Official UK procurement notice
Fenestration, Window and Door Installation Training
Authority: Sheffield City Council (Local council)·Consortium: 2 public authorities
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionOpportunity Sheffield are looking to purchase a Fenestration Training Programme for out of work participants of pathways to work. The training will enable participants of the training course to find and secure full-time sustainable employment within the construction and building materials sector and should be suitable for unemployed and economically inactive residents of Sheffield.
CPV: Education and training services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedPipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How Sheffield City Council buys Education and training services (CPV 80), and who usually turns up
Sheffield City Council’s published record next to the market for the same work. Frameworks and DPS are left out: they draw different bid counts. Whole-market view: Education and training services (CPV 80) →
How the contest usually goes
Winner shares use published awards; bid and price charts use contested lots.
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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.
Small firms have won here. Neither number says whether you qualify; it describes who has been winning.
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How often local firms win similar work.
Winners with a registered address in the delivery region, out of awards with a known address.
Local means the winner is registered in the region where that award was delivered. The market figure counts awards delivered in Yorkshire and the Humber.
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners were registered in the region where that award was delivered.
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How long buyers here take to decide after bids close.
Middle value in days from the bid deadline to the award date, on competitions that published both.
Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.
Half of these awards have an award date within 39 days of the bid deadline.
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How often work is awarded with no recorded rival.
Direct awards and tenders where every published lot count shows one bid.
Both shares are minimums: some awards have no bid count.
Thin markets produce this too; it is not proof of a tailored specification.
Direct awards or one recorded bid are common here. Check the route before spending time on a bid.
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.
1 bid28% / 21%
2–335% / 30%
4–612% / 25%
7+25% / 25%
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.
Below estimate38% / 35%
Within ±2%56% / 47%
Above estimate7% / 18%
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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.
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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 80Published estimate£250k
This lot lists more than one class in CPV 80. The comparison uses that group.
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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 73 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid21%
2–330%
4–625%
7+25%
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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.
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.
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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.
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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- Procedure method
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Legal basis
- CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Direct award proposed
- Procurement threshold
- Below threshold
- Regulatory regime
- Light touch regime
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Direct award (no call for competition)
- GPA / WTO covered
- Yes (GPA)
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 18 Mar 2026, 18:13 GMT
- Last source update
- 12 May 2026, 08:33 BST
- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-043264- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-066e33Find a Tender
- Why no open competition
- The procurement falls outside the scope of application of the directive
- Published justification
The contract was awarded in accordance with Section 33 of the Procurement Act 2023 as a below‑threshold service contract falling within the light touch regime for education and training services. There is no requirement to publish a prior notice on the Find a Tender Service, and the Council applied a proportionate procurement approach. The award supports a targeted, programme‑led Skills and Training scheme delivered under Sheffield’s Pathways to Work model.
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
18 Mar 2026 → 12 May 2026 · 5 dates- Planning notice published222 days ago18 Mar 2026, 18:13 GMT
- Tender notice expected179 days ago30 Apr 2026, 23:59 BST
- Market engagement179 days ago30 Apr 2026, 23:59 BST
- opportunity to tell us about courses/training in the market by using our online form available on the Council's e-tendering portal YORTender, where providers can also ask us questions too using the messaging feature: yortender.eu-supply.com/ctm/Supplier/PublicP… ↗
- potential follow-up discussions with respondents.
- gauge the level of interest from potential providers who may wish to enter a contract to deliver services on behalf of the Council.
- gauge the scope of what is already available in or near to Sheffield, and whether something new may need to be developed to address commissioning and programme ambitions.
- targeted conversations with any key stakeholders, including potential providers, to ensure we have collected a wide range of views.
- Contract starts179 days ago1 May 2026, 00:00 BST
- Latest notice published168 days ago12 May 2026, 08:33 BST
Notice history
4 events · 2 releases on Find a Tender · since 18 Mar 2026- Preliminary market engagement notice published18 Mar 2026, 18:13 GMTUK2
- Status changed to complete12 May 2026, 08:33 BST
- Procurement method changed12 May 2026, 08:33 BST
- Buyer details updated12 May 2026, 08:33 BST
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast| Awarded to | Value | Date | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Building Our Skills Academy LimitedSME | — | — | Awarded |
Contracts
Fenestration, Window and Door Installation Training · Building Our Skills Academy LimitedSME
- Signed
- 31 Mar 2026
- Value
- —
- Period
- … – 31 Mar 2027
- Status
- active
Bid statistics published by the authority
| Bids | SME | VCSE | Valid bid range |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1bids | — | — | £1 – £9,000 |
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
2 public bodies on the noticeBidders & participating suppliers
1 commercial party on the notice- Building Our Skills Academy LimitedAwarded supplier
Official documents & specifications (1)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender