Official UK procurement notice
North Northamptonshire Council Provision of Educational Support Services (Framework Re-Opening)
Authority: North Northamptonshire Council (Local council)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionNorth Northamptonshire Council is undertaking preliminary market engagement with providers of Educational Support Services in connection with the potential future re-opening of the Educational Support Services Open Framework. The Framework currently covers Educational Psychology, Speech and Language Therapy, Occupational and Sensory Therapy, Tuition, and Alternative Provision for children and young people aged 0 to 25 years with identified educational needs. The Council wishes to engage with both existing and prospective providers to better understand market capacity, capability, barriers to participation, and opportunities to strengthen the Framework.
CPV: Health and social work services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedWhat it takes to wini
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).
Evaluation split and conditions of participation as published; the tender pack may add morei
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).
- “North Northamptonshire Council Provision of Educational Support…” is a framework: the contest is a place on its panel, not a single contract.
Pipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How North Northamptonshire Council buys Health and social work services (CPV 85), and who usually turns up
North Northamptonshire Council’s published record next to the market for the same work. Compared with other frameworks and DPS only. Whole-market view: Health and social work services (CPV 85) →
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.
Local means the winner is registered in the region where that award was delivered. The market figure counts awards delivered in East Midlands.
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.
Middle value in days from the bid deadline to the award date, on competitions that published both.
Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.
Half of these awards have an award date within 65 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.
Each colour is a bid-count range. Only competed lots with a published count are included.
Past bids do not predict this tender.
1 bid21% / 1%
2–317% / 11%
4–68% / 24%
7+54% / 64%
How did awards compare with estimates?
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Where winning prices landed against estimates.
Awards below, close to or above the estimate, per lot. The buyer side adds below-threshold contracts with a pre-award estimate; an award inside a published range counts as close.
On a framework or DPS, prices are agreed when work is called off.
Past prices are a guide, not a bid price.
Not comparable on a framework or DPS: the price is set later, on each call-off.
Assess each lot i
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
Our matching links this notice to “North Northamptonshire Council Provision of Educational Support Services” of this authority, but none of the 12 panel members sit in a category matching this notice.
Lot #1CPV 85Estimate not published
This lot lists more than one class in CPV 85. The comparison uses that group.
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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 101 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid1%
2–311%
4–624%
7+64%
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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.
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 and Contracts Finder), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0. New notices arrive through the day; the figures are rebuilt nightly. Contracts Finder appears in live search, the Retender Radar, contract pages, organisation counts, the earlier contracts and past suppliers on a tender's competition panel, the buyer's decision figure and its award against estimate; the other analytical figures are built from Find a Tender notices.
- 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.
What this replaces i
Who has done similar work for this buyer.
Past contracts are matched by buyer, title and type of work.
77% title match.
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.
77% title match.
A past supplier may not bid again.
The prior contract this notice most likely re-tenders · matched by title and category (77% title match), the holder is not guaranteed to re-bid
North Northamptonshire Council Provision of Educational Support Services, winner not published; no contract end date published.
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
- Above threshold (FTS publication)
- Regulatory regime
- Light touch regime
- Commercial structure
- Framework agreement
- Who may use this agreement
- Not stated in the notice; call-off rights may be limited to the establishing authority
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 9 Nov 2026, 14:48 GMT
- Last source update
- 9 Nov 2026, 16:02 GMT
- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-106374- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-07b7beFind a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Appointment period ends
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Timeline
9 Nov 2026 → 1 Jan 2027 · 3 dates- Planning notice published23h ago9 Nov 2026, 14:48 GMT
- Today10 Nov 2026
- Market engagementin 16 days26 Nov 2026, 23:59 GMT
Thursday 26/11/2026 at 09:00-10:00
Microsoft Teams meeting
Join: teams.microsoft.com/meet/3712499229147225 ↗
Meeting ID: 371 249 922 914 722 5
Passcode: XV6pQ7JL
Thursday 26/11/2026 at 13:00 -14:00
Microsoft Teams meeting
Join: teams.microsoft.com/meet/3975750501144196 ↗
Meeting ID: 397 575 050 114 419 6
Passcode: Hu9kg3cX
The engagement event will be held virtually via Microsoft Teams. Providers will have the opportunity to hear an overview of the Educational Support Services Open Framework, discuss current and future opportunities, raise questions and provide feedback to the Council. Attendance is voluntary and open to organisations with an interest in delivering one or more of the service categories covered by the framework.
Purpose
The purpose of this provider engagement activity is to:
- Provide an overview of the Educational Support Services Open Framework and the services commissioned through it.
- Discuss the Council's intentions regarding the potential future re-opening of the Framework.
- Seek feedback on the current framework arrangements and procurement processes.
- Understand provider capacity, specialisms, geographical coverage and market challenges.
- Identify barriers to joining and operating within the Framework.
- Promote transparency and encourage a diverse and competitive provider market.
- Contract startsin 51 days1 Jan 2027
Notice history
2 events · 2 releases on Find a Tender · since 9 Nov 2026- Preliminary market engagement notice published9 Nov 2026, 14:48 GMTUK2
- Preliminary market engagement notice published9 Nov 2026, 16:02 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 (2)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender