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Published 13 Nov 2026, 15:23 GMT

Official UK procurement notice

Material Assistance and Support Service

Authority: Wokingham Borough Council (Local council)

ServicesBelow threshold - open competitionBelow threshold
Sectors: Administration, defence and social security services (75) Delivery: Delivery location not published
Published estimate£20,000≈ £20k / year · £20,000 inc. VAT
Submission deadline 4 Dec 202620 days left
Contract term 1 yrends 31 Dec 2027 · starts 1 Jan 2027
Notice summaryFrom the published notice

Material Assistance and Support Service will provide practical support to residents experiencing financial hardship, crisis situations, or barriers to maintaining their wellbeing. The service will offer access to essential items to individuals and families to meet their immediate needs.

What is being bought

Published requirement description

Material Assistance and Support Service will provide practical support to residents experiencing financial hardship, crisis situations, or barriers to maintaining their wellbeing.

The service will offer access to essential items to individuals and families to meet their immediate needs.

The service will aim to work collaboratively with all services to ensure people are getting and using all support available to them that is relevant to their needs.

CPV: Provision of services to the community

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The lotProcurement structure

single lot · value published
Lot #1 1 yrPublished value£20,000
Contract period: 1 Jan 2027 – 31 Dec 2027 (1 yr)Value: £20,000 exc. VAT · £20,000 inc. VAT
Turnover guideline: ~£40,000/yr≈ 2× annual value

Who is likely to bid for this lot ↓

What it takes to win
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Evaluation split and conditions of participation as published; the tender pack may add more
How bids are scored
Quality: 100%
Published sub-criteria (1)
  • Scoring Matrix: 100%
Published award criteria (1)
  • Scoring Matrix: The scoring matrix provides a consistent framework for evaluating supplier. Evaluators will assess each response and allocate a score based on the extent to which the bidder demonstrates their ability to meet or exceed the requirements. Scores are awarded using a standard scoring scale, with each score reflecting the quality, completeness, relevance, and credibility of the response. The score for each criterion will then be weighted according to its relative importance, and the weighted scores combined to determine the overall ranking of bids.

No conditions of participation were published on the notice; check the tender documents.

What this means for your bid
  • Turnover usually expected at this size: about £40,000 (twice the annual value).

Turnover is an indicative market norm (≈2× annual value), not a published condition.

Competition analysis · published record, not a forecast of who will bid

How Wokingham Borough Council buys Provision of services to the community (CPV 7520), and who usually turns up

Wokingham Borough Council’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: Provision of services to the community (CPV 7520) →

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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 buyerWokingham Borough Council · all categories
What to do with it
How often do SMEs win?
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The counts under this question show how many awards have a known supplier size.

Buyer: 34 of 45 known-size awards · market: CPV 7520 · South East England (authority’s region), n=7
76%43%

Small firms have won here. Neither number says whether you qualify; it describes who has been winning.

How often do local suppliers win?
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Local means the winner is registered in the region where that award was delivered. The market figure counts awards delivered in South East England (authority’s region).

Buyer: 8 of 9 known-location awards · market: CPV 7520 · South East England (authority’s region), n=9
89%22%

Most of this buyer’s recorded winners were registered in the region where that award was delivered.

How long to a decision?
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Buyer: 8 decided notices · market: CPV 7520 · UK-wide, n=35
28 days41 days

Half of these awards have an award date within 28 days of the bid deadline.

How often single-bid or direct?
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Both shares are minimums: some awards have no bid count.

Buyer: at least 1 of 33 procurements with awards had no recorded rival · market: CPV 7520 · South East England (authority’s region), n=9
3%56%

Missing bid counts may hide more single-bid awards. This share is a minimum.

How many bids did past lots attract?

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This buyer9 lots with bid counts · all categories
0% had one bid
The market83 lots with bid counts · CPV 7520 · UK-wide
39% had one bid
% of lots with a published bid count: this buyer (9) / the market (83) · select a colour for counts
1 bid0% / 39%
Buyer: 0 of 9 lots with published bid counts. Market: 32 of 83 lots with published bid counts.
2–333% / 47%
Buyer: 3 of 9 lots with published bid counts. Market: 39 of 83 lots with published bid counts.
4–644% / 12%
Buyer: 4 of 9 lots with published bid counts. Market: 10 of 83 lots with published bid counts.
7+22% / 2%
Buyer: 2 of 9 lots with published bid counts. Market: 2 of 83 lots with published bid counts.

How did awards compare with estimates?

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This buyer10 lots with estimate and award · all categories
40% below estimate
The market51 lots with estimate and award · CPV 7520 · UK-wide
29% below estimate
% of lots with an estimate and award: this buyer (10) / the market (51) · select a colour for counts
Below estimate40% / 29%
Buyer: 4 of 10 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 15 of 51 lots with an estimate and award.
Within ±2%40% / 69%
Buyer: 4 of 10 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 35 of 51 lots with an estimate and award.
Above estimate20% / 2%
Buyer: 2 of 10 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 1 of 51 lots with an estimate and award.
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Assess each lot
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Open a lot for its forecast, this buyer’s previous supplier and possible competitors, from published award history, not a bid list

Lot #1CPV 752012 monthsPublished estimate£20k
Expected competition
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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 31 past lots.

—No model forecast yet23% chance of a single bid
Past bids on 31 similar lots
1 bid23%
7 of 31 similar past lots received 1 bid (23%).
2–345%
14 of 31 similar past lots received 2–3 (45%).
4–616%
5 of 31 similar past lots received 4–6 (16%).
7+16%
5 of 31 similar past lots received 7+ (16%).
Comparable past lots usually drew 2 bids.
Commercial price forecast
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No comparable awards for this lot yet.

—No model forecast yet
No comparable awards on record for this lot’s category yet. The published estimate is £20k, and the forecast stays empty until the market has a record to read.

Who has supplied this buyer on similar work?
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No earlier contract of this buyer matches this lot on the published record.

Who could compete for this lot?
i

Candidate suppliers for this notice have not been worked out yet, so this is not a verdict that nobody fits.

About this data
  • Estimates, labelled. The price range, possible competitors and earlier-work matches are our estimates from past awards, not published facts, win chances or price advice. The buyer’s own record and the wider market are shown apart, never mixed.
  • Source. Official UK public procurement notices (Find a Tender and Contracts Finder), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0, updated through the day and rebuilt nightly. Not every figure uses both feeds, and each one shows how many records it rests on: see the methodology. Spotted something wrong? Tell us.

Procedure terms & legal framework

From the official record
Procedure method
Below threshold - open competition
Legal basis
UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
Procurement category
Services
Notice status
Open for tender
Procurement threshold
Below threshold
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
13 Nov 2026, 15:23 GMT
Last source update
13 Nov 2026, 15:23 GMT
FTS notice number
2026/S 000-108119
Latest notice
Tender notice (UK4)
Classification (CPV)
Provision of services to the community
Delivery area
Not published
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-07bbec Find a Tender

How to participate & submission route

Official notice Submit via ProContract (Due North)
Submission portal named on this notice: ProContract (Due North) · Who buys & how to bid on ProContract
Supplier login requiredElectronic submission allowed
Access & registration note: Free · short registration with manual review; public opportunity list
Requests to participate (first stage)
4 Dec 2026
Tender submission deadline
4 Dec 2026
Clarification deadline
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Submission channel
Official e-sourcing portal
Electronic submission
Allowed
Detailed submission instructions & authority contactsFrom official release
Published estimate £20,000 excludes VAT (£20,000 including VAT).

Timeline

13 Nov 2026 → 1 Jan 2027 · 3 dates
  1. Tender notice publishedjust passed
    13 Nov 2026, 15:23 GMT
  2. Today
    13 Nov 2026
  3. Submission deadlinein 20 days
    4 Dec 2026
  4. Contract startsin 48 days
    1 Jan 2027

Notice history

1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender
  1. Tender notice published
    13 Nov 2026, 15:23 GMT
    UK4

Commercial outcome & contract awards

Nothing awarded yet
Awards (0)
No award published
Contracts (0)
No contract published
Bid statistics
No aggregate bid statistics published

Contracting authority & participating public bodies

Wokingham Borough Council

Contracting authorityPublic authority - sub-central government GB-PPON: PNTM-6852-HGRP Civic Offices, Shute End, Wokingham, South East, RG40 1BNContact name, email

Official documents & specifications (1)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure

  • Tender notice tenderTender noticeUK4Tender notice on Find a Tender