Official UK procurement notice
Legal Resource Provide online and hardcopy research tools
Authority: The Electoral Commission (Public body)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThe Electoral Commission is looking for a legal resource provider to provide online and hardcopy legal research tools for approximately 30-50 users to support the delivery of an in-house legal service and to be used by teams across the organisation in the delivery of their functions.
The Commission requires an online legislation search function, including access to Northern Ireland legislation, as well as an online caselaw research tool. Access to legal updates, commentary, guidance, and practice notes will also be required.
The Commission will also require access to a choice of hardcopy legal resources, including a requirement for an update service for Parkers on the Conduct of Elections.
CPV: Legal services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedPipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How The Electoral Commission buys Legal services (CPV 7910), and who usually turns up
The Electoral Commission has little published record in this market. Frameworks and DPS are left out: they draw different bid counts. Whole-market view: Legal services (CPV 7910) →
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.
No small-firm winners recorded among this authority’s published awards in this sample.
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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.
No winner locations published for this authority. Local means a registered address in 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 44 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.
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.
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?
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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 bid12%
2–328%
4–621%
7+40%
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.
Below estimate20%
Within ±2%57%
Above estimate23%
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.
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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 7910Estimate not published
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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 78 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid12%
2–328%
4–621%
7+40%
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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
- Below threshold
- 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
- 10 Dec 2025, 15:51 GMT
- Last source update
- 10 Dec 2025, 15:51 GMT
- Authority reference
WP133- FTS notice number
2025/S 000-081632- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
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How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
10 Dec 2025 → 1 Mar 2026 · 3 dates- Planning notice published322 days ago10 Dec 2025, 15:51 GMT
- Market engagement313 days ago18 Dec 2025, 23:59 GMT
The purpose of this preliminary market engagement is to invite potential legal resource providers to share information on their capability to supply online and hardcopy legal research tools for approximately 30-50 users. The tools will support the Electoral Commission's in-house legal team and other teams across the organisation in delivering their statutory functions.
The scope of this engagement includes solutions that can provide:
- an online legislation search function, including access to Northern Ireland legislation
- an online caselaw research tool
- access to legal updates, commentary, guidance and practice notes
- hardcopy legal resources, including an update service for Parker's on the Conduct of Elections
No in-person or virtual supplier events are planned as part of this preliminary market engagement. All engagement will be carried out through written submissions.
Suppliers wishing to participate should submit an Expression of Interest, clearly stating "WP133 - Legal Resources Tool" in the email subject line, along with a brief written response outlining how their service could meet the Commission's requirements.
Responses and clarification questions should be sent to [email protected] by the deadlines stated in this notice. Clarification questions must be submitted to the same address, and responses may be shared, where appropriate, with all participating suppliers to ensure transparency and equal treatment.
- Contract starts241 days ago1 Mar 2026
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Preliminary market engagement notice published10 Dec 2025, 15:51 GMTUK2
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 (1)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender