Official UK procurement notice
Maternity Peer Mentoring Service
Authority: London Borough of Hackney (Local council)
This procurement is for a Maternity Peer Support Service in the City of London and London Borough of Hackney. This service will be responsible for the recruitment and management of volunteer mentors, who will provide basic advice, signposting and social support to pregnant people or those in the postnatal period. Prospective providers will need to submit bids responding to questions seeking to assess the quality of provision they can provide, and pricing submissions. The contract is expected to have a maximum value of £237,500 and last for 1 year and 11 months from 1st May 2027 to 31st March 2029. It is not expected that the contract will include any extension options.
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThis procurement is for a Maternity Peer Support Service in the City of London and London Borough of Hackney. This service will be responsible for the recruitment and management of volunteer mentors, who will provide basic advice, signposting and social support to pregnant people or those in the postnatal period.
This service is intended to improve the health and mental wellbeing of mothers and their babies. The interventions are intended to reduce isolation, provide advice and reassurance, as well as support clients to access other key other services early.
Hackney is seeking a partner that can work with our communities to develop a service and cohort of mentors that reflects the full breath of communities in Hackney. This will include delivering an Anti-Racist, Trauma-informed and Systemic service in line with Hackney’s principles which reduces barriers for underserved communities to ensure equity of provision.
The procurement is expected to be run as an Open Competitive Tender under the Procurement Act 2023. Prospective providers will need to submit bids responding to questions seeking to assess the quality of provision they can provide, and pricing submissions. Further details will be provided at the market engagement event, and full details within the tender pack.
The contract is expected to have a maximum value of £237,500 and last for 1 year and 11 months from 1st May 2027 to 31st March 2029. It is not expected that the contract will include any extension options.
CPV: Community health services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedPipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How London Borough of Hackney buys Social services (CPV 8532), and who usually turns up
London Borough of Hackney’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: Social services (CPV 8532) →
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.
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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.
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Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.
Half of these awards have an award date within 83 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.
Thin markets produce this too; it is not proof of a tailored specification.
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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How many bids past lots received.
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Past bids do not predict this tender.
1 bid9% / 28%
2–327% / 37%
4–655% / 26%
7+9% / 9%
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.
Past prices are a guide, not a bid price.
Below estimate46% / 10%
Within ±2%8% / 90%
Above estimate46% / 0%
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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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What past awards tell you about each lot.
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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 8532Published estimate£238k
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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 43 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid28%
2–337%
4–626%
7+9%
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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
Who has done similar work for this buyer.
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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. Contracts Finder contracts appear on the Retender Radar, not yet in these figures.
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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
- Below threshold
- 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
- 5 Nov 2026, 15:19 GMT
- Last source update
- 5 Nov 2026, 15:19 GMT
- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-105331- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-07b58dFind a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
5 Nov 2026 → 1 May 2027 · 4 dates- Planning notice published7h ago5 Nov 2026, 15:19 GMT
- Today5 Nov 2026
- Market engagementin 11 days16 Nov 2026, 23:59 GMT
A market engagement event will be held on Tuesday 17th November 2026, from 15:00 till 16:30. This event will be held virtually and information will be provided on:
The expected maximum contract value and length
Expected requirements of the service
Expected cohorts to be supported by the service
Expected assessment criteria
Expected procurement timeline
Question and answer section
If you wish to attend please email [email protected] and [email protected] by 17:00 on Monday 16th November to receive the joining information for the virtual meeting. You can also email questions for the question and answer session in advance.
The slides from this meeting and a record of the question and answer section will be made available to all attendees after the market engagement event using the emails they register with. These documents can also be requested by emailing [email protected], until the tender is published. Once the tender is published these documents will be available within the tender pack.
- Tender notice expectedin 32 days7 Dec 2026, 23:59 GMT
- Contract startsin 176 days1 May 2027, 00:00 BST
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Preliminary market engagement notice published5 Nov 2026, 15:19 GMTUK2
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
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