Official UK procurement notice
Provision of Insurance Services
Authority: West Northamptonshire Council (Local council)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionWest Northamptonshire Council would like to invite insurance service providers to an in person preliminary engagement session in respect of the insurance programme for the unitary council and it’s wholly owned company The Daventry Estate Company Limited (TDECL).
The current contractual arrangements are due to end at the end of March 2027. From April 2027 the council will require insurance cover to include:
Property and Business Interruption (including commercial properties, housing and leasehold housing)
Contract Works
Public and Employers Liability
Officials Indemnity
Professional Indemnity
Motor
Crime
Personal Accident and Travel
Computers
CPV: Insurance 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 West Northamptonshire Council buys Insurance services (CPV 6651), and who usually turns up
West Northamptonshire 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: Insurance services (CPV 6651) →
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. The market figure counts awards delivered in East Midlands.
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners were registered outside 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 31 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 bid2% / 14%
2–35% / 53%
4–68% / 33%
7+85% / 0%
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 estimate16% / 72%
Within ±2%53% / 11%
Above estimate32% / 17%
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 6651Published estimate£8.4m
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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 43 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid14%
2–353%
4–633%
7+0%
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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.
| Supplier | This buyer’s earlier contract | Lot | Award value | Why listed |
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| Aspen Insurance UK LimitedEarlier contract | Leasehold/Mortgage Properties Insurance Servicesnotice published Jul 2022 | — | £714k | Matched 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.
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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
- 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
- 26 May 2026, 11:25 BST
- Last source update
- 26 May 2026, 11:25 BST
- Authority reference
WNC00000393- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-048547- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06a2f9Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
26 May 2026 → 1 Apr 2027 · 4 dates- Planning notice published151 days ago26 May 2026, 11:25 BST
- Market engagement141 days ago5 Jun 2026, 23:59 BST
The council will be conducting in person premarket engagement sessions at our One Angel Square offices in Northampton in June and early July 2026.
Event Details
- Dates: 19th June and 6th July
- Times: to be agreed according to interest
- Location: One Angel Street, Northampton, NN1 1ED
This session will provide:
- An overview of the forthcoming tender
- An opportunity to understand the insurance requirements and procurement processes within West Northamptonshire.
- A chance for providers to ask questions and share feedback before the procurement process begins
Sessions will be limited to one organisation with a max of two attendees per insurer. In attendance will be members of the insurance services, finance, property, housing and procurement teams and representatives from Arthur J Gallagher.
To ensure fair access for all providers, we kindly ask that no more than two representatives attend from each organisation.
To express your interest and support us with this exercise, please email [email protected] to register your attendance and for further details by Friday 5th June 2026.
- Tender notice expected85 days ago31 Jul 2026, 23:59 BST
- Today24 Oct 2026
- Contract startsin 158 days1 Apr 2027, 00:00 BST
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Preliminary market engagement notice published26 May 2026, 11:25 BSTUK2
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