Find a TenderPlanned procurementPipeline notice
Published 18 May 2026, 10:08 BST

Official UK procurement notice

Social Care Case Management System

Authority: Lincolnshire County Council (Local council)

Goods
Sectors: Software Packages & ERP (48) Delivery: Delivery location not published
Planned pipeline value£5,032,541pipeline notice, not a live tender
Tender notice expected 7 Apr 2027from the planned procurement notice
Contract term 4 yrs 11 moends 4 Dec 2032 · starts 5 Jan 2028

What is being bought

Published requirement description

Fully cloud hosted, supported and maintained case management system to support the work of social care staff.

CPV: Office automation software package

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published
Lot #1Planned 4 yrs 11 mo
Contract period: 5 Jan 2028 – 4 Dec 2032 (4 yrs 11 mo)

Who is likely to bid for this lot ↓

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

How Lincolnshire County Council buys Office automation software package (CPV 4892), and who usually turns up

Lincolnshire 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: Office automation software package (CPV 4892) →

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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 buyerLincolnshire 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: 148 of 191 known-size awards · market: CPV 4892 · UK-wide, n=7
77%29%

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: 175 of 251 known-location awards · market: CPV 4892 · UK-wide, n=9
70%56%

Most of this buyer’s recorded winners are registered in East Midlands.

How long to a decision?
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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.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 19 decided notices · market: division 48 · East Midlands (authority’s region), n=22
32 days78 days

Half of these awards were announced within 32 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 27 of 149 procurements with awards had no recorded rival · market: CPV 4892 · UK-wide, n=8
18%63%

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 buyer59 lots with bid counts · all categories
17% had one bid
The market33 lots with bid counts · division 48 · East Midlands (authority’s region)
6% had one bid
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
1 bid17% / 6%
Buyer: 10 of 59 lots with published bid counts. Market: 2 of 33 lots with published bid counts.
2–347% / 55%
Buyer: 28 of 59 lots with published bid counts. Market: 18 of 33 lots with published bid counts.
4–614% / 27%
Buyer: 8 of 59 lots with published bid counts. Market: 9 of 33 lots with published bid counts.
7+22% / 12%
Buyer: 13 of 59 lots with published bid counts. Market: 4 of 33 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 buyer35 lots with estimate and award · all categories
46% below estimate
The market19 lots with estimate and award · division 48 · East Midlands (authority’s region)
47% below estimate
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
Below estimate46% / 47%
Buyer: 16 of 35 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 9 of 19 lots with an estimate and award.
Within ±2%40% / 21%
Buyer: 14 of 35 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 4 of 19 lots with an estimate and award.
Above estimate14% / 32%
Buyer: 5 of 35 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 6 of 19 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 489259 monthsPublished estimate£5.0m
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 33 past lots.

A forecast, not a list of bidders.

—No model forecast yet6% single-bid risk
Past bids on 33 similar lots
1 bid6%
2 of 33 similar past lots received 1 bid (6%).
2–355%
18 of 33 similar past lots received 2–3 (55%).
4–627%
9 of 33 similar past lots received 4–6 (27%).
7+12%
4 of 33 similar past lots received 7+ (12%).
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 model forecast yet
No comparable awards on record for this lot’s category yet. The published estimate is £5.0m, and the forecast stays empty until the market has a record to read.

Who has supplied this buyer on similar work?
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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.

SupplierThis buyer’s earlier contractLotAward valueWhy listed
MAKE TIME COUNT TODAY LTDLive contractCommunity Safety Multi-Agency Case Management Systemruns to Jun 2029—£381kMatched as the earlier contract

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.

What this replaces
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Who has done similar work for this buyer.

Past contracts are matched by buyer, title and type of work.

40% title match.

A past supplier may not bid again.

The prior contract this notice most likely re-tenders · matched by title and category (40% title match), the holder is not guaranteed to re-bid

Community Safety Multi-Agency Case Management System — held by MAKE TIME COUNT TODAY LTD; the published contract ends 30 Jun 2029.

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
Unspecified in notice
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
18 May 2026, 10:08 BST
Last source update
18 May 2026, 10:08 BST
FTS notice number
2026/S 000-045236
Latest notice
Pipeline notice (UK1)
Classification (CPV)
Office automation software package
Delivery area
Not published
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-069abd Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice
Submission deadline
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Timeline

18 May 2026 → 5 Jan 2028 · 3 dates
  1. Planning notice published156 days ago
    18 May 2026, 10:08 BST
  2. Today
    21 Oct 2026
  3. Tender notice expectedin 168 days
    7 Apr 2027, 23:59 BST
  4. Contract starts
    5 Jan 2028

Notice history

1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender
  1. Pipeline notice published
    18 May 2026, 10:08 BST
    UK1

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

Lincolnshire County Council

Contracting authorityPublic authority - sub-central government GB-PPON: PGRB-3736-CHZN County Offices, Newland, Lincoln, East Midlands, LN1 1YLContact email

Official documents & specifications (1)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure

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