Official UK procurement notice
Remuneration Committee Advisory Services
Authority: BORDER TO COAST PENSIONS PARTNERSHIP LIMITED (Public body)
Border to Coast Pensions Partnership Limited ("Border to Coast") is an FCA-regulated investment manager headquartered in Leeds, managing assets on behalf of 18 Local Government Pension Scheme ("LGPS") pension funds. Border to Coast is one of the UK's largest pension pools, responsible for the management and oversight of approximately £120 billion of assets.
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionBorder to Coast Pensions Partnership Limited ("Border to Coast") is an FCA-regulated investment manager headquartered in Leeds, managing assets on behalf of 18 Local Government Pension Scheme ("LGPS") pension funds. Border to Coast is one of the UK's largest pension pools, responsible for the management and oversight of approximately £120 billion of assets. The LGPS is one of the world's largest funded pension schemes, with around £425 billion of assets and nearly seven million members.
CPV: Human resources management consultancy services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · value publishedLot #1PlannedRenewalPublished value£750,000
Pipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How BORDER TO COAST PENSIONS PARTNERSHIP LIMITED buys Business and management consultancy services (CPV 7941), and who usually turns up
BORDER TO COAST PENSIONS PARTNERSHIP LIMITED’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: Business and management consultancy services (CPV 7941) →
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.
No small-firm winners recorded among this authority’s published awards in this sample.
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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.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners were registered 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 56 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.
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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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 bid0% / 16%
2–386% / 20%
4–614% / 24%
7+0% / 40%
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 estimate0% / 42%
Within ±2%100% / 49%
Above estimate0% / 9%
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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.
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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 7941Published estimate£750k
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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 277 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid16%
2–320%
4–624%
7+40%
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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.
No earlier contract of this buyer matches this lot on the published record.
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- Procedure method
- Competitive flexible procedure
- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Planned procurement
- Procurement threshold
- Above threshold (FTS publication)
- 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
- 2 Nov 2026, 12:32 GMT
- Last source update
- 2 Nov 2026, 13:19 GMT
- Award evaluation window
- Submission end – 15 Feb 2027
- Authority reference
DN834792- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-103730- Accelerated
- Qualifying planned procurement notice
- Latest notice
- Planned procurement notice (UK3)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-079583Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Requests to participate (first stage)
- 8 Jan 2027
- Submission deadline
- 8 Jan 2027
- Accepted languages
- en
Timeline
2 Nov 2026 → 1 Mar 2027 · 6 dates- Planning notice published12h ago2 Nov 2026, 12:32 GMT
- Today3 Nov 2026
- Market engagementin 20 days23 Nov 2026, 23:59 GMT
Any information obtained through preliminary market engagement will be incorporated into the procurement process in a manner that ensures transparency, equal treatment and fair competition.
Suppliers with relevant experience are invited to express an interest in participating in preliminary market engagement. Feedback may be sought on scope, lotting, contract structure, market developments and procurement approach.
To take part, suppliers should register their interest via the Proactis ProContract portal (procontract.due-north.com/Register ↗) by the engagement deadline. All communication relating to this preliminary market engagement will take place through the portal. Participation in preliminary market engagement is not a requirement for taking part in the procurement and will not form part of the evaluation.
- Tender notice expectedin 41 days14 Dec 2026, 23:59 GMT
- Submission deadlinein 65 days8 Jan 2027
- Award decision expected byin 104 days15 Feb 2027, 23:59 GMT
- Contract startsin 117 days1 Mar 2027
Notice history
5 events · 2 releases on Find a Tender · since 2 Nov 2026- Preliminary market engagement notice published2 Nov 2026, 12:32 GMTUK2
- Planned procurement notice published2 Nov 2026, 13:19 GMTUK3
- Published value published: £750,0002 Nov 2026, 13:19 GMT
- Status changed to planned2 Nov 2026, 13:19 GMT
- Procurement method changed2 Nov 2026, 13:19 GMT
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 (2)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Planned procurement notice Planned procurement notice on Find a Tender
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender