Find a TenderPlanned procurementPreliminary market engagement notice
Published 3 Jul 2026, 12:01 BST

Official UK procurement notice

Equipment, Wheelchairs and Adaptation Systems

Authority: Wakefield Council (Local council)

ServicesAbove thresholdVCSE suitable
Planned pipeline value£500,000pipeline notice, not a live tender
Tender notice expected 1 Oct 2026from the planned procurement notice
Contract term 4 yrsends 31 Dec 2030 · up to 31 Dec 2033 with extensions · starts 1 Jan 2027

What is being bought

Published requirement description

Wakefield Council is seeking to procure a modern, cloud-based Referral and Service Management Solution to support the delivery of its integrated Equipment Service. The solution will provide a single, end-to-end platform to manage the complete equipment lifecycle, from referral and assessment through to ordering, delivery, maintenance, collection, decontamination, recycling and asset disposal. The system will support operational teams responsible for the provision of community equipment to adults and children across the Wakefield district, enabling efficient, safe and auditable service delivery. Key functional requirements include service user and referral management, equipment asset and inventory management, order processing, logistics and route optimisation, delivery and collection scheduling, maintenance and servicing management, mobile working, barcode and/or RFID scanning, reporting and analytics, workflow configuration, and comprehensive audit capabilities. The solution must also support integration with existing and future systems through standard interfaces and provide secure, role-based access for Council staff, NHS partners and other authorised users. The Council is seeking a highly configurable, scalable solution that reduces administrative effort, improves operational efficiency, enhances visibility of equipment assets throughout their lifecycle, and supports high-quality, person-centred service delivery. The solution should enable real-time operational management, robust performance reporting, and compliance with relevant information governance, security and statutory requirements. This pre-market engagement is intended to inform the Council's procurement strategy and final specification by seeking supplier feedback on market capability, implementation approaches, innovation and commercial models.

CPV: Business transaction and personal business software package · Document management software package · Maintenance of information technology software · Medical software package · Software implementation services · Software package and information systems · Software supply services

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published

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

How Wakefield Council buys Software-related services (CPV 7226), and who usually turns up

Wakefield Council’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: Software-related services (CPV 7226) →

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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 buyerWakefield Council · division 72
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: 1 of 2 known-size awards · market: CPV 7226 · Yorkshire and the Humber, n=92
1 of 240%

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 registered in Yorkshire and the Humber.

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

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 1 of 6 known-location awards · market: CPV 7226 · Yorkshire and the Humber, n=116
17%14%

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: 5 decided notices · market: CPV 7226 · UK-wide, n=43
105 days54 days

Half of these awards were announced within 105 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.

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.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 6 procurements with awards; rival share unknown · market: CPV 7226 · Yorkshire and the Humber, n=142
—80%

Awards are recorded, but published direct routes and bid counts do not establish this buyer’s share.

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 buyer10 lots with bid counts · all categories
10% had one bid
The market7 lots with bid counts · CPV 7226 · Yorkshire and the Humber
29% had one bid
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
1 bid10% / 29%
Buyer: 1 of 10 lots with published bid counts. Market: 2 of 7 lots with published bid counts.
2–360% / 14%
Buyer: 6 of 10 lots with published bid counts. Market: 1 of 7 lots with published bid counts.
4–610% / 29%
Buyer: 1 of 10 lots with published bid counts. Market: 2 of 7 lots with published bid counts.
7+20% / 29%
Buyer: 2 of 10 lots with published bid counts. Market: 2 of 7 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 buyer7 lots with estimate and award · all categories
57% below estimate
The market44 lots with estimate and award · CPV 7226 · UK-wide
57% below estimate
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
Below estimate57% / 57%
Buyer: 4 of 7 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 25 of 44 lots with an estimate and award.
Within ±2%29% / 25%
Buyer: 2 of 7 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 11 of 44 lots with an estimate and award.
Above estimate14% / 18%
Buyer: 1 of 7 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 8 of 44 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 722648 monthsPublished estimate£500k
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 71 past lots.

A forecast, not a list of bidders.

—No model forecast yet11% chance of a single bid
Past bids on 71 similar lots
1 bid11%
8 of 71 similar past lots received 1 bid (11%).
2–330%
21 of 71 similar past lots received 2–3 (30%).
4–627%
19 of 71 similar past lots received 4–6 (27%).
7+32%
23 of 71 similar past lots received 7+ (32%).
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.

—No model forecast yet
No comparable awards on record for this lot’s category yet. The published estimate is £500k, 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
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
3 Jul 2026, 12:01 BST
Last source update
3 Jul 2026, 12:01 BST
Authority reference
RFS22-033
FTS notice number
2026/S 000-062728
Latest notice
Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
Classification (CPV)
Business transaction and personal business software packageDocument management software packageMaintenance of information technology softwareMedical software packageSoftware implementation servicesSoftware package and information systemsSoftware supply services
Delivery area
Yorkshire & Humber (UKE45)
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06c34a Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice
Submission deadline
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Timeline

3 Jul 2026 → 1 Jan 2027 · 4 dates
  1. Planning notice published111 days ago
    3 Jul 2026, 12:01 BST
  2. Market engagement98 days ago
    15 Jul 2026, 23:59 BST

    The purpose of this pre-market engagement is to inform the development of the Council's procurement strategy, specification and tender documentation. No supplier selection or evaluation will take place as part of this exercise. Suppliers interested in participating are invited to submit an Expression of Interest via the procurement portal. Following the Expression of Interest stage, the Council intends to invite those suppliers that have expressed a genuine interest in the opportunity to participate in further engagement activities. This approach is intended to ensure that the engagement process remains proportionate and manageable, enabling the Council to undertake meaningful discussions with suppliers that are actively interested in the opportunity, rather than engaging with the wider market irrespective of interest. Further engagement may include one or more of the following:

    • Review and comment on the draft specification and proposed requirements.
    • Completion of a structured questionnaire.
    • Supplier presentations or demonstrations.
    • Individual or group engagement sessions to discuss solution capability, implementation approaches, commercial models and market innovation.
    • Requests for clarification or additional information where appropriate. The Council reserves the right to determine the format, scope and timing of any subsequent engagement activities. Participation in this pre-market engagement does not form part of any procurement process, does not confer any advantage in any future procurement, and does not commit the Council to commence or proceed with a procurement.
  3. Tender notice expected20 days ago
    1 Oct 2026, 23:59 BST
  4. Today
    22 Oct 2026
  5. Contract startsin 71 days
    1 Jan 2027

Notice history

1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender
  1. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    3 Jul 2026, 12:01 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

Wakefield Council

Contracting authorityPublic authority - sub-central government GB-PPON: PDZN-8179-PJQV Wakefield One, Burton street, Wakefield, Yorkshire & Humber, WF1 2EBContact name, email, phone

Official documents & specifications (1)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure