Official UK procurement notice
Future Catering and Canteen Provision at Gwent Police Headquarters
Authority: Police and Crime Commissioner for Gwent (Police & fire)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionGwent Police is undertaking a Preliminary Market Engagement exercise to inform the future provision of catering and canteen services at Gwent Police Headquarters, Cwmbran.
Prior to commencing any formal procurement process, Gwent Police wishes to engage with the market to gain an understanding of the options available for the operation, management and development of the existing canteen facilities. This engagement will help shape any future procurement strategy and service requirements.
Scope of Engagement
Gwent Police is seeking input from suppliers with experience in the provision of catering, café, restaurant, hospitality and workplace food service operations.
Suppliers are invited to review the existing facilities and provide feedback on:
- Potential operating models.
- Service delivery options.
- Opportunities for improving utilisation of the facility.
- Commercial viability considerations.
- Innovation and best practice within the sector.
- Potential investment requirements.
- Sustainability and social value opportunities.
Site Visits
Interested suppliers are invited to attend an individual site visit at Gwent Police Headquarters.
To ensure commercial confidentiality and to accommodate operational requirements, site visits will be arranged on an individual basis. Suppliers will not attend site visits jointly and no group engagement sessions will be held.
Suppliers wishing to participate should register their interest during the engagement period by contacting:
Anna Rogala
Senior Procurement Specialist
Email: [email protected]
and
Rachel McLaren as well as Jamie Jones
Estates Department
Email: [email protected] / [email protected]
Following registration, a mutually convenient date and time for the site visit will be arranged.
Suppliers should provide:
- Organisation name.
- Contact name and details.
- Names of proposed attendees.
- Any specific areas of interest they wish to discuss during the visit.
Important Information
This notice is issued solely for the purpose of preliminary market engagement and information gathering.
Participation in this exercise:
- Does not constitute a formal procurement process.
- Does not commit Gwent Police to undertake any future procurement.
- Will not provide any supplier with an advantage in any future tender process.
- Will not result in the award of any contract.
Should Gwent Police decide to proceed with a procurement exercise, this will be advertised separately in accordance with the applicable procurement regulations.
Engagement Period: 12/08/2026 to - 10/09/2026 to be agreed
Gwent Police welcomes responses from all interested suppliers and looks forward to engaging with the market.
CPV: Canteen and catering services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedPipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How Police and Crime Commissioner for Gwent buys Canteen and catering services (CPV 5550), and who usually turns up
Police and Crime Commissioner for Gwent’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: Canteen and catering services (CPV 5550) →
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.
Here, local means the winner is registered in the region where that contract was delivered.
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners are registered outside Wales (Cymru).
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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.
Half of these awards were announced within 31 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.
Missing bid counts may hide more single-bid awards. This share is a minimum.
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 bid22%
2–359%
4–619%
7+0%
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 estimate46%
Within ±2%46%
Above estimate8%
Assess each lot i
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 5550Estimate not published
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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 18 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid6%
2–367%
4–628%
7+0%
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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- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Planned procurement
- Procurement threshold
- Below threshold
- 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
- 12 Aug 2026, 11:06 BST
- Last source update
- 28 Aug 2026, 08:44 BST
- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-082016- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06e247Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
12 Aug 2026 → 1 Jan 2027 · 4 dates- Planning notice published71 days ago12 Aug 2026, 11:06 BST
- Latest notice published55 days ago28 Aug 2026, 08:44 BST
- Market engagement42 days ago10 Sept 2026, 23:59 BST
Interested suppliers are invited to attend an individual site visit at Gwent Police Headquarters.
To ensure commercial confidentiality and to accommodate operational requirements, site visits will be arranged on an individual basis. Suppliers will not attend site visits jointly and no group engagement sessions will be held.
Suppliers wishing to participate should register their interest during the engagement period by contacting:
Anna Rogala
Senior Procurement Specialist
Email: [email protected]
and
Rachel McLaren as well as Jamie Jones
Estates Department
Email: [email protected] / [email protected]
Following registration, a mutually convenient date and time for the site visit will be arranged.
Suppliers should provide:
- Organisation name.
- Contact name and details.
- Names of proposed attendees.
- Any specific areas of interest they wish to discuss during the visit.
Engagement Period: 12/08/2026 to 10/09/2026 - to be agreed
- Today22 Oct 2026
- Contract startsin 70 days1 Jan 2027
Notice history
2 events · 2 releases on Find a Tender · since 12 Aug 2026- Preliminary market engagement notice published12 Aug 2026, 11:06 BSTUK2
- Preliminary market engagement notice published28 Aug 2026, 08:44 BSTUK2
Published amendments (1)
Due to the significant level of market interest in this opportunity, the response deadline has been extended to 10th of September 2026 to provide all interested suppliers with additional time to participate. No other amendments have been made to this notice.
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
Official documents & specifications (2)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender