Find a TenderPlanned procurementPreliminary market engagement notice
Published 12 Jun 2026, 15:28 BST

Official UK procurement notice

Cycle Centred Behaviour Change Programme

Authority: Lancashire County Council (Local council)·On behalf of: SOCIAL VALUE PORTAL LTD

ServicesAbove threshold
Planned pipeline valueValue not publishedpipeline notice, not a live tender
Tender notice expected Date not publishedfrom the planned procurement notice
Contract term 3 yrsends 30 Nov 2029 · starts 1 Dec 2026

What is being bought

Published requirement description

The county council is looking for a provider to develop, manage, promote and deliver a cycle centred engagement and behaviour change programme targeted at Lancashire businesses, communities and residents. The programme should support healthy and fun competition element between or within organisations and present cycling as a fun, effective and practical active travel option and help embed cycling as a transport or lifestyle choice.

CPV: Software package and information systems · Transport services (excl. Waste transport)

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published

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

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

Lancashire County Council’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: 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 buyerLancashire County Council · division 48
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: 1 of 1 known-size awards · market: division 48 · North West England, n=435
1 of 133%

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 North West England.

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

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 1 of 5 known-location awards · market: division 48 · North West England, n=553
20%12%

Most of this buyer’s recorded winners are registered outside North West England.

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: 29 decided notices · market: division 48 · North West England, n=43
58 days56 days

Half of these awards were announced within 58 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 1 of 6 procurements with awards had no recorded rival · market: division 48 · North West England, n=670
17%66%

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 buyer71 lots with bid counts · all categories
21% had one bid
The market60 lots with bid counts · division 48 · North West England
13% had one bid
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
1 bid21% / 13%
Buyer: 15 of 71 lots with published bid counts. Market: 8 of 60 lots with published bid counts.
2–330% / 25%
Buyer: 21 of 71 lots with published bid counts. Market: 15 of 60 lots with published bid counts.
4–624% / 37%
Buyer: 17 of 71 lots with published bid counts. Market: 22 of 60 lots with published bid counts.
7+25% / 25%
Buyer: 18 of 71 lots with published bid counts. Market: 15 of 60 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.

Past prices are a guide, not a bid price.

Last 36 months.

This buyer56 lots with estimate and award · all categories
29% below estimate
The market35 lots with estimate and award · division 48 · North West England
54% below estimate
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
Below estimate29% / 54%
Buyer: 16 of 56 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 19 of 35 lots with an estimate and award.
Within ±2%52% / 23%
Buyer: 29 of 56 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 8 of 35 lots with an estimate and award.
Above estimate20% / 23%
Buyer: 11 of 56 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 8 of 35 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 #136 monthsEstimate not published
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 60 past lots.

A forecast, not a list of bidders.

—No model forecast yet13% single-bid risk
Past bids on 60 similar lots
1 bid13%
8 of 60 similar past lots received 1 bid (13%).
2–325%
15 of 60 similar past lots received 2–3 (25%).
4–637%
22 of 60 similar past lots received 4–6 (37%).
7+25%
15 of 60 similar past lots received 7+ (25%).
Comparable past lots usually drew 4 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.

—Estimate not published
The buyer published no estimate for this lot, so there is nothing to forecast against. A price prediction here would be a number about a number we do not have.

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.

SupplierThis buyer’s earlier contractLotAward valueWhy listed
Blackburn & Darwen District Without Abuse LtdLive contractPreventing Abuse Behaviour Change Programmeruns to Mar 2029—£478kMatched as the earlier contract

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.

What this replaces
i

Who has done similar work for this buyer.

Past contracts are matched by buyer, title and type of work.

53% title match.

A past supplier may not bid again.

The prior contract this notice most likely re-tenders · matched by title and category (53% title match), the holder is not guaranteed to re-bid

Preventing Abuse Behaviour Change Programme — held by Blackburn & Darwen District Without Abuse Ltd; the published contract ends 31 Mar 2029.

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 Jun 2026, 15:28 BST
Last source update
12 Jun 2026, 15:28 BST
Authority reference
DC/CORP/LCC/26/552
FTS notice number
2026/S 000-055815
Latest notice
Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
Classification (CPV)
Software package and information systemsTransport services (excl. Waste transport)
Delivery area
North West (UKD4)
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06b447 Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice
Submission deadline
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Timeline

12 Jun 2026 → 1 Dec 2026 · 3 dates
  1. Planning notice published130 days ago
    12 Jun 2026, 15:28 BST
  2. Market engagement116 days ago
    26 Jun 2026, 23:59 BST

    Lancashire County Council is conducting preliminary market engagement relating to the provision of a Cycle Centred Behaviour Change Programme.

    Prior to publication of a full invitation to tender (anticipated July/August 2026), interested organisations are invited to engage with this preliminary market engagement exercise.

    Interested organisations should:

    • Visit: www.lancashire.gov.uk/business/tenders-and… ↗
    • Navigate to the market engagement project by clicking on the link for Cycle Centred Behaviour Change Programme
    • Review the Preliminary Market Engagement document(s) contained on this project page. This document provides more information regarding this preliminary market engagement exercise.
    • Submit your expression of interest (EOI) via email to

    [email protected] by no later than 26th June 2026 at 12 noon.

  3. Today
    21 Oct 2026
  4. Contract startsin 41 days
    1 Dec 2026

Notice history

1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender
  1. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    12 Jun 2026, 15:28 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

2 public bodies on the notice

Lancashire County Council

Contracting authorityPublic authority - sub-central government GB-PPON: PBBJ-2179-TNXM PO Box 100, County Hall, Preston, North West, PR1 0LDContact email

Other public bodies

  • SOCIAL VALUE PORTAL LTDProcuring entityEvaluation and ongoing contract management support for the social value deliverables under the future contract.GB-COH: 09197997GB-PPON: PQHH-4489-TLZM London, LondonContact email

Official documents & specifications (1)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure