Find a TenderPlanned procurementPreliminary market engagement notice

Published 12 Nov 2026, 14:40 GMT

Official UK procurement notice

NEX26/74 (Skills & Learning Review Pre Market Engagement)

Official notice

Competition analysis

Authority: Tyne and Wear Passenger Transport Executive T/A Nexus (Public body)

ServicesUtilities

Sectors: IT Services & Software (72) Delivery: North East (UKC)

Planned pipeline valueValue not publishedpipeline notice, not a live tender

Tender notice expected Date not publishedfrom the planned procurement notice

Contract term 6 moends 30 Jun 2027 · starts 1 Jan 2027

Notice summaryFrom the published notice

Nexus is seeking market engagement feedback regarding a potential requirement to undertake an independent Skills & Learning review of existing learning, competency and workforce capability systems to determine:-. The purpose of this pre market engagement is to obtain supplier feedback on the scope, delivery approaches, timescales, and indicative costs.

What is being bought

Published requirement description

What information is currently held and where
How effectively current systems meet business requirements
Whether systems can and should be consolidated
Whether existing investments can be better utilised
Future system requirements to support strategic workforce planning
The potential costs, risks and benefits of alternative approaches

The purpose of this pre market engagement is to obtain supplier feedback on the scope, delivery approaches, timescales, and indicative costs.

CPV: Systems and technical consultancy services

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The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published

Lot #1Planned 6 mo

Contract period: 1 Jan 2027 – 30 Jun 2027 (6 mo)

Delivery: North East

72220000 Systems and technical consultancy services

Who is likely to bid for this lot ↓

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

How Tyne and Wear Passenger Transport Executive T/A Nexus buys Systems and technical consultancy services (CPV 7222), and who usually turns up

Tyne and Wear Passenger Transport Executive T/A Nexus’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: Systems and technical consultancy services (CPV 7222) →

How the contest usually goes

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

Question for the bid

This buyerTyne and Wear Passenger Transport Executive T/A Nexus · all categories

The marketSystems and technical consultancy services (CPV 7222) · North East England

What to do with it

How often do SMEs win?

The counts under this question show how many awards have a known supplier size.

Buyer: 107 of 153 known-size awards · market: CPV 7222 · North East England, n=87

70%60%

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

How often do local suppliers win?

Local means the winner is registered in the region where that award was delivered. The market figure counts awards delivered in North East England.

Buyer: 166 of 201 known-location awards · market: CPV 7222 · North East England, n=100

83%5%

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

How long to a decision?

Buyer: 15 decided notices · market: CPV 7222 · North East England, n=8

40 days42 days

Half of these awards have an award date within 40 days of the bid deadline.

How often single-bid or direct?

Both shares are minimums: some awards have no bid count.

Buyer: at least 11 of 24 procurements with awards had no recorded rival · market: CPV 7222 · North East England, n=115

46%64%

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?

This buyer135 lots with bid counts · all categories

4% had one bid

The market11 lots with bid counts · CPV 7222 · North East England

9% had one bid

% of lots with a published bid count: this buyer (135) / the market (11) · select a colour for counts

1 bid4% / 9%

Buyer: 6 of 135 lots with published bid counts. Market: 1 of 11 lots with published bid counts.

2–324% / 45%

Buyer: 32 of 135 lots with published bid counts. Market: 5 of 11 lots with published bid counts.

4–670% / 18%

Buyer: 95 of 135 lots with published bid counts. Market: 2 of 11 lots with published bid counts.

7+1% / 27%

Buyer: 2 of 135 lots with published bid counts. Market: 3 of 11 lots with published bid counts.

How did awards compare with estimates?

This buyer71 lots with estimate and award · all categories

8% below estimate

The market10 lots with estimate and award · CPV 7222 · North East England

20% below estimate

% of lots with an estimate and award: this buyer (71) / the market (10) · select a colour for counts

Below estimate8% / 20%

Buyer: 6 of 71 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 2 of 10 lots with an estimate and award.

Within ±2%23% / 60%

Buyer: 16 of 71 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 6 of 10 lots with an estimate and award.

Above estimate69% / 20%

Buyer: 49 of 71 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 2 of 10 lots with an estimate and award.

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 72226 monthsEstimate not published

Expected competition

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 11 past lots.

—No model forecast yet9% chance of a single bid

Past bids on 11 similar lots

1 bid9%

1 of 11 similar past lots received 1 bid (9%).

2–345%

5 of 11 similar past lots received 2–3 (45%).

4–618%

2 of 11 similar past lots received 4–6 (18%).

7+27%

3 of 11 similar past lots received 7+ (27%).

Comparable past lots usually drew 3 bids.

Commercial price forecast

No comparable awards for this lot yet.

—Estimate not published

The buyer published no estimate for this lot, so there is nothing to forecast against. A price prediction here would be a number about a number we do not have.

Who has supplied this buyer on similar work?
i

No earlier contract of this buyer matches this lot on the published record.

Who could compete for this lot?
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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

Legal basis: UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
Procurement category: Services
Notice status: Planned procurement
Procurement threshold: Unspecified in notice
Regulatory regime: Utilities
Commercial structure: Stand-alone contract (no framework)
Competition type: Competitive procedure
GPA / WTO covered: Unspecified in notice
Recurring procurement: Unspecified in notice
First published: 12 Nov 2026, 14:40 GMT
Last source update: 12 Nov 2026, 14:40 GMT
Authority reference: NEX26/74
FTS notice number: 2026/S 000-107611
Latest notice: Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
Classification (CPV): Systems and technical consultancy services
Delivery area: North East (UKC)
Official registry OCID: ocds-h6vhtk-07bab3 Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice

Submission deadline: —

Timeline

12 Nov 2026 → 23 Nov 2027 · 3 dates

Planning notice published18h ago
12 Nov 2026, 14:40 GMT
Today
13 Nov 2026
Contract startsin 48 days
1 Jan 2027
Market engagementin 375 days
23 Nov 2027, 23:59 GMT
Suppliers are invited to comment on the proposed scope and respond to questions, whilst suggesting any amendments or additional activities they would typically undertake as part of this service.
Please submit responses to the questionnaire, etc to via the OPEN procurement portal project reference NEX26/74 Skills & Learning Systems Review Pre Market Engagement by 23/11/2026.
www.open-uk.org/projects/overview/f7… ↗

Notice history

1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender

Preliminary market engagement notice published
12 Nov 2026, 14:40 GMT
UK2

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

Tyne and Wear Passenger Transport Executive T/A Nexus

Contracting authorityPublic undertaking GB-PPON: PNTB-4383-VMJH The Spark, Newcastle Helix, St James Boulevard, Newcastle upon Tyne, North East, NE4 5DEContact name, email

Official documents & specifications (1)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure

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