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Published 27 Jul 2026, 17:09 BST

Official UK procurement notice

Pre Market Engagement for the Procurement of Food Supply for Adult Social Care In-House Respite

Official notice Competition analysis

Authority: Gloucestershire County Council- (Local council)

ServicesBelow thresholdSME suitableVCSE suitable
Sectors: Health & Social Care (85) Delivery: South West (UKK13)
Planned pipeline valueValue not publishedpipeline notice, not a live tender
Tender notice expected Date not publishedfrom the planned procurement notice
Contract term 11 moends 30 Sept 2027 · starts 30 Oct 2026

What is being bought

Published requirement description

Gloucestershire County Council (GCC) is undertaking a procurement exercise to establish a formal contract for the supply and delivery of food products to its Adult Social Care (ASC) In-House Respite Services.

THIS IS NOT A CALL FOR COMPETITION

CPV: Health and social work services

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published
Lot #1Planned 11 moSMEVCSE
Contract period: 30 Oct 2026 – 30 Sept 2027 (11 mo)
Delivery: South WestEligibility: SME eligibleVCSE eligible
85000000 Health and social work services

Who is likely to bid for this lot ↓

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

How Gloucestershire County Council- buys Health and social work services (CPV 85), and who usually turns up

Gloucestershire County 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: Health and social work services (CPV 85) →

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How the contest usually goes

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

Question for the bid
This buyerGloucestershire County Council- · division 85
The marketHealth and social work services (CPV 85) · South West England
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: 69 of 85 known-size awards · market: division 85 · South West England, n=1,787
81%43%

Small firms have won here. Neither number says whether you qualify; it describes who has been winning. Small firms win more of this buyer’s work than the market’s: 81% against 43%, n=85.

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.

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

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 105 of 108 known-location awards · market: division 85 · South West England, n=2,567
97%63%

Most of this buyer’s recorded winners are registered in South West England. More of this buyer’s work stays local than in this market: 97% against 63%, n=108.

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: 6 decided notices · market: division 85 · South West England, n=64
38 days50 days

Half of these awards were announced within 38 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.

Both shares are minimums: some awards have no bid count.

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

Last 36 months.

Buyer: at least 4 of 21 procurements with awards had no recorded rival · market: division 85 · South West England, n=2,192
19%87%

Missing bid counts may hide more single-bid awards. This share is a minimum.

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 buyer17 lots with bid counts · broad CPV 85
35% had one bid
The market223 lots with bid counts · division 85 · South West England
21% had one bid
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
1 bid35% / 21%
Buyer: 6 of 17 lots with published bid counts. Market: 46 of 223 lots with published bid counts.
2–335% / 42%
Buyer: 6 of 17 lots with published bid counts. Market: 93 of 223 lots with published bid counts.
4–624% / 21%
Buyer: 4 of 17 lots with published bid counts. Market: 47 of 223 lots with published bid counts.
7+6% / 17%
Buyer: 1 of 17 lots with published bid counts. Market: 37 of 223 lots with published bid counts.

How did awards compare with estimates?

i

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 buyer11 lots with estimate and award · broad CPV 85
27% below estimate
The market147 lots with estimate and award · division 85 · South West England
29% below estimate
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
Below estimate27% / 29%
Buyer: 3 of 11 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 43 of 147 lots with an estimate and award.
Within ±2%73% / 69%
Buyer: 8 of 11 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 101 of 147 lots with an estimate and award.
Above estimate0% / 2%
Buyer: 0 of 11 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 3 of 147 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 #111 monthsSME suitableEstimate not published
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 223 past lots.

A forecast, not a list of bidders.

—No model forecast yet21% single-bid risk
Past bids on 223 similar lots
1 bid21%
46 of 223 similar past lots received 1 bid (21%).
2–342%
93 of 223 similar past lots received 2–3 (42%).
4–621%
47 of 223 similar past lots received 4–6 (21%).
7+17%
37 of 223 similar past lots received 7+ (17%).
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.

—Estimate not published
The buyer published no estimate for this lot, so there is nothing to forecast against. A price prediction here would be a number about a number we do not have.

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
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
27 Jul 2026, 17:09 BST
Last source update
31 Jul 2026, 09:47 BST
FTS notice number
2026/S 000-072505
Latest notice
Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
Classification (CPV)
Health and social work services
Delivery area
South West (UKK13)
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06d49f Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice
Submission deadline
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Timeline

27 Jul 2026 → 30 Oct 2026 · 4 dates
  1. Planning notice published86 days ago
    27 Jul 2026, 17:09 BST
  2. Latest notice published82 days ago
    31 Jul 2026, 09:47 BST
  3. Market engagement50 days ago
    31 Aug 2026, 23:59 BST

    Gloucestershire County Council (GCC) is undertaking a procurement exercise to establish a formal contract for the supply and delivery of food products to its Adult Social Care (ASC) In-House Respite Services.

    We are seeking to better understand the supplier market and gather insight to inform the development of our procurement approach, specification, and contract model.

    To support this, we are inviting suppliers to complete a questionnaire and share feedback, experience, and suggestions.

    If you are interested in working with us to deliver this service to the people of Gloucestershire or you would like to share past or current experience delivering the same service please contact us at the following email address and we will send out the questionnaire:

    [email protected]

  4. Today
    21 Oct 2026
  5. Contract startsin 9 days
    30 Oct 2026

Notice history

2 events · 2 releases on Find a Tender · since 27 Jul 2026
  1. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    27 Jul 2026, 17:09 BST
    UK2
  2. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    31 Jul 2026, 09:47 BST
    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

Gloucestershire County Council

Contracting authorityPublic authority - sub-central government GB-PPON: PZHT-7473-ZVPN Shire Hall, Westgate Street, Gloucester, South West, GL1 2TGContact name, email

Official documents & specifications (2)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure