Find a TenderPlanned procurementPipeline notice
Published 20 May 2025, 10:26 BST

Official UK procurement notice

Housing Related Support Services

Authority: Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Council (Local council)

ServicesLight touch regime
Planned pipeline value£44,000,000pipeline notice, not a live tender
Tender notice expected 1 Nov 2026from the planned procurement notice
Contract term 5 yrsends 30 Jun 2032 · starts 1 Jul 2027

What is being bought

Published requirement description

Housing Related Support Services (Housing & Communities)

CPV: Health and social work services · Other community, social and personal services

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published

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

How Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Council buys Health and social work services (CPV 85), and who usually turns up

Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole 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: 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
The marketHealth and social work services (CPV 85) · South West England
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: 10 of 78 known-size awards · market: division 85 · South West England, n=886
13%45%

Small firms have won here. Neither number says whether you qualify; it describes who has been winning. Small firms win less of this buyer’s work than the market’s: 13% against 45%, n=78.

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.

Local means the winner is registered in the region where that award was delivered. The market figure counts awards delivered in South West England.

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

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 89 of 120 known-location awards · market: division 85 · South West England, n=1,354
74%49%

Most of this buyer’s recorded winners were registered in the region where that award was delivered. More of this buyer’s work stays local than in this market: 74% against 49%, n=120.

How long to a decision?
i

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: no decision dates published · market: division 85 · South West England, n=121
—49 days

Half of these awards have an award date within 49 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 51 of 68 procurements with awards had no recorded rival · market: division 85 · South West England, n=1,032
75%74%

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 buyer5 lots with bid counts · broad CPV 85
20% had one bid
The market240 lots with bid counts · division 85 · South West England
22% had one bid
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
1 bid20% / 22%
Buyer: 1 of 5 lots with published bid counts. Market: 52 of 240 lots with published bid counts.
2–340% / 38%
Buyer: 2 of 5 lots with published bid counts. Market: 90 of 240 lots with published bid counts.
4–60% / 23%
Buyer: 0 of 5 lots with published bid counts. Market: 54 of 240 lots with published bid counts.
7+40% / 18%
Buyer: 2 of 5 lots with published bid counts. Market: 44 of 240 lots with published bid counts.

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.

Last 36 months.

This buyer11 lots with estimate and award · broad CPV 85
0% below estimate
The market173 lots with estimate and award · division 85 · South West England
32% below estimate
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
Below estimate0% / 32%
Buyer: 0 of 11 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 56 of 173 lots with an estimate and award.
Within ±2%100% / 66%
Buyer: 11 of 11 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 114 of 173 lots with an estimate and award.
Above estimate0% / 2%
Buyer: 0 of 11 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 3 of 173 lots with an estimate and award.
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Assess each lot
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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 8560 monthsPublished estimate£44m

This lot lists more than one class in CPV 85. The comparison uses that group.

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 240 past lots.

A forecast, not a list of bidders.

—No model forecast yet22% chance of a single bid
Past bids on 240 similar lots
1 bid22%
52 of 240 similar past lots received 1 bid (22%).
2–338%
90 of 240 similar past lots received 2–3 (38%).
4–623%
54 of 240 similar past lots received 4–6 (23%).
7+18%
44 of 240 similar past lots received 7+ (18%).
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.

—No model forecast yet
No comparable awards on record for this lot’s category yet. The published estimate is £44m, and the forecast stays empty until the market has a record to read.

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.

SupplierThis buyer’s earlier contractLotAward valueWhy listed
Bournemouth Churches Housing AssociationEarlier contractProvision of Housing Related Support for People with Mental Ill Healthnotice published Dec 2022—£652kMatched as the earlier contract

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
20 May 2025, 10:26 BST
Last source update
20 May 2025, 10:26 BST
FTS notice number
2025/S 000-023043
Latest notice
Pipeline notice (UK1)
Classification (CPV)
Health and social work servicesOther community, social and personal services
Delivery area
South West (UKK24)
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-05182a Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice
Submission deadline
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Timeline

20 May 2025 → 1 Jul 2027 · 3 dates
  1. Planning notice published
    20 May 2025, 10:26 BST
  2. Today
    25 Oct 2026
  3. Tender notice expectedin 8 days
    1 Nov 2026, 23:59 GMT
  4. Contract startsin 249 days
    1 Jul 2027, 00:00 BST

Notice history

1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender
  1. Pipeline notice published
    20 May 2025, 10:26 BST
    UK1

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

Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Council

Contracting authorityPublic authority - sub-central government GB-PPON: PHYY-7342-PRHH BCP Council Civic Centre, Bournemouth, South West, BH2 6DYContact email

Official documents & specifications (1)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure

  • Pipeline notice planningPipeline noticeUK1Pipeline notice on Find a Tender