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Published 23 May 2025, 17:47 BST

Official UK procurement notice

Evaluation Services Framework · UK public procurement notice

Authority: West Yorkshire Combined Authority (Local council)

ServicesAbove threshold
Sectors: Business Services & Consultancy (79) Delivery: Delivery location not published
Planned pipeline value£7,800,000pipeline notice, not a live tender
Tender notice expected 29 Jun 2027from the planned procurement notice
Contract term 4 yrsends 27 Oct 2031 · starts 28 Oct 2027

What is being bought

Published requirement description

Evaluation Services Framework renewal

CPV: Business and management consultancy and related services

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published
Lot #1Planned 4 yrs

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

How West Yorkshire Combined Authority buys Business and management consultancy and related services (CPV 7940), and who usually turns up

West Yorkshire Combined Authority’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: Business and management consultancy and related services (CPV 7940) →

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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 buyerWest Yorkshire Combined Authority · division 79
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: 3 of 3 known-size awards · market: CPV 7940 · Yorkshire and the Humber (authority’s region), n=18
3 of 372%

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 (authority’s region).

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

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 3 of 6 known-location awards · market: CPV 7940 · Yorkshire and the Humber (authority’s region), n=25
50%16%

Most of this buyer’s recorded winners are registered in 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: 17 decided notices · market: CPV 7940 · UK-wide, n=28
44 days32 days

Half of these awards were announced within 44 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: 8 procurements with awards; rival share unknown · market: CPV 7940 · Yorkshire and the Humber (authority’s region), n=25
—36%

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

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 buyer42 lots with bid counts · all categories
29% had one bid
The market7 lots with bid counts · CPV 7940 · Yorkshire and the Humber (authority’s region)
29% had one bid
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
1 bid29% / 29%
Buyer: 12 of 42 lots with published bid counts. Market: 2 of 7 lots with published bid counts.
2–319% / 14%
Buyer: 8 of 42 lots with published bid counts. Market: 1 of 7 lots with published bid counts.
4–624% / 43%
Buyer: 10 of 42 lots with published bid counts. Market: 3 of 7 lots with published bid counts.
7+29% / 14%
Buyer: 12 of 42 lots with published bid counts. Market: 1 of 7 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 buyer24 lots with estimate and award · all categories
46% below estimate
The market8 lots with estimate and award · CPV 7940 · Yorkshire and the Humber (authority’s region)
25% below estimate
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
Below estimate46% / 25%
Buyer: 11 of 24 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 2 of 8 lots with an estimate and award.
Within ±2%50% / 75%
Buyer: 12 of 24 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 6 of 8 lots with an estimate and award.
Above estimate4% / 0%
Buyer: 1 of 24 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 0 of 8 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 794048 monthsPublished estimate£7.8m
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 121 past lots.

A forecast, not a list of bidders.

—No model forecast yet17% single-bid risk
Past bids on 121 similar lots
1 bid17%
20 of 121 similar past lots received 1 bid (17%).
2–323%
28 of 121 similar past lots received 2–3 (23%).
4–621%
26 of 121 similar past lots received 4–6 (21%).
7+39%
47 of 121 similar past lots received 7+ (39%).
Comparable past lots usually drew 5 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 £7.8m, 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.

SupplierThis buyer’s earlier contractLotAward valueWhy listed
Steer Davies & Gleave LtdEarlier contractWYCA: Evaluation Services Frameworknotice published Nov 2024Evaluation Consultancy Services—Matched as the earlier contract
Jacobs UK LtdEarlier contractWYCA: Evaluation Services Frameworknotice published Nov 2024Evaluation Consultancy Services—Matched as the earlier contract
Wavehill LtdEarlier contractWYCA: Evaluation Services Frameworknotice published Nov 2024Evaluation Consultancy Services—Matched as the earlier contract
OVE ARUP & PARTNERS LIMITEDEarlier contractWYCA: Evaluation Services Frameworknotice published Nov 2024Evaluation Consultancy Services—Matched as the earlier contract
SQW LimitedEarlier contractWYCA: Evaluation Services Frameworknotice published Nov 2024Evaluation Consultancy Services—Matched as the earlier contract

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.

What this replaces
i

Who has done similar work for this buyer.

Past contracts are matched by buyer, title and type of work.

86% title match.

A past supplier may not bid again.

The prior contract this notice most likely re-tenders · matched by title and category (86% title match), the holder is not guaranteed to re-bid

WYCA: Evaluation Services Framework, winner not published; no contract end date published.

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
23 May 2025, 17:47 BST
Last source update
23 May 2025, 17:47 BST
FTS notice number
2025/S 000-027114
Latest notice
Pipeline notice (UK1)
Classification (CPV)
Business and management consultancy and related services
Delivery area
Not published
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-052508 Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice
Submission deadline
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Timeline

23 May 2025 → 28 Oct 2027 · 3 dates
  1. Planning notice published
    23 May 2025, 17:47 BST
  2. Today
    21 Oct 2026
  3. Tender notice expectedin 250 days
    29 Jun 2027, 00:59 BST
  4. Contract startsin 371 days
    28 Oct 2027

Notice history

1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender
  1. Pipeline notice published
    23 May 2025, 17:47 BST
    UK1

Commercial outcome & contract awards

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Awards (0)
No award published
Contracts (0)
No contract published
Bid statistics
No aggregate bid statistics published

Contracting authority & participating public bodies

West Yorkshire Combined Authority

Contracting authorityPublic authority - sub-central government GB-PPON: PHYG-7328-ZLQJ Wellington House, 40-50 Wellington Street, Leeds, Yorkshire & Humber, LS1 2DEContact email

Official documents & specifications (1)

Official links; attachments are not copied

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