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Published 22 May 2026, 14:42 BST

Official UK procurement notice

Legal Services Framework · UK public procurement notice

Authority: Anchor Hanover Group (Public body)

Framework agreementServicesCompetitive flexible procedureAbove threshold
Planned pipeline value£5,400,000pipeline notice, not a live tender
Tender notice expected 27 Jan 2027from the planned procurement notice
Framework period 4 yrsends 26 Jul 2031 · starts 27 Jul 2027

What is being bought

Published requirement description

Anchor Hanover Group is England's largest not-for-profit provider of specialist housing and care for people in later life and intends to establish a Legal Services Framework.

The required legal disciplines will include, but are not limited to:

  • Social Housing & Regulatory Compliance
  • Corporate & Commercial Contracting
  • Development & Conveyancing
  • Property & Building Contracts
  • Housing Management
  • Employment & HR

Anchor Hanover Group intends to engage with the market prior to formal tendering. Interested suppliers are advised to monitor the Find a Tender Service for future Market Engagement and Tender Notices.

The scope outlined above include all associated, ancillary, and incidental legal advice necessary to fully support Anchor Hanover Group's wider statutory, corporate, and operational objectives over the duration of the framework

CPV: Legal services

How this framework works

From the published notice
Framework period
4 yrs from 27 Jul 2027

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published

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
What this means for your bid
  • “Legal Services Framework” 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 Anchor Hanover Group buys Legal services (CPV 7910), and who usually turns up

Anchor Hanover Group’s own published record, next to the published market for the same work. This notice is a framework or DPS, so only frameworks and DPS are compared. Whole-market view: Legal services (CPV 7910) →

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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 buyerAnchor Hanover Group · 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: no supplier sizes published · market: CPV 7910 · UK-wide, n=230
—4%

No supplier sizes 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 Yorkshire and the Humber.

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

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 0 of 1 known-location awards · market: CPV 7910 · Yorkshire and the Humber, n=7
0 of 10%

Most of this buyer’s recorded winners are registered outside Yorkshire and the Humber.

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: 13 decided notices · market: CPV 7910 · UK-wide, n=30
76 days84 days

Half of these awards were announced within 76 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: exactly 1 of 1 procurements with awards had no recorded rival · market: CPV 7910 · UK-wide, n=30
1 of 120%

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.

Last 36 months.

This buyer1 lot with bid counts · broad CPV 79 · too few to chart
The market16 lots with bid counts · CPV 7910 · Yorkshire and the Humber
0% had one bid
Market · select a colour for counts
1 bid0%
Market: 0 of 16 lots with published bid counts.
2–30%
Market: 0 of 16 lots with published bid counts.
4–66%
Market: 1 of 16 lots with published bid counts.
7+94%
Market: 15 of 16 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.

On a framework or DPS, prices are agreed when work is called off.

Past prices are a guide, not a bid price.

Last 36 months.

Not comparable on a framework or DPS. The notice sets up a supplier panel and a ceiling value; what the work actually costs is agreed later, on each call-off or mini-competition, and those publish as contract notices of their own. The award-vs-estimate record of this market therefore sits on the call-offs; this page shows it on the contracts, not on the panel that frames them.

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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

Our matching links this notice to “Creative Marketing Services (Sales) framework” of this authority, but none of the 4 panel members sit in a category matching this notice.

Lot #1CPV 791048 monthsPublished estimate£5.4m
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.

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 16 past lots.

A forecast, not a list of bidders.

—No model forecast yet0% single-bid risk
Past bids on 16 similar lots
1 bid0%
0 of 16 similar past lots received 1 bid (0%).
2–30%
0 of 16 similar past lots received 2–3 (0%).
4–66%
1 of 16 similar past lots received 4–6 (6%).
7+94%
15 of 16 similar past lots received 7+ (94%).
Comparable past lots usually drew 12.5 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.

—Priced at call-off
On a framework or DPS the price is agreed on each call-off, so there is no award price to forecast here: the published figure is a ceiling.

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.

What this replaces
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Who has done similar work for this buyer.

Past contracts are matched by buyer, title and type of work.

40% title match.

A past supplier may not bid again.

The prior contract this notice most likely re-tenders · matched by title and category (40% title match), the holder is not guaranteed to re-bid

Creative Marketing Services (Sales) framework, winner not published; the published contract ends 19 Oct 2029.

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
Planned procurement
Procurement threshold
Above threshold (FTS publication)
Regulatory regime
Standard
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
22 May 2026, 14:42 BST
Last source update
22 May 2026, 14:42 BST
Authority reference
00207
FTS notice number
2026/S 000-048022
Latest notice
Pipeline notice (UK1)
Classification (CPV)
Legal services
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-06a19b Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice
Appointment period ends
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Timeline

22 May 2026 → 27 Jul 2027 · 3 dates
  1. Planning notice published152 days ago
    22 May 2026, 14:42 BST
  2. Today
    21 Oct 2026
  3. Tender notice expectedin 99 days
    27 Jan 2027, 23:59 GMT
  4. Contract startsin 279 days
    27 Jul 2027, 00:00 BST

Notice history

1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender
  1. Pipeline notice published
    22 May 2026, 14:42 BST
    UK1

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

Anchor Hanover Group

Contracting authorityPublic authority - sub-central government GB-MPR: 7843 · GB-PPON: PYBH-1339-MTCJ 2 Godwin Street, Bradford, Yorkshire & Humber, BD1 2STContact email

Official documents & specifications (1)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure

  • Pipeline notice planningPipeline noticeUK1Pipeline notice on Find a Tender