Official UK procurement notice
Night Safety Marshall Scheme
Authority: The Police & Crime Commissioner for Sussex (Police & fire)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionPlease note that this is a planned Procurement notice only and not the start of the tender. A Tender notice will be published on or after the 30th September 2026 to commence the tender opportunity and for suppliers to Bid.
Sussex Police, under the Authority of the Police and Crime Commissioner for Sussex, will be tendering for the provision of a Night Safety Marshall Scheme contract with a start date of 1st April 2027, for 1 year with the option to extend by a further 2 x 12 month extensions (ultimate expiry date will be 31 March 2030)
This will be for the provision of Night Safety Marshals in Brighton and Hove Only.
Aim of the Night Safety Marshal Scheme:
Increasing public safety and confidence
Reducing demand on emergency services
Overall reduction in serious violence and knife crime
Increase Partnership working.
Night Safety Marshal Scheme objectives:
To protect our communities by identifying the vulnerable and ensuring they are kept safe.
To prevent serious violence with early intervention and the removal of threat.
To reduce violence against women and girls.
Work alongside local businesses and partner agencies (e.g. Local Authorities, Crime Reduction Partnerships etc.) to make our communities feel safe.
The scheme will be to deploy 8 Marshalls in high harm locations identified by Sussex Police at peak hours of 20:00-04:00 on Friday and Saturdays.
To deliver the Night Safety Marshal Scheme, whilst the Successful Supplier does not have to be a Security Industry Authority (SIA) approved supplier, the marshals deployed as part of the Scheme must be and hold valid SIA Door Supervisor Accreditation.
The budget envelope will be £120,000 excluding VAT per annum.
Further information will be available when the Procurement Notice is published along with the Tender pack.
Please also note that this opportunity is subject to Home Office funding which will not be confirmed until early 2027, Any contract awarded will be subject to the confirmation of funding. If funding is not received then any awarded contract will be cancelled. Any extension under the contract will be subject to Home Office continued funding.
- The authority expects to re-tender this requirement around 21 Aug 2029, 23:59 BST.
CPV: Public law and order services · Public security services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · value publishedLot #1PlannedRenewalPublished value£120,000
- Economic & financial standing
Insurances :
Employers liability insurance - minimum legal requirement where the contractor has less than 5 employees or £5M for any one incident
Public Liability Insurance - £5Mfor any one incident
General liability limitation - £5M per 12 month contract period.
- Technical & professional ability
To deliver the Night Safety Marshal Scheme, whilst the Successful Supplier does not have to be a Security Industry Authority (SIA) approved supplier, the marshals deployed as part of the Scheme must be and hold valid SIA Door Supervisor Accreditation.
The Authority requires the successful bidder to either hold Cyber Essentials Plus or have a minimum of core membership (free of charge) with the South East Cyber Resilience Centre (SECRC). Membership can be secured by registering at the following link. The Cyber Resilience Centre Membership Form The Bidder agrees to register for core membership of the SECRC or already hold Cyber Evidence of this must be submitted alongside your bid.
Data centres proposed to use for this contract must be based in UK Only.
All processing of data by contractors or sub-contractors, including use of support services, those who will have access to the authority's data are UK based only.
Throughout the life of the contract, upon request by the Authority, to complete and return a security questionnaire and provide any security related documentation or certification as required by the Authority.
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How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
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How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
- Economic & financial standing
Insurances :
Employers liability insurance - minimum legal requirement where the contractor has less than 5 employees or £5M for any one incident
Public Liability Insurance - £5Mfor any one incident
General liability limitation - £5M per 12 month contract period.
- Technical & professional ability
To deliver the Night Safety Marshal Scheme, whilst the Successful Supplier does not have to be a Security Industry Authority (SIA) approved supplier, the marshals deployed as part of the Scheme must be and hold valid SIA Door Supervisor Accreditation.
The Authority requires the successful bidder to either hold Cyber Essentials Plus or have a minimum of core membership (free of charge) with the South East Cyber Resilience Centre (SECRC). Membership can be secured by registering at the following link. The Cyber Resilience Centre Membership Form The Bidder agrees to register for core membership of the SECRC or already hold Cyber Evidence of this must be submitted alongside your bid.
Data centres proposed to use for this contract must be based in UK Only.
All processing of data by contractors or sub-contractors, including use of support services, those who will have access to the authority's data are UK based only.
Throughout the life of the contract, upon request by the Authority, to complete and return a security questionnaire and provide any security related documentation or certification as required by the Authority.
Pipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How The Police & Crime Commissioner for Sussex buys Public security, law and order services (CPV 7524), and who usually turns up
The Police & Crime Commissioner for Sussex’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: Public security, law and order services (CPV 7524) →
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No small-firm winners recorded among this authority’s published awards in this sample.
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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.
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Most of this buyer’s recorded winners are registered in South East England.
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How long buyers here take to decide after bids close.
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Half of these awards were announced within 42 days of the bid deadline.
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Past bids do not predict this tender.
1 bid25% / 17%
2–363% / 17%
4–613% / 33%
7+0% / 33%
How did awards compare with estimates?
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Where winning prices landed against estimates.
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Below estimate33%
Within ±2%67%
Above estimate0%
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No supplier is confirmed as a bidder.
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Lot #1CPV 7524Published estimate£120k
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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 33 past lots.
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1 bid21%
2–345%
4–618%
7+15%
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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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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- Procedure method
- Open procedure
- 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
- Yes · next expected 21 Aug 2029
- First published
- 21 Aug 2026, 11:30 BST
- Last source update
- 21 Aug 2026, 11:30 BST
- Award evaluation window
- Submission end – 28 Nov 2026
- Authority reference
JPS3134- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-079824- Latest notice
- Planned procurement notice (UK3)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06e968Find a Tender- Contract terms summary
30 day payment terms upon receipt of a valid invoice with all required backing data to support the invoice.
- Risks
As mentioned above, this contract and any subsequent extensions is dependent on funding being successfully received from the Home Office.
If additional funding is also provided by the Home Office throughout the life of the contract, then the Authority reserves the right to request from the Supplier additional Marshalls in the Brighton and Hove Area or a wider geographic spread across Sussex.
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
- 28 Oct 2026, 12:00 GMT
- Clarification deadline
- 14 Oct 2026, 12:00 BST
- Submission channel
- Official e-sourcing portal
- Electronic submission
- Allowed
- Accepted languages
- en
Details will be published on the Tender Notice on how to bid for this opportunity. This notice is only to alert the market for the upcoming tender.
Those intending to bid can proactively register:
Using the following link in-tendhost.co.uk/sussexpolice/aspx/ ↗ register for In-tend which is the portal that Sussex and Surrey Police undertake all procurement activity on,
log into the portal and in the top right corner there should be a button that says portal.
Scroll down the list to find Sussex Police and click where it says register with organisation.
It should then link you to the Sussex Police where you can access the opportunity once it is live on or after the 30th September 2026.
Timeline
21 Aug 2026 → 1 Apr 2027 · 6 dates- Planning notice published62 days ago21 Aug 2026, 11:30 BST
- Tender notice expected21 days ago30 Sept 2026, 23:59 BST
- Clarification questions by8 days ago14 Oct 2026, 12:00 BST
- Today22 Oct 2026
- Submission deadlinein 6 days28 Oct 2026, 12:00 GMT
- Award decision expected byin 38 days28 Nov 2026, 23:59 GMT
- Contract startsin 161 days1 Apr 2027, 00:00 BST
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Planned procurement notice published21 Aug 2026, 11:30 BSTUK3
Commercial outcome & contract awards
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Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Official documents & specifications (1)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Planned procurement notice Planned procurement notice on Find a Tender