Official UK procurement notice
North Northamptonshire Council call for Expressions of Interest (EOI) for the Provision of a Noise App
Authority: North Northamptonshire Council (Local council)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionNorth Northamptonshire Council (here after referred to as the 'The Council') was formed in 2021 and is one of the largest unitary councils in the country. The council covers Corby, East Northamptonshire, Kettering, and Wellingborough districts.
The Council receives a high volume of noise complaints relating to residential and commercial premises and are seeking clarity on market appetite for the provision of a cloud-based noise/nuisance reporting application and case management portal to ensure measures are in place to assist the Council to assess and investigate noise complaints. This provision would also be required to enable our residents/users to make noise recordings from 30 - 90 seconds, along with video and photographs and the Council to receive/download recordings and associated data.
The Council would like to understand which suppliers are able to provide this provision based on the following overview of the Councils minimum mandatory requirements:
Mobile App
- User/residents download for free and record audio and video evidence. The council do not wish for any advertisement to be part of this provision.
- Workload control by user invite only
- User/Resident can submit evidence directly to the Council
- Supports GPS validation for accurate tracking
- Ability to bypass smartphone noise suppression
- In-app messaging/notifications
- Accessible via Apple App store and Google Play
Case Portal
- Evidence collected is securely stored, meeting data protection requirements
- Validated tamper resistant recordings, which have been proven to be admissible as evidence in court, with a verified audit trail, exportable for legal proceedings
- Supports the Council to triage complaints
- Enables multi-agency collaboration
- Provide analytics on data held and AI-supported safeguarding
- Notifications supported by Microsoft outlook
Any potential provider looking to respond to this 'expression of interest' must be able to deliver the above requirements from day one (1), at this time the Council would not be looking to work collaboratively with a potential provider or develop software.
If you believe your organisation can provide this service based on the mandatory requirements, please contact the Council demonstrating how you can meet the requirements and, if applicable, identify any relevant framework solutions, compliant with the Public Contract Regulations/Procurement Act 2023, to potential support the Council's route to market.
This is an information gathering exercise only to help us understand what options are available and establish a market appetite. The Authority will not commit or be influenced by this information at this stage.
CPV: Noise control services · Noise pollution monitoring services · Noise-control consultancy services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedPipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How North Northamptonshire Council buys Pollutants tracking and monitoring and rehabilitation services (CPV 9074), and who usually turns up
North Northamptonshire Council’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: Pollutants tracking and monitoring and rehabilitation services (CPV 9074) →
How the contest usually goes
Winner shares use published awards; bid and price charts use contested lots.
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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.
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.
Winners with a registered address in the delivery region, out of awards with a known address.
Here, local means registered in East Midlands.
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners are registered in East Midlands. More of this buyer’s work stays local than in this market: 58% against 24%, n=12.
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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.
Half of these awards were announced within 41 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.
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.
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?
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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.
1 bid17% / 17%
2–30% / 25%
4–650% / 24%
7+33% / 34%
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 estimate20% / 32%
Within ±2%60% / 42%
Above estimate20% / 27%
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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.
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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 9074Published estimate£20k
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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 164 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid17%
2–325%
4–624%
7+34%
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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.
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.
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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.
| Supplier | This buyer’s earlier contract | Lot | Award value | Why listed |
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| POhWERLive contract | North Northamptonshire Council - Provision of Independent Advocacy Services in North Northamptonshireruns to Oct 2029 | — | — | Matched as the earlier contract |
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.
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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- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Planned procurement
- 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
- 10 Feb 2026, 16:13 GMT
- Last source update
- 10 Feb 2026, 16:13 GMT
- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-012087- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-064d17Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
10 Feb 2026 → 2 Mar 2026 · 3 dates- Planning notice published252 days ago10 Feb 2026, 16:13 GMT
- Market engagement237 days ago24 Feb 2026, 23:59 GMT
Any potential provider looking to respond to this 'expression of interest' must be able to deliver the above requirements from day one (1), at this time the Council would not be looking to work collaboratively with a potential provider or develop software.
If you believe your organisation can provide this service based on the mandatory requirements, please contact the Council demonstrating how you can meet the requirements and identify any relevant framework solutions, compliant with the Public Contract Regulations/Procurement Act 2023, your organisations have been awarded place on.
This is an information gathering exercise only to help us understand what options are available and establish a market appetite. The Authority will not commit or be influenced by this information at this stage.
Please send all correspondence relating to your expression of interest via email to [email protected] by 24/02/2026.
- Contract starts232 days ago2 Mar 2026
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Preliminary market engagement notice published10 Feb 2026, 16:13 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