Find a TenderPlanned procurementPreliminary market engagement notice
Published 13 Jan 2026, 15:24 GMT

Official UK procurement notice

Health Related Behaviour Survey (HRBS) 2026 - Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Schools (Yr 8 & Yr 10)

Authority: Cambridgeshire County Council (Local council)·Consortium: 2 public authorities

ServicesBelow thresholdSME suitable
Planned pipeline value£8,333pipeline notice, not a live tender
Tender notice expected 1 Feb 2026from the planned procurement notice
Contract term 2 moends 30 Apr 2026 · starts 1 Mar 2026

What is being bought

Published requirement description

The Health-Related Behaviour Survey (HRBS) is a well-established tool used by local authorities to gather anonymous, self-reported data from pupils on a wide range of health-related behaviours, attitudes, and experiences.

CCC intends to commission a one-off HRBS for Year 8 and Year 10 pupils in participating Cambridgeshire and Peterborough secondary schools (including those not in mainstream education where feasible) during the 2025/26 academic year.

The survey will cover domains such as:

Healthy eating and physical activity

*Emotional wellbeing and resilience (including WEMWBS)

*Sleep and screen time

*Smoking, vaping, alcohol and drug use

*Relationships and sexual health

*Bullying, harassment, and online safety

*School experience and pupil voice

The provider will be expected to:

*Supply secure, age-appropriate survey instruments (online and/or paper).

*Ensure anonymity and GDPR compliance, including privacy notices and DPIA.

*Provide school-level reports and a countywide report, with analysis by year group, gender, SEN/EHCP, deprivation proxies, and locality/place.

*Offer optional trend analysis against previous HRBS waves and thematic deep dives (e.g., vaping, sexual harassment).

The provider would be expected to work with the Cambridgeshire PSHE Service who will lead on local administration and school engagement, and its results with local schools education settings.

CPV: Survey services

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published
Lot #1Planned 2 moSME
Contract period: 1 Mar 2026 – 30 Apr 2026 (2 mo)
Delivery: East of EnglandEligibility: SME eligible

Who is likely to bid for this lot ↓

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

How Cambridgeshire County Council buys Market research services (CPV 7931), and who usually turns up

Cambridgeshire 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: Market research services (CPV 7931) →

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How the contest usually goes

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

Question for the bid
This buyerCambridgeshire County Council · all categories
The marketMarket research services (CPV 7931) · East of England
What to do with it
How often do SMEs win?
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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.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 319 of 345 known-size awards · market: CPV 7931 · East of England, n=25
92%68%

Small firms have won here. Neither number says whether you qualify; it describes who has been winning.

How often do local suppliers win?
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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.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 199 of 381 known-location awards · market: CPV 7931 · East of England, n=39
52%10%

Most of this buyer’s recorded winners were registered in the region where that award was delivered.

How long to a decision?
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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.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 25 decided notices · market: CPV 7931 · East of England, n=14
42 days26 days

Half of these awards have an award date within 42 days of the bid deadline.

How often single-bid or direct?
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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.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: at least 54 of 125 procurements with awards had no recorded rival · market: CPV 7931 · East of England, n=44
43%41%

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Past bids do not predict this tender.

Last 36 months.

This buyer57 lots with bid counts · all categories
9% had one bid
The market21 lots with bid counts · CPV 7931 · East of England
10% had one bid
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
1 bid9% / 10%
Buyer: 5 of 57 lots with published bid counts. Market: 2 of 21 lots with published bid counts.
2–332% / 24%
Buyer: 18 of 57 lots with published bid counts. Market: 5 of 21 lots with published bid counts.
4–639% / 29%
Buyer: 22 of 57 lots with published bid counts. Market: 6 of 21 lots with published bid counts.
7+21% / 38%
Buyer: 12 of 57 lots with published bid counts. Market: 8 of 21 lots with published bid counts.

How did awards compare with estimates?

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Past prices are a guide, not a bid price.

Last 36 months.

This buyer51 lots with estimate and award · all categories
47% below estimate
The market18 lots with estimate and award · CPV 7931 · East of England
44% below estimate
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
Below estimate47% / 44%
Buyer: 24 of 51 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 8 of 18 lots with an estimate and award.
Within ±2%39% / 44%
Buyer: 20 of 51 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 8 of 18 lots with an estimate and award.
Above estimate14% / 11%
Buyer: 7 of 51 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 2 of 18 lots with an estimate and award.
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Lot #1CPV 79312 monthsSME suitablePublished estimate£8k
Expected competition
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A forecast, not a list of bidders.

—No model forecast yet10% chance of a single bid
Past bids on 21 similar lots
1 bid10%
2 of 21 similar past lots received 1 bid (10%).
2–324%
5 of 21 similar past lots received 2–3 (24%).
4–629%
6 of 21 similar past lots received 4–6 (29%).
7+38%
8 of 21 similar past lots received 7+ (38%).
Comparable past lots usually drew 4 bids.
Commercial price forecast
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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.

—No model forecast yet
No comparable awards on record for this lot’s category yet. The published estimate is £8k, and the forecast stays empty until the market has a record to read.

Who has supplied this buyer on similar work?
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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?
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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
13 Jan 2026, 15:24 GMT
Last source update
13 Jan 2026, 15:24 GMT
FTS notice number
2026/S 000-002760
Latest notice
Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
Classification (CPV)
Survey services
Delivery area
East of England (UKH11)
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-0604e1 Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice
Submission deadline
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Timeline

13 Jan 2026 → 1 Mar 2026 · 4 dates
  1. Planning notice published283 days ago
    13 Jan 2026, 15:24 GMT
  2. Market engagement268 days ago
    27 Jan 2026, 23:59 GMT

    The market engagement documentation can be found on ProContract via the following link: procontract.due-north.com/Advert ↗

    All interested parties are invited to review and complete the relevant documentation prior to the engagement deadline.

  3. Tender notice expected263 days ago
    1 Feb 2026, 23:59 GMT
  4. Contract starts236 days ago
    1 Mar 2026

Notice history

1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender
  1. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    13 Jan 2026, 15:24 GMT
    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

2 public bodies on the notice

Cambridgeshire County Council

Contracting authorityPublic authority - sub-central government GB-PPON: PJVB-3262-VGVJ New Shire Hall Emery Crescent Enterprise Campus,, Alconbury Weald, Huntingdon, East of England, PE28 4YEContact email

Consortium members and other public bodies

  • Peterborough City CouncilContracting authorityPublic authority - sub-central governmentGB-PPON: PLXM-3229-WVQH Peterborough, East of EnglandContact email

Official documents & specifications (1)

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