Find a TenderPlanned procurementPreliminary market engagement notice
Published 10 Feb 2026, 16:11 GMT

Official UK procurement notice

Digital Medical Evidence Solution

Authority: The Police and Crime Commissioner for Northumbria (Police & fire)

GoodsOpen procedureAbove thresholdSME suitable
Planned pipeline valueValue not publishedpipeline notice, not a live tender
Tender notice expected 12 Aug 2026from the planned procurement notice
Contract term 3 yrsends 8 Sept 2029 · up to 8 Sept 2032 with extensions · starts 9 Sept 2026

What is being bought

Published requirement description

Northumbria Police currently rely on a mixture of traditional, manually driven processes to obtain medical evidence-primarily injury pro formas, written medical statements, and hospital records-following incidents where victims require clinical assessment. Northumbria Police aspires to have a single standardised format or centralised system for requesting, tracking, receiving, or storing medical evidence.

CPV: Software package and information systems

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published
Lot #1PlannedRenewal 3 yrsSME
Contract period: 9 Sept 2026 – 8 Sept 2029 (3 yrs) · up to 8 Sept 2032 with extensions
Delivery: North EastEligibility: SME eligible
Extensions: This opportunity may include 2 12 month extensions to be used at Northumbria Police's discretion.

Who is likely to bid for this lot ↓

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

How The Police and Crime Commissioner for Northumbria buys Software package and information systems (CPV 48), and who usually turns up

The Police and Crime Commissioner for Northumbria’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 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: 1 of 8 known-size awards · market: division 48 · North East England, n=360
13%33%

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 East England.

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

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 1 of 1 known-location awards · market: division 48 · North East England, n=475
1 of 15%

Most of this buyer’s recorded winners are registered in North East 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: 9 decided notices · market: division 48 · North East England, n=27
73 days42 days

Half of these awards were announced within 73 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 7 of 11 procurements with awards had no recorded rival · market: division 48 · North East England, n=568
64%67%

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 buyer10 lots with bid counts · all categories
10% had one bid
The market37 lots with bid counts · division 48 · North East England
14% had one bid
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
1 bid10% / 14%
Buyer: 1 of 10 lots with published bid counts. Market: 5 of 37 lots with published bid counts.
2–340% / 38%
Buyer: 4 of 10 lots with published bid counts. Market: 14 of 37 lots with published bid counts.
4–630% / 35%
Buyer: 3 of 10 lots with published bid counts. Market: 13 of 37 lots with published bid counts.
7+20% / 14%
Buyer: 2 of 10 lots with published bid counts. Market: 5 of 37 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 buyer7 lots with estimate and award · all categories
43% below estimate
The market24 lots with estimate and award · division 48 · North East England
67% below estimate
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
Below estimate43% / 67%
Buyer: 3 of 7 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 16 of 24 lots with an estimate and award.
Within ±2%29% / 13%
Buyer: 2 of 7 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 3 of 24 lots with an estimate and award.
Above estimate29% / 21%
Buyer: 2 of 7 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 5 of 24 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 monthsSME suitableEstimate 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 37 past lots.

A forecast, not a list of bidders.

—No model forecast yet14% chance of a single bid
Past bids on 37 similar lots
1 bid14%
5 of 37 similar past lots received 1 bid (14%).
2–338%
14 of 37 similar past lots received 2–3 (38%).
4–635%
13 of 37 similar past lots received 4–6 (35%).
7+14%
5 of 37 similar past lots received 7+ (14%).
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.

—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.

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
Procedure method
Open procedure
Legal basis
UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
Procurement category
Goods
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
10 Feb 2026, 16:11 GMT
Last source update
10 Feb 2026, 16:20 GMT
Award evaluation window
Submission end – 9 Nov 2026
Authority reference
NP0534
FTS notice number
2026/S 000-012092
Latest notice
Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
Classification (CPV)
Software package and information systems
Delivery area
North East (UKC)
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-064d16 Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice
Submission deadline
6 Sept 2026, 12:00 BST
Clarification deadline
24 Aug 2026, 12:00 BST
Accepted languages
en

Timeline

10 Feb 2026 → 9 Nov 2026 · 7 dates
  1. Planning notice published254 days ago
    10 Feb 2026, 16:11 GMT
  2. Market engagement227 days ago
    9 Mar 2026, 23:59 GMT

    Interested suppliers should look to download and complete the RFI included in the planned procurement notice found here: www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/012085-2026 ↗. Please return by 12 noon on 09/03/2026 to [email protected].

  3. Tender notice expected71 days ago
    12 Aug 2026, 23:59 BST
  4. Clarification questions by59 days ago
    24 Aug 2026, 12:00 BST
  5. Submission deadline46 days ago
    6 Sept 2026, 12:00 BST
  6. Contract starts44 days ago
    9 Sept 2026, 00:00 BST
  7. Today
    22 Oct 2026
  8. Award decision expected byin 18 days
    9 Nov 2026, 23:59 GMT

Notice history

2 events · 2 releases on Find a Tender · since 10 Feb 2026
  1. Planned procurement notice published
    10 Feb 2026, 16:11 GMT
    UK3
  2. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    10 Feb 2026, 16:20 GMT
    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

The Police and Crime Commissioner for Northumbria

Contracting authorityPublic authority - sub-central government GB-PPON: PCZY-7834-QRMM 2nd Floor, Victory House, Balliol Business Park, Longbenton, Newcastle, North East, NE12 8EWContact name, email

Official documents & specifications (3)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Tender pack and attachments

Notices published for this procedure