Find a TenderPlanned procurementPreliminary market engagement notice
Published 22 Jun 2026, 13:29 BST

Official UK procurement notice

COSHH Management System · UK public procurement notice

Authority: Caerphilly County Borough Council (Local council)

Dynamic marketGoodsBelow thresholdSME suitable
Planned pipeline value£150,000pipeline notice, not a live tender
Tender notice expected 7 Jul 2026from the planned procurement notice
Market period 5 yrsends 1 Aug 2031 · up to 1 Aug 2036 with extensions · starts 1 Aug 2026

What is being bought

Published requirement description

Caerphilly County Borough Council (“the Council”) is undertaking pre market engagement to inform a future procurement and implement a comprehensive Control of Substances Hazardous to Health (COSHH) Management System. The system will support the effective identification, assessment, control, monitoring, and reporting of hazardous substances used across Council services.

The solution must provide a centralised, secure, and user-friendly platform to ensure full compliance with COSHH Regulations and associated health and safety legislation, while improving operational efficiency and risk management.

The system must:

Maintain a register of hazardous substances

Facilitate COSHH risk assessments

Manage Safety Data Sheets (SDS)

Track control measures and exposure risks

Support compliance, audit, and reporting requirements.

Also ensuring the following:

Ensure legal compliance with COSHH Regulations

Reduce risks associated with hazardous substances

Improve visibility and control of chemical usage

Provide auditable records.

Please confirm how the proposed COSHH Management System will provide Caerphilly County Borough Council with a reliable, compliant, and future‑proof foundation for directly supporting both operational delivery and strategic objectives.

CPV: Software package and information systems

How this dynamic market works

From the published notice
Type
Dynamic market
Market period
5 yrs · up to 10 yrs from 1 Aug 2026

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published
Lot #1PlannedRenewal 5 yrsSME
Contract period: 1 Aug 2026 – 1 Aug 2031 (5 yrs) · up to 1 Aug 2036 with extensions
Delivery: WalesEligibility: SME eligible
Extensions: Extension options published

Who is likely to bid for this lot ↓

What it takes to win
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How this buyer will score bids.

The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).

Evaluation split and conditions of participation as published; the tender pack may add more
What this means for your bid
  • “COSHH Management System” is a dynamic market: the contest is a place on its panel, not a single contract.

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

How Caerphilly County Borough Council buys Software package and information systems (CPV 48), and who usually turns up

Caerphilly County Borough Council’s own published record, next to the published market for the same work. This notice is a framework or DPS, so only frameworks and DPS are compared. Whole-market view: Software package and information systems (CPV 48) →

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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 buyerCaerphilly County Borough Council · all categories
What to do with it
How often do SMEs win?
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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.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 4 of 8 known-size awards · market: division 48 · UK-wide, n=99
50%31%

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

How often do local suppliers win?
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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.

Here, local means registered in Wales (Cymru).

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

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 4 of 8 known-location awards · market: division 48 · Wales (Cymru), n=11
50%0%

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

How long to a decision?
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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: 3 decided notices · market: division 48 · UK-wide, n=19
56 days84 days

Half of these awards were announced within 56 days of the bid deadline.

How often single-bid or direct?
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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.

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 0 of 7 procurements with awards had no recorded rival · market: division 48 · Wales (Cymru), n=6
0%33%

Missing bid counts may hide more single-bid awards. This share is a minimum.

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 buyer29 lots with bid counts · all categories
3% had one bid
The market6 lots with bid counts · division 48 · Wales (Cymru)
17% had one bid
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
1 bid3% / 17%
Buyer: 1 of 29 lots with published bid counts. Market: 1 of 6 lots with published bid counts.
2–328% / 17%
Buyer: 8 of 29 lots with published bid counts. Market: 1 of 6 lots with published bid counts.
4–628% / 33%
Buyer: 8 of 29 lots with published bid counts. Market: 2 of 6 lots with published bid counts.
7+41% / 33%
Buyer: 12 of 29 lots with published bid counts. Market: 2 of 6 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.

On a framework or DPS, prices are agreed when work is called off.

Past prices are a guide, not a bid price.

Last 36 months.

Not comparable on a framework or DPS. The notice sets up a supplier panel and a ceiling value; what the work actually costs is agreed later, on each call-off or mini-competition, and those publish as contract notices of their own. The award-vs-estimate record of this market therefore sits on the call-offs; this page shows it on the contracts, not on the panel that frames them.

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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 #160 monthsSME suitablePublished estimate£150k
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 79 past lots.

A forecast, not a list of bidders.

—No model forecast yet20% single-bid risk
Past bids on 79 similar lots
1 bid20%
16 of 79 similar past lots received 1 bid (20%).
2–341%
32 of 79 similar past lots received 2–3 (41%).
4–613%
10 of 79 similar past lots received 4–6 (13%).
7+27%
21 of 79 similar past lots received 7+ (27%).
Comparable past lots usually drew 2 bids.
Commercial price forecast
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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.

—Priced at call-off
On a framework or DPS the price is agreed on each call-off, so there is no award price to forecast here: the published figure is a ceiling.

Who has supplied this buyer on similar work?
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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.

SupplierThis buyer’s earlier contractLotAward valueWhy listed
Gladstone MRM LimitedEarlier contractThe Provision of a Leisure Management Systemstarted Aug 2027—£1.5mMatched 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
Legal basis
UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
Procurement category
Goods
Notice status
Planned procurement
Procurement threshold
Below threshold
Regulatory regime
Standard
Commercial structure
Dynamic market
Who may use this agreement
Any qualifying supplier may apply while the market is open
Competition type
Competitive procedure
GPA / WTO covered
Unspecified in notice
Recurring procurement
Unspecified in notice
First published
22 Jun 2026, 13:29 BST
Last source update
22 Jun 2026, 13:29 BST
FTS notice number
2026/S 000-058521
Latest notice
Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
Classification (CPV)
Software package and information systems
Delivery area
Wales (UKL1)
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06ba22 Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice
Admission period ends
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Timeline

22 Jun 2026 → 1 Aug 2026 · 4 dates
  1. Planning notice published120 days ago
    22 Jun 2026, 13:29 BST
  2. Market engagement109 days ago
    2 Jul 2026, 23:59 BST

    Caerphilly County Borough Council (“the Council”) is undertaking pre market engagement to inform a future procurement for a a comprehensive Control of Substances Hazardous to Health (COSHH) Management System.

    The Council operates a large and diverse property portfolio including:

    Corporate buildings

    Schools and education sites

    Operational and service delivery locations

    The existing contract is due to expire, and the Council is seeking to better understand current market capability, delivery models, and innovations prior to commencing a formal procurement exercise.

  3. Tender notice expected104 days ago
    7 Jul 2026, 23:59 BST
  4. Contract starts80 days ago
    1 Aug 2026, 00:00 BST

Notice history

1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender
  1. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    22 Jun 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

Caerphilly County Borough Council

Contracting authorityPublic authority - sub-central governmentWelsh devolved regulations apply GB-PPON: PWHP-2369-JPYL Penallta House, Tredomen Park, Hengoed, Wales, CF82 7PGContact name, email, phone

Official documents & specifications (1)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure