Official UK procurement notice
Pre- Market Engagement- Commercial & Mixed Use Development Business Case Consultancy
Authority: West Midlands Combined Authority (Local council)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionPre- Market Engagement- Commercial & Mixed Use Development Business Case Consultancy
Dear Supplier
West Midlands Combined Authority (WMCA) are looking to complete a Pre-Market Engagement (PME) to gather information from the market around Commercial & Mixed Use Development Business Case Consultancy.
The questionnaire is available at this link: https://forms.cloud.microsoft/e/YjJHgMj75h
PLEASE NOTE – This is an information gathering exercise rather than a call for competition and therefore publication or response does not commit WMCA or respondents to a future procurement, nor provide any process exemptions or preferential treatment to any parties expressing an interest.
Please also note that this is not a formal PQQ or expression of interest in a tender exercise. This Pre-Market Engagement is to be used purely by WMCA to gather information.
Your responses to this questionnaire will NOT be scored or evaluated in any way and will be used purely for information purposes by WMCA.
WMCA will not be liable for costs incurred by any interested party participating in this exercise.
Please complete your response at this link:
https://forms.cloud.microsoft/e/YjJHgMj75h
Deadline: Can you please complete this PME questionnaire by Monday 19th October 2026 at 12pm.
We look forward to receiving your responses.
CPV: Building consultancy services · Business and management consultancy and related services · Construction consultancy services · Development services of real estate · Financial management consultancy services · General management consultancy services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1PlannedRenewal
- Extensions
- Extension options published
Competition analysis · published record, not a forecast of who will bid
How West Midlands Combined Authority buys Business and management consultancy services (CPV 7941) — and who usually turns up
West Midlands Combined Authority’s own published record, next to the West Midlands market for the same work. Frameworks and DPS are kept out: they attract a different number of bids. Whole-market view: Business and management consultancy services (CPV 7941) →
How the contest usually goes
This buyer’s published record next to the market where the work is delivered — contested contracts only, counted per lot
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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 West Midlands.
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners are registered outside West Midlands.
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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 68 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.
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 bid21% / 24%
2–321% / 24%
4–643% / 20%
7+14% / 33%
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 estimate29% / 29%
Within ±2%59% / 67%
Above estimate12% / 4%
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
Lot #1CPV 7941Estimate not published
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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 51 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid24%
2–324%
4–620%
7+33%
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Where the winning 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 guide, 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 | Match |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | ||||
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.
| Supplier | Won in this category | Live contracts | Award vs estimate | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | ||||
Coverage and what to read with care
- Each figure explains itself. The on a figure says what it is, how it is counted and which scope this notice’s own record came from (class, division, all categories, or the authority’s 24-month row). The two sides are never blended. A lot’s own market is read at its delivery region where the lot names one; where it names several, or none that can be resolved, the chart falls back to the UK-wide record for the same category and says so under the bar. An empty cell means the source published nothing usable. Long form: Methodology.
- When we call out a difference. A buyer figure is only flagged against the market when the sample is large enough that the gap is unlikely to be chance; at most two callouts appear, always phrased as a comparison with both numbers and the sample size.
- Coverage (re-measured 5 Oct on the live record, 94,497 awarded procedures of the last three years). 51 % publish a bid count and 72 % a delivery region, so the market column reads the authority’s registered region when the notice names none, labelled. Of the 17,687 award-vs-estimate pairs, 34 % sit exactly on the estimate — the buyer published the award at the figure it advertised. n is on every figure; a thin sample is muted, never hidden, and a distribution is not drawn as percentages below ten observations.
- “Match”, text similarity, the expected-bid figure and the distribution drawn beneath it are model outputs, not published facts or win probabilities. Find a Tender does not publish who is bidding. Never shown: contact details, payment behaviour, or a recommended price.
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
- 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
- 9 Oct 2026, 12:05 BST
- Last source update
- 9 Oct 2026, 12:05 BST
- Authority reference
project_1264- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-095613- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-0784a7Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
4 published dates · Europe/London- Planning notice published1 day ago9 Oct 2026, 12:05 BST
- Market engagementin 10 days19 Oct 2026, 23:59 BSTPlease complete the questionnaire via the following link: https://forms.cloud.microsoft/pages/responsepage.aspx?id=RetZCK7xCk6e-ubWa7tnL52zi_belZFInt0Zq27ijZxUNFQ4TVg1UFFKVTJLREo5TTExR1YwWU0yOS4u&route=shorturl The specification is available via Bravo (Jaggaer One); the project reference is Project_1264 If not already registered, then register with Bravo via the following link in order to access the project (Project_1264 ) (pqq_267) and the specification: https://wmca.ukp.app.jaggaer.com/web/login.html
- Tender notice expectedin 24 days2 Nov 2026, 23:59 GMT
- Contract startsin 86 days4 Jan 2027
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Pipeline notice- Awards (0)
- No award published
- Contracts (0)
- No contract published
- Bid statistics
- No aggregate bid statistics published
Notice history
2 events · 1 release on Find a Tender · since 9 Oct 2026- Preliminary market engagement notice published9 Oct 2026, 12:05 BSTUK2
- First planning notice published9 Oct 2026, 12:05 BST
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