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Published 18 May 2026, 14:45 BST

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Lincolnshire Sensory Services · UK public procurement notice

Official notice Competition analysis

Authority: Lincolnshire County Council (Local council)

ServicesOpen procedureAbove thresholdLight touch regimeSME suitableVCSE suitable
Sectors: Health & Social Care (85) Delivery: East Midlands (UKF3)
Planned pipeline value£2,981,517pipeline notice, not a live tender · 1 value update
Tender notice expected 3 Oct 2026from the planned procurement notice
Contract term 5 yrsends 31 Mar 2032 · up to 31 Mar 2032 with extensions · starts 1 Apr 2027

What is being bought

Published requirement description

To deliver sensory services across the county of Lincolnshire

CPV: Health and social work services

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published
Lot #1PlannedRenewal 5 yrsSMEVCSE
Contract period: 1 Apr 2027 – 31 Mar 2032 (5 yrs) · up to 31 Mar 2032 with extensions
Delivery: East MidlandsEligibility: SME eligibleVCSE eligible
Extensions: Extension options published
85000000 Health and social work services

Who is likely to bid for this lot ↓

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

How Lincolnshire County Council buys Health and social work services (CPV 85), and who usually turns up

Lincolnshire County Council’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: Health and social work services (CPV 85) →

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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 buyerLincolnshire County Council · division 85
The marketHealth and social work services (CPV 85) · East Midlands
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: 89 of 99 known-size awards · market: division 85 · East Midlands, n=911
90%46%

Small firms have won here. Neither number says whether you qualify; it describes who has been winning. Small firms win more of this buyer’s work than the market’s: 90% against 46%, n=99.

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 East Midlands.

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

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 100 of 108 known-location awards · market: division 85 · East Midlands, n=1,218
93%48%

Most of this buyer’s recorded winners are registered in East Midlands. More of this buyer’s work stays local than in this market: 93% against 48%, n=108.

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: 5 decided notices · market: division 85 · East Midlands, n=123
42 days47 days

Half of these awards were announced within 42 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 11 of 26 procurements with awards had no recorded rival · market: division 85 · East Midlands, n=915
42%70%

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 buyer19 lots with bid counts · broad CPV 85
16% had one bid
The market216 lots with bid counts · division 85 · East Midlands
18% had one bid
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
1 bid16% / 18%
Buyer: 3 of 19 lots with published bid counts. Market: 39 of 216 lots with published bid counts.
2–337% / 34%
Buyer: 7 of 19 lots with published bid counts. Market: 73 of 216 lots with published bid counts.
4–611% / 24%
Buyer: 2 of 19 lots with published bid counts. Market: 52 of 216 lots with published bid counts.
7+37% / 24%
Buyer: 7 of 19 lots with published bid counts. Market: 52 of 216 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 buyer10 lots with estimate and award · broad CPV 85
20% below estimate
The market157 lots with estimate and award · division 85 · East Midlands
32% below estimate
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
Below estimate20% / 32%
Buyer: 2 of 10 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 51 of 157 lots with an estimate and award.
Within ±2%80% / 59%
Buyer: 8 of 10 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 93 of 157 lots with an estimate and award.
Above estimate0% / 8%
Buyer: 0 of 10 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 13 of 157 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 #160 monthsSME suitablePublished estimate£3.0m
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 216 past lots.

A forecast, not a list of bidders.

—No model forecast yet18% chance of a single bid
Past bids on 216 similar lots
1 bid18%
39 of 216 similar past lots received 1 bid (18%).
2–334%
73 of 216 similar past lots received 2–3 (34%).
4–624%
52 of 216 similar past lots received 4–6 (24%).
7+24%
52 of 216 similar past lots received 7+ (24%).
Comparable past lots usually drew 3 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.

—No model forecast yet
No comparable awards on record for this lot’s category yet. The published estimate is £3.0m, 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 valueWhy listed
BID ServicesEarlier contractLincolnshire Sensory Servicesnotice published Jan 2022—£3.0mMatched as the earlier contract

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
i

Who has done similar work for this buyer.

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

100% title match.

A past supplier may not bid again.

The prior contract this notice most likely re-tenders · matched by title and category (100% title match), the holder is not guaranteed to re-bid

Lincolnshire Sensory Services — held by BID Services; no contract end date published.

Procedure terms & legal framework

From the official record
Procedure method
Open procedure
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
Stand-alone contract (no framework)
Competition type
Competitive procedure
GPA / WTO covered
Unspecified in notice
Recurring procurement
Unspecified in notice
First published
18 May 2026, 14:45 BST
Last source update
22 May 2026, 11:30 BST
Authority reference
CTPS.0006
FTS notice number
2026/S 000-047694
Latest notice
Pipeline notice (UK1)
Classification (CPV)
Health and social work services
Delivery area
East Midlands (UKF3)
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-069b17 Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice
Submission deadline
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Timeline

18 May 2026 → 1 Apr 2027 · 5 dates
  1. Planning notice published157 days ago
    18 May 2026, 14:45 BST
  2. Latest notice published153 days ago
    22 May 2026, 11:30 BST
  3. Market engagement141 days ago
    2 Jun 2026, 23:59 BST

    Lincolnshire County Council is looking to reprocure Lincolnshire Sensory Services We are seeking to bring awareness to the market of an upcoming opportunity and understand the market’s preferred approached to a number of key issues to inform the decision-making process.

    The Council has published a questionnaire through the Panacea e-tendering portal, with responses to be submitted via Panacea.

    Any questions to be submitted via Panacea.

  4. Tender notice expected18 days ago
    3 Oct 2026, 23:59 BST
  5. Today
    22 Oct 2026
  6. Contract startsin 161 days
    1 Apr 2027, 00:00 BST

Notice history

5 events · 2 releases on Find a Tender · since 18 May 2026
  1. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    18 May 2026, 14:45 BST
    UK2
  2. Pipeline notice published
    22 May 2026, 11:30 BST
    UK1
  3. Published value published: £2,981,517
    22 May 2026, 11:30 BST
  4. Status changed to planned
    22 May 2026, 11:30 BST
  5. Procurement method changed
    22 May 2026, 11:30 BST

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

Lincolnshire County Council

Contracting authorityPublic authority - sub-central government GB-PPON: PGRB-3736-CHZN County Offices, Newland, Lincoln, East Midlands, LN1 1YLContact email

Official documents & specifications (2)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure