Find a TenderPlanned procurementPreliminary market engagement notice
Published 19 Feb 2026, 11:13 GMT

Official UK procurement notice

RFI - Installation of Road Safety Monitoring Systems in Hertfordshire

Authority: The Police and Crime Commissioner for Hertfordshire (Police & fire)

GoodsBelow thresholdSME suitableVCSE suitable
Sectors: Laboratory, optical and precision equipments (excl. glasses) (38) Delivery: Delivery location not published
Planned pipeline value£100,000pipeline notice, not a live tender
Tender notice expected Date not publishedfrom the planned procurement notice
Contract term 2 yrsends 31 Mar 2029 · starts 1 Apr 2027

What is being bought

Published requirement description

The Seven Force Strategic Collaboration Procurement Team is carrying out Preliminary Market Engagement for a Request for Information on behalf of The Office of the Police and Crime Commissioner (OPCC) for Hertfordshire.

The OPCC is seeking information from providers who may be interested in delivering the installation of Road Safety Monitoring Systems across Hertfordshire. The purpose of this exercise is to understand the capability and capacity available within the market before determining the next steps. Suppliers are requested to review the attached Request for information (RFI) document and complete and return. Please refer to this document for further details.

The responses received will support the development of our implementation approach and help identify the most appropriate route to market.

It should be noted that this RFI is not intended to be a call for competition

This opportunity can be found a follows:

  1. Log in to our supplier portal at 7force.force.com/login ↗
  2. Locate the opportunity under the 'Find Opportunities' section
  3. Click ‘Register Interest'
  4. You can then go to 'My Proposals & Quotes' to view the documentation and submit your response.
  5. Once you have completed all relevant Requirement Sections, ensure you click the 'Submit' button to ensure your responses are received by us. Upon clicking 'Submit' you will receive a confirmation email.

CPV: Noise-measuring equipment · Speed indicators for vehicles · Speed limiters

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published
Lot #1Planned 2 yrsSMEVCSE
Contract period: 1 Apr 2027 – 31 Mar 2029 (2 yrs)
Eligibility: SME eligibleVCSE eligible

Who is likely to bid for this lot ↓

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

How The Police and Crime Commissioner for Hertfordshire buys Detection and analysis apparatus (CPV 3843), and who usually turns up

The Police and Crime Commissioner for Hertfordshire’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: Detection and analysis apparatus (CPV 3843) →

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How the contest usually goes

Winner shares use published awards; bid and price charts use contested lots.

Question for the bidWhat 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: 0 of 17 known-size awards · market: CPV 3843 · East of England (authority’s region), n=20
0%30%

No small-firm winners recorded among this authority’s published awards in this sample.

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 East of England (authority’s region).

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

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 1 of 4 known-location awards · market: CPV 3843 · East of England (authority’s region), n=23
1 of 430%

Most of this buyer’s recorded winners are registered outside East of England.

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: CPV 3843 · UK-wide, n=27
—24 days

Half of these awards were announced within 24 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 4 of 25 procurements with awards had no recorded rival · market: CPV 3843 · East of England (authority’s region), n=34
16%56%

Missing bid counts may hide more single-bid awards. This share is a minimum.

How many bids did past lots attract?

i

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 buyer2 lots with bid counts · all categories · too few to chart
The market71 lots with bid counts · CPV 3843 · UK-wide
31% had one bid
Market · select a colour for counts
1 bid31%
Market: 22 of 71 lots with published bid counts.
2–346%
Market: 33 of 71 lots with published bid counts.
4–620%
Market: 14 of 71 lots with published bid counts.
7+3%
Market: 2 of 71 lots with published bid counts.

How did awards compare with estimates?

i

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 buyer1 lot with estimate and award · all categories · too few to chart
The market38 lots with estimate and award · CPV 3843 · UK-wide
61% below estimate
Market · select a colour for counts
Below estimate61%
Market: 23 of 38 lots with an estimate and award.
Within ±2%26%
Market: 10 of 38 lots with an estimate and award.
Above estimate13%
Market: 5 of 38 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 #1CPV 384324 monthsSME suitablePublished estimate£100k
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 71 past lots.

A forecast, not a list of bidders.

—No model forecast yet31% chance of a single bid
Past bids on 71 similar lots
1 bid31%
22 of 71 similar past lots received 1 bid (31%).
2–346%
33 of 71 similar past lots received 2–3 (46%).
4–620%
14 of 71 similar past lots received 4–6 (20%).
7+3%
2 of 71 similar past lots received 7+ (3%).
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 £100k, and the forecast stays empty until the market has a record to read.

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.

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.

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
Legal basis
UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
Procurement category
Goods
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
19 Feb 2026, 11:13 GMT
Last source update
19 Feb 2026, 11:13 GMT
Authority reference
7F-2025-C030
FTS notice number
2026/S 000-015140
Latest notice
Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
Classification (CPV)
Noise-measuring equipmentSpeed indicators for vehiclesSpeed limiters
Delivery area
Not published
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-0657ea Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice
Submission deadline
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Timeline

19 Feb 2026 → 1 Apr 2027 · 3 dates
  1. Planning notice published245 days ago
    19 Feb 2026, 11:13 GMT
  2. Market engagement217 days ago
    19 Mar 2026, 23:59 GMT

    Request for information as per the attached document.

    please note responses are required by 12:00 19/03/2026

    Please note the start and end dates listed in this notice are NOT confirmed

  3. Today
    22 Oct 2026
  4. Contract startsin 160 days
    1 Apr 2027, 00:00 BST

Notice history

1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender
  1. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    19 Feb 2026, 11:13 GMT
    UK2

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

The Police and Crime Commissioner for Hertfordshire

Contracting authorityPublic authority - sub-central government GB-PPON: PPMD-2748-DXXY Harpenden Police Station, 13 Vaughan Road, Harpenden, East of England, AL5 4GZContact email

Official documents & specifications (1)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure