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Published 20 Nov 2025, 14:15 GMT

Official UK procurement notice

Provision of a Resettlement, Orientation and Re-integration Service

Authority: Wrexham County Borough Council (Local council)

ServicesOpen procedureAbove thresholdSME suitableVCSE suitable
Planned pipeline value£1,000,000pipeline notice, not a live tender
Tender notice expected 26 Nov 2025from the planned procurement notice
Contract term 3 yrsends 31 Mar 2029 · up to 31 Mar 2031 with extensions · starts 1 Apr 2026

What is being bought

Published requirement description

The UK Government operates a number of different schemes to people in need of protection from a range of different regions across the globe. In some instances, pledges have been made to the Home Office by local authorities to offer resettlement opportunities and, in other instances, participation is required. The support needs of each scheme share some similarities but there are also several differences so the service must be able to adapt to varied support needs and changing landscape. The service will support both existing supported/resettled families/individuals and new families/individuals arriving.

The service’s main purpose is to support successful resettlement; supporting citizens to settle into their lives in their new homes, including managing their finances and accommodation, accessing services and ultimately being able to live independently and feel part of the community in which they live. This may look different for different families/individuals and for the different schemes. For example, the Homes For Ukraine Scheme is a temporary visa scheme and so people’s needs may differ to those on resettlement schemes who have arrived with indefinite leave to remain.

CPV: Health and social work services · Other community, social and personal services · Recreational, cultural and sporting services

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published
Lot #1PlannedRenewal 3 yrsSMEVCSE
Contract period: 1 Apr 2026 – 31 Mar 2029 (3 yrs) · up to 31 Mar 2031 with extensions
Delivery: UKEligibility: SME eligibleVCSE eligible
Extensions: May be extended for up to 2 years.

Who is likely to bid for this lot ↓

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

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

Wrexham County Borough 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: 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 buyerWrexham County Borough Council · division 85
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: 4 of 7 known-size awards · market: division 85 · UK-wide, n=6,496
57%51%

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.

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

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 20 of 29 known-location awards · market: division 85 · UK-wide, n=8,100
69%75%

Most of this buyer’s recorded winners were registered in 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: 12 decided notices · market: division 85 · UK-wide, n=1,033
24 days51 days

Half of these awards have an award date within 24 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.

The market share is a minimum: some awards have no bid count.

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

Last 36 months.

Buyer: exactly 14 of 23 procurements with awards had no recorded rival · market: division 85 · UK-wide, n=7,412
61%67%

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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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 buyer22 lots with bid counts · broad CPV 85
14% had one bid
The market2,289 lots with bid counts · division 85 · UK-wide
24% had one bid
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
1 bid14% / 24%
Buyer: 3 of 22 lots with published bid counts. Market: 560 of 2,289 lots with published bid counts.
2–350% / 34%
Buyer: 11 of 22 lots with published bid counts. Market: 781 of 2,289 lots with published bid counts.
4–614% / 24%
Buyer: 3 of 22 lots with published bid counts. Market: 546 of 2,289 lots with published bid counts.
7+23% / 18%
Buyer: 5 of 22 lots with published bid counts. Market: 402 of 2,289 lots with published bid counts.

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.

Last 36 months.

This buyer11 lots with estimate and award · broad CPV 85
36% below estimate
The market1,402 lots with estimate and award · division 85 · UK-wide
27% below estimate
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
Below estimate36% / 27%
Buyer: 4 of 11 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 384 of 1,402 lots with an estimate and award.
Within ±2%64% / 63%
Buyer: 7 of 11 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 879 of 1,402 lots with an estimate and award.
Above estimate0% / 10%
Buyer: 0 of 11 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 139 of 1,402 lots with an estimate and award.
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Assess each lot
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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 8536 monthsSME suitablePublished estimate£1.0m

This lot lists more than one class in CPV 85. The comparison uses that group.

Expected competition
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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 2,289 past lots.

A forecast, not a list of bidders.

—No model forecast yet24% chance of a single bid
Past bids on 2,289 similar lots
1 bid24%
560 of 2,289 similar past lots received 1 bid (24%).
2–334%
781 of 2,289 similar past lots received 2–3 (34%).
4–624%
546 of 2,289 similar past lots received 4–6 (24%).
7+18%
402 of 2,289 similar past lots received 7+ (18%).
Comparable past lots usually drew 3 bids.
Commercial price forecast
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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.

—No model forecast yet
No comparable awards on record for this lot’s category yet. The published estimate is £1.0m, and the forecast stays empty until the market has a record to read.

Who has supplied this buyer on similar work?
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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.

SupplierThis buyer’s earlier contractLotAward valueWhy listed
Cardiff CouncilEarlier contractProvision of a Welsh/English Translation and Interpreting Servicenotice published Oct 2024—£900kMatched as the earlier contract

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
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
Standard
Commercial structure
Stand-alone contract (no framework)
Competition type
Competitive procedure
GPA / WTO covered
Yes (GPA)
Recurring procurement
Unspecified in notice
First published
20 Nov 2025, 14:15 GMT
Last source update
20 Nov 2025, 14:15 GMT
Award evaluation window
Submission end – 14 Jan 2026
Authority reference
Proc-24-338
FTS notice number
2025/S 000-075714
Latest notice
Planned procurement notice (UK3)
Classification (CPV)
Health and social work servicesOther community, social and personal servicesRecreational, cultural and sporting services
Delivery area
UK
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-05e59c Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice
Submission deadline
9 Jan 2026
Electronic submission
Allowed
Accepted languages
en

Timeline

20 Nov 2025 → 1 Apr 2026 · 5 dates
  1. Planning notice published338 days ago
    20 Nov 2025, 14:15 GMT
  2. Tender notice expected332 days ago
    26 Nov 2025, 23:59 GMT
  3. Submission deadline289 days ago
    9 Jan 2026
  4. Award decision expected by283 days ago
    14 Jan 2026, 23:59 GMT
  5. Contract starts207 days ago
    1 Apr 2026, 00:00 BST

Notice history

1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender
  1. Planned procurement notice published
    20 Nov 2025, 14:15 GMT
    UK3

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

Wrexham County Borough Council

Contracting authorityPublic authority - sub-central governmentWelsh devolved regulations apply GB-PPON: PJHN-6516-JQNZ Commissioning Procurement and Contract Management Unit, Wrexham, Wales, LL11 1ARContact name, email, phone

Official documents & specifications (1)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure