Find a TenderPlanned procurementPreliminary market engagement notice
Published 27 May 2026, 13:07 BST

Official UK procurement notice

Facilitating of Medical Evidence

Authority: The Police and Crime Commissioner for Humberside (Police & fire)

Services
Planned pipeline value£369,000pipeline notice, not a live tender
Tender notice expected Date not publishedfrom the planned procurement notice
Contract term 2 yrsends 31 May 2029 · up to 31 May 2031 with extensions · starts 1 Jun 2027

What is being bought

Published requirement description

Humberside Police are currently reviewing one of our services within the Criminal Justice Unit for providing medical evidence to us. . At present we utilise a company called SFR Medical, who are a single point of contact for our officers, they facilitate the transfer of medical reports relating to injuries sustained by a victim, which are undertaken by healthcare professionals, through a portal. The purpose of this Market Engagement is to understand if there are other providers out there, who could provide a service capable of our requirements. Please note this preliminary market engagement is not an invitation to tender or a request for formal expression of interest. We are issuing the preliminary market engagement to assess what options are available to Humberside Police.

CPV: Administrative healthcare services · Data management services

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published
Lot #1PlannedRenewal 2 yrs
Contract period: 1 Jun 2027 – 31 May 2029 (2 yrs) · up to 31 May 2031 with extensions
Extensions: Extension options published

Who is likely to bid for this lot ↓

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

How The Police and Crime Commissioner for Humberside buys Database services (CPV 7232), and who usually turns up

The Police and Crime Commissioner for Humberside’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: Database services (CPV 7232) →

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How the contest usually goes

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

Question for the bidWhat 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: 6 of 24 known-size awards · market: no supplier sizes published
25%—

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.

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

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 4 of 18 known-location awards · market: no winner locations published
22%—

Most of this buyer’s recorded winners are registered outside the delivery region.

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: 3 decided notices · market: no decision dates published
82 days—

Half of these awards were announced within 82 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 buyer’s 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: at least 35 of 41 procurements with awards had no recorded rival · market: no bid counts or routes published
85%—

Direct awards or one recorded bid are common here. Check the route before spending time on a bid.

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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 723224 monthsPublished estimate£369k
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 24 past lots.

A forecast, not a list of bidders.

—No model forecast yet8% single-bid risk
Past bids on 24 similar lots
1 bid8%
2 of 24 similar past lots received 1 bid (8%).
2–333%
8 of 24 similar past lots received 2–3 (33%).
4–638%
9 of 24 similar past lots received 4–6 (38%).
7+21%
5 of 24 similar past lots received 7+ (21%).
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 £369k, 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
Unspecified in notice
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
27 May 2026, 13:07 BST
Last source update
27 May 2026, 13:07 BST
Authority reference
3161-2026
FTS notice number
2026/S 000-049631
Latest notice
Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
Classification (CPV)
Administrative healthcare servicesData management services
Delivery area
North East (UKC)North West (UKD)Yorkshire & Humber (UKE)East Midlands (UKF)West Midlands (UKG)East of England (UKH)London (UKI)South East (UKJ)
+1 moreSouth West (UKK)
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06a61d Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice
Submission deadline
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Timeline

27 May 2026 → 1 Jun 2027 · 3 dates
  1. Planning notice published146 days ago
    27 May 2026, 13:07 BST
  2. Market engagement119 days ago
    23 Jun 2026, 23:59 BST

    Pre-market engagement questionnaire to be published to explore options available for this service to Humberside Police

    This preliminary market engagement will help us to refine our requirements.

    We will not be responsible for, or pay, any costs or losses or expenses which you or others incur during the preparation of your preliminary market engagement response.

    We expect that all responses of this market engagement will be provided by potential suppliers in good faith to the best of their ability in the light of information available at the time of their response.

    No information provided by a potential supplier in response to this preliminary market engagement will be carried forward, used or acknowledged in any way for the purpose of evaluating the supplier in any subsequent formal procurement process.

    We would also like to take this opportunity to encourage you to register on the Humberside Police e-procurement portal. If you are interested in tendering for this opportunity once live, you will only be able to access the opportunity here sell2.in-tend.co.uk/blpd/home ↗. Details on how to register are on the portal.

    forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx ↗

  3. Today
    21 Oct 2026
  4. Contract startsin 223 days
    1 Jun 2027, 00:00 BST

Notice history

1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender
  1. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    27 May 2026, 13:07 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

The Police and Crime Commissioner for Humberside

Contracting authorityPublic authority - sub-central government GB-PPON: PWLD-8931-TXBR The Lawns, Harland Way, Cottingham, Yorkshire & Humber, HU16 5SNContact email

Official documents & specifications (1)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure