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Published 7 Oct 2026, 16:13 BST

Official UK procurement notice

IT Managed services for YMCA London and City North

Authority: YMCA London City & North (Public body)·On behalf of: SEC PROCUREMENT LIMITED T/A SOUTH EAST CONSORTIUM

ServicesCompetitive flexible procedureAbove threshold
Published estimate£420,000≈ £140k / year · £504,000 inc. VAT
Submission deadline 10 Nov 202612:00 GMT · 33d 19h left
Contract term 3 yrsup to 5 yrs with extensions · starts 7 Mar 2027

What is being bought

Published requirement description

YMCA London City & North (YMCA LCAN) ) is inviting suitably qualified and experienced suppliers to submit a tender for the provision, development, management and support of technology services across the organisation.  The successful supplier will be expected to provide ongoing support and management of both existing and future technology solutions. This is a 3 stage competitive flexible tendering process.

  • How the procedure runs: This is a 3 stage tender process. First stage is the PSQ. Second Stage is the Written Evaluations. Third Stage is the Cost Evaluation.

CPV: IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · value published
Lot #1Renewal 3 yrsPublished valueAED 420,000
Contract period: 7 Mar 2027 — 6 Mar 2030 (3 yrs) · up to 5 yrs with extensionsDelivery: LondonTurnover guideline: ~AED 279,745/yr≈ 2× annual value
Value
AED 420,000 exc. VAT · AED 504,000 inc. VAT
Extensions
Option to extend for 2 years after the initial contract period which will be renewed annually
72000000 IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support

Who is likely to bid for this lot ↓

What it takes to win
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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 more
How bids are scored
Quality: 60%Price: 40%
Published sub-criteria (2)
  • Quality — 60%
  • Cost — 40%

No conditions of participation were published on the notice; check the tender documents.

What this means for your bid
  • Price carries 40 of 100 points — a 10% discount moves about 4 points. The method statement decides this lot, not the discount.
  • Turnover usually expected at this size: about AED 279,745 (twice the annual value).

Price arithmetic assumes straight proportional scoring — the tender pack may use another formula. Turnover is an indicative market norm (≈2× annual value), not a published condition.

Competition analysis · published record, not a forecast of who will bid

IT services: consulting, software, internet (CPV 72) in Greater London — and who usually turns up

YMCA London City & North 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: IT services: consulting, software, internet (CPV 72) →

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How the contest usually goes

This buyer’s published record next to the market where the work is delivered — contested contracts only, counted per lot

Question for the bid
This buyerYMCA London City & North · this authority
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: no sizes known · market: division 72, n=314
—35%

No winner size data published for this authority.

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 Greater London.

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

Last 36 months.

Buyer: no locations · market: division 72, n=312
—43%

Winner locations not published for this authority. Local means a registered address in Greater London.

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 dates · market: n=87
—65 days

Half of these awards were announced within 65 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.

The market share is a minimum: some awards have no bid count.

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

Last 36 months.

Buyer: no awards on record · market: n=362
—44%

No award or bid-count records published for this authority.

How many bids did past lots attract?

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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 buyerNo published bid counts
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The market150 lots with bid counts · broad CPV 72
7% had one bid
Market · select a colour for counts
1 bid7%
Market: 11 of 150 lots with published bid counts.
2–337%
Market: 55 of 150 lots with published bid counts.
4–628%
Market: 42 of 150 lots with published bid counts.
7+28%
Market: 42 of 150 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 buyerNo matched awards
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The market73 lots with estimate and award · broad CPV 72
44% below estimate
Market · select a colour for counts
Below estimate44%
Market: 32 of 73 lots with an estimate and award.
Within ±2%36%
Market: 26 of 73 lots with an estimate and award.
Above estimate21%
Market: 15 of 73 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 #1 36 monthsPublished value£420,000
Expected competition
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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.

The published estimate is in AED, so this lot carries no forecast — the model is trained on sterling estimates.

A forecast, not a list of bidders.

—7% single-bid risk
Past bids on 150 similar lots
1 bid7%
11 of 150 similar past lots received 1 bid (7%).
2–337%
55 of 150 similar past lots received 2–3 (37%).
4–628%
42 of 150 similar past lots received 4–6 (28%).
7+28%
42 of 150 similar past lots received 7+ (28%).
Comparable past lots usually drew 4 bids.
Commercial price forecast
i

Where the winning 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 guide, not a price to bid.

—Estimate in AED
No comparable awards on record for this lot’s category yet — the published estimate is £420k, 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 valueMatch
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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.

SupplierWon in this categoryLive contractsAward vs estimate
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Coverage and what to read with care
  • Each figure 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 sides are never blended. A lot’s own market is read at its delivery region where the lot names one; where it names several, or none that can be resolved, the chart falls back to the UK-wide record for the same category and says so under the bar. An empty cell means the source published nothing usable. Long form: Methodology.
  • When we call out a difference. A buyer figure is only flagged against the market when the sample is large enough that the gap is unlikely to be chance; at most two callouts appear, always phrased as a comparison with both numbers and the sample size.
  • Coverage (re-measured 5 Oct on the live record, 94,497 awarded procedures of the last three years). 51 % publish a bid count and 72 % a delivery region, so the market column reads the authority’s registered region when the notice names none, labelled. Of the 17,687 award-vs-estimate pairs, 34 % sit exactly on the estimate — the buyer published the award at the figure it advertised. n is on every figure; a thin sample is muted, never hidden, and a distribution is not drawn as percentages below ten observations.
  • “Match”, text similarity, the expected-bid figure and the distribution drawn beneath it are model outputs, not published facts or win probabilities. 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
Yes (GPA)
Recurring procurement
No (one-off requirement)
First published
7 Oct 2026, 16:13 BST
Last source update
7 Oct 2026, 16:13 BST
Award evaluation window
Submission end — 5 Feb 2027, 23:59 GMT
Latest notice
Tender notice (UK4)
Classification (CPV)
IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support
Delivery area
London (UKI)
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-07831a Find a Tender
How it runs
This is a 3 stage tender process. First stage is the PSQ. Second Stage is the Written Evaluations. Third Stage is the Cost Evaluation.

How to participate & submission route

Official notice Submit via In-tend
Submission portal named on this notice: In-tend · Who buys & how to bid on In-tend
Supplier login requiredElectronic submission allowedLanguage: EN
Access & registration note: Free · one account per buying organisation's portal · reCAPTCHA on signup
Expression of interest (EOI)
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Tender submission deadline
10 Nov 2026, 12:00 GMT
Clarification deadline
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Submission channel
Official e-sourcing portal
Electronic submission
Allowed
Accepted languages
en
Detailed submission instructions & authority contactsFrom official release
Published estimate £420,000 excludes VAT (£504,000 including VAT).

Timeline

4 published dates · Europe/London
  1. Tender notice publishedearlier today
    7 Oct 2026, 16:13 BST
  2. Submission deadlinein 34 days
    10 Nov 2026, 12:00 GMT
  3. Award decision expected byin 121 days
    5 Feb 2027, 23:59 GMT
  4. Contract startsin 150 days
    7 Mar 2027, 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
  1. Tender notice published
    7 Oct 2026, 16:13 BSTUK4

Contracting authority & participating public bodies

3 public bodies on the notice

YMCA London City & North

Contracting authorityPublic authority - sub-central government GB-PPON: PVWJ-4259-JYLM LandAid House, 10 Errol Street,, London, London, EC1Y 8SE

Other public bodies

Official documents & specifications (3)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Tender pack and attachments

Notices published for this procedure

  • Tender notice tenderTender noticeUK4Tender notice on Find a Tender