Find a TenderPlanned procurementPreliminary market engagement notice
Published 19 Jan 2026, 10:36 GMT

Official UK procurement notice

Out of Court Resolutions in Wiltshire and Swindon - Market Engagement

Authority: The Police and Crime Commissioner for Wiltshire (Police & fire)

ServicesLight touch regimeSME suitableVCSE suitable
Sectors: Health & Social Care (85) Delivery: Delivery location not published
Planned pipeline value£575,000pipeline notice, not a live tender
Tender notice expected 9 Feb 2026from the planned procurement notice
Contract term 5 yrsends 31 Aug 2031 · starts 1 Sept 2026

What is being bought

Published requirement description

We are seeking suitably qualified providers to deliver a comprehensive suite of Out of Court Resolution (OOCR) pathways across Wiltshire and Swindon. This commissioning includes a bespoke womens pathway designed to address the complexity of womens needs through a flexible hybrid model combining in-person and digital provision when required. The suite will also include domestic abuse behaviour change interventions offered both face-to-face and online for DA perpetrators eligible for an OOCR. In addition, we invite proposals for an online interventions package covering a range of offence types to strengthen accessibility, consistency, and responsiveness of support.

To ensure that pathways are effective and contribute meaningfully to reducing reoffending, it is essential that individuals are able to access more than one intervention pathway, especially for the online provision. Offenders often present with multiple, overlapping needs, and limiting access to a single intervention significantly reduces the likelihood of sustainable behaviour change. A flexible, multi pathway model is therefore required to address criminogenic needs holistically and support long-term desistance.

We require access to a comprehensive suite of interventions, including, but not limited to, the following areas:

  • Thinking Skills
  • Consequential Thinking
  • Female-Specific Interventions
  • Youth-Specific Programmes (including child-on-parent violence, anti-social behaviour)
  • Healthy Relationships
  • Shoplifting
  • Substance Use Interventions (Cannabis, Cocaine/Class A, and other substances)
  • Alcohol Misuse
  • Anger Management
  • Wellbeing and Emotional Regulation
  • Impact of Crime
  • Victim Awareness
  • Anti-Social Behaviour (ASB)
  • Domestic Abuse Perpetrator Interventions
  • Hate Crime
  • Assault on Emergency Workers
  • Fraud

Estimated annual referral/caseload volumes:

  • Online interventions: approximately 2,500 referrals per 12 month period.
  • Womens intervention and support: approximately 200 referrals per 12 month period.
  • Domestic abuse perpetrator referrals: approximately 150 referrals per 12 month period.

Collaborative bids are strongly encouraged to ensure a holistic, integrated offer across pathways. We particularly welcome innovative approaches, including new engagement models, digital solutions, evidence-informed practice, interventions tailored for neurodivergence, gender, disability, and vulnerabilities. We encourage creative partnership working that enhances criminal justice outcomes, extends reach, improves participant experience and considers the rurality of the county and its communities.

The anticipated funding envelope for the overall suite of Out-of-Court Resolution (OOCR) interventions is £115,000 per annum for a 5 year contract period (3+2).

Participation in this Market Engagement exercise is voluntary, and non-participation will not preclude any party or organisation from taking part.

The proposed structure of this Market Engagement exercise will be as follows:

  • Initial engagement via Market Engagement Notice (19th January 2026)
  • MS Teams Invite (2nd February 2026)
  • Market Engagement Sessions (4th February 2026)

These individual sessions will take place online via Microsoft Teams, please register your interest in attending and the Teams request will be sent no later than two days prior to the day.

The agenda for the sessions will be a presentation provided by stakeholders from OPCC/ Force, followed by an open Q&A session.

This notice does not formally signify the beginning of any procurement exercise by the Commissioner, nor does it constitute a commitment by the Commissioner to undertake a procurement.

NOTE: To register your interest in this notice please contact the Procurement Representative.

CPV: Counselling services · Guidance and counselling services · Rehabilitation services

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published
Lot #1Planned 5 yrsSMEVCSE

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

How The Police and Crime Commissioner for Wiltshire buys Social work services (CPV 8531), and who usually turns up

The Police and Crime Commissioner for Wiltshire’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: Social work services (CPV 8531) →

1

How the contest usually goes

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

Question for the bid
The marketSocial work services (CPV 8531) · South West England (authority’s region)
What to do with it
How often do SMEs win?
i

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.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 2 of 2 known-size awards · market: CPV 8531 · South West England (authority’s region), n=114
2 of 248%

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

How often do local suppliers win?
i

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 South West England (authority’s region).

A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 2 of 4 known-location awards · market: CPV 8531 · South West England (authority’s region), n=189
2 of 454%

Most of this buyer’s recorded winners are registered in South West England.

How long to a decision?
i

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.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 4 decided notices · market: CPV 8531 · South West England (authority’s region), n=32
90 days53 days

Half of these awards were announced within 90 days of the bid deadline.

How often single-bid or direct?
i

How often work is awarded with no recorded rival.

Direct awards and tenders where every published lot count shows one bid.

The market share is a minimum: some awards have no bid count.

Thin markets produce this too; it is not proof of a tailored specification.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 6 procurements with awards; rival share unknown · market: CPV 8531 · South West England (authority’s region), n=181
—70%

Awards are recorded, but published direct routes and bid counts do not establish this buyer’s share.

How many bids did past lots attract?

i

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.

Last 36 months.

This buyer7 lots with bid counts · all categories
0% had one bid
The market49 lots with bid counts · CPV 8531 · South West England (authority’s region)
22% had one bid
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
1 bid0% / 22%
Buyer: 0 of 7 lots with published bid counts. Market: 11 of 49 lots with published bid counts.
2–329% / 39%
Buyer: 2 of 7 lots with published bid counts. Market: 19 of 49 lots with published bid counts.
4–614% / 27%
Buyer: 1 of 7 lots with published bid counts. Market: 13 of 49 lots with published bid counts.
7+57% / 12%
Buyer: 4 of 7 lots with published bid counts. Market: 6 of 49 lots with published bid counts.

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.

Last 36 months.

This buyer1 lot with estimate and award · broad CPV 85 · too few to chart
The market36 lots with estimate and award · CPV 8531 · South West England (authority’s region)
39% below estimate
Market · select a colour for counts
Below estimate39%
Market: 14 of 36 lots with an estimate and award.
Within ±2%58%
Market: 21 of 36 lots with an estimate and award.
Above estimate3%
Market: 1 of 36 lots with an estimate and award.
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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.

Open a lot for its forecast, this buyer’s previous supplier and possible competitors, from published award history, not a bid list

Lot #1CPV 853160 monthsSME suitablePublished estimate£575k
Expected competition
i

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 49 past lots.

A forecast, not a list of bidders.

—No model forecast yet22% chance of a single bid
Past bids on 49 similar lots
1 bid22%
11 of 49 similar past lots received 1 bid (22%).
2–339%
19 of 49 similar past lots received 2–3 (39%).
4–627%
13 of 49 similar past lots received 4–6 (27%).
7+12%
6 of 49 similar past lots received 7+ (12%).
Comparable past lots usually drew 3 bids.
Commercial price forecast
i

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.

—No model forecast yet
No comparable awards on record for this lot’s category yet. The published estimate is £575k, and the forecast stays empty until the market has a record to read.

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.

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

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.

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
Unspecified in notice
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
19 Jan 2026, 10:36 GMT
Last source update
19 Jan 2026, 10:36 GMT
Authority reference
1118
FTS notice number
2026/S 000-004230
Latest notice
Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
Classification (CPV)
Counselling servicesGuidance and counselling servicesRehabilitation services
Delivery area
Not published
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06086c Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice
Submission deadline
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Timeline

19 Jan 2026 → 1 Sept 2026 · 4 dates
  1. Planning notice published276 days ago
    19 Jan 2026, 10:36 GMT
  2. Market engagement260 days ago
    3 Feb 2026, 23:59 GMT

    Please see procurement description

  3. Tender notice expected254 days ago
    9 Feb 2026, 23:59 GMT
  4. Contract starts51 days ago
    1 Sept 2026, 00:00 BST

Notice history

1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender
  1. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    19 Jan 2026, 10:36 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

The Police and Crime Commissioner for Wiltshire

Contracting authorityPublic authority - sub-central government GB-PPON: PNGJ-9878-JTJD London Road, Devizes, South West, SN10 2DNContact email

Official documents & specifications (1)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure