Official UK procurement notice
Justice-wide Intermediary Services - Preliminary Market Engagement
Authority: Ministry of Justice (Central government)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThe MoJ is currently exploring the future of intermediary services provision and conducting preliminary market engagement, prior to any procurement process. This notice is published for transparency purposes in accordance with the Procurement Act (2023) and does not constitute the commencement of a procurement.
The MoJ is exploring how these services may be delivered across the Ministry and the wider justice sector. Services being considered include those currently provided under the HMCTS Appointed Intermediary Services Frameworks (HAIS) and the Witness Intermediary Scheme (WIS), in addition to ad hoc intermediary services provided to support His Majesty's Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS) and the Parole Board.
You can find out more about the current HAIS arrangements at: www.gov.uk/guidance/hmcts-inter… ↗
You can find out more about the current Witness Intermediary Scheme at: www.gov.uk/guidance/ministry-of… ↗
Intermediaries are impartial communication specialists whose primary responsibility is to enable complete, coherent and accurate communication with vulnerable witnesses, defendants and parties in the justice system, in order to improve the quality of evidence and facilitate the vulnerable person’s understanding and participation in the proceedings.
The role of an intermediary includes making an assessment and reporting, orally or in writing, about the communication needs of the vulnerable person and the steps that should be taken to meet those needs. It also includes implementing those measures, at a court hearing or interview, for example at a solicitor’s office or police station.
CPV: Law-courts-related administrative services · Police services
How this framework works
From the published notice- Framework period
- 8 yrs from 1 Apr 2029
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedWhat 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).
- “Justice-wide Intermediary Services - Preliminary Market Engagement” is a framework: the contest is a place on its panel, not a single contract.
Pipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How Ministry of Justice buys Justice services (CPV 7523), and who usually turns up
Ministry of Justice’s published record next to the market for the same work. Compared with other frameworks and DPS only. Whole-market view: Justice services (CPV 7523) →
How the contest usually goes
Winner shares use published awards; bid and price charts use contested lots.
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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.
Small firms have won here. Neither number says whether you qualify; it describes who has been winning.
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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.
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners were registered outside the region where that award was delivered.
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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.
Half of these awards have an award date within 92 days of the bid deadline.
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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.
Missing bid counts may hide more single-bid awards. This share is a minimum.
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.
1 bid18% / 29%
2–364% / 57%
4–69% / 0%
7+9% / 14%
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.
On a framework or DPS, prices are agreed when work is called off.
Past prices are a guide, not a bid price.
Not comparable on a framework or DPS: the price is set later, on each call-off.
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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.
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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 75Published estimate£220m
This lot lists more than one class in CPV 75. The comparison uses that group.
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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.
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 66 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid8%
2–336%
4–612%
7+44%
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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.
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.
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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.
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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
- Above threshold (FTS publication)
- Regulatory regime
- Light touch regime
- Commercial structure
- Framework agreement
- Who may use this agreement
- Not stated in the notice; call-off rights may be limited to the establishing authority
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 28 Nov 2025, 11:36 GMT
- Last source update
- 9 Sept 2026, 13:36 BST
- Authority reference
prj_14821- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-085391- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-05eaecFind a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Appointment period ends
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Timeline
28 Nov 2025 → 1 Apr 2029 · 5 dates- Planning notice published332 days ago28 Nov 2025, 11:36 GMT
- Latest notice published47 days ago9 Sept 2026, 13:36 BST
- Today26 Oct 2026
- Market engagementin 124 days26 Feb 2027, 23:59 GMT
The purpose of this notice is to enable suppliers to find out how to participate in an online market engagement event planned for 8th October 2026. This event will take the form of an online webinar or 'live event' using Microsoft Teams. Interested parties are required to register an expression of interest by emailing [email protected]
Joining instructions will be issued to those that have expressed an interest in attending before 7th October 2026. A recording of the event will be made available via the MoJ eSourcing Portal on or after 9th October 2026. Your details will be held for the purposes of alerting you to market engagement activity, including the publication of information on the MoJ eSourcing Portal.
This is the third phase of market engagement relating to Justice wide intermediary services. The MoJ has previously conducted engagement through a market engagement questionnaire and a live event. Materials published to support the first two phases of engagement are available via the MoJ eSourcing Portal, alongside the recording of the previous event.
The MoJ intends to take undertake further market engagement following the event on 8th October 2026. The engagement deadline date of 26th February 2027 contained in this notice is an estimate of when we intend all market engagement activity will be completed.
To view the recording and supporting information after the event, or to access materials from previous engagement phases, interested parties are required to register an account via the MoJ eSourcing Portal at: ministryofjusticecommercial.ukp.app.jaggaer.com/web/login.html ↗
If you are unsure whether you are already registered on the MoJ eSourcing Portal, you can email the support team: [email protected]
Note that within the eSourcing Portal a Pre-Qualification Questionnaire (PQQ) module is being used as a mechanism for sharing information, and no feedback or responses to engagement will affect your ability to tender for contracts in the future. Responses at this stage are not evaluated or attributed to you or your organisation in future procurement stages. If your organisation does not wish to participate in the market engagement event or subsequent events, this will not prevent your organisation from being able to participate in any subsequent procurement.
The information contained in this notice is only indicative of current thinking and is neither exhaustive nor binding and MoJ reserves the right to amend it at the time of issue of any further notices or at any other time. MoJ reserves the right not to proceed with any procurement. Nothing in this notice shall constitute a commitment to procuring. Any and all costs associated with the production of a response to market engagement must be borne by your organisation. MoJ will not contribute in any way to meeting costs of any response. MoJ expects that all responses to this engagement opportunity will be provided by the supplier in good faith, to the best of its ability, in light of the information available at the time of response.
- Tender notice expectedin 169 days12 Apr 2027, 23:59 BST
- Contract starts1 Apr 2029, 00:00 BST
Notice history
7 events · 5 releases on Find a Tender · since 28 Nov 2025- Preliminary market engagement notice published28 Nov 2025, 11:36 GMTUK2
- Preliminary market engagement notice published8 Apr 2026, 13:02 BSTUK2
- Preliminary market engagement notice published9 Apr 2026, 11:04 BSTUK2
- Pipeline notice published20 May 2026, 13:30 BSTUK1
- Status changed to planned20 May 2026, 13:30 BST
- Preliminary market engagement notice published9 Sept 2026, 13:36 BSTUK2
- Published value updated to £220,000,0009 Sept 2026, 13:36 BSTwas £100,000,000
Routine re-releases (5)
- 2026-04: 1 release · 8 Apr 2026
- 2025-11: 1 release · 28 Nov 2025
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
Official documents & specifications (5)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender
- Pipeline notice Pipeline notice on Find a Tender
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender