Find a TenderPlanned procurementPreliminary market engagement notice
Published 17 Jun 2026, 12:30 BST

Official UK procurement notice

Security Services · UK public procurement notice

Authority: Transport for Greater Manchester (Public body)

ServicesAbove thresholdSME suitable
Planned pipeline value£2,000,000pipeline notice, not a live tender
Tender notice expected 27 Jul 2026from the planned procurement notice
Contract term 3 yrsends 11 Oct 2029 · up to 11 Oct 2031 with extensions · starts 12 Oct 2026

What is being bought

Published requirement description

Transport for Greater Manchester (TfGM), is seeking to engage with the market to procure a suitably experienced and capable Security Service Provider to deliver a comprehensive range of services across the TfGM estate.

The required disciplines include key holding, alarm response, opening and locking of premises, static and ad hoc manned guarding, and commissionaire services. Most of these services will be delivered on a call-off basis, with a primary focus on safeguarding TfGM staff, assets, and customers, and deterring anti-social behaviour and violence, in full compliance with the Private Security Industry Act 2001 (PSIA) and all relevant legislation.

The Service Provider will be expected to provide high-calibre, appropriately licensed personnel, including trained commissionaires to support front-of-house operations at the head office outside of core hours, ensuring consistency and professionalism. Working under the direction of Facilities Operations Managers, the Service Provider will deliver services such as lone worker support, vacant property inspections, eviction support (including potential K9 requirements), and key holding.

A proactive, collaborative approach is essential, with a clear emphasis on risk management, continuous improvement, and the consistent delivery of high-quality, compliant services aligned with defined performance standards.

This engagement seeks to inform the market of the Authority's expectations, with detailed service requirements and performance measures to be set out within the full tender documentation.

CPV: Security services

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published
Lot #1PlannedRenewal 3 yrsSME
Contract period: 12 Oct 2026 – 11 Oct 2029 (3 yrs) · up to 11 Oct 2031 with extensions
Delivery: North WestEligibility: SME eligible
Extensions: Extension options published

Who is likely to bid for this lot ↓

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

How Transport for Greater Manchester buys Security services (CPV 7971), and who usually turns up

Transport for Greater Manchester’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: Security services (CPV 7971) →

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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 buyerTransport for Greater Manchester · division 79
The marketSecurity services (CPV 7971) · North West England
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: 3 of 67 known-size awards · market: CPV 7971 · North West England, n=33
4%58%

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 registered in North West England.

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

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 27 of 69 known-location awards · market: CPV 7971 · North West England, n=44
39%32%

Most of this buyer’s recorded winners are registered outside North West 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: 11 decided notices · market: CPV 7971 · North West England, n=12
77 days92 days

Half of these awards were announced within 77 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 2 of 69 procurements with awards had no recorded rival · market: CPV 7971 · North West England, n=45
3%47%

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

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 buyer20 lots with bid counts · all categories
0% had one bid
The market16 lots with bid counts · CPV 7971 · North West England
0% had one bid
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
1 bid0% / 0%
Buyer: 0 of 20 lots with published bid counts. Market: 0 of 16 lots with published bid counts.
2–330% / 19%
Buyer: 6 of 20 lots with published bid counts. Market: 3 of 16 lots with published bid counts.
4–660% / 6%
Buyer: 12 of 20 lots with published bid counts. Market: 1 of 16 lots with published bid counts.
7+10% / 75%
Buyer: 2 of 20 lots with published bid counts. Market: 12 of 16 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 buyer15 lots with estimate and award · all categories
53% below estimate
The market8 lots with estimate and award · CPV 7971 · North West England
38% below estimate
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
Below estimate53% / 38%
Buyer: 8 of 15 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 3 of 8 lots with an estimate and award.
Within ±2%20% / 25%
Buyer: 3 of 15 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 2 of 8 lots with an estimate and award.
Above estimate27% / 38%
Buyer: 4 of 15 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 3 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 797136 monthsSME suitablePublished estimate£2.0m
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 16 past lots.

A forecast, not a list of bidders.

—No model forecast yet0% single-bid risk
Past bids on 16 similar lots
1 bid0%
0 of 16 similar past lots received 1 bid (0%).
2–319%
3 of 16 similar past lots received 2–3 (19%).
4–66%
1 of 16 similar past lots received 4–6 (6%).
7+75%
12 of 16 similar past lots received 7+ (75%).
Comparable past lots usually drew 15 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 £2.0m, 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
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
17 Jun 2026, 12:30 BST
Last source update
17 Jun 2026, 12:33 BST
Authority reference
DN819461
FTS notice number
2026/S 000-057085
Latest notice
Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
Classification (CPV)
Security services
Delivery area
North West (UKD3)
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06b6e8 Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice
Submission deadline
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Timeline

17 Jun 2026 → 12 Oct 2026 · 4 dates
  1. Planning notice published125 days ago
    17 Jun 2026, 12:30 BST
  2. Market engagement92 days ago
    20 Jul 2026, 23:59 BST

    Suppliers are invited to register their expression of interest via the ProContract procurement portal using the following link: procontract.due-north.com/Register ↗.

    Upon registration please register your interest on project reference DN819461 for an automatic invite to tender.

  3. Tender notice expected85 days ago
    27 Jul 2026, 23:59 BST
  4. Contract starts9 days ago
    12 Oct 2026, 00:00 BST

Notice history

2 events · 2 releases on Find a Tender · since 17 Jun 2026
  1. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    17 Jun 2026, 12:30 BST
    UK2
  2. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    17 Jun 2026, 12:33 BST
    UK2
Published amendments (1)

Estimated contract dates.

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

Transport for Greater Manchester

Contracting authorityPublic authority - sub-central government GB-PPON: PNJQ-2746-NWYT 2 Piccadilly Place, Manchester, North West, M1 3BGContact email

Official documents & specifications (2)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure