Official UK procurement notice
project_10262 - Teacher Regulation Agency (TRA) Presenting Officers Procurement 2027
Authority: Department for Education (Central government)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThe Teaching Regulation Agency (TRA) intends to procure mulitple external legal services to support the investigation, preparation and presentation of teacher misconduct cases, building on the model used under current Presenting Officer (PO) contracts. These services include undertaking proportionate investigations, preparing case documentation for Case to Answer decisions and Professional Conduct Panel (PCP) hearings, and presenting cases at hearings on behalf of the TRA.
*Please be aware that this notice does not signify the commencement of any procurement process and does not constitute any commitment by the Department for Education.
The Department makes no commitment at this stage to the final funding envelope for contractual activity.
CPV: Legal services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1PlannedRenewal
Pipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How Department for Education buys Legal services (CPV 7910), and who usually turns up
Department for Education’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: Legal services (CPV 7910) →
How the contest usually goes
Winner shares use published awards; bid and price charts use contested lots.
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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.
Local means the winner is registered in the region where that award was delivered.
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners were registered in the region where that award was delivered.
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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.
Half of these awards have an award date within 37 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.
Missing bid counts may hide more single-bid awards. This share is a minimum.
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 bid0% / 12%
2–370% / 29%
4–620% / 21%
7+10% / 39%
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 estimate14% / 20%
Within ±2%86% / 57%
Above estimate0% / 23%
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 7910Published estimate£24m
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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 77 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid12%
2–329%
4–621%
7+39%
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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.
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.
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.
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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.
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
- 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 Mar 2026, 15:09 GMT
- Last source update
- 20 May 2026, 15:38 BST
- Authority reference
project_10262- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-046548- Latest notice
- Pipeline notice (UK1)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06676eFind a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
11 Mar 2026 → 1 Feb 2027 · 5 dates- Planning notice published226 days ago11 Mar 2026, 15:09 GMT
- Market engagement190 days ago16 Apr 2026, 23:59 BST
The Teaching Regulation Agency (TRA) is hosting a virtual market engagement event on Thursday 16 April 2026 from 2:00pm to 3:00pm.
The session will be held on Microsoft Teams.
Organisations interested in attending must register for an account on Jaggaer before expressing an interest in this opportunity. Access to the system is available via the Department’s e tendering portal – Jaggaer - education.app.jaggaer.com/web/login.html ↗
Once registered, please navigate to the “Current Opportunities” section and search for:
- Project_ 10262
Once you have located the opportunity, please confirm your interest within Jaggaer.
The next step is to reserve a place at the event using the Jaggaer message facility. When doing so, please include:
- Confirmation that you wish to join the event
- Your organisation’s name
- The name(s) of attendee(s) - maximum of two attendees.
- Email address(es) of attendee(s)
- Each attendee’s role within your organisation
A Teams calendar invitation with joining instructions will then be issued via Jaggaer.
Please ensure the invitation is shared with all nominated attendees.
All communications regarding this event must be submitted via Jaggaer. For any Jaggaer system support request, please contact Jaggaer Helpdesk.
- Latest notice published156 days ago20 May 2026, 15:38 BST
- Tender notice expected25 days ago28 Sept 2026, 23:59 BST
- Today23 Oct 2026
- Contract startsin 100 days1 Feb 2027
Notice history
6 events · 5 releases on Find a Tender · since 11 Mar 2026- Preliminary market engagement notice published11 Mar 2026, 15:09 GMTUK2
- Preliminary market engagement notice published13 Mar 2026, 11:44 GMTUK2
- Preliminary market engagement notice published13 Mar 2026, 12:04 GMTUK2
- Preliminary market engagement notice published13 Mar 2026, 12:19 GMTUK2
- Pipeline notice published20 May 2026, 15:38 BSTUK1
- Status changed to planned20 May 2026, 15:38 BST
Routine re-releases (5)
- 2026-03: 2 releases · 11 Mar 2026, 13 Mar 2026
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 (5)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Pipeline notice Pipeline notice on Find a Tender
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender