Find a TenderPlanned procurementPreliminary market engagement notice
Published 8 Jul 2026, 12:23 BST

Official UK procurement notice

Legal Services Case Management System

Authority: Mayor's Office For Policing And Crime (Central government)

GoodsAbove threshold
Planned pipeline valueValue not publishedpipeline notice, not a live tender
Tender notice expected Date not publishedfrom the planned procurement notice
Contract term 5 yrsends 8 Mar 2032 · starts 8 Mar 2027

What is being bought

Published requirement description

The Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) is seeking responses from the market for suppliers capable of providing an end-to-end Case Management System (CMS) for the Directorate of Legal Services (DLS).

The purpose of this RFI is to better inform the Authority of the market for DLS CMS and current pricing to aid the governance process.

CPV: Document management software package

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published
Lot #1Planned 5 yrs
Contract period: 8 Mar 2027 – 8 Mar 2032 (5 yrs)
Delivery: London

Who is likely to bid for this lot ↓

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

How Mayor's Office For Policing And Crime buys Document creation software package (CPV 4831), and who usually turns up

Mayor's Office For Policing And Crime’s own published record, next to the published market for the same work. Frameworks and DPS are kept out: they attract a different number of bids. Whole-market view: Document creation software package (CPV 4831) →

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How the contest usually goes

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

Question for the bid
This buyerMayor's Office For Policing And Crime · 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: 23 of 55 known-size awards · market: CPV 4831 · UK-wide, n=17
42%41%

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.

Here, local means the winner is registered in the region where that contract was delivered.

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

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 49 of 93 known-location awards · market: CPV 4831 · UK-wide, n=15
53%27%

Most of this buyer’s recorded winners are registered 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: 21 decided notices · market: division 48 · Greater London, n=25
53 days77 days

Half of these awards were announced within 53 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.

Both shares are minimums: some awards have no bid count.

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

Last 36 months.

Buyer: at least 39 of 101 procurements with awards had no recorded rival · market: CPV 4831 · Greater London, n=5
39%60%

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?

i

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 buyer28 lots with bid counts · all categories
29% had one bid
The market49 lots with bid counts · division 48 · Greater London
12% had one bid
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
1 bid29% / 12%
Buyer: 8 of 28 lots with published bid counts. Market: 6 of 49 lots with published bid counts.
2–336% / 24%
Buyer: 10 of 28 lots with published bid counts. Market: 12 of 49 lots with published bid counts.
4–625% / 35%
Buyer: 7 of 28 lots with published bid counts. Market: 17 of 49 lots with published bid counts.
7+11% / 29%
Buyer: 3 of 28 lots with published bid counts. Market: 14 of 49 lots with published bid counts.

How did awards compare with estimates?

i

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 buyer18 lots with estimate and award · all categories
6% below estimate
The market31 lots with estimate and award · division 48 · Greater London
52% below estimate
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
Below estimate6% / 52%
Buyer: 1 of 18 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 16 of 31 lots with an estimate and award.
Within ±2%89% / 23%
Buyer: 16 of 18 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 7 of 31 lots with an estimate and award.
Above estimate6% / 26%
Buyer: 1 of 18 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 8 of 31 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 #1CPV 483160 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 49 past lots.

A forecast, not a list of bidders.

—No model forecast yet12% single-bid risk
Past bids on 49 similar lots
1 bid12%
6 of 49 similar past lots received 1 bid (12%).
2–324%
12 of 49 similar past lots received 2–3 (24%).
4–635%
17 of 49 similar past lots received 4–6 (35%).
7+29%
14 of 49 similar past lots received 7+ (29%).
Comparable past lots usually drew 5 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
Goods
Notice status
Planned procurement
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
Unspecified in notice
First published
8 Jul 2026, 12:23 BST
Last source update
8 Jul 2026, 12:23 BST
FTS notice number
2026/S 000-064155
Latest notice
Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
Classification (CPV)
Document management software package
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-06c641 Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice
Submission deadline
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Timeline

8 Jul 2026 → 8 Mar 2027 · 3 dates
  1. Planning notice published105 days ago
    8 Jul 2026, 12:23 BST
  2. Market engagement92 days ago
    20 Jul 2026, 23:59 BST

    The RFI slides and response document will be released on Coupa in Sourcing Event #2803 on the 9th July 2026. You must be registered on Coupa as a supplier to join this event. You can join the sourcing event by searching event #2803 on Coupa and click request to participate.

    Please review the RFI slides and respond using the RFI response document. Responses should be submitted via Sourcing Event #2803 by the deadline on 20th July 2026 at 10am.

    Any questions relating to this engagement should be communicated via the Instant Messaging tab within the sourcing event. Should a technical issue prevent you from participating, please email [email protected] for assistance.

  3. Today
    21 Oct 2026
  4. Contract startsin 138 days
    8 Mar 2027

Notice history

1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender
  1. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    8 Jul 2026, 12:23 BST
    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

Mayor's Office for Policing and Crime

Contracting authorityPublic authority - sub-central government GB-PPON: PTMT-7816-YCQG 169 Union Street, London, London, SE1 0LLContact email

Official documents & specifications (1)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure