Find a TenderPlanned procurement
Published 24 Feb 2026, 11:42 GMT

Official UK procurement notice

Provision of Speech and Language Therapy Support Services

Authority: Glasgow City Council (Local council)

Services
Planned pipeline value£800,000pipeline notice, not a live tender
Tender notice expected 4 May 2026from the planned procurement notice

What is being bought

Published requirement description

Glasgow City Council’s Education Services seek a provider to deliver a Speech and Language Therapy support (SLT) service for children and young people in nursery and primary schools. This service will complement NHS core Speech and Language therapy provision and focus on capacity building, early intervention, and targeted support within educational settings.

The service will operate across Glasgow’s nursery and primary schools with a significant proportion of pupils may experience delayed speech, language, and communication development, impacting literacy and learning.

NHS SLT services provide specialist clinical care, but schools require additional educationally-focused support to:

Build staff capacity.

Implement preventative strategies.

Support vulnerable groups at risk of communication difficulties.

Provide specific individual assessment, intervention and feedback around all areas of speech, language and communication support.

The service will complement NHS SLT provision by focusing on educational environments and universal/targeted & specialist approaches.

CPV: Education and training services

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published

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

How Glasgow City Council buys Education and training services (CPV 80), and who usually turns up

Glasgow City Council’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: Education and training services (CPV 80) →

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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 buyerGlasgow City Council · all categories
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: 9 of 15 known-size awards · market: division 80 · Scotland, n=111
60%60%

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.

Here, local means registered in Scotland.

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

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 10 of 12 known-location awards · market: division 80 · Scotland, n=101
83%63%

Most of this buyer’s recorded winners are registered in Scotland.

How long to a decision?
i

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.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: no decision dates published · market: division 80 · UK-wide, n=386
—38 days

Half of these awards were announced within 38 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.

Both shares are minimums: some awards have no bid count.

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

Last 36 months.

Buyer: at least 1 of 18 procurements with awards had no recorded rival · market: division 80 · Scotland, n=103
6%50%

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.

Last 36 months.

This buyer23 lots with bid counts · all categories
17% had one bid
The market113 lots with bid counts · division 80 · Scotland
27% had one bid
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
1 bid17% / 27%
Buyer: 4 of 23 lots with published bid counts. Market: 30 of 113 lots with published bid counts.
2–348% / 42%
Buyer: 11 of 23 lots with published bid counts. Market: 47 of 113 lots with published bid counts.
4–613% / 17%
Buyer: 3 of 23 lots with published bid counts. Market: 19 of 113 lots with published bid counts.
7+22% / 15%
Buyer: 5 of 23 lots with published bid counts. Market: 17 of 113 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 buyer13 lots with estimate and award · all categories
46% below estimate
The market25 lots with estimate and award · division 80 · Scotland
44% below estimate
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
Below estimate46% / 44%
Buyer: 6 of 13 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 11 of 25 lots with an estimate and award.
Within ±2%54% / 40%
Buyer: 7 of 13 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 10 of 25 lots with an estimate and award.
Above estimate0% / 16%
Buyer: 0 of 13 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 4 of 25 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 #1Published estimate£800k
Expected competition
i

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 113 past lots.

A forecast, not a list of bidders.

—No model forecast yet27% chance of a single bid
Past bids on 113 similar lots
1 bid27%
30 of 113 similar past lots received 1 bid (27%).
2–342%
47 of 113 similar past lots received 2–3 (42%).
4–617%
19 of 113 similar past lots received 4–6 (17%).
7+15%
17 of 113 similar past lots received 7+ (15%).
Comparable past lots usually drew 2 bids.
Commercial price forecast
i

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 £800k, 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
Premium Linguistic ServicesEarlier contractProvision of Translation Servicesnotice published Apr 2025—£4.4mMatched 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 · publisher note attached
Legal basis
CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
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
Yes (GPA)
Recurring procurement
Unspecified in notice
First published
24 Feb 2026, 11:42 GMT
Last source update
24 Feb 2026, 11:42 GMT
FTS notice number
2026/S 000-016401
Classification (CPV)
Education and training services
Delivery area
Scotland (UKM82)
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-065ad6 Find a Tender

Publisher note: NOTE: To register your interest in this notice and obtain any additional information please visit the Public Contracts Scotland Web Site at https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/Search/Search_Switch.aspx?ID=824556. (SC Ref:824556)

How it was run

Official notice
Submission deadline
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Timeline

24 Feb 2026 → 4 May 2026 · 2 dates
  1. Notice published240 days ago
    24 Feb 2026, 11:42 GMT
  2. Tender notice expected172 days ago
    4 May 2026, 00:00 BST

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

Glasgow City Council

Contracting authorityLocal CouncilRegional or local authorityGeneral public services 40 John St, City Chambers, Glasgow, Scotland, G2 1DUContact email, phone

Official documents & specifications

Official links; attachments are not copied

No document links were published on the notice.