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Educational Visits Advisory Service

BuyerSalford City Council

Statusplanning

DeadlineNot published

Value£37,000

Published25 Mar 2026

What is being bought

The educational visits advisory service is offered to provides schools with clear service information, transparent charging arrangements, understandable terms and conditions and contact details.

Delivery location

UKD3, GB

Lot details

Lot 1

No lot description published.

Statusplanning

Contract periodFrom 30 Apr 2026 to 30 Apr 2027

SME suitabilitySuitable for SMEs

What is included

Item	Category	Quantity
1	Education and training services	Not published

Comparable-procurement analytics

Benchmarked against retained Find a Tender procedures with CPV division 80. The category anchor is Education and training services (80000000); this is a deliberately broad market comparator. The comparison is shown at several levels rather than pretending one company or region is always the best benchmark.

Comparison set	Procedures	Reported bids per procedure	Named award suppliers	Price evidence
Market: CPV division 80	2,007	3 median · 48.6 average (537 of 2,007 with a bid count)	4 average (575 of 2,007 with named award suppliers)	1 comparable price pairs
Same buyer	1	Not published	Not published	Not published
Delivery region: UKD3	18	1 median · 6 average (3 of 18 with a bid count)	2.7 average (3 of 18 with named award suppliers)	Not published
Similar published value (0.5×–2×)	139	Not published	Not published	Not published

“Reported bids” is an official aggregate, sometimes reported per lot; it is the closest available competition measure. “Named award suppliers” are winners, not all applicants.

Price-outcome signal

Not enough comparable procedures currently publish both a GBP tender value and a usable lowest-valid-bid value to calculate a responsible price-reduction benchmark. Tenderline deliberately does not infer a saving from named award suppliers or from missing award values.

Procurement strategy & market signals

Framework agreementNot published

Dynamic purchasing systemNot published

Competitive procurementNot published

Recurring requirementNot published

Procurement method rationaleNot published

Rationale classificationsNot published

Special regimelightTouch

Covered byNot published

Submission policyNot published

Selection criteriaNot published

Risk detailsNot published

Planning & early market engagement

BudgetValue not published

No-engagement rationaleNot published

Planning documents1

Planning milestones1

Milestone	Type	Due	Status
Microsoft word questionnaire to be completed via the chest	engagement	15 Apr 2026	scheduled

Related procurements

No linked framework, prior procurement or reprocurement published.

Documents & submission route

Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender planning · marketEngagementNotice

Source data inventory

Diagnostic view. “Not published” means this current release does not provide a value.

OCID	ocds-h6vhtk-0673de
Latest release ID	027335-2026
Latest release timestamp	Wed Mar 25 2026 13:28:44 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Source	find-a-tender
Official notice URL	Not published
Tender status	planning
Procurement method	Not published
Procurement method details	Not published
Main procurement category	services
Above threshold	No
Legal basis	2023/54
Tender period: start	Not published
Tender period: end	Not published
Expression of interest deadline	Not published
Enquiry deadline	Not published
Award period: start	Not published
Award period: end	Not published
Submission method details	Not published
Submission languages	Not published
Electronic catalogue policy	Not published
Total tender value	Not published
Tender lots in source	1
Tender items in source	1
Tender documents in source	0
Awards in latest release	0
Contracts in latest release	0
Parties in latest release	1

Notice history

Date	Event	Reference
25 Mar 2026	planningUpdate	027335-2026
25 Mar 2026	planning	027331-2026

All source data

Unmodified official OCDS data retained by Tenderline for this procurement process.

Complete current OCDS release JSON

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Complete JSON history (2 releases)

25 Mar 2026 · 027335-2026 · planningUpdate

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25 Mar 2026 · 027331-2026 · planning

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