Official UK procurement notice
Prison Based Social Workers 2026
Authority: Ministry of Justice (Central government)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionHMPPS Women’s Group is seeking a supplier capable of delivering a high-quality, trauma-informed, gender-responsive and professionally supervised social work service that contributes to improved outcomes for women, children and families.
The service forms part of HMPPS Women’s Group's wider commitment to improving outcomes for women in custody, strengthening family ties, supporting child welfare, promoting the best interests of the child, and reducing the intergenerational impact of offending.
CPV: Social work services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedPipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How Ministry of Justice buys Social work services (CPV 8531), and who usually turns up
Ministry of Justice’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: Social work services (CPV 8531) →
How the contest usually goes
Winner shares use published awards; bid and price charts use contested lots.
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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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Local means the winner is registered in the region where that award was delivered.
No winner locations published for this authority. Local means a registered address in the region where that award was delivered.
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Half of these awards have an award date within 50 days of the bid deadline.
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Both shares are minimums: some awards have no bid count.
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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1 bid7% / 27%
2–356% / 35%
4–624% / 23%
7+13% / 16%
How did awards compare with estimates?
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Below estimate54% / 25%
Within ±2%29% / 67%
Above estimate18% / 8%
Assess each lot i
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Open a lot for its forecast, this buyer’s previous supplier and possible competitors, from published award history, not a bid list
Lot #1CPV 8531Published estimate£1.6m
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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 482 past lots.
1 bid27%
2–335%
4–623%
7+16%
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No comparable awards for this lot yet.
Who has supplied this buyer on similar work? i
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No earlier contract of this buyer matches this lot on the published record.
Who could compete for this lot? i
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Candidate suppliers for this notice have not been worked out yet, so this is not a verdict that nobody fits.
About this data
- Estimates, labelled. The price range, possible competitors and earlier-work matches are our estimates from past awards, not published facts, win chances or price advice. The buyer’s own record and the wider market are shown apart, never mixed.
- Source. Official UK public procurement notices (Find a Tender and Contracts Finder), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0, updated through the day and rebuilt nightly. Not every figure uses both feeds, and each one shows how many records it rests on: see the methodology. Spotted something wrong? Tell us.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Procedure method
- Open procedure
- 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
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 11 Nov 2026, 09:04 GMT
- Last source update
- 11 Nov 2026, 09:04 GMT
- Authority reference
prj_18764- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-106928- Latest notice
- Pipeline notice (UK1)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-07b91dFind a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
11 Nov 2026 → 1 Feb 2027 · 3 dates- Planning notice published2 days ago11 Nov 2026, 09:04 GMT
- Today13 Nov 2026
- Tender notice expectedin 18 days1 Dec 2026, 23:59 GMT
- Contract startsin 79 days1 Feb 2027
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Pipeline notice published11 Nov 2026, 09:04 GMTUK1
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 (1)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Pipeline notice Pipeline notice on Find a Tender