Official UK procurement notice
SCAPE Professional Services and Development Framework
Authority: Scape Procure Limited (trading as SCAPE) (Public body)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionScape Procure Limited (trading as SCAPE) is considering establishing a framework agreement for the provision of Professional Services and Development advice throughout England, Wales, and Northern Ireland. To support this, SCAPE has undertaken pre-market engagement activities and will undertake further market engagement activities prior to submitting a Tender Notice.
This notice is not an invitation for formal expressions of interest. The purpose of this notice is to provide details on SCAPE's pre-market engagement activities in support of the upcoming procurement for a framework for Professional Services and Development.
This framework is envisaged to include the following services:
- Built Environment consultancy services
- Infrastructure and Utilities consultancy services
- Development: Property, Infrastructure, and Asset Optimisation services
SCAPE currently anticipates establishing a multi-party framework with three (3) Suppliers. The annual turnover requirement for each Supplier (including their Associated Suppliers) is anticipated to be £85m.
SCAPE intends to design this framework to facilitate SME engagement via the successful Bidder's supply chain and is also open to accepting bids from consortia or JVs of which SMEs may form a part.
The common procurement vocabulary codes stated are deemed to include, for the avoidance of doubt and unless otherwise stated, the category and sub-category codes below the CPV codes stated, i.e. 71500000, construction-related services is deemed to include 71530000, construction consultancy services and 71541000 construction project
management services.
CPV: Architectural, construction, engineering and inspection services · Building rental or sale services · Business and management consultancy services · Business organisation services · Buying and selling of real estate · Development services of real estate · Environmental services · Financial and insurance services · IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support · Land rental or sale services · Letting services of own property · Non-residential property renting or leasing services · +5 more
How this framework works
From the published notice- Framework period
- 4 yrs · up to 6 yrs from 4 Jan 2027
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1PlannedRenewal
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).
- “SCAPE Professional Services and Development Framework” is a framework: the contest is a place on its panel, not a single contract.
Pipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
Competition for Business and management consultancy services (CPV 7941), and who usually turns up
Scape Procure Limited (trading as SCAPE) has too little published record in this market to describe on its own. Published market evidence for the same work stands beside whatever it has. This notice is a framework or DPS, so only frameworks and DPS are compared. 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.
Across this market, small firms won 54% of awards with a known supplier size.
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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.
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.
Across this market, 39% of winners were registered in the delivery region.
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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.
Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.
Half of these awards were announced within 78 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.
The market share is a minimum: some awards have no bid count.
Thin markets produce this too; it is not proof of a tailored specification.
Across this market, at least 30% of awarded procurements had no recorded rival.
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 bid6%
2–323%
4–618%
7+53%
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.
On a framework or DPS, prices are agreed when work is called off.
Past prices are a guide, not a bid price.
Not comparable on a framework or DPS. The notice sets up a supplier panel and a ceiling value; what the work actually costs is agreed later, on each call-off or mini-competition, and those publish as contract notices of their own. The award-vs-estimate record of this market therefore sits on the call-offs; this page shows it on the contracts, not on the panel that frames them.
Assess each lot i
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£3.0bn
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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 80 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid0%
2–34%
4–613%
7+84%
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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- 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
- Framework agreement
- Who may use this agreement
- Not stated in the notice; call-off rights may be limited to the establishing authority
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 5 Nov 2025, 15:38 GMT
- Last source update
- 5 Nov 2025, 15:38 GMT
- Authority reference
SCP013- FTS notice number
2025/S 000-071344- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-05db2fFind a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Appointment period ends
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Timeline
5 Nov 2025 → 4 Jan 2027 · 4 dates- Planning notice published350 days ago5 Nov 2025, 15:38 GMT
- Market engagement277 days ago16 Jan 2026, 23:59 GMT
Upcoming Market Engagement:
Event Day 1
Date: Thursday 27 November 2025
Location: Malmaison,1-3 Piccadilly, Manchester M1 3AQ
Event Day 2
Date: Tuesday 2 December 2025
Location: DoubleTree by Hilton London Angel Kings Cross, 60 Pentonville Road, London N1 9LA
Two sessions (morning and afternoon) will run on each day to accommodate all interested parties. The events will include networking opportunities and discussions with our procurement team about the framework and forthcoming opportunities.
Please note that advance registration is required in order to attend. Please follow these links to register:
- Manchester AM - www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/scape-professional… ↗
- Manchester PM - www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/scape-professional… ↗
- London AM - www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/scape-professional… ↗
- London PM - www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/scape-professional… ↗
Event Day 3 - Webinar
Date: Wednesday 10 December 2025
Location: Online Webinar
Please note that advance registration is required in order to attend. Please follow is link to register:
event.on24.com/wcc/r/5138784/4D872A… ↗
Following these events, SCAPE may hold 1-to-1 sessions with participants to obtain feedback and to answer further questions. Details of the questions asked and any answers given will be added to a Q&A document, which will be issued along with the Tender Notice.
Preliminary Market Engagement:
Discussions have been held with organisations (both Clients and Consultants) to help shape the framework to be offered within the professional services and development space. Engagement activities commenced on 08/04/2025 and will continue until 21/11/2025. During market engagement sessions prior to this notice, information was sought and provided to inform the procurement strategy and provide an opportunity to give feedback on the proposal.
Those organisations participating in the market engagement were asked a standard set of questions all of which have been recorded to provide an appropriate audit trail. SCAPE has undertaken this process in accordance with the provisions set out in the Procurement Act 2023. All feedback has been taken into consideration and any future market engagement feedback will also be reviewed to help inform the framework prior to a Tender Notice being issued. All feedback has been given an equal weighting to ensure that no advantage is gained by any Consultant as a result of their participation.
- Tender notice expected267 days ago26 Jan 2026, 23:59 GMT
- Today21 Oct 2026
- Contract startsin 75 days4 Jan 2027
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Preliminary market engagement notice published5 Nov 2025, 15:38 GMTUK2
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 (1)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender