Find a TenderPlanned procurement
Published 9 Sept 2026, 10:36 BST

Official UK procurement notice

Children Affected by Parental Offending - Expression of Interest

Authority: Bristol City Council (Local council)

ServicesCompetitive procedure with negotiation
Planned pipeline value£80,000pipeline notice, not a live tender
Tender notice expected Date not publishedfrom the planned procurement notice

What is being bought

Published requirement description

DN828685 Children Affected by Parental Offending

procontract.due-north.com/Advert ↗

Bristol City Council wishes to test the level of market interest in this contract. The contract would be for a single supplier to deliver three services;

  1. Training for professionals to raise awareness

Increase awareness amongst professionals working with children (e.g. schools, family help, family hubs and social care) about CAPO through training and networking events and serving as a point of contact for professionals seeking support or resources for families they are supporting.

  1. Direct support to children and families

Direct support for children and young people affected by parental offending which takes a whole family approach, supporting the wider family and remaining parent, as required. This will be tailored one-to-one support for children and peer support groups and activities for children, as well as for the non-offending parent.

  1. Parenting courses for parents in prison

Provide parents with the necessary skills to maintain strong relationships with their children despite being separated. These courses aim to improve family dynamics and reduce reoffending rates.

Further information, as well as the Expression of Interest form which needs to be completed can be found once you have registered your interest on the advert. This is purely to test the level of market interest.

CPV: Other community, social and personal services

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published
Lot #1Children Affected by Parental Offending - Bristol City Council wishes to test the…

Children Affected by Parental Offending - Bristol City Council wishes to test the level of market interest in this contract. The contract would be for a single supplier to deliver three services;

  1. Training for professionals to raise awareness

Increase awareness amongst professionals working with children (e.g. schools, family help, family hubs and social care) about CAPO through training and networking events and serving as a point of contact for professionals seeking support or resources for families they are supporting.

  1. Direct support to children and families

Direct support for children and young people affected by parental offending which takes a whole family approach, supporting the wider family and remaining parent, as required. This will be tailored one-to-one support for children and peer support groups and activities for children, as well as for the non-offending parent.

  1. Parenting courses for parents in prison

Provide parents with the necessary skills to maintain strong relationships with their children despite being separated. These courses aim to improve family dynamics and reduce reoffending rates.

Further information, as well as the Expression of Interest form which needs to be completed can be found once you have registered your interest on the advert. This is purely to test the level of market interest.

Delivery: South West

Who is likely to bid for this lot ↓

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

How Bristol City Council buys Other community, social and personal services (CPV 98), and who usually turns up

Bristol City 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: Other community, social and personal services (CPV 98) →

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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 buyerBristol City Council · division 98
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: 4 of 4 known-size awards · market: division 98 · South West England, n=108
4 of 460%

Small firms have won here. Neither number says whether you qualify; it describes who has been winning.

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 West England.

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

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 7 of 10 known-location awards · market: division 98 · South West England, n=149
70%40%

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: division 98 · South West England, n=26
—40 days

Half of these awards have an award date within 40 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 9 of 11 procurements with awards had no recorded rival · market: division 98 · South West England, n=159
82%58%

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 buyer31 lots with bid counts · all categories
19% had one bid
The market48 lots with bid counts · division 98 · South West England
25% had one bid
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
1 bid19% / 25%
Buyer: 6 of 31 lots with published bid counts. Market: 12 of 48 lots with published bid counts.
2–332% / 38%
Buyer: 10 of 31 lots with published bid counts. Market: 18 of 48 lots with published bid counts.
4–639% / 21%
Buyer: 12 of 31 lots with published bid counts. Market: 10 of 48 lots with published bid counts.
7+10% / 17%
Buyer: 3 of 31 lots with published bid counts. Market: 8 of 48 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 buyer20 lots with estimate and award · all categories
50% below estimate
The market27 lots with estimate and award · division 98 · South West England
19% below estimate
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
Below estimate50% / 19%
Buyer: 10 of 20 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 5 of 27 lots with an estimate and award.
Within ±2%45% / 70%
Buyer: 9 of 20 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 19 of 27 lots with an estimate and award.
Above estimate5% / 11%
Buyer: 1 of 20 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 3 of 27 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 #1Children Affected by Parental Offending - Bristol City Council wishes to test the…CPV 98Published estimate£80k

This lot lists more than one class in CPV 98. The comparison uses that group.

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 48 past lots.

A forecast, not a list of bidders.

—No model forecast yet25% chance of a single bid
Past bids on 48 similar lots
1 bid25%
12 of 48 similar past lots received 1 bid (25%).
2–338%
18 of 48 similar past lots received 2–3 (38%).
4–621%
10 of 48 similar past lots received 4–6 (21%).
7+17%
8 of 48 similar past lots received 7+ (17%).
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 £80k, 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.

Restricted route (Stage 2 ITT / Shortlist): Bidding is restricted to invited candidates who qualified at Stage 1. Uninvited suppliers cannot participate in this round.

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 procedure with negotiation
Legal basis
CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
Procurement category
Services
Notice status
Planned procurement
Procurement threshold
Unspecified in notice
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
9 Sept 2026, 10:36 BST
Last source update
9 Sept 2026, 10:36 BST
Authority reference
DN828685
FTS notice number
2026/S 000-085257
Classification (CPV)
Other community, social and personal services
Delivery area
South West (UKK11)
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06f552 Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice
Run through: ProContract (Due North) · Who buys & how to bid on ProContract
Supplier login requiredLanguage: EN
Access & registration note: Free · short registration with manual review; public opportunity list
Submission deadline
30 Sept 2026, 12:00 BST
Submission channel
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Accepted languages
en
Detailed submission instructions & authority contactsFrom official release

Timeline

9 Sept 2026 → 30 Sept 2026 · 2 dates
  1. Notice published46 days ago
    9 Sept 2026, 10:36 BST
  2. Submission deadline25 days ago
    30 Sept 2026, 12:00 BST

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

Bristol City Council

Contracting authorityLocal CouncilRegional or local authorityGeneral public services Bristol City Council, P O Box 3176, BRISTOL, South West, BS3 9FSContact name, email, phone Published organisation website ↗

Official documents & specifications

Official links; attachments are not copied

No document links were published on the notice.