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Published 27 Mar 2026, 15:25 GMT

Official UK procurement notice

Donor Advised Fund · UK public procurement notice

Authority: London Borough of Camden (Local council)

ServicesBelow threshold - open competitionBelow threshold
Planned pipeline value£50,000pipeline notice, not a live tender
Tender notice expected 1 Jul 2026from the planned procurement notice
Contract term 2 yrsends 31 Aug 2028 · starts 1 Sept 2026

What is being bought

Published requirement description

The Donor Advised Fund must be a UK-registered charity with a proven ability to raise and manage funds in support of the charitable sector and a wide range of charitable causes. It should be capable of establishing dedicated funding pots, enabling the Council to raise and allocate funds for specific initiatives and priority areas.

The organisation must be able to accept donations from a variety of sources, including individuals, corporate entities, and trusts and foundations, and should have the appropriate systems in place to claim Gift Aid on all eligible contributions.

The Donor Advised Fund must provide comprehensive administrative support, ensuring full compliance with all relevant legal, regulatory, and governance requirements, including those set by the Charity Commission. This includes oversight of fundraising activities, financial management, and reporting obligations.

The organisation should assign a dedicated account manager to work with the Council, offering ongoing relationship management to ensure the effective delivery of fundraising objectives.

This may be a closed tender to invited suppliers who have expressed an interest in the contract. The estimated contract value will be below £100,000 (aggregated over the proposed term), should the Council tender for this service.

Please contact Richard Le Donne ([email protected]) and Steven Blantz ([email protected]) by Monday, 13th April, to express your interest, should the Council tender for this contract requirement.

CPV: Trust and custody services

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · value published
Lot #1Planned 2 yrsPublished value£50,000
Contract period: 1 Sept 2026 – 31 Aug 2028 (2 yrs)Value: £50,000 exc. VAT · £55,000 inc. VAT
Delivery: UK

Who is likely to bid for this lot ↓

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

How London Borough of Camden buys Trust and custody services (CPV 6616), and who usually turns up

London Borough of Camden’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: Trust and custody services (CPV 6616) →

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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 buyerLondon Borough of Camden · all categories
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: 32 of 99 known-size awards · market: division 66 · UK-wide, n=1,430
32%11%

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.

Local means the winner is registered in the region where that award was delivered.

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

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 71 of 105 known-location awards · market: division 66 · UK-wide, n=1,062
68%40%

Most of this buyer’s recorded winners were registered in the region where that award was delivered.

How long to a decision?
i

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.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 16 decided notices · market: division 66 · UK-wide, n=180
93 days49 days

Half of these awards have an award date within 93 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 66 of 138 procurements with awards had no recorded rival · market: division 66 · UK-wide, n=1,300
48%46%

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.

Last 36 months.

This buyer36 lots with bid counts · all categories
19% had one bid
The market903 lots with bid counts · division 66 · UK-wide
26% had one bid
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
1 bid19% / 26%
Buyer: 7 of 36 lots with published bid counts. Market: 236 of 903 lots with published bid counts.
2–331% / 44%
Buyer: 11 of 36 lots with published bid counts. Market: 395 of 903 lots with published bid counts.
4–636% / 27%
Buyer: 13 of 36 lots with published bid counts. Market: 243 of 903 lots with published bid counts.
7+14% / 3%
Buyer: 5 of 36 lots with published bid counts. Market: 29 of 903 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 buyer30 lots with estimate and award · all categories
43% below estimate
The market366 lots with estimate and award · division 66 · UK-wide
40% below estimate
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
Below estimate43% / 40%
Buyer: 13 of 30 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 147 of 366 lots with an estimate and award.
Within ±2%37% / 40%
Buyer: 11 of 30 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 147 of 366 lots with an estimate and award.
Above estimate20% / 20%
Buyer: 6 of 30 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 72 of 366 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 #1CPV 661624 monthsPublished estimate£50k
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 903 past lots.

A forecast, not a list of bidders.

—No model forecast yet26% chance of a single bid
Past bids on 903 similar lots
1 bid26%
236 of 903 similar past lots received 1 bid (26%).
2–344%
395 of 903 similar past lots received 2–3 (44%).
4–627%
243 of 903 similar past lots received 4–6 (27%).
7+3%
29 of 903 similar past lots received 7+ (3%).
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.

—No model forecast yet
No comparable awards on record for this lot’s category yet. The published estimate is £50k, and the forecast stays empty until the market has a record to read.

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
Below threshold - open competition
Legal basis
UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
Procurement category
Services
Notice status
Planned procurement
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
27 Mar 2026, 15:25 GMT
Last source update
27 Mar 2026, 15:42 GMT
FTS notice number
2026/S 000-028670
Latest notice
Planned procurement notice (UK3)
Classification (CPV)
Trust and custody services
Delivery area
UK
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-0676d9 Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice
Submission deadline
28 Jul 2026, 23:59 BST
Electronic submission
Allowed

Timeline

27 Mar 2026 → 1 Sept 2026 · 4 dates
  1. Planning notice published211 days ago
    27 Mar 2026, 15:25 GMT
  2. Tender notice expected114 days ago
    1 Jul 2026, 23:59 BST
  3. Submission deadline87 days ago
    28 Jul 2026, 23:59 BST
  4. Contract starts53 days ago
    1 Sept 2026, 00:00 BST

Notice history

3 events · 2 releases on Find a Tender · since 27 Mar 2026
  1. Planned procurement notice published
    27 Mar 2026, 15:25 GMT
    UK3
  2. Planned procurement notice published
    27 Mar 2026, 15:42 GMT
    UK3
  3. Deadline moved to 28 Jul 2026, 23:59 BST
    27 Mar 2026, 15:42 GMT
    +0 days · was 28 Jul 2026, 23:59 BST

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

London Borough of Camden

Contracting authorityPublic authority - sub-central government GB-PPON: PZXL-5842-VBBG Town Hall, Judd Street, London, London, WC1H 9JEContact email

Official documents & specifications (2)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure