Official UK procurement notice
Promoting body respect and reducing weight stigma in schools
Authority: Leicester City Council (Local council)
THIS IS NOT A CALL FOR COMPETITION. Leicester City Council (LCC) is considering commissioning a service to promote body respect and reduce weight stigma in primary and secondary schools across Leicester.
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionTHIS IS NOT A CALL FOR COMPETITION
Leicester City Council (LCC) is considering commissioning a service to promote body respect and reduce weight stigma in primary and secondary schools across Leicester. It is anticipated, dependent upon an engagement exercise, that tenders for this service would be sought in January 2027 to enable a new contract to begin from May 2027. As part of the commissioning process, the authority is undertaking a soft market test.
This gives potential providers and other stakeholders the opportunity to express their interest and feed in their views about a potential service model and specification principles. The commissioners will use the information to further develop a specification. This process does not constitute a formal tender or other competitive bidding process and will not result in the letting of a contract. The authority is using this process solely to test the market, gather information and ascertain the level of interest in this particular service. There are therefore no formal criteria which will be used to judge responses, and it is not the authority's intention to provide feedback.
CPV: Health services · Primary education services · Secondary education services
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The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedPipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How Leicester City Council buys Primary education services (CPV 8010), and who usually turns up
Leicester City 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: Primary education services (CPV 8010) →
How the contest usually goes
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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.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners were registered outside the region where that award was delivered.
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Half of these awards have an award date within 56 days of the bid deadline.
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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 bid11% / 29%
2–339% / 43%
4–623% / 29%
7+27% / 0%
How did awards compare with estimates?
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Below estimate44% / 60%
Within ±2%33% / 40%
Above estimate22% / 0%
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 8010Published estimate£175k
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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 79 past lots.
1 bid15%
2–334%
4–629%
7+22%
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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.
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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
- 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
- 13 Nov 2026, 15:23 GMT
- Last source update
- 13 Nov 2026, 15:23 GMT
- Authority reference
SCE0080- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-108121- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-07bbeeFind a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
13 Nov 2026 → 1 May 2027 · 4 dates- Planning notice published3h ago13 Nov 2026, 15:23 GMT
- Today13 Nov 2026
- Market engagementin 14 days27 Nov 2026, 23:59 GMT
THIS IS NOT A CALL FOR COMPETITION
Leicester City Council (LCC) is considering commissioning a service to promote body respect and reduce weight stigma in primary and secondary schools across Leicester. It is anticipated, dependent upon an engagement exercise, that tenders for this service would be sought in January 2027 to enable a new contract to begin from May 2027.
As part of the commissioning process, the authority is undertaking a soft market test. This gives potential providers and other stakeholders the opportunity to express their interest and feed in their views about a potential service model and specification principles. The commissioners will use the information to further develop a specification.
This process does not constitute a formal tender or other competitive bidding process and will not result in the letting of a contract. The authority is using this process solely to test the market, gather information and ascertain the level of interest in this particular service. There are therefore no formal criteria which will be used to judge responses, and it is not the authority's intention to provide feedback.
- Tender notice expectedin 78 days30 Jan 2027, 23:59 GMT
- Contract startsin 168 days1 May 2027, 00:00 BST
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Preliminary market engagement notice published13 Nov 2026, 15:23 GMTUK2
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
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender