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Published 17 Apr 2026, 15:33 BST

Official UK procurement notice

Holiday Activities and Food (HAF) Programme - Market Event

Official notice Competition analysis

Authority: Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council (Local council)

ServicesLight touch regimeSME suitableVCSE suitable
Sectors: Health & Social Care (85) Delivery: Delivery location not published
Planned pipeline valueValue not publishedpipeline notice, not a live tender
Tender notice expected 1 Jun 2026from the planned procurement notice
Contract term 1 yrends 31 Mar 2028 · up to 31 Mar 2029 with extensions · starts 1 Apr 2027

What is being bought

Published requirement description

Dudley MBC Council would like to invite you to attend our upcoming Market Engagement Event to discuss the future delivery of Holiday Activities and Food (HAF) Programme.

The holiday activities and food (HAF) programme provides healthy meals, enriching activities, and free childcare places to children from low-income families, benefiting their health, wellbeing and learning.

This session will give providers an opportunity to:

  • Hear about the planned approach and timeline for the upcoming procurement exercise
  • Understand key service priorities and anticipated outcomes
  • Ask questions and share feedback to help shape the commissioning model

Date: 27th April 2026

Time: 10am-11am

Venue: Virtual Teams Link

CPV: Health and social work services

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published
Lot #1PlannedRenewal 1 yrSMEVCSE
Contract period: 1 Apr 2027 – 31 Mar 2028 (1 yr) · up to 31 Mar 2029 with extensions
Eligibility: SME eligibleVCSE eligible
Extensions: Extension options published
85000000 Health and social work services

Who is likely to bid for this lot ↓

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

How Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council buys Health and social work services (CPV 85), and who usually turns up

Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council’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: Health and social work services (CPV 85) →

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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 buyerDudley Metropolitan Borough Council · division 85
The marketHealth and social work services (CPV 85) · West Midlands (authority’s region)
What 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: 5 of 9 known-size awards · market: division 85 · West Midlands (authority’s region), n=1,071
56%48%

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.

Here, local means registered in West Midlands (authority’s region).

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

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 11 of 14 known-location awards · market: division 85 · West Midlands (authority’s region), n=1,509
79%60%

Most of this buyer’s recorded winners are registered in West Midlands.

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: 11 decided notices · market: division 85 · West Midlands (authority’s region), n=167
53 days49 days

Half of these awards were announced within 53 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.

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 3 of 11 procurements with awards had no recorded rival · market: division 85 · West Midlands (authority’s region), n=1,092
27%61%

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?

i

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.

Last 36 months.

This buyer17 lots with bid counts · all categories
18% had one bid
The market343 lots with bid counts · division 85 · West Midlands (authority’s region)
22% had one bid
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
1 bid18% / 22%
Buyer: 3 of 17 lots with published bid counts. Market: 75 of 343 lots with published bid counts.
2–347% / 31%
Buyer: 8 of 17 lots with published bid counts. Market: 105 of 343 lots with published bid counts.
4–618% / 22%
Buyer: 3 of 17 lots with published bid counts. Market: 74 of 343 lots with published bid counts.
7+18% / 26%
Buyer: 3 of 17 lots with published bid counts. Market: 89 of 343 lots with published bid counts.

How did awards compare with estimates?

i

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.

Last 36 months.

This buyer11 lots with estimate and award · all categories
64% below estimate
The market181 lots with estimate and award · division 85 · West Midlands (authority’s region)
33% below estimate
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
Below estimate64% / 33%
Buyer: 7 of 11 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 60 of 181 lots with an estimate and award.
Within ±2%27% / 60%
Buyer: 3 of 11 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 109 of 181 lots with an estimate and award.
Above estimate9% / 7%
Buyer: 1 of 11 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 12 of 181 lots with an estimate and award.
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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.

Open a lot for its forecast, this buyer’s previous supplier and possible competitors, from published award history, not a bid list

Lot #112 monthsSME suitableEstimate not published
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 343 past lots.

A forecast, not a list of bidders.

—No model forecast yet22% chance of a single bid
Past bids on 343 similar lots
1 bid22%
75 of 343 similar past lots received 1 bid (22%).
2–331%
105 of 343 similar past lots received 2–3 (31%).
4–622%
74 of 343 similar past lots received 4–6 (22%).
7+26%
89 of 343 similar past lots received 7+ (26%).
Comparable past lots usually drew 3 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.

—Estimate not published
The buyer published no estimate for this lot, so there is nothing to forecast against. A price prediction here would be a number about a number we do not have.

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
Light touch regime
Commercial structure
Stand-alone contract (no framework)
Competition type
Competitive procedure
GPA / WTO covered
Unspecified in notice
Recurring procurement
Unspecified in notice
First published
17 Apr 2026, 15:33 BST
Last source update
17 Apr 2026, 15:33 BST
FTS notice number
2026/S 000-035318
Latest notice
Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
Classification (CPV)
Health and social work services
Delivery area
Not published
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-068593 Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice
Submission deadline
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Timeline

17 Apr 2026 → 1 Apr 2027 · 4 dates
  1. Planning notice published188 days ago
    17 Apr 2026, 15:33 BST
  2. Market engagement177 days ago
    28 Apr 2026, 23:59 BST

    The holiday activities and food (HAF) programme provides healthy meals, enriching activities, and free childcare places to children from low-income families, benefiting their health, wellbeing and learning.

    This session will give providers an opportunity to:

    • Hear about the planned approach and timeline for the upcoming procurement exercise
    • Understand key service priorities and anticipated outcomes
    • Ask questions and share feedback to help shape the commissioning model

    Date: 27th April 2026

    Time: 10am-11am

    Venue: Virtual Teams Link

    Please confirm your attendance by emailing Michael Botham on

    [email protected] by 5pm on the 23 April 2026.

  3. Tender notice expected143 days ago
    1 Jun 2026, 23:59 BST
  4. Today
    22 Oct 2026
  5. Contract startsin 160 days
    1 Apr 2027, 00:00 BST

Notice history

1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender
  1. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    17 Apr 2026, 15:33 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

Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council

Contracting authorityPublic authority - sub-central government GB-PPON: PWYJ-3537-GLBW Council House, Priory Road, Dudley, West Midlands, DY1 1HFContact email

Official documents & specifications (1)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure