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BuyerColeg y Cymoedd
StatusClosed
Deadline14 Jul 2026
Value£200,000
Published18 May 2026

What is being bought

An invitation to tender for the provision of external audit services to Coleg y Cymoedd, for a period of three years with the option to extend.

Delivery location

UKL, GB

Categories

Business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing and security 79000000

Lot details

Lot 1

No lot description published.

Statusactive
Value£200,000
Contract periodFrom 1 Jan 2028 to 31 Dec 2030
SME suitabilitySuitable for SMEs

Award criteria
Quality — Technical/Quality criteria (60%)
Price — Price (30%)
Social Value — Social value (10%)

What is included

ItemCategoryQuantity
1Business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing and securityNot published

Comparable-procurement analytics

Benchmarked against retained Find a Tender procedures with CPV division 79. The category anchor is Business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing and security (79000000); 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 setProceduresReported bids per procedureNamed award suppliersPrice evidence
Market: CPV division 794,0663 median · 33.9 average (1,066 of 4,066 with a bid count)2.8 average (1,199 of 4,066 with named award suppliers)Not published
Same buyer0Not publishedNot publishedNot published
Delivery region: UKL1133 median · 5.5 average (31 of 113 with a bid count)2.1 average (33 of 113 with named award suppliers)Not published
Similar published value (0.5×–2×)5293.5 median · 7 average (22 of 529 with a bid count)1 average (22 of 529 with named award suppliers)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 regimeNot published
Covered byNot published
Submission policyallowed
Selection criteriaNot published
Risk detailsNot published

Planning & early market engagement

BudgetNot published
No-engagement rationaleNot published
Planning documents0
Planning milestones0

No planning milestones published.

Related procurements

No linked framework, prior procurement or reprocurement published.

Documents & submission route

Source data inventory

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

OCIDocds-h6vhtk-069b63
Latest release ID045542-2026
Latest release timestampMon May 18 2026 17:01:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Sourcefind-a-tender
Official notice URLhttps://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/045542-2026
Tender statusactive
Procurement methodopen
Procurement method detailsBelow threshold - open competition
Main procurement categoryservices
Above thresholdNo
Legal basis2023/54
Tender period: startNot published
Tender period: end2026-07-14T17:00:00+01:00
Expression of interest deadlineNot published
Enquiry deadline2026-06-29T17:00:00+01:00
Award period: startNot published
Award period: endNot published
Submission method detailscycprocurement@cymoedd.ac.uk https://www.sell2wales.gov.wales/
Submission languagesNot published
Electronic catalogue policyNot published
Total tender value£200,000
Tender lots in source1
Tender items in source1
Tender documents in source3
Awards in latest release0
Contracts in latest release0
Parties in latest release1

Notice history

DateEventReference
18 May 2026tender045542-2026

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 (1 releases)
18 May 2026 · 045542-2026 · tender
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