Official UK procurement notice
Male Ally Network Training Pilot Programme - Cornwall
Authority: Devon and Cornwall Police (Police & fire)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThe OPCC for Devon and Cornwall will be looking to commission in the near future a Pilot Male Ally Training Scheme for a Male Ally Network in Cornwall.
The OPCC is therefore undertaking this Market Engagement Exercise to:
- Gather early feedback on the feasibility and delivery of a Male Ally Network Pilot training Scheme in Cornwall.
- Understand existing market capabilities, delivery models, and innovative approaches relevant to the requirement
- Test initial assumptions and identify potential risks, constraints, and opportunities from a Supplier perspective
- Identify Suppliers within the market who would be interested in taking part in a future procurement exercise
- Obtain indicative cost ranges and commercial considerations to inform future budgeting and business case development
- Shape and refine the scope, objectives, and specification for a future procurement exercise to ensure that it is realistic, competitive, and aligned with marker conditions.
The Authority will issue this Market Engagement Document alongside a draft specification setting out the indicative scope, objectives and requirements of the pilot programme.
Suppliers are invited to review the draft documentation and provide feedback on feasibility, delivery approach, risks and indicative costs via the Market Engagement Feedback Questionnaire attached to this document. There are a number of questions within the Market Engagement Questionnaire for you to answer but it is not compulsory to answer all of them. We are happy to receive any feedback you wish to offer.
Responses to the Market Engagement Questionnaire imply no commitment on Suppliers to engage in any subsequent procurement process, nor do they confer any advantaged status or guarantee of inclusion in any subsequent procurement process for Suppliers who do respond.
The information gathered will be used solely to inform the Authority’s understanding of the requirement and to support the development of any potential future procurement.
Questionnaire Responses should be submitted using the In-Tend Portal Messaging Function by 5pm on 8th July 2026.
Full details are provided in the Document Set uploaded to the In-Tend Portal, consisting of:
- Market Engagement Instructions and Questionnaire
- Draft Specification for Market Feedback
Please go to:
sell2.in-tend.co.uk/blpd/publictenders ↗
to express interest in this market engagement
CPV: Training services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedPipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How Devon and Cornwall Police buys Training services (CPV 8050), and who usually turns up
Devon and Cornwall Police’s published record next to the market for the same work. Frameworks and DPS are left out: they draw different bid counts. Whole-market view: Training services (CPV 8050) →
How the contest usually goes
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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. The market figure counts awards delivered in South West England (authority’s region).
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners were registered 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 32 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.
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Past bids do not predict this tender.
1 bid25% / 8%
2–313% / 31%
4–663% / 38%
7+0% / 23%
How did awards compare with estimates?
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Where winning prices landed against estimates.
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Below estimate75%
Within ±2%17%
Above estimate8%
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See the forecast, this buyer’s earlier suppliers and firms with relevant wins.
No supplier is confirmed as a bidder.
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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 8050Estimate not published
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How many bids this lot may attract.
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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 13 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid8%
2–331%
4–638%
7+23%
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Where the award price may land.
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No comparable awards for this lot yet.
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Who has supplied this buyer on similar work? i
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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.
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Who could compete for this lot?
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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
- Unspecified in notice
- 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
- 24 Jun 2026, 12:35 BST
- Last source update
- 24 Jun 2026, 12:35 BST
- Authority reference
1431- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-059383- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Not published
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06bc13Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
24 Jun 2026 → 1 Sept 2026 · 4 dates- Planning notice published122 days ago24 Jun 2026, 12:35 BST
- Market engagement107 days ago9 Jul 2026, 23:59 BST
The OPCC invites providers to take part in this market engagement exercise to provide input and insight on the draft specification, prior to commencing a procurement process.
The Authority will issue this Market Engagement Document alongside a draft specification setting out the indicative scope, objectives and requirements of the pilot programme.
It is important to note that this is not an invitation to tender, it is strictly a pre-procurement Market Engagement Questionnaire, intended to capture market information via a Pre-Market Engagement Notice.
Suppliers are invited to review the draft documentation and provide feedback on feasibility, delivery approach, risks and indicative costs via the Market Engagement Feedback Questionnaire attached with this notice. There are a number of questions within the Market Engagement Questionnaire for you to answer but it is not compulsory to answer all of them. We are happy to receive any feedback you wish to offer.
The Market Engagement Questionnaire will not be evaluated or scored, nor will Participation in this exercise influence the assessment of any organisation in any future procurement process.
Responses to the Market Engagement Questionnaire imply no commitment on Suppliers to engage in any subsequent procurement process, nor do they confer any advantaged status or guarantee of inclusion in any subsequent procurement process for Suppliers who do respond.
Questionnaire Responses should be submitted using the In-Tend Portal Messaging Function by 5pm on 8th July 2026.
The Authority may hold follow-up clarification sessions or market engagement events to explore responses in more detail. Where appropriate, these will be conducted on an open and transparent basis, and the Authority will ensure that no supplier gains an unfair advantage as a result of participation.
Following the response period, the Authority will review all feedback received to inform the refinement to the specification and overall approach. Insights gathered through this process will support the development of a potential future procurement, such as a Request for Proposals (RFP) or tender exercise.
The information gathered will be used solely to inform the Authority's understanding of the requirement and to support the development of any potential future procurement.
No supplier will gain any advantage or disadvantage in any subsequent procurement process as a result of participating in this engagement.
The Authority reserves the right to withdraw this Market Engagement Questionnaire at any time and is not liable for any costs incurred as a result of Suppliers engaging with this process.
Further detail and information is included on the Intend Portal. Please go to: sell2.in-tend.co.uk/blpd/publictenders ↗
- Tender notice expected93 days ago23 Jul 2026, 23:59 BST
- Contract starts54 days ago1 Sept 2026, 00:00 BST
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Preliminary market engagement notice published24 Jun 2026, 12:35 BSTUK2
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Pipeline notice- Awards (0)
- No award published
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- No contract published
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- 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