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Published 10 Jul 2026, 13:29 BST

Official UK procurement notice

Children Who Harm · UK public procurement notice

Authority: Police and Crime Commissioner for Dyfed Powys (Police & fire)

ServicesAbove thresholdLight touch regimeSME suitableVCSE suitable
Planned pipeline value£3,600,000pipeline notice, not a live tender
Tender notice expected 21 Sept 2026from the planned procurement notice
Contract term 2 yrsends 31 Jan 2029 · up to 31 Jan 2031 with extensions · starts 1 Feb 2027

What is being bought

Published requirement description

A funding opportunity has become available to utilise from the Home Office, for Contracting Authorities to procure Intervention services for Children who Use Harm.

This is a two strand funding opportunity:

  1. Child-to-parent/caregiver abuse (CPCA)
  2. Teenage relationship abuse (TRA)

By providing targeted support, these interventions aligns closely with local strategic priorities, particularly those focused on prevention, early intervention, reducing inequalities, improving wellbeing and supporting vulnerable individuals.

This notice is an expression of interest and engagement opportunity for suppliers of the above service(s).

Dyfed-Powys Police are requesting:

  1. An expression of interest
  2. Attending a Teams information session with key stakeholders
  3. Confirmation of qualification and technical ability
  4. Indicative Commercial offering for each provision strand separately

Please note these will not be evaluated with a view to award. This information will be used to inform the tender process due approximately September 2026.

CPV: Other community, social and personal services · Social work and related services

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published
Lot #1PlannedRenewal 2 yrsSMEVCSE
Contract period: 1 Feb 2027 – 31 Jan 2029 (2 yrs) · up to 31 Jan 2031 with extensions
Delivery: WalesEligibility: 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

How Police and Crime Commissioner for Dyfed Powys buys Social work and related services (CPV 8530), and who usually turns up

Police and Crime Commissioner for Dyfed Powys’s own published record, next to the published market for the same work. 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: 2 of 5 known-size awards · market: CPV 8530 · Wales (Cymru), n=24
40%58%

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.

Here, local means registered in Wales (Cymru).

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

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 5 of 11 known-location awards · market: CPV 8530 · Wales (Cymru), n=42
45%76%

Most of this buyer’s recorded winners are registered outside Wales (Cymru).

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: 4 decided notices · market: CPV 8530 · Wales (Cymru), n=13
30 days33 days

Half of these awards were announced within 30 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 6 of 11 procurements with awards had no recorded rival · market: CPV 8530 · Wales (Cymru), n=35
55%34%

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 buyer4 lots with bid counts · all categories · too few to chart
The market41 lots with bid counts · CPV 8530 · Wales (Cymru)
24% had one bid
Market · select a colour for counts
1 bid24%
Market: 10 of 41 lots with published bid counts.
2–344%
Market: 18 of 41 lots with published bid counts.
4–624%
Market: 10 of 41 lots with published bid counts.
7+7%
Market: 3 of 41 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 buyer4 lots with estimate and award · all categories · too few to chart
The market15 lots with estimate and award · CPV 8530 · Wales (Cymru)
27% below estimate
Market · select a colour for counts
Below estimate27%
Market: 4 of 15 lots with an estimate and award.
Within ±2%67%
Market: 10 of 15 lots with an estimate and award.
Above estimate7%
Market: 1 of 15 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 853024 monthsSME suitablePublished estimate£3.6m
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 41 past lots.

A forecast, not a list of bidders.

—No model forecast yet24% chance of a single bid
Past bids on 41 similar lots
1 bid24%
10 of 41 similar past lots received 1 bid (24%).
2–344%
18 of 41 similar past lots received 2–3 (44%).
4–624%
10 of 41 similar past lots received 4–6 (24%).
7+7%
3 of 41 similar past lots received 7+ (7%).
Comparable past lots usually drew 2 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 £3.6m, 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
10 Jul 2026, 13:29 BST
Last source update
10 Jul 2026, 13:29 BST
Authority reference
DPP2611
FTS notice number
2026/S 000-065166
Latest notice
Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
Classification (CPV)
Other community, social and personal servicesSocial work and related services
Delivery area
Wales (UKL14)
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06c88d Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice
Submission deadline
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Timeline

10 Jul 2026 → 1 Feb 2027 · 4 dates
  1. Planning notice published104 days ago
    10 Jul 2026, 13:29 BST
  2. Market engagement91 days ago
    23 Jul 2026, 23:59 BST

    Dyfed-Powys Police are requesting:

    1. An expression of interest (EOI) via the email inbox - [email protected]
    2. Attending a Teams information session with key stakeholders - Invites will be sent once an EOI is issued to the above email inbox.

    The planned date is Thursday 16th June at 12noon.

    1. Confirmation of qualification and technical ability - Respond to the posed questions (below) via the above email inbox
    2. Indicative annual commercial offering for each provision strand separately - Respond via the above email inbox

    Please note these will not be evaluated with a view to award. This information will be used to inform the tender process due approximately September 2026.

    Q1. 1 A4 page limit - Please provide any evidence of current contracts in place for this provision including existing referral mechanisms

    1. Please indicate whether your organisation would be able to provide any match funding to support this intervention. If so, please provide an indication of the potential level and source of funding.
    2. Do you have any impact or evaluation reports relating to similar interventions that you would be willing to share with us?
    3. Please outline any current or recent partnerships your organisation has with statutory agencies within the region (e.g. local authorities, health boards, probation, or other public bodies).
    4. 1 A4 page limit - Please provide baseline data including, current referral rates for the past 6 (six) months and the referral source
    5. Please confirm geography coverage within, if not all, Dyfed-Powys Police Service area
    6. Confirmation you are compliant with Welsh Language Standards
    7. Do you require tendering support

    8a. If you do require support, you will be signposted to Business Wales, to qualify for this support the organisation must have a business address within Wales.

  3. Tender notice expected31 days ago
    21 Sept 2026, 23:59 BST
  4. Today
    22 Oct 2026
  5. Contract startsin 102 days
    1 Feb 2027

Notice history

1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender
  1. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    10 Jul 2026, 13:29 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

Police and Crime Commissioner for Dyfed Powys

Contracting authorityPublic authority - sub-central government GB-PPON: PYBL-9173-QNJN Dyfed Powys Police HQ, Llangunnor, Carmarthen, Wales, SA31 2PDContact email

Official documents & specifications (1)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure