Official UK procurement notice
Provision of Open Source Tools
Authority: The Police, Fire and Crime Commissioner for Northamptonshire (Police & fire)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionProvision of Open Source Tools for Northamptonshire Police. The Authority is hoping to engage with the Market to better understand the products/tools available to refine our specification and requirements before any formal tender process.
CPV: IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support · Investigation services · Software package and information systems
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedPipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How The Police, Fire and Crime Commissioner for Northamptonshire buys Investigation services (CPV 7972), and who usually turns up
The Police, Fire and Crime Commissioner for Northamptonshire’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: Investigation services (CPV 7972) →
How the contest usually goes
Winner shares use published awards; bid and price charts use contested lots.
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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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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 69 days of the bid deadline.
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The market share is a minimum: some awards have no bid count.
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% / 0%
2–322% / 60%
4–644% / 20%
7+22% / 20%
How did awards compare with estimates?
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Below estimate42%
Within ±2%50%
Above estimate8%
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 7972Estimate not published
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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 132 past lots.
1 bid9%
2–327%
4–623%
7+42%
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No comparable awards for this lot yet.
Who has supplied this buyer on similar work? i
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| Supplier | This buyer’s earlier contract | Lot | Award value | Why listed |
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| Experian LimitedLive contract | Provision of Financial Intelligence Toolruns to Mar 2027 | — | — | Matched as the earlier contract |
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.
- Source. Official UK public procurement notices (Find a Tender and Contracts Finder), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0, updated through the day and rebuilt nightly. Not every figure uses both feeds, and each one shows how many records it rests on: see the methodology. Spotted something wrong? Tell us.
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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
- 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
- 28 Sept 2026, 07:52 BST
- Last source update
- 28 Sept 2026, 07:52 BST
- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-091223- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-077b13Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
28 Sept 2026 → 11 Jan 2027 · 3 dates- Planning notice published47 days ago28 Sept 2026, 07:52 BST
- Market engagement15 days ago30 Oct 2026, 23:59 GMT
Provision of Open Source Tools for Northamptonshire Police. The Authority is hoping to engage with the Market to better understand the products/tools available to refine our requirements and specification prior to any formal tender.
Engagement meetings to be held in November 2026. The deadline for submitting an expression of interest is 30th October 2026.
If you are interested in attending the Pre-Market Engagement meetings, please complete the requirements section on Atamis and express an interest - northamptonshire-opfcc.my.site.com/s/Welcome ↗
If you have any problems viewing this opportunity or registering your interest, please email Commercial at [email protected]
- Today15 Nov 2026
- Contract startsin 56 days11 Jan 2027
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Preliminary market engagement notice published28 Sept 2026, 07:52 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