Official UK procurement notice
Dynamic Market (DM) for the provision of goods and services to drive economical, social and governance impact and improvement
Authority: THE WHITE HORSE FEDERATION (Public body)·On behalf of: VALUE MATCH SERVICES LTD
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThe White Horse Federation (TWHF) are seeking to establish a Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS) for the provision of commonly used goods and services from a wide range of suppliers to drive social impact and improvement.
TWHF is a schools Trust based in Swindon, made up of 30 schools and continues to grow. They are a family of schools connected and working together to inspire the lives of children with greater opportunity and choice. Their mission is 'Inspiring every child to flourish through an inclusive, all through education that nurtures opportunity, equity, and agency for life.'
When applying to the DM, Suppliers are required to indicate which categories they are applying for, in order to be invited to the relevant competitions. Customers will use the categories to shortlist appointed Suppliers and invite them to further competition
The Service Category will be selected from a list of categories of common goods and services against the Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV) codes.
Geographical location will be selected from NUTS codes, these include a list of UK regions where the service is required.
The additional capabilities are a list of filters that will be specific to the further competition and comprise of Security Clearance, Value Threshold, and data security.
CPV: Agricultural, forestry, horticultural, aquacultural and apicultural services · Business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing and security · Clothing, footwear, luggage articles and accessories · Education and training services · Financial and insurance services · Food, beverages, tobacco and related products · Furniture (incl. office furniture), furnishings, domestic appliances (excl. lighting) and cleaning products · Hotel, restaurant and retail trade services · IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support · Installation services (except software) · Mining, basic metals and related products · Musical instruments, sport goods, games, toys, handicraft, art materials and accessories · +10 more
How this dynamic market works
From the published notice- Type
- Dynamic market · pending
- Market period
- 1 Apr 2026 – 31 Mar 2036
- Supplier levy on call-offs (max %)
- 0.90% of call-off value
Who may buy through it
DM is available to be utilised by any public sector organisation
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1
What it takes to wini
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).
Evaluation split and conditions of participation as published; the tender pack may add morei
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).
- “Dynamic Market (DM) for the provision of goods and services to drive…” is a dynamic market: the contest is a place on its panel, not a single contract.
Competition analysis · published record, not a forecast of who will bid
Competition for Mining, basic metals and related products (CPV 14), and who usually turns up
THE WHITE HORSE FEDERATION has too little published record in this market to describe on its own. Published market evidence for the same work stands beside whatever it has. This notice is a framework or DPS, so only frameworks and DPS are compared. Whole-market view: Mining, basic metals and related products (CPV 14) →
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.
The counts under this question show how many awards have a known supplier size.
No small-firm winners recorded among this authority’s published awards in this sample.
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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.
Here, local means the winner is registered in the region where that contract was delivered.
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
No winner locations published for this authority. Local means a registered address in South West England.
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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.
No decision dates published to compare.
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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.
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.
1 bid29%
2–326%
4–624%
7+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.
On a framework or DPS, prices are agreed when work is called off.
Past prices are a guide, not a bid price.
Not comparable on a framework or DPS. The notice sets up a supplier panel and a ceiling value; what the work actually costs is agreed later, on each call-off or mini-competition, and those publish as contract notices of their own. The award-vs-estimate record of this market therefore sits on the call-offs; this page shows it on the contracts, not on the panel that frames them.
Assess each lot i
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 #1Estimate not published
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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.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid35%
2–317%
4–630%
7+18%
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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.
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.
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| £2.5m8 awards in 36m · last 2 months ago | 4 live · £120m 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. | no comparable pairs | |
Donald Ward LtdLarge | £4.2m7 awards in 36m · last 5 months ago | 1 live · £3.1m 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. | no comparable pairs |
| £781k1 awards in 36m · last 11 months ago | 1 live · £781k 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. | 15% above n=1 | |
Daler-Rowney LimitedLarge | 5 awards in 36m · last 19 months ago | 7 live · £23m 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. | no comparable pairs |
| 4 awards in 36m · last 19 months ago | 7 live · £15m 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. | no comparable pairs |
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 match score 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
- Dynamic market
- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Open admission
- Procurement threshold
- Unspecified in notice
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Dynamic market
- Who may use the vehicle
- DM is available to be utilised by any public sector organisation
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 24 Mar 2026, 09:09 GMT
- Last source update
- 24 Mar 2026, 09:09 GMT
- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-026586- Latest notice
- Dynamic market intention notice (UK13)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-067234Find a Tender
How to participate & submission route
Official notice Apply via portal- Requests to participate (first stage)
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- Admission period ends
- 31 Mar 2036, 23:59 BST
- Clarification deadline
- —
- Submission channel
- Official e-sourcing portal
- Electronic submission
- Allowed
- Supplier levy on call-offs (max %)
- call-off levy · 0.90% of call-off value
Further details will be provided in Establishment notice but DM will be published via Cimple cimple.uk ↗
Timeline
24 Mar 2026 → 31 Mar 2036 · 2 dates- Tender notice published210 days ago24 Mar 2026, 09:09 GMT
- Today20 Oct 2026
- Admission / appointment period endsperiod end, not a bid countdown31 Mar 2036, 23:59 BST
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Dynamic market intention notice published24 Mar 2026, 09:09 GMTUK13
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Nothing awarded yet- 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 noticeOther public bodies
- VALUE MATCH SERVICES LTDProcess contact pointProcuring entitydelivering procurement support on behalf of The White Horse Federation
Official documents & specifications (1)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Dynamic market intention notice Dynamic market intention notice on Find a Tender