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Published 14 May 2025, 12:45 BST

Official UK procurement notice

Managed Service Provider for learning solutions

Official notice Competition analysis

Authority: Sellafield Limited (Public body)

ServicesAbove thresholdSME suitable
Sectors: Business Services & Consultancy (79)Education & Training (80) Delivery: UK
Planned pipeline value£27,000,000pipeline notice, not a live tender · 1 value update
Tender notice expected 10 Oct 2026from the planned procurement notice
Contract term 5 yrsends 17 Jan 2033 · up to 17 Jan 2037 with extensions · starts 18 Jan 2028

What is being bought

Published requirement description

Sellafield Ltd is seeking a Supplier to provide a Managed Training and Learning Service, acting as a single point of coordination for the organisation's training requirements.

The Supplier will be responsible for managing the operational aspects of training provision across the full Lifecyle, sourcing, booking, delivery coordination and reporting.

CPV: E-learning services · Education and training services · Industrial and technical training services · Management training services · Management-related services · Personal development training services · Specialist training services · Training facilities · Training programme services · Vocational training services

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published
Lot #1PlannedRenewal 5 yrsSME
Contract period: 18 Jan 2028 – 17 Jan 2033 (5 yrs) · up to 17 Jan 2037 with extensions
Delivery: UKEligibility: SME eligible
Extensions: Extension options published
79420000 Management-related services80000000 Education and training services80420000 E-learning services80510000 Specialist training services80520000 Training facilities80521000 Training programme services

Who is likely to bid for this lot ↓

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

How Sellafield Limited buys E-learning services (CPV 8042), and who usually turns up

Sellafield Limited’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: E-learning services (CPV 8042) →

1

How the contest usually goes

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

Question for the bid
This buyerSellafield Limited · division 80
The marketE-learning services (CPV 8042)
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: 1 of 6 known-size awards · market: no supplier sizes published
17%—

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.

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

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 0 of 1 known-location awards · market: no winner locations published
0 of 1—

Most of this buyer’s recorded winners are registered outside the delivery region.

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: no decision dates published · market: no decision dates published
——

No decision dates published to compare.

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 buyer’s 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: at least 8 of 10 procurements with awards had no recorded rival · market: no bid counts or routes published
80%—

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 buyer18 lots with bid counts · all categories
11% had one bid
The marketNo bid counts published
Buyer · select a colour for counts
1 bid11%
Buyer: 2 of 18 lots with published bid counts.
2–328%
Buyer: 5 of 18 lots with published bid counts.
4–644%
Buyer: 8 of 18 lots with published bid counts.
7+17%
Buyer: 3 of 18 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 buyer4 lots with estimate and award · all categories · too few to chart
The marketNo estimate-and-award pairs published
2

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.

Open a lot for its forecast, this buyer’s previous supplier and possible competitors, from published award history, not a bid list

Lot #1CPV 804260 monthsSME suitablePublished estimate£27m
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 24 past lots.

A forecast, not a list of bidders.

—No model forecast yet8% chance of a single bid
Past bids on 24 similar lots
1 bid8%
2 of 24 similar past lots received 1 bid (8%).
2–329%
7 of 24 similar past lots received 2–3 (29%).
4–625%
6 of 24 similar past lots received 4–6 (25%).
7+38%
9 of 24 similar past lots received 7+ (38%).
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.

—No model forecast yet
No comparable awards on record for this lot’s category yet. The published estimate is £27m, 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.

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
Services
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
14 May 2025, 12:45 BST
Last source update
21 May 2026, 14:43 BST
Authority reference
C31381
FTS notice number
2026/S 000-047179
Latest notice
Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
Classification (CPV)
E-learning servicesEducation and training servicesIndustrial and technical training servicesManagement training servicesManagement-related servicesPersonal development training servicesSpecialist training servicesTraining facilitiesTraining programme servicesVocational training services
Delivery area
UK
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-051301 Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice
Submission deadline
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Timeline

14 May 2025 → 18 Jan 2028 · 5 dates
  1. Planning notice published
    14 May 2025, 12:45 BST
  2. Latest notice published154 days ago
    21 May 2026, 14:43 BST
  3. Market engagement131 days ago
    12 Jun 2026, 23:59 BST

    This preliminary market engagement is being undertaken to inform the development of a future procurement requirement.

    The exercise will consist of a structured desktop market engagement, inviting suppliers to review a high-level scope and respond to a set of questions.

    To access the high-level scope and questions, suppliers need to log in to the Atamis portal and refer to procurement reference C31381. Please refer to the following documents:

    Appendix 1 - High-level scope

    Appendix 2 - Lines of enquiry

    Appendix 3 - Proposed Terms and Conditions

    DEADLINE TO RETURN THE LINES OF ENQUIRY DOCUMENT IS 12TH JUNE 2026.

    If you are not already registered on the Atamis platform, the link for registration is: atamis-2464.my.site.com/s/Welcome ↗.

  4. Tender notice expected11 days ago
    10 Oct 2026, 23:59 BST
  5. Today
    22 Oct 2026
  6. Contract starts
    18 Jan 2028

Notice history

3 events · 2 releases on Find a Tender · since 14 May 2025
  1. Pipeline notice published
    14 May 2025, 12:45 BST
    UK1
  2. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    21 May 2026, 14:43 BST
    UK2
  3. Published value updated to £27,000,000
    21 May 2026, 14:43 BST
    was £20,000,000

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

Sellafield Limited

Contracting authorityPublic authority - sub-central government GB-PPON: PWYP-8439-MZWY Hinton House, Birchwood Park Avenue, Warrington, North West, WA3 6GRContact name, email

Official documents & specifications (2)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure