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Published 27 Feb 2026, 09:03 GMT

Official UK procurement notice

Preliminary Market Engagement for Asset Management and Computer Aided Facilities Management (CAFM) Software

Official notice Competition analysis

Authority: Derbyshire County Council (Local council)

ServicesAbove threshold
Sectors: Software Packages & ERP (48)IT Services & Software (72) Delivery: East Midlands (UKF1)
Planned pipeline valueValue not publishedpipeline notice, not a live tender
Tender notice expected 1 Jul 2026from the planned procurement notice
Contract term 3 yrsends 30 Sept 2029 · up to 30 Sept 2031 with extensions · starts 1 Oct 2026

What is being bought

Published requirement description

CST265 Preliminary Market Engagement for Asset Management and Computer Aided Facilities Management (CAFM) Software

Please access the project via this link

procontract.due-north.com/Advert ↗

CPV: IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support · Software package and information systems

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published
Lot #1PlannedRenewal 3 yrs
Contract period: 1 Oct 2026 – 30 Sept 2029 (3 yrs) · up to 30 Sept 2031 with extensions
Delivery: East Midlands
Extensions: Extension options published
48000000 Software package and information systems72000000 IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support

Who is likely to bid for this lot ↓

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

How Derbyshire County Council buys Software package and information systems (CPV 48), and who usually turns up

Derbyshire County Council’s published record next to the market for the same work. Frameworks and DPS are left out: they draw different bid counts. Whole-market view: Software package and information systems (CPV 48) →

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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 buyerDerbyshire County Council · division 48
The marketSoftware package and information systems (CPV 48) · East Midlands
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: 7 of 20 known-size awards · market: division 48 · East Midlands, n=370
35%32%

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.

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.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 2 of 27 known-location awards · market: division 48 · East Midlands, n=500
7%9%

Most of this buyer’s recorded winners were registered outside the region where that award was delivered.

How long to a decision?
i

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.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: no decision dates published · market: division 48 · East Midlands, n=32
—68 days

Half of these awards have an award date within 68 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 14 of 29 procurements with awards had no recorded rival · market: division 48 · East Midlands, n=572
48%64%

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?

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 buyer61 lots with bid counts · all categories
13% had one bid
The market29 lots with bid counts · division 48 · East Midlands
14% had one bid
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
1 bid13% / 14%
Buyer: 8 of 61 lots with published bid counts. Market: 4 of 29 lots with published bid counts.
2–328% / 34%
Buyer: 17 of 61 lots with published bid counts. Market: 10 of 29 lots with published bid counts.
4–636% / 38%
Buyer: 22 of 61 lots with published bid counts. Market: 11 of 29 lots with published bid counts.
7+23% / 14%
Buyer: 14 of 61 lots with published bid counts. Market: 4 of 29 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 buyer40 lots with estimate and award · all categories
28% below estimate
The market22 lots with estimate and award · division 48 · East Midlands
64% below estimate
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
Below estimate28% / 64%
Buyer: 11 of 40 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 14 of 22 lots with an estimate and award.
Within ±2%55% / 18%
Buyer: 22 of 40 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 4 of 22 lots with an estimate and award.
Above estimate18% / 18%
Buyer: 7 of 40 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 4 of 22 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 4836 monthsEstimate not published

This lot lists more than one class in CPV 48. The comparison uses that group.

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 29 past lots.

A forecast, not a list of bidders.

—No model forecast yet14% chance of a single bid
Past bids on 29 similar lots
1 bid14%
4 of 29 similar past lots received 1 bid (14%).
2–334%
10 of 29 similar past lots received 2–3 (34%).
4–638%
11 of 29 similar past lots received 4–6 (38%).
7+14%
4 of 29 similar past lots received 7+ (14%).
Comparable past lots usually drew 4 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
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
27 Feb 2026, 09:03 GMT
Last source update
4 Mar 2026, 11:10 GMT
Authority reference
CST265
FTS notice number
2026/S 000-019373
Latest notice
Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
Classification (CPV)
IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and supportSoftware package and information systems
Delivery area
East Midlands (UKF1)
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-065dc0 Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice
Submission deadline
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Timeline

27 Feb 2026 → 1 Oct 2026 · 5 dates
  1. Planning notice published239 days ago
    27 Feb 2026, 09:03 GMT
  2. Latest notice published234 days ago
    4 Mar 2026, 11:10 GMT
  3. Market engagement217 days ago
    20 Mar 2026, 23:59 GMT

    PME will be undertaken in 2 stages.

    Stage 1 is a written response, by 20th March 2026.

    Stage 2 is presentation and demonstration of selected suppliers from Stage 1.

  4. Tender notice expected114 days ago
    1 Jul 2026, 23:59 BST
  5. Contract starts23 days ago
    1 Oct 2026, 00:00 BST

Notice history

2 events · 2 releases on Find a Tender · since 27 Feb 2026
  1. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    27 Feb 2026, 09:03 GMT
    UK2
  2. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    4 Mar 2026, 11:10 GMT
    UK2
Published amendments (1)

Included link to the project advert for suppliers to access.

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

Derbyshire County Council

Contracting authorityPublic authority - sub-central government GB-PPON: PWZQ-2162-JJQL County Hall, Matlock, East Midlands, DE4 3AGContact email

Official documents & specifications (2)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure