Find a TenderOpen admission Tender notice
Published 1 Oct 2026, 16:08 BST

Official UK procurement notice

QQ26/003 Provision of a Training Provider for the Competence & Conduct Standard (Social Housing regulatory Framework)

Authority: Tamworth Borough Council (Local council)

Framework agreementServicesBelow threshold - open competitionBelow thresholdSME suitable
Framework ceiling (notional)£50,000framework ceiling, not attributable revenue
Admission open until 29 Oct 202612:00 GMT · period end, not a bid countdown
Clarification cut-off 26 Oct 202612:00 GMT · questions to the authority
Framework period 3 yrsstarts 1 Dec 2026
Bids per lot · the market 12division 80 · n=63 · competition analysis ↓

What is being bought

Published requirement description

Tamworth Borough Council is seeking to appoint a suitably qualified and experienced provider to support the council in meeting the requirements of the Government's Competence and Conduct Standard for social housing (2025) which is incorporated into the Regulator of Social Housing's Regulatory Framework.

CPV: Education and training services

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · value published
Lot #1Lot 1 3 yrsSMEPublished value£50,000
Contract period: 1 Dec 2026 — 30 Nov 2029 (3 yrs)Eligibility: SME eligibleDelivery: North East, North West, Yorkshire & Humber, East Midlands, West Midlands, East of England, London, South East, South West
Value
£50,000 exc. VAT · £62,500 inc. VAT
80000000 Education and training services

Who is likely to bid for this lot ↓

What it takes to win
i

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).

Evaluation split and conditions of participation as published — the tender pack may add more
How bids are scored

The Evaluation is made up of Price 50% Quality 45% and Social Value 5% There are 4 Quality Questions.

Competition analysis · published record, not a forecast of who will bid

How Tamworth Borough Council buys Education and training services (CPV 80) — and who usually turns up

Tamworth Borough Council’s own published record, next to the North East England market for the same work. This notice is a framework or DPS, so only frameworks and DPS are compared. Whole-market view: Education and training services (CPV 80) →

1

How the contest usually goes

Left: this authority. Right: the market where the work is delivered. Bids and award-vs-estimate pairs are per lot, from contested frameworks and DPS only — direct awards (including PA 2023 transparency notices) report one bid by definition and are left out. On Procurement Act 2023 notices the count is the tenders assessed at the final stage, not every submission received; pairs compare like with like (VAT-exclusive, or VAT-inclusive on both sides). Empty means nothing was published, not filled in from elsewhere.

This authority

Tamworth Borough Council

framework/DPS notices in 36 months: 2 in all categories (1 without competition)

Bids per lot
i

How many companies usually bid for work like this.

Middle value of published bid counts, one per lot, for this buyer or this region in the same sector.

Based on this buyer’s tenders in all categories, last 24 months: 1 lots. Small sample.

Nothing is filled in from UK-wide numbers. An empty tile means nothing usable was published.

4all categories · 24m · n=1 lots
Single-bid lots
i

How often only one company bid.

Share of lots that received exactly one bid, on the same competitions as the bids figure.

Based on this buyer’s tenders in all categories, last 24 months: 1 lots. Small sample.

High means a thin market or an incumbent that is hard to beat.

0%all categories · 24m · n=1 lots
Award vs estimate
i

Do awards for work like this land above or below the estimate.

Estimate against award per lot, for this buyer or this region in the same sector.

Based on this buyer’s tenders in all categories, last 24 months: 3 pairs.

A past pattern, not a price to bid.

24% belowall categories · 24m · n=3 pairs
Deadline → award date
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.

Nothing published for this buyer in this sector: no award dates published.

Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.

Last 36 months.

—no award dates published
Notice updates
i

How often this buyer changes a notice after publishing it.

Middle number of amendments per notice. Deadline extensions and corrections both count.

Based on this buyer’s tenders in all categories, last 24 months: 24 notices.

Last 24 months.

1all categories · 24m · n=24 notices
Awarded without competition
i

How often this buyer awards without a competition.

Direct or limited awards as a share of its notices that say which procedure was used. These routes are legal in defined cases. This is just the record.

Nothing published for this buyer in this sector: no notices in this market.

Last 36 months.

—no notices in this market
The market · delivery region

North East England · Education and training services (CPV 80)

framework/DPS notices delivered in North East England in 36 months: 66 in division 80 (55 competed, 8 route not published)

Bids per lot
i

How many companies usually bid for work like this.

Middle value of published bid counts, one per lot, for this buyer or this region in the same sector.

Based on this region’s tenders in this industry (CPV 80), last 36 months: 63 lots. 36 lots are from Procurement Act 2023 notices (bids assessed, middle 18.5) and 27 from older notices (bids received, middle 6).

Nothing is filled in from UK-wide numbers. An empty tile means nothing usable was published.

12division 80 · 36m · n=63 lots
Single-bid lots
i

How often only one company bid.

Share of lots that received exactly one bid, on the same competitions as the bids figure.

Based on this region’s tenders in this industry (CPV 80), last 36 months: 63 lots.

High means a thin market or an incumbent that is hard to beat.

5%division 80 · 36m · n=63 lots
Award vs estimate
i

Do awards for work like this land above or below the estimate.

Estimate against award per lot, for this buyer or this region in the same sector.

Nothing published for this region in this sector: not measured on frameworks — a panel award is a ceiling, not a price.

A past pattern, not a price to bid.

—not measured on frameworks — a panel award is a ceiling, not a price
Deadline → award date
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.

Based on this region’s tenders in this industry (CPV 80), last 36 months: 12 notices.

Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.

Last 36 months.

77ddivision 80 · 36m · n=12 notices
SME bidders
i

How much of this market goes to small and medium firms.

SME bidders where buyers published the split, otherwise SME winners.

Based on this region’s tenders in this industry (CPV 80), last 36 months: 41 lots.

Last 36 months.

79%division 80 · 36m · n=41 lots
Winners based in the region
i

How much work like this goes to companies based in the delivery region.

Awards in this category delivered here where the winner’s registered address is in the region.

Based on this region’s tenders in this industry (CPV 80), last 36 months: 59 awards.

Registered address, so a national firm with a local branch counts as outside.

Last 36 months.

75%division 80 · 36m · n=59 awards
Bids per lot robust · n=63
i

How the number of bidders is spread across lots.

Each lot with a published bid count is put in a band: one bid, two to three, four to six, seven or more. Real competitions only.

Based on 63 lots on 21 contested notices · division 80, last 36 months.

  • 1 bid 5%
  • 2–3 14%
  • 4–6 17%
  • 7+ 63%

Middle value 12 · 63 lots on 21 contested notices · division 80.

How procedures are run robust · n=58
i

Which procedures buyers here use.

Notices by the procedure they declare: open, selective, limited or direct. Open and selective are competitions; limited and direct are not.

Based on 66 notices · division 80, last 36 months.

  • Open 74%
  • Selective 21%
  • Limited 5%
  • Direct 0%

66 notices · division 80. Open and selective are competed (they feed the bid and price figures above); limited and direct are not; notices publishing no route are outside all four.

moderate · n=3
i

Where this tender’s estimate would land if the usual pattern repeats.

We apply the buyer’s usual movement between estimate and award (or the region’s) to the estimate on this notice.

Based on 3 lots, so only the direction is shown, not a pound figure.

A benchmark, not a price to bid.

The middle award in Tamworth Borough Council (all categories, n=3 pairs) lands 24% below. Too few pairs to turn into a pound figure with any confidence — read the percentage as a rough direction, not this notice’s estimate converted.
Coverage and what to read with care
  • Each tile explains itself. The on a figure says what it is, how it is counted and which scope this notice’s own record came from (class, division, all categories, or the authority’s 24-month row). The two columns are never blended and nothing is filled from a UK-wide figure; an empty tile means the source published nothing usable. Long form: Methodology.
  • Coverage. Roughly 40 % of notices publish a bid count; about half publish an ITL1 delivery location, so the market column reads the authority’s registered region when the notice has none (labelled). About 30 % of award-vs-estimate pairs are exact matches — the buyer published the award at the estimate. n is on every figure; a thin sample is muted, never hidden.
  • “Match” and “relevance” are model scores from the nightly matcher, not published facts. Find a Tender does not publish who is bidding. Never shown: contact details, payment behaviour, or a recommended price.

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
Open admission
Procurement threshold
Below threshold
Regulatory regime
Standard
Commercial structure
Framework agreement
Competition type
Competitive procedure
GPA / WTO covered
Unspecified in notice
Recurring procurement
No (one-off requirement)
First published
1 Oct 2026, 16:08 BST
Last source update
1 Oct 2026, 16:08 BST
Authority reference
QQ26/003
Latest notice
Tender notice (UK4)
Classification (CPV)
Education and training services
Delivery area
North East (UKC)North West (UKD)Yorkshire & Humber (UKE)East Midlands (UKF)West Midlands (UKG)East of England (UKH)London (UKI)South East (UKJ)+1 more
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-077efc Find a Tender

How to participate & submission route

Official notice Apply via In-tend
Submission portal named on this notice: In-tend · Who buys & how to bid on In-tend
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Expression of interest (EOI)
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Appointment period ends
29 Oct 2026, 12:00 GMT
Clarification deadline
26 Oct 2026, 12:00 GMT
Submission channel
Official e-sourcing portal
Electronic submission
Allowed
Detailed submission instructions & authority contactsFrom official release

Timeline

4 published dates · Europe/London
  1. Tender notice publishedearlier today
    1 Oct 2026, 16:08 BST
  2. Clarification questions byin 25 days
    26 Oct 2026, 12:00 GMT
  3. Admission / appointment period endsin 28 days · period end, not a bid countdown
    29 Oct 2026, 12:00 GMT
  4. Contract startsin 60 days
    1 Dec 2026, 00:00 GMT

Commercial outcome & contract awards

Nothing awarded yet
Awards (0)
No award published
Contracts (0)
No contract published
Bid statistics
No aggregate bid statistics published

Notice history

1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender
  1. Tender notice published
    1 Oct 2026, 16:08 BSTUK4

Contracting authority & participating public bodies

Tamworth Borough Council

Contracting authorityPublic authority - sub-central government GB-PPON: PTDD-5754-QXLV Marmion House, Lichfield Street, Tamworth, West Midlands, B79 7BZ [email protected]

Official documents & specifications (2)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Tender pack and attachments

Notices published for this procedure

  • Tender notice tenderTender noticeUK4Tender notice on Find a Tender