Official UK procurement notice
HCC June 2026 - Pre Market Engagement (PME) Digital Mental Health Support for Young People
Authority: Hertfordshire County Council (Local council)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionAs part of the evaluation of existing digital, online and virtual mental health services for children and young people in Hertfordshire, Hertfordshire Children and Young People's Mental Health System (CYPMHS) is running this premarket engagement session to understand the current marketplace. Providers are invited along to share their knowledge and expertise, including information about upcoming initiatives and developments in order to devise an indicative tender specification which will enable future provisions of this type.
CPV: Social work and related services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1The purpose of the Council's Preliminary Market Engagement (PME) process is to allow…Planned
The purpose of the Council's Preliminary Market Engagement (PME) process is to allow and enable, potentially interested organisations with appropriate expertise and relevant experience to:
o Outline and generate initial ideas around the outcomes, scope of the brief (i.e. with no commitment to themselves or the Council).
o Engage with the Council to understand its challenges, intentions and desired Outcomes.
o Provide informal input to help shape the Council's technical requirements.
o Inform the Council of current market developments.
o Enable the Council to understand how the Current Requirements could be shaped and delivered.
o Explain potential options/technologies/functionalities/solutions available to the Council.
This stage of the project allows the Council to understand the strengths and weaknesses of the options, technologies, methodologies and solutions available to deliver its outcomes. Furthermore, this process enables organisations to effectively plan for any potential forthcoming procurement.
The Council will consider the input and responses received as part of this PME to help inform the Council's further decision making. Additional information: o Seeking expressions of interest and the option for organisations to attend an online group meeting to hear the Council's briefing/presentation. Organisations who feel that they may be able to deliver the outcomes outlined in Section 4 and any other organisations who would like to attend the group meeting please send your request to attend to [email protected] by 12 noon on 16th July 2026. Please note that attendance requests for the online event (which should be no more than two (2) representatives from each organisation) will last no longer than two (2) hours.
o The PME online event will take place via Microsoft Teams from 10am to 11.30am on 21st July 2026.
o If you are unable to attend the PME online event on the 21st July and have submitted responses to the questionnaire, the Council will be able to provide you with any summary or recording taken within 48 hours of the event taking place. Please make your request for a summary of the event by 12 noon on 21st July 2026 to [email protected].
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Pipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How Hertfordshire County Council buys Social work and related services (CPV 8530), and who usually turns up
Hertfordshire County 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: Social work and related services (CPV 8530) →
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 East of England.
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 67 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 bid11% / 10%
2–319% / 41%
4–611% / 34%
7+59% / 14%
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 estimate21% / 30%
Within ±2%79% / 70%
Above estimate0% / 0%
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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 #1The purpose of the Council's Preliminary Market Engagement (PME) process is to allow…CPV 8530Published estimate£434k
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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 29 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid10%
2–341%
4–634%
7+14%
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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
- CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
- 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
- Yes (GPA)
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 22 Jun 2026, 13:43 BST
- Last source update
- 22 Jun 2026, 13:43 BST
- Authority reference
PME26- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-058531- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06ba27Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
22 Jun 2026 → 1 Dec 2026 · 2 dates- Notice published125 days ago22 Jun 2026, 13:43 BST
- Today25 Oct 2026
- Tender notice expectedin 36 days1 Dec 2026
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
Official links; attachments are not copiedNo document links were published on the notice.