Official UK procurement notice
Domestic Abuse Needs Assessment
Authority: Birmingham City Council (Local council)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionBirmingham City Council is seeking to commission external consultancy to conduct a thorough domestic abuse needs assessment for the city.
The needs assessment will form a key part of Birmingham’s evidence-led approach to tackling domestic abuse, providing robust evidence of local need. The needs assessment should take the form of a well-evidenced written report, supported by a thorough compilation of both qualitative and quantitative data. It should provide a comprehensive and honest picture of the prevalence and response to domestic abuse across agencies within Birmingham, looking at changes over the past three years, expected changes in the next three years and any gaps or needs around new communities in the city.
It must go beyond the duty set out by the Domestic Abuse Act 2021, which only represents the needs of those who require support in domestic abuse safe accommodation. The assessment we require will span across the continuum of domestic abuse, capturing need at prevention, support and crisis stages.
This will include mapping the current domestic abuse pathways, across Criminal Justice services, Children Services, Health, Housing/Homelessness, Education, Adult Social Care etc. (this is a non-exhaustive list), to support Birmingham’s whole systems approach to supporting survivors of domestic abuse. The mapping will include commissioned and non-commissioned domestic abuse services, the exempt accommodation sector across the city and the associated pathways across this provision.
The contract for the services will commence on 7th December 2026 and will be in place for a period of 6 months.
CPV: Evaluation consultancy services · Health and social work services · Other community, social and personal services · Research and development consultancy services · Research and development services and related consultancy services · Research consultancy services · Research services · Social research services · Social work and related services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · value publishedLot #1Published valueAED 90,000
- Value
- AED 90,000 exc. VAT · AED 108,000 inc. VAT
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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).
Lot awarding rule: The award criteria carries a total weighting of 100%, this is split between the following sections: The overall weighting for the quality criteria is 70%. The overall weighting for the price criteria is 30% . For full details please refer to the procurement documents.
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- Turnover usually expected at this size: about AED 180,000 (twice the annual value).
Turnover is an indicative market norm (≈2× annual value), not a published condition.
Competition analysis · published record, not a forecast of who will bid
How Birmingham City Council buys Market research services (CPV 7931) — and who usually turns up
Birmingham City Council’s own published record, next to the West Midlands market for the same work. Frameworks and DPS are kept out: they attract a different number of bids. Whole-market view: Market research services (CPV 7931) →
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A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners are registered outside West Midlands.
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Half of these awards were announced within 56 days of the bid deadline.
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1 bid50% / 5%
2–333% / 23%
4–60% / 32%
7+17% / 41%
How did awards compare with estimates?
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Where winning prices landed against estimates.
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Past prices are a guide, not a bid price.
Below estimate53% / 41%
Within ±2%47% / 55%
Above estimate0% / 5%
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Lot #1CPV 7931Published estimate£90,000
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1 bid5%
2–323%
4–632%
7+41%
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No comparable awards for this lot yet.
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Past contracts are matched by buyer, title and type of 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.
| Supplier | This buyer’s earlier contract | Lot | Award value | Match |
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| Theam Security LimitedWorked for this buyer | Provision of Security Measures for Victims of Domestic Abusenotice published Nov 2021 | — | — | 77% match |
| HOUSING LIN LTDWorked for this buyer | PQ0685 - Supported Housing Needs Assessment and Local Supported Housing Strategyruns to Apr 2027 | — | £156k | 74% match |
| Shift Insight LtdWorked for this buyer | Air Quality Ethnography to Support Birmingham’s Air Quality Health Needs Assessmentnotice published Jul 2026 | — | — | 72% match |
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None is confirmed as a bidder.
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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.
| Supplier | Won in this category | Live contracts | Award vs estimate |
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BMG Research LimitedLarge | £2.8m15 awards in 36m · last this month | 7 live · £823k iPublic contracts this supplier still holds. Its awards whose published end date is still in the future, with their values. Many contracts publish no end date, so this is a floor, not the whole book. Unexpired says nothing about spare capacity. | 10% below n=5 |
| £3.8m10 awards in 36m · last 1 months ago | 2 live · £947k iPublic contracts this supplier still holds. Its awards whose published end date is still in the future, with their values. Many contracts publish no end date, so this is a floor, not the whole book. Unexpired says nothing about spare capacity. | 3% below n=5 | |
| £857k13 awards in 36m · last 1 months ago | 3 live · £373k iPublic contracts this supplier still holds. Its awards whose published end date is still in the future, with their values. Many contracts publish no end date, so this is a floor, not the whole book. Unexpired says nothing about spare capacity. | 16% below n=4 | |
| £290k5 awards in 36m · last 1 months ago | 1 live · £38k iPublic contracts this supplier still holds. Its awards whose published end date is still in the future, with their values. Many contracts publish no end date, so this is a floor, not the whole book. Unexpired says nothing about spare capacity. | 5% below n=2 | |
| £179k6 awards in 36m · last 2 months ago | 4 live · £152k iPublic contracts this supplier still holds. Its awards whose published end date is still in the future, with their values. Many contracts publish no end date, so this is a floor, not the whole book. Unexpired says nothing about spare capacity. | 4% below n=2 |
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- Coverage (re-measured 5 Oct on the live record, 94,497 awarded procedures of the last three years). 51 % publish a bid count and 72 % a delivery region, so the market column reads the authority’s registered region when the notice names none, labelled. Of the 17,687 award-vs-estimate pairs, 34 % sit exactly on the estimate — the buyer published the award at the figure it advertised. n is on every figure; a thin sample is muted, never hidden, and a distribution is not drawn as percentages below ten observations.
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Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Procedure method
- Below threshold - open competition
- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Open for tender
- Procurement threshold
- Below threshold
- 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
- 7 Oct 2026, 23:53 BST
- Last source update
- 7 Oct 2026, 23:53 BST
- Authority reference
PQ0695- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-094979- Latest notice
- Tender notice (UK4)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-078341Find a Tender
How to participate & submission route
Official notice Submit via In-tend- Requests to participate (first stage)
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- Tender submission deadline
- 2 Nov 2026, 12:00 GMT
- Clarification deadline
- 23 Oct 2026, 12:00 BST
- Submission channel
- Official e-sourcing portal
- Electronic submission
- Allowed
Timeline
4 published dates · Europe/London- Tender notice published1 day ago7 Oct 2026, 23:53 BST
- Clarification questions byin 14 days23 Oct 2026, 12:00 BST
- Submission deadlinein 25 days2 Nov 2026, 12:00 GMT
- Contract startsin 59 days7 Dec 2026
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Nothing awarded yet- Awards (0)
- No award published
- Contracts (0)
- No contract published
- Bid statistics
- No aggregate bid statistics published
Notice history
2 events · 1 release on Find a Tender · since 7 Oct 2026- Tender notice published7 Oct 2026, 23:53 BSTUK4
- First tender notice published7 Oct 2026, 23:53 BST
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Official documents & specifications (1)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Tender notice Tender notice on Find a Tender