Find a TenderPlanned procurementPreliminary market engagement notice
Published 10 Apr 2026, 14:40 BST

Official UK procurement notice

E-Tendering Platform · UK public procurement notice

Authority: LEEDS TRINITY UNIVERSITY (Education)

GoodsBelow threshold
Planned pipeline valueValue not publishedpipeline notice, not a live tender
Tender notice expected Date not publishedfrom the planned procurement notice
Contract term 1 yrends 31 May 2027 · starts 1 Jun 2026

What is being bought

Published requirement description

Leeds Trinity University (LTU) is seeking information from suppliers who are able to provide an e-Tendering platform. Information will be used to benchmark cost effectiveness and value for money of the current solution and therefore suppliers should be aware that there provision of information is for data gathering purposes only, and tendering/contract activity may not result from this notice.

The solution should be able to (as a minimum):

  • Provide a means of setting up tender events, selecting from a range of criteria to make each tender specific to the category/type of procurement
  • Allocate an individual reference number to each tender
  • Store tender documents against each event
  • Allow for suppliers to access the tender and view documents, via a link or an access code
  • Allow suppliers to respond to tenders, including the ability to upload any supplementary documents
  • Restrict review of tender responses until closing date/time has passed.
  • Provision of messaging functionality, with the ability for LTU to message all or select individual/group targeted messaging
  • Audit activity within the system

Suppliers should provide:

  • A brief proposal which outlines how their solution would meet the requirement above
  • Indicative pricing outlining any licensing restrictions
  • Where there is optional functionality this should be priced separately so it is clear what is included in the core offering and what is optional.

Please provide the information requested to [email protected] by no later than 5PM on Thursday 07 May 2026.

CPV: Procurement software package

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published
Lot #1Planned 1 yr

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

How LEEDS TRINITY UNIVERSITY buys Procurement software package (CPV 4849), and who usually turns up

LEEDS TRINITY UNIVERSITY’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: Procurement software package (CPV 4849) →

1

How the contest usually goes

Winner shares use published awards; bid and price charts use contested lots.

Question for the bid
This buyerLEEDS TRINITY UNIVERSITY · division 48
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: 2 of 6 known-size awards · market: CPV 4849 · UK-wide, n=5
33%40%

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 the winner is registered in the region where that contract was delivered.

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

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 0 of 5 known-location awards · market: CPV 4849 · UK-wide, n=5
0%40%

Most of this buyer’s recorded winners are registered outside Yorkshire and the Humber.

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: no decision dates published · market: division 48 · Yorkshire and the Humber, n=27
—60 days

Half of these awards were announced within 60 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 3 of 8 procurements with awards had no recorded rival · market: CPV 4849 · UK-wide, n=9
38%33%

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 buyer6 lots with bid counts · all categories
0% had one bid
The market33 lots with bid counts · division 48 · Yorkshire and the Humber
9% had one bid
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
1 bid0% / 9%
Buyer: 0 of 6 lots with published bid counts. Market: 3 of 33 lots with published bid counts.
2–333% / 27%
Buyer: 2 of 6 lots with published bid counts. Market: 9 of 33 lots with published bid counts.
4–617% / 36%
Buyer: 1 of 6 lots with published bid counts. Market: 12 of 33 lots with published bid counts.
7+50% / 27%
Buyer: 3 of 6 lots with published bid counts. Market: 9 of 33 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 buyer3 lots with estimate and award · all categories · too few to chart
The market15 lots with estimate and award · division 48 · Yorkshire and the Humber
67% below estimate
Market · select a colour for counts
Below estimate67%
Market: 10 of 15 lots with an estimate and award.
Within ±2%13%
Market: 2 of 15 lots with an estimate and award.
Above estimate20%
Market: 3 of 15 lots with an estimate and award.
2

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.

Open a lot for its forecast, this buyer’s previous supplier and possible competitors, from published award history, not a bid list

Lot #1CPV 484912 monthsEstimate 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 33 past lots.

A forecast, not a list of bidders.

—No model forecast yet9% single-bid risk
Past bids on 33 similar lots
1 bid9%
3 of 33 similar past lots received 1 bid (9%).
2–327%
9 of 33 similar past lots received 2–3 (27%).
4–636%
12 of 33 similar past lots received 4–6 (36%).
7+27%
9 of 33 similar past lots received 7+ (27%).
Comparable past lots usually drew 4 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
Legal basis
UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
Procurement category
Goods
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
10 Apr 2026, 14:40 BST
Last source update
10 Apr 2026, 14:40 BST
FTS notice number
2026/S 000-032882
Latest notice
Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
Classification (CPV)
Procurement software package
Delivery area
Yorkshire & Humber (UKE42)
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-068022 Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice
Submission deadline
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Timeline

10 Apr 2026 → 1 Jun 2026 · 3 dates
  1. Planning notice published193 days ago
    10 Apr 2026, 14:40 BST
  2. Market engagement166 days ago
    7 May 2026, 23:59 BST

    Information is being sought to form an opinion as to whether current arrangements offer good value for money. There is no guarantee that a tender will result from this PME.

  3. Contract starts142 days ago
    1 Jun 2026, 00:00 BST

Notice history

1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender
  1. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    10 Apr 2026, 14:40 BST
    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

LEEDS TRINITY UNIVERSITY

Contracting authorityPublic authority - sub-central government GB-CHC: 1120102 · GB-COH: 06305220 · GB-PPON: PGBV-8529-RCMZ Brownberrie Lane, Leeds, Yorkshire & Humber, LS18 5HDContact name, email

Official documents & specifications (1)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure