Official UK procurement notice
Domestic Abuse Support Services for Adults, Children and Young People
Authority: Hartlepool Borough Council (Local council)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionHartlepool Borough Council are seeking submissions from organisations with the necessary skills and experience to provide specialist domestic abuse support services. We are looking for organisations who can provide innovative and contemporary specialist domestic abuse services, which uses integrated approaches to deliver outcome focussed, safe and cost-effective support. The commission will support the council in its compliance with updated duties as cited in the Domestic Abuse Act 2021 including new duties in relation to safe accommodation. The provider will also need to evidence a developed relationship with a registered housing provider to provide safe move on accommodation and appropriate support. Hartlepool Borough Council will contract with one lead agency for the delivery of the services, but partnership bids are also welcome.
CPV: Health and social work services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1PlannedRenewal
Pipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How Hartlepool Borough Council buys Health and social work services (CPV 85), and who usually turns up
Hartlepool Borough Council’s published record next to the market for the same work. Frameworks and DPS are left out: they draw different bid counts. Whole-market view: Health and social work services (CPV 85) →
How the contest usually goes
Winner shares use published awards; bid and price charts use contested lots.
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How often small and medium firms win.
Share of awards where the winner’s size is known.
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Small firms have won here. Neither number says whether you qualify; it describes who has been winning.
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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.
Local means the winner is registered in the region where that award was delivered. The market figure counts awards delivered in North East England.
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners were registered in the region where that award was delivered. More of this buyer’s work stays local than in this market: 76% against 40%, n=25.
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How long buyers here take to decide after bids close.
Middle value in days from the bid deadline to the award date, on competitions that published both.
Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.
Half of these awards have an award date within 39 days of the bid deadline.
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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.
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?
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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.
1 bid40% / 24%
2–320% / 36%
4–620% / 20%
7+20% / 21%
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.
Below estimate36%
Within ±2%58%
Above estimate6%
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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.
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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 85Estimate not published
This lot lists more than one class in CPV 85. The comparison uses that group.
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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 174 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid24%
2–336%
4–620%
7+21%
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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.
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.
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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 | Why listed |
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| HARBOUR SUPPORT SERVICESEarlier contract | Domestic Abuse Support Services for Adults, Children and Young Peoplenotice published Sept 2022 | Domestic Abuse Children's Therapeutic Serivces | £870k | Matched as the earlier contract |
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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.
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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.
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Who has done similar work for this buyer.
Past contracts are matched by buyer, title and type of work.
100% title match.
A past supplier may not bid again.
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Who has done similar work for this buyer.
Past contracts are matched by buyer, title and type of work.
100% title match.
A past supplier may not bid again.
The prior contract this notice most likely re-tenders · matched by title and category (100% title match), the holder is not guaranteed to re-bid
Domestic Abuse Support Services for Adults, Children and Young People — held by HARBOUR SUPPORT SERVICES and HARBOUR SUPPORT SERVICES; no contract end date published.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Procedure method
- Open procedure
- 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
- 26 Oct 2026, 12:13 GMT
- Last source update
- 26 Oct 2026, 16:12 GMT
- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-101195- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-079003Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
26 Oct 2026 → 1 Oct 2027 · 4 dates- Planning notice published18h ago26 Oct 2026, 12:13 GMT
- Today27 Oct 2026
- Market engagementin 45 days11 Dec 2026, 23:59 GMT
30th November 2026
An in-person market engagement event will be held at:
CETL, Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETL, Brierton Ln, Hartlepool TS25 4AF
The Council will present the proposed service requirements, objectives and anticipated procurement approach. Suppliers will have the opportunity to ask questions and provide feedback on the proposed commissioning model.
2nd December 2026
Presentation materials and supporting information will be published via the e-tendering portal. A market engagement questionnaire will be issued, and the clarification period will open.
2nd December to 11th December 2026
The questionnaire will be available to all event attendees and any other interested suppliers who register an interest through the e-tendering portal. Suppliers may submit clarification questions during this period. Responses will be issued through the portal to ensure all suppliers receive the same information and are treated equally.
11th December 2026 (12:00 noon)
The market engagement questionnaire and clarification period will close.
12th December to 16th December 2026
The Council will review questionnaire responses and analyse market feedback. Findings will be considered when developing the procurement strategy, service specification, evaluation methodology, contract requirements and any proposed lotting structure.
Approximately 18th December 2026
The Council will publish, via the e-tendering portal:
An anonymised Market Engagement Report;
A Questions and Answers Log;
A summary of key findings; and
Details of how feedback received has informed the proposed procurement approach.
If you would like to register your interest in the market engagement event, please contact: [email protected]
- Tender notice expectedin 83 days18 Jan 2027, 23:59 GMT
- Contract startsin 338 days1 Oct 2027
Notice history
3 events · 3 releases on Find a Tender · since 26 Oct 2026- Pipeline notice published26 Oct 2026, 12:13 GMTUK1
- Pipeline notice published26 Oct 2026, 13:30 GMTUK1
- Preliminary market engagement notice published26 Oct 2026, 16:12 GMTUK2
Published amendments (1)
Title amended to better reflect the nature and scope of the services being procured.
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
Official documents & specifications (3)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender
- Pipeline notice Pipeline notice on Find a Tender
- Pipeline notice Pipeline notice on Find a Tender