Official UK procurement notice
Provision of Problem Solving Support
Authority: COLLEGE OF POLICING LIMITED (Education)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThe College are seeking to appoint suitably qualified professional service providers (SPS) to assist forces to develop and implement 'smart; problem solving approaches in knife crime hotspots. This work is to take place in two phases:
Phase one dates TBD
- Assist with the development of problem solving plans in relevant areas, and carry out quality assurance once completed, with structured feedback being provided to the individuals/teams responsible.
Phase two dates TBD but completion prior t March 2026
- Provide tailored support to areas who require additional assistance with the development and implementation of their problem solving plans.
CPV: Administrative services for business operations · Community action programme · Evaluation consultancy services · Personnel-training services · Police services · Public relations consultancy services · Research consultancy services · Safety consultancy services
How this framework works
From the published notice- Type
- Closed framework
- Call-offs
- call-offs are awarded directly to appointed suppliers, without further competition
- Framework period
- 8 mo · up to 1 yr from 3 Aug 2026
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · value publishedLot #1PlannedRenewalPublished value£140,000
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How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
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How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
- “Provision of Problem Solving Support” is a framework: the contest is a place on its panel, not a single contract, and call-offs are awarded directly: getting appointed is the whole game.
Pipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How COLLEGE OF POLICING LIMITED buys Business and management consultancy services (CPV 7941), and who usually turns up
COLLEGE OF POLICING LIMITED’s published record next to the market for the same work. Compared with other frameworks and DPS only. Whole-market view: Business and management consultancy services (CPV 7941) →
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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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.
No winner locations published for this authority. Local means a registered address in 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 63 days of the bid deadline.
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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.
Missing bid counts may hide more single-bid awards. This share is a minimum.
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Past bids do not predict this tender.
1 bid7%
2–324%
4–618%
7+51%
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Where winning prices landed against estimates.
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No supplier is confirmed as a bidder.
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What past awards tell you about each lot.
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No supplier is confirmed as a bidder.
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Lot #1CPV 7524Published estimate£140k
This lot is listed as CPV 7524. The table above uses the notice category.
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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 66 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid8%
2–336%
4–612%
7+44%
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Where the award price may land.
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No comparable awards for this lot yet.
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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- Procedure method
- Below threshold - open competition
- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Planned procurement
- Procurement threshold
- Below threshold
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Framework agreement
- Who may use this agreement
- Not stated in the notice; call-off rights may be limited to the establishing authority
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 18 May 2026, 18:11 BST
- Last source update
- 18 May 2026, 18:11 BST
- Authority reference
COP04_2026- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-045546- Latest notice
- Planned procurement notice (UK3)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-069b66Find a Tender
- Reserved participation area
- K02000001
How it was run
Official notice- Appointment period ends
- 8 Jul 2026, 23:59 BST
- Clarification deadline
- 29 Jun 2026, 23:59 BST
- Electronic submission
- Allowed
Timeline
18 May 2026 → 3 Aug 2026 · 5 dates- Planning notice published158 days ago18 May 2026, 18:11 BST
- Tender notice expected137 days ago8 Jun 2026, 23:59 BST
- Clarification questions by116 days ago29 Jun 2026, 23:59 BST
- Admission / appointment period ends107 days ago · period end, not a bid countdown8 Jul 2026, 23:59 BST
- Contract starts82 days ago3 Aug 2026, 00:00 BST
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Planned procurement notice published18 May 2026, 18:11 BSTUK3
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
- Planned procurement notice Planned procurement notice on Find a Tender