Find a TenderPlanned procurementPreliminary market engagement notice
Published 18 May 2026, 12:21 BST

Official UK procurement notice

Rhaglenni Lleihau Risg o Waharddiadau Addysgiadol / Reducing Risk of Education Exclusion Programmes

Authority: Flintshire County Council (Local council)

ServicesBelow thresholdLight touch regimeSME suitableVCSE suitable
Planned pipeline value£1pipeline notice, not a live tender
Tender notice expected 3 Aug 2026from the planned procurement notice
Contract term 7 moends 31 Mar 2027 · starts 1 Sept 2026

What is being bought

Published requirement description

Mae Gwasanaeth Cyfiawnder Ieuenctid Sir y Fflint gyda phartneriaid yn y Gwasanaeth Ieuenctid ac Addysg yn dymuno archwilio cyfleoedd i gydweithio â sefydliadau allai gyflawni ar y cyd â rhaglenni’r Awdurdod Lleol i gefnogi plant mewn perygl o gael eu gwahardd o’r ysgol.

Yn ddelfrydol, bydd y rhaglenni’n cael eu hanelu at flynyddoedd 9-11 yn yr ysgol uwchradd a;

  • Gellid eu cyflwyno wyneb yn wyneb yn yr ysgol neu mewn lleoliadau cymunedol,
  • Byddai’r gwaith cyflawni yn hyblyg ac yn canolbwyntio ar gyfnod byr o ymgysylltu (4-6 wythnos).
  • Byddai’r gwaith yn cael ei ddarparu ar y cyd â staff yr Awdurdod Lleol a’r darparwr.
  • Yn gallu ymateb i anghenion y disgyblion.
  • Dylai ymyraethau hyrwyddo datblygu gwytnwch a chryfhau perthnasoedd ond gallant hefyd ystyried y themâu cyd-destunol ehangach megis trais ymysg pobl ifanc a chamfanteisio.
  • Canolbwyntio ar ddatblygu cryfderau ac archwilio cysylltiadau ehangach â’r gymuned.
  • Dylai fod gan ymyraethau ddangosyddion perfformiad allweddol / canlyniadau a dulliau o werthuso wedi’i cynnwys er mwyn gallu mesur effaith.

Flintshire Youth Justice Service with partners in Youth Service and Education are seeking to explore opportunities to collaborate with organisations who may deliver in conjunction with the local authority programmes to support children at risk of exclusion from school.

Programmes would ideally be aimed at secondary years 9-11 and;

  • Could be delivered face to face within school / community settings,
  • Delivery would be flexible and focused on a short period of engagement (4-6 weeks)
  • Delivered in conjunction with local authority staff and provider.
  • Has flexibility to respond to needs of the cohort.
  • Interventions should promote the building of resilience and strengthening relationships but may also include consideration to wider contextual themes such as youth violence and exploitation.
  • Focus on developing strengths and explore wider connections to the community.
  • Interventions should have key performance indicators / deliverables and have evaluation method built in to measure impact.

Please note that the funding available for the project are low.

CPV: Adult and other education services · Other community, social and personal services · Secondary education services · Youth education services

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published

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

How Flintshire County Council buys Youth education services (CPV 8031), and who usually turns up

Flintshire County 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: Youth education services (CPV 8031) →

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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 buyerFlintshire County 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: 12 of 19 known-size awards · market: CPV 8031 · UK-wide, n=16
63%38%

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 the winner is registered in the region where that contract was delivered.

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

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 30 of 51 known-location awards · market: CPV 8031 · UK-wide, n=24
59%83%

Most of this buyer’s recorded winners are registered in Wales (Cymru).

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: 10 decided notices · market: division 80 · Wales (Cymru), n=32
22 days62 days

Half of these awards were announced within 22 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 13 of 42 procurements with awards had no recorded rival · market: CPV 8031 · UK-wide, n=24
31%58%

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.

Last 36 months.

This buyer34 lots with bid counts · all categories
18% had one bid
The market8 lots with bid counts · CPV 8031 · UK-wide
38% had one bid
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
1 bid18% / 38%
Buyer: 6 of 34 lots with published bid counts. Market: 3 of 8 lots with published bid counts.
2–347% / 13%
Buyer: 16 of 34 lots with published bid counts. Market: 1 of 8 lots with published bid counts.
4–632% / 25%
Buyer: 11 of 34 lots with published bid counts. Market: 2 of 8 lots with published bid counts.
7+3% / 25%
Buyer: 1 of 34 lots with published bid counts. Market: 2 of 8 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 buyer6 lots with estimate and award · all categories
0% below estimate
The market8 lots with estimate and award · CPV 8031 · UK-wide
13% below estimate
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
Below estimate0% / 13%
Buyer: 0 of 6 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 1 of 8 lots with an estimate and award.
Within ±2%83% / 75%
Buyer: 5 of 6 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 6 of 8 lots with an estimate and award.
Above estimate17% / 13%
Buyer: 1 of 6 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 1 of 8 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 80317 monthsSME suitableNo real estimate
Expected competition
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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 54 past lots.

A forecast, not a list of bidders.

—No model forecast yet19% single-bid risk
Past bids on 54 similar lots
1 bid19%
10 of 54 similar past lots received 1 bid (19%).
2–337%
20 of 54 similar past lots received 2–3 (37%).
4–628%
15 of 54 similar past lots received 4–6 (28%).
7+17%
9 of 54 similar past lots received 7+ (17%).
Comparable past lots usually drew 3 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 real estimate
The buyer published £1 as the estimate (a placeholder, not the contract’s value), so there is nothing to forecast against.

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
Services
Notice status
Planned procurement
Procurement threshold
Below threshold
Regulatory regime
Light touch regime
Commercial structure
Stand-alone contract (no framework)
Competition type
Competitive procedure
GPA / WTO covered
Unspecified in notice
Recurring procurement
Unspecified in notice
First published
18 May 2026, 12:21 BST
Last source update
18 May 2026, 12:21 BST
FTS notice number
2026/S 000-045312
Latest notice
Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
Classification (CPV)
Adult and other education servicesOther community, social and personal servicesSecondary education servicesYouth education services
Delivery area
Wales (UKL23)
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-069adf Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice
Submission deadline
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Timeline

18 May 2026 → 1 Sept 2026 · 4 dates
  1. Planning notice published156 days ago
    18 May 2026, 12:21 BST
  2. Market engagement138 days ago
    5 Jun 2026, 23:59 BST

    Rydym yn ceisio deall beth sydd ar gael yn y farchnad ar hyn o bryd. Rydym ni’n gwahodd cyflenwyr i ddarparu dadansoddiad o brif nodweddion eu hymyraethau.

    Mae gwerth y contract yn isel.

    Nid ydym yn gwarantu y bydd yr ymarfer hwn yn arwain at ymarfer caffael.

    E-bostiwch [email protected] gyda’r wybodaeth uchod erbyn 12pm, 5 Mehefin 2026 fan bellaf.

    Mae gwerth y contract yn isel.

    Nid ydym yn gwarantu y bydd yr ymarfer hwn yn arwain at ymarfer caffael.

    We are seeking to understand what is currently available in the market. We are inviting suppliers to provide a breakdown of the key features of their interventions

    The value of the contract is low.

    We do not guarantee that this exercise will result in a procurement exercise.

    Could you please email [email protected] with the above information no later than 12noon on 5th June 2026

  3. Tender notice expected79 days ago
    3 Aug 2026, 23:59 BST
  4. Contract starts51 days ago
    1 Sept 2026, 00:00 BST

Notice history

1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender
  1. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    18 May 2026, 12:21 BST
    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

Flintshire County Council

Contracting authorityPublic authority - sub-central governmentWelsh devolved regulations apply GB-PPON: PNJC-2356-PCDV Ty Dewi Sant , Flintshire, Wales, CH7 6NAContact name, email, phone

Official documents & specifications (1)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure