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SOL30123 Letterbox Club 2026 - Pre-Market Engagement

Educational games
School books
Stationery
West Midlands (UKG32)
Published value
£57,000
Submission deadline Not published
Lots published1
Procurement Executive Summary
AI & Search Synopsis
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Tenderline Synopsis: Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council: "SOL30123 Letterbox Club 2026 - Pre-Market Engagement". Published status: planning. Published value: £57,000. 1 published lot. Submission deadline not published. See the official notice for participation instructions.
Contracting AuthoritySolihull Metropolitan Borough CouncilScope & CategoriesNot publishedSubmission Window
planning
No deadline published
Submission GatewayDirect notice routeLegal Basis & RegimeStandard procurementEstimated Value (exc. VAT)£57,000
Bidder Intelligence · Authority Profile: Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council
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Derived from OCDS awards & bid statistics
Published history for Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council. These figures describe retained records, not a forecast of bids or a measure of buyer bias.
Published-to-award variance
Not availableInsufficient comparable data
Requires at least 5 comparable procedures
Competition Density
1.3Bids / Report
66.7% of reports have one bid
Supplier ConcentrationHigh Concentration
Solihull Parent Carer Voice C.I.CTop vendor: 100% of attributable value
Payment Terms
Check noticePublished terms
Payment obligations depend on the applicable regime and contract. Consult the official documents.
Coverage: 22 active published awards; 3 bid reports (which may be per lot). Supplier values exclude multi-supplier awards, frameworks and DPS, and use GBP only. They are published award values, not payments. Published-to-award variance compares single-lot, single-award, single-supplier GBP procedures with explicitly non-framework/non-DPS status; increases remain in the average. Unpublished data stays unknown. Awarded suppliers are winners, not all bidders.
Historical Awarded Suppliers With This Authority:
Supplier NameHistoric AwardsAttributable GBP Value
Solihull Parent Carer Voice C.I.C1 win£30,550
Procedure terms
Contracting AuthoritySolihull Metropolitan Borough Council
Procedure methodNot published
Procurement categoryNot published
Statusplanning
Framework / DPSNot published
CompetitionNot published
Above thresholdNot published
Legal basisNot published
Tender period startsNot published
Clarification deadlineNot published
Electronic submissionNot published
Submission languagesNot published
Published10 Mar 2026, 10:31 GMT
Last source update10 Mar 2026, 10:31 GMT
Recurring procurementNot published
ClassificationEducational games, School books, Stationery
Delivery area
West Midlands (UKG32)
OCIDocds-h6vhtk-066610
What is being bought
SMBC is seeking to engage with potential providers who are able to supply monthly parcels containing age-appropriate books, games and stationery packs for children from vulnerable family backgrounds at a cost of £150 per child. Estimated annual cost £19,000. Letterbox Club programme, providing books to children. The Pupil Premium Plus for Looked After Children grant is used to pay for the programme. Each looked after child in the cohort receives their own parcel of books, maths games, stationery and other. The council is undertaking pre-market engagement prior to finalising future requirements for potentially the next three years.
What changed
From the official release history
  1. Published value updated to £57,000
    10 Mar 2026, 10:31 GMT
  2. Status changed to planning
    10 Mar 2026, 10:31 GMT
  3. Official notice release published
    10 Mar 2026, 10:31 GMT
  4. Buyer information updated
    10 Mar 2026, 10:31 GMT
Lots and requirements (1)
Published by the contracting authority
  • Lot 1 · #1
    Individual lot title not published
    planning
    Published valueNot published
    The source published no individual title or description for this lot.
    Contract periodNot published
    EligibilityNot published
    Options / renewalNot published
Timeline
  1. Pipeline notice
    10 Mar 2026, 10:31 GMT
  2. Procedure published
    10 Mar 2026, 10:31 GMT
  3. engagement
    24 Mar 2026, 23:59 GMT · scheduled
    Complete and return the questionnaire.
Commercial outcome and competition
AwardsNo award published
ContractsNo contract published
Bid statisticsNo aggregate bid statistics published
Buyer and organisations in this procedure

Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council

Contracting authority GB-PPON-PGWC-7578-LYDG
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  • Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council
    buyer

    GB-PPON: PGWC-7578-LYDG
    The Council House, Manor Square, Solihull, UKG32, B91 3QB, GB
    procteam@solihull.gov.uk
Documents (1)
Official links; attachments are not copied
Related procedures (0)
No data
No related procedures published
Planning and rationale
Planning budgetNot published
No-engagement rationaleNot published
Procedure rationaleNot published