Official UK procurement notice
Investigator Training Programme — UK public procurement notice
Authority: Serious Fraud Office (Central government)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThe Serious Fraud Office (SFO) is seeking a bespoke training programme that will equip its people with the core skills required to effectively conduct SFO investigations, based around the powers available to the SFO to exercise (including the Criminal Justice Act 1987/Section 2 and Proceeds of Crime Act 2002). The programme will cover the following areas:
• The theory and process behind conducting an investigation
• Interviewing witnesses and victims
• Interviewing suspects
The primary participants of the programme will be investigators involved in criminal financial investigations, as well as civil recovery and confiscation investigations. In turn, this will range from new entrant, trainee investigators, to experienced investigators/senior investigators, investigative lawyers and financial investigators.
By completing the Investigator Training Programme, learners will gain an increased confidence in:
• The theory and process that constitutes an investigation conducted by the SFO
• Adopting a strategic, methodical and investigative mindset throughout all stages of an investigation
• Their role and responsibility within an SFO investigation
• Investigative decision making and risk management
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• Exercising the powers available to the SFO throughout an investigation
• Interviewing, taking and structuring statements from witnesses, victims and suspects.
To support learners in digesting and applying the programme content, whilst recognising the commitments from their day-to-day roles, we intend to split the course content into modules, comprising of up to three days per module. The modules will combine theory, along with interactive engagement and regular opportunities to practice the skills taught.
How the procedure runs: This ITT will be a competitive flexible procedure. Following receipt of the ITT responses (the completed statement of requirements), one team of evaluators will evaluate the quality of response and the Social value. A separate team will evaluate the pricing information. The Serious Fraud Office will then invite the 4 highest scoring more…
suppliers to give a presentation. The score for the presentation will then be added the the quality, and pricing scores.
CPV: Training services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · value publishedLot #1Lot 1RenewalPublished value£150,000
- Value
- £150,000 exc. VAT · £180,000 inc. VAT
- Extensions
- 1 x 12 month extension option.
What it takes to wini
How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
Evaluation split and conditions of participation as published — the tender pack may add morei
How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
Published sub-criteria (4)
- Quality - Statement Of Requirements response. — 53%
- Quality - Presentation — 10%
- Price — 27%
- Quality - Social Value — 10%
Published award criteria (4)
- Quality - Presentation — Following the evaluation of the Quality, Social Value and pricing elements, the Serious Fraud Office will invite the 4 highest scoring suppliers to give a presentation.
No conditions of participation were published on the notice; check the tender documents.
Competition analysis · published record, not a forecast of who will bid
Training services (CPV 8050) in Greater London — and who usually turns up
Serious Fraud Office has too little published record in this market to describe on its own; the Greater London market stands beside whatever it has. Frameworks and DPS are kept out: they attract a different number of bids. Whole-market view: Training services (CPV 8050) →
How the contest usually goes
Left: this authority. Right: the market where the work is delivered. Bids and award-vs-estimate pairs are per lot, from contested contracts only — direct awards (including PA 2023 transparency notices) report one bid by definition and are left out. On Procurement Act 2023 notices the count is the tenders assessed at the final stage, not every submission received; pairs compare like with like (VAT-exclusive, or VAT-inclusive on both sides). Empty means nothing was published, not filled in from elsewhere.
Serious Fraud Office
contract notices in 36 months: 1 in CPV 8050 (1 route not published) · 1 in division 80 (1 route not published) · 3 in all categories (1 route not published)
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How many companies usually bid for work like this.
Middle value of published bid counts, one per lot, for this buyer or this region in the same sector.
Based on this buyer’s tenders in all categories, last 36 months: 2 lots. 1 lots are from Procurement Act 2023 notices (bids assessed, middle 2) and 1 from older notices (bids received, middle 5). Small sample.
Nothing is filled in from UK-wide numbers. An empty tile means nothing usable was published.
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How often only one company bid.
Share of lots that received exactly one bid, on the same competitions as the bids figure.
Based on this buyer’s tenders in all categories, last 36 months: 2 lots. Small sample.
High means a thin market or an incumbent that is hard to beat.
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Do awards for work like this land above or below the estimate.
Estimate against award per lot, for this buyer or this region in the same sector.
Based on this buyer’s tenders in all categories, last 36 months: 2 pairs. Small sample.
A past pattern, not a price to bid.
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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.
Based on this buyer’s tenders in all categories, last 36 months: 1 notices. Small sample.
Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.
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How often this buyer changes a notice after publishing it.
Middle number of amendments per notice. Deadline extensions and corrections both count.
Based on this buyer’s tenders in all categories, last 24 months: 22 notices.
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How often this buyer awards without a competition.
Direct or limited awards as a share of its notices that say which procedure was used. These routes are legal in defined cases. This is just the record.
Nothing published for this buyer in this sector: no notices in this market.
Greater London · Training services (CPV 8050)
contract notices delivered in Greater London in 36 months: 64 in CPV 8050 (43 competed, 18 route not published) · 317 in division 80 (232 competed, 62 route not published)
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How many companies usually bid for work like this.
Middle value of published bid counts, one per lot, for this buyer or this region in the same sector.
Based on this region’s tenders in this sector (CPV 8050), last 36 months: 23 lots. 18 lots are from Procurement Act 2023 notices (bids assessed, middle 4) and 5 from older notices (bids received, middle 3).
Nothing is filled in from UK-wide numbers. An empty tile means nothing usable was published.
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How often only one company bid.
Share of lots that received exactly one bid, on the same competitions as the bids figure.
Based on this region’s tenders in this sector (CPV 8050), last 36 months: 23 lots.
High means a thin market or an incumbent that is hard to beat.
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Do awards for work like this land above or below the estimate.
Estimate against award per lot, for this buyer or this region in the same sector.
Based on this region’s tenders in this sector (CPV 8050), last 36 months: 16 pairs.
A past pattern, not a price to bid.
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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.
Based on this region’s tenders in this sector (CPV 8050), last 36 months: 19 notices.
Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.
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How much of this market goes to small and medium firms.
SME bidders where buyers published the split, otherwise SME winners.
Based on this region’s tenders in this sector (CPV 8050), last 36 months: 21 lots.
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How much work like this goes to companies based in the delivery region.
Awards in this category delivered here where the winner’s registered address is in the region.
Based on this region’s tenders in this sector (CPV 8050), last 36 months: 28 awards.
Registered address, so a national firm with a local branch counts as outside.
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Where this tender’s estimate would land if the usual pattern repeats.
We apply the buyer’s usual movement between estimate and award (or the region’s) to the estimate on this notice.
Based on the Greater London market’s usual movement over 16 lots (CPV 8050), applied to the £150,000 estimate on this notice. The range comes from the region’s middle half.
A benchmark, not a price to bid.
Coverage and what to read with care
- Each tile explains itself. The on a figure says what it is, how it is counted and which scope this notice’s own record came from (class, division, all categories, or the authority’s 24-month row). The two columns are never blended and nothing is filled from a UK-wide figure; an empty tile means the source published nothing usable. Long form: Methodology.
- Coverage. Roughly 40 % of notices publish a bid count; about half publish an ITL1 delivery location, so the market column reads the authority’s registered region when the notice has none (labelled). About 30 % of award-vs-estimate pairs are exact matches — the buyer published the award at the estimate. n is on every figure; a thin sample is muted, never hidden.
- “Match” and “relevance” are model scores from the nightly matcher, not published facts. Find a Tender does not publish who is bidding. Never shown: contact details, payment behaviour, or a recommended price.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Procedure method
- Competitive flexible procedure
- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Open for tender
- Procurement threshold
- Above threshold (FTS publication)
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- No (one-off requirement)
- First published
- 5 Oct 2026, 18:06 BST
- Last source update
- 5 Oct 2026, 18:06 BST
- Award evaluation window
- Submission end — 18 Nov 2026, 23:59 GMT
- Authority reference
SFO/PC/ITP/DF- Latest notice
- Tender notice (UK4)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-07812eFind a Tender
- How it runs
- This ITT will be a competitive flexible procedure. Following receipt of the ITT responses (the completed statement of requirements), one team of evaluators will evaluate the quality of response and the Social value. A separate team will evaluate the pricing information. The Serious Fraud Office will then invite the 4 highest scoring suppliers to give a presentation. The score for the presentation will then be added the the quality, and pricing scores.
How to participate & submission route
Official notice Submit via Jaggaer- Expression of interest (EOI)
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- Tender submission deadline
- 1 Nov 2026, 23:59 GMT
- Clarification deadline
- 16 Oct 2026, 17:00 BST
- Submission channel
- Official e-sourcing portal
- Electronic submission
- Allowed
- Accepted languages
- en
Timeline
5 published dates · Europe/London- Tender notice publishedearlier today5 Oct 2026, 18:06 BST
- Clarification questions byin 11 days16 Oct 2026, 17:00 BST
- Submission deadlinein 27 days1 Nov 2026, 23:59 GMT
- Award decision expected byin 44 days18 Nov 2026, 23:59 GMT
- Contract startsin 50 days25 Nov 2026, 00:00 GMT
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Nothing awarded yet- Awards (0)
- No award published
- Contracts (0)
- No contract published
- Bid statistics
- No aggregate bid statistics published
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Tender notice published5 Oct 2026, 18:06 BSTUK4
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Official documents & specifications (3)
Official links; attachments are not copiedTender pack and attachments
- Conflict of interest declarationNot published
- Bidding documents and specifications The Serious Fraud Office will be using Bravo e-Procurment Solutions to issue the ITT and associated documents. To receive the ITT and to submit a bid suppliers must sign up to the SFO's portal on Bravo. Suppliers can register at the link provided above. Click the new registr…
Notices published for this procedure
- Tender notice Tender notice on Find a Tender