Official UK procurement notice
SC1 Internship Pilot — UK public procurement notice
Authority: London Borough of Southwark (Local council)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionSouthwark Council, on behalf of SC1 London, is seeking a provider to deliver the an internship pilot programme for residents, supporting participants into paid internship opportunities in the health and life sciences sector.
CPV: Career guidance services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · value publishedLot #1Lot 1Published value£50,000
- Value
- £50,000 exc. VAT · £60,000 inc. VAT
What it takes to wini
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 morei
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).
Published sub-criteria (7)
- Engagement — 20%
- Service Delivery — 30%
- Skills, Expertise and Resources — 20%
- Quality Performance and Outcomes — 10%
- Customer Satisfaction — 5%
- Quotation sum — 10%
- Social Value — 5%
Published award criteria (7)
- Engagement — Set out how you intend to engage with residents from disadvantaged backgrounds and groups which are currently underrepresented in the health and life sciences. • Details of your proposed outreach, marketing and engagement strategy, including an estimated timeline • Local education institutions, community organisations or other partners you would engage with to build referral pathways • How you will ensure recruitment processes are inclusive, accessible and fair • How you will support residents with disabilities and/or Special Educational Needs to access the pilot
- Service Delivery — Describe your overall approach to providing the deliverables and how you will ensure that the outcomes are met. • How many internship placements you expect to deliver • How you would work with employers to ensure all service users have a high-quality internship experience • How you would support employers, including SMEs, to provide internship placements • What wrap-around support you would provide to service users • How you would tailor support for service users and employers to the health and life sciences sectors
- Skills, Expertise and Resources — A statement of the skills, expertise and resources at your disposal which you believe demonstrate your ability to perform the services, including staffing details. • Relevant staff skills and expertise • Resources, capacity and organisational structure, including backup arrangements • Relevant experience, including working with residents from disadvantaged backgrounds and groups which are currently underrepresented in the health and life sciences • Experience delivering public-sector, education or funder-supported programmes • Local knowledge of Southwark and Lambeth, including the skills and employment landscape • Knowledge of the health and life sciences sector • Any health and life sciences employers you have links with • Contract mobilisation plan
- Quality Performance and Outcomes — Set out how you would monitor the pilot and outcomes • Relevant key policies • Tools and systems used to meet reporting requirements and measure quality, performance and impact, including long-term outcomes • Data collection processes, including feedback mechanisms • How you would evaluate the pilot in a way that contributes to shared knowledge and understanding of inclusive internship schemes within the health and life sciences sector
- Customer Satisfaction — How you will monitor and measure service user and employer satisfaction • Ability to monitor and measure customer satisfaction • Complaints procedure
- Social Value — Quantitative Social Value commitments - Set out in the Social Value Submission Sheet Qualitative Method Statements - Set out in the Social Value Submission Sheet
No conditions of participation were published on the notice; check the tender documents.
Competition analysis · published record, not a forecast of who will bid
How London Borough of Southwark buys Personnel services except placement and supply services (CPV 7963) — and who usually turns up
London Borough of Southwark’s own published record, next to the Greater London market for the same work. Frameworks and DPS are kept out: they attract a different number of bids. Whole-market view: Personnel services except placement and supply services (CPV 7963) →
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 contracts 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.
London Borough of Southwark
contract notices in 36 months: 12 in division 79 (2 route not published) · 127 in all categories (17 without competition · 52 route not published)
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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 this industry (CPV 79), last 36 months: 6 lots. 3 lots are from Procurement Act 2023 notices (bids assessed, middle 5) and 3 from older notices (bids received, middle 4).
Nothing is filled in from UK-wide numbers. An empty tile means nothing usable was published.
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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 this industry (CPV 79), last 36 months: 6 lots.
High means a thin market or an incumbent that is hard to beat.
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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 36 months: 11 pairs.
A past pattern, not a price to bid.
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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 buyer’s tenders in all categories, last 36 months: 6 notices.
Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.
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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: 147 notices.
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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.
Based on this buyer’s tenders in this industry (CPV 79), last 36 months: 10 notices.
Greater London · Personnel services except placement and supply services (CPV 7963)
contract notices delivered in Greater London in 36 months: 28 in CPV 7963 (22 competed, 5 route not published) · 949 in division 79 (630 competed, 162 route not published)
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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 sector (CPV 7963), last 36 months: 15 lots. 7 lots are from Procurement Act 2023 notices (bids assessed, middle 6) and 8 from older notices (bids received, middle 4).
Nothing is filled in from UK-wide numbers. An empty tile means nothing usable was published.
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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 sector (CPV 7963), last 36 months: 15 lots.
High means a thin market or an incumbent that is hard to beat.
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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 region’s tenders in this sector (CPV 7963), last 36 months: 8 pairs.
A past pattern, not a price to bid.
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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 sector (CPV 7963), last 36 months: 8 notices.
Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.
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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 sector (CPV 7963), last 36 months: 11 lots.
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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 sector (CPV 7963), last 36 months: 11 awards.
Registered address, so a national firm with a local branch counts as outside.
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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 this buyer’s own usual movement over 11 lots (all categories), applied to the £50,000 estimate on this notice.
A benchmark, not a price to bid.
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 for tender
- 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
- No (one-off requirement)
- First published
- 28 Sept 2026, 11:25 BST
- Last source update
- 28 Sept 2026, 11:25 BST
- Authority reference
DN831030- Latest notice
- Tender notice (UK4)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-077b57Find a Tender
How to participate & submission route
Official notice Submit via ProContract (Due North)- Expression of interest (EOI)
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- Tender submission deadline
- 19 Oct 2026, 17:00 BST
- Clarification deadline
- 12 Oct 2026, 17:00 BST
- Submission channel
- Official e-sourcing portal
- Electronic submission
- Allowed
Timeline
4 published dates · Europe/London- Tender notice publishedearlier today28 Sept 2026, 11:25 BST
- Clarification questions byin 14 days12 Oct 2026, 17:00 BST
- Submission deadlinein 21 days19 Oct 2026, 17:00 BST
- Contract startsin 56 days23 Nov 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- Tender notice published28 Sept 2026, 11:25 BSTUK4
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Official documents & specifications (1)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Tender notice Tender notice on Find a Tender