Official UK procurement notice
Provision of Catering Services
Authority: The Police and Crime Commissioner for Northumbria (Police & fire)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionInvitation to Pre-Market Engagement (PME): Provision of Catering Services.
Northumbria Police (the Force) are looking to offer an on-site cafe provision at the new proposed Force Headquarters situated within the North-East. The cafe will provide daily breakfast, lunch, coffee / tea and snack services to our staff and visitors and will be open during standard office hours.
The Force are seeking to engage with the market ahead of a potential procurement exercise for the provision of catering services at the HQ site.
The pre-market engagement aims to:
- Understand current market capabilities and innovations,
- Explore potential delivery models and service options, and
- Explore emergency feeding and out of hours vending opportunities.
We welcome input from suppliers of all sizes who can offer high-quality, sustainable, and cost-efficient catering solutions tailored to our operational needs. Commercial details are to be discussed at engagement meetings.
The Force will be conducting engagement meetings with suppliers W/C 12th January 2026 to discuss potential requirements and respond to any queries in relation to the Contract. If you are interested in this opportunity, please contact Danielle Latty, Procurement Business Partner via email on [email protected] to confirm details of your attendees (max 2 people per organisation) and we shall contact you after the 5th January 2026 to arrange a suitable date and time for your engagement meeting.
The engagement meetings will be held at the site of the Force's new Headquarters in the North-East; please note, there are currently no amenities at the building. Details of the address will be provided at a later date. Should you be unable to attend the site on the dates provided, an alternative date may be arranged dependent on the availability of resource and safety of the building.
The above comes with the caveat that all pre-market engagement activities shall be without any commercial commitment or prejudice.
Please note - costs and value of the contract are unknown at this stage and shall be determined depending on the best approach for the Force.
CPV: Catering services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedPipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How The Police and Crime Commissioner for Northumbria buys Catering services (CPV 5552), and who usually turns up
The Police and Crime Commissioner for Northumbria’s own published record, next to the published market for the same work. Frameworks and DPS are kept out: they attract a different number of bids. Whole-market view: Catering services (CPV 5552) →
How the contest usually goes
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How often small and medium firms win.
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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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How often local firms win similar work.
Winners with a registered address in the delivery region, out of awards with a known address.
Here, local means registered in North East England.
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners are registered in North East England.
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How long buyers here take to decide after bids close.
Middle value in days from the deadline to the first award notice, on competitions that published both dates.
Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.
Half of these awards were announced within 53 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.
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How many bids past lots received.
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Past bids do not predict this tender.
1 bid10% / 0%
2–340% / 43%
4–630% / 36%
7+20% / 21%
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 estimate43% / 17%
Within ±2%29% / 40%
Above estimate29% / 43%
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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 5552Estimate not published
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How many bids this lot may attract.
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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 14 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid0%
2–343%
4–636%
7+21%
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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.
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Who has supplied this buyer on similar work? i
Who has done similar work for this buyer.
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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.
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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.
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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
- Unspecified in notice
- 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
- 26 Nov 2025, 17:10 GMT
- Last source update
- 26 Nov 2025, 17:10 GMT
- FTS notice number
2025/S 000-077435- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-05e9a9Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
26 Nov 2025 → 1 May 2027 · 3 dates- Planning notice published328 days ago26 Nov 2025, 17:10 GMT
- Market engagement287 days ago5 Jan 2026, 23:59 GMT
The Force will be conducting engagement meetings with suppliers week commencing 12th January 2026 to discuss potential requirements and respond to any queries in relation to the Contract. If you are interested in this opportunity, please contact Danielle Latty, Procurement Business Partner via email - [email protected] and confirm details of your attendees (maximum of 2 people per supplier) and we shall contact you after 5th January 2026 to arrange a suitable date and time for your engagement meeting.
The engagement meetings will be held at the site of the Force's new Headquarters in the North-East; please note, there are currently no amenities at the building. Details of the address will be provided at a later date. Should you be unable to attend the site on the dates provided, an alternative date may be arranged dependent on the availability of resource and safety of the building.
- Today20 Oct 2026
- Contract startsin 193 days1 May 2027, 00:00 BST
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Preliminary market engagement notice published26 Nov 2025, 17:10 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