Find a TenderPlanned procurementPreliminary market engagement notice
Published 12 Jan 2026, 15:19 GMT

Official UK procurement notice

Human Resources Managed Services

Authority: Horserace Betting Levy Board (Central government)

Services
Planned pipeline valueValue not publishedpipeline notice, not a live tender
Tender notice expected Date not publishedfrom the planned procurement notice
Contract term 3 yrsends 31 May 2029 · up to 31 May 2031 with extensions · starts 1 Jun 2026

What is being bought

Published requirement description

HBLB wishes to examine options available for the potential appointment of a single Service Provider to provide a managed HR Service for a multi-year period with a view to entering into any new Contract during the summer of 2026 to allow time for any transition of services should this be necessary.

The primary purpose of the Service is to deliver HR transactional and advisory services that ensure legal compliance, operational efficiency, and strategic alignment with HBLB's objectives.

The appointed provider will be responsible for delivering a full range of HR services, including but not limited to:

  • HR administration and employee record management
  • Recruitment, onboarding, and induction support
  • Employee relations and case management e.g. disciplinary matters
  • Policy review, development, and implementation
  • Employment law and compliance advice
  • Absence management and performance management support
  • HR systems support, reporting, and analytics
  • Ad hoc HR advisory services to senior management and line managers, including strategic advice to Board and senior managers.
  • Proactive support for staff learning and development
  • Periodic in person visits to HBLB office

Optional services

  • Payroll coordination and benefits administration
  • Employee platform for submission of expenses claims and other requests

CPV: Personnel and payroll services · Personnel-training services · Staff development services

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published
Lot #1PlannedRenewal 3 yrs

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

Competition for Personnel services except placement and supply services (CPV 7963), and who usually turns up

Horserace Betting Levy Board has too little published record in this market to describe on its own. No delivery region is published, so no market column stands beside whatever it has. Frameworks and DPS are kept out: they attract a different number of bids. Whole-market view: Personnel services except placement and supply services (CPV 7963) →

1

How the contest usually goes

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

Question for the bid
This buyerHorserace Betting Levy Board · all categories
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: 1 of 1 known-size awards · market: no supplier sizes published
1 of 1—

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.

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

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 1 of 1 known-location awards · market: no winner locations published
1 of 1—

Most of this buyer’s recorded winners are registered in the delivery region.

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: no decision dates published · market: no decision dates published
——

No decision dates published to compare.

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.

Thin markets produce this too; it is not proof of a tailored specification.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: exactly 1 of 2 procurements with awards had no recorded rival · market: no bid counts or routes published
1 of 2—

Direct awards or one recorded bid are common here. Check the route before spending time on a bid.

2

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 #1CPV 796336 monthsEstimate 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 35 past lots.

A forecast, not a list of bidders.

—No model forecast yet14% single-bid risk
Past bids on 35 similar lots
1 bid14%
5 of 35 similar past lots received 1 bid (14%).
2–323%
8 of 35 similar past lots received 2–3 (23%).
4–651%
18 of 35 similar past lots received 4–6 (51%).
7+11%
4 of 35 similar past lots received 7+ (11%).
Comparable past lots usually drew 4 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
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 Jan 2026, 15:19 GMT
Last source update
12 Jan 2026, 15:19 GMT
Authority reference
HRMS-2026
FTS notice number
2026/S 000-002349
Latest notice
Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
Classification (CPV)
Personnel and payroll servicesPersonnel-training servicesStaff development services
Delivery area
North East (UKC)North West (UKD)Yorkshire & Humber (UKE)East Midlands (UKF)West Midlands (UKG)East of England (UKH)London (UKI)South East (UKJ)
+1 moreSouth West (UKK)
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-0603df Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice
Submission deadline
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Timeline

12 Jan 2026 → 1 Jun 2026 · 3 dates
  1. Planning notice published281 days ago
    12 Jan 2026, 15:19 GMT
  2. Market engagement262 days ago
    30 Jan 2026, 23:59 GMT

    A market information document containing further information and the engagement questions is available by request from [email protected]

    Completed market engagement responses must be sent by email to the same address.

  3. Contract starts141 days ago
    1 Jun 2026, 00:00 BST

Notice history

1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender
  1. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    12 Jan 2026, 15:19 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

Horserace Betting Levy Board

Contracting authorityPublic authority - central government GB-PPON: PDLG-4484-QYHQ 10 South Colonnade, London, London, E14 4PUContact email

Official documents & specifications (1)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure