2026- Preliminary market engagement notice published21 May 2026, 08:38 BSTUK2
- Preliminary market engagement notice published26 May 2026, 15:06 BSTUK2
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
Official documents & specifications (2)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender