Find a TenderPlanned procurementPreliminary market engagement notice
Published 3 Jul 2026, 14:22 BST

Official UK procurement notice

Special Educational Needs and Disabilities Technology

Authority: Yorkshire Purchasing Organisation (Public body)

Framework agreementGoodsAbove thresholdSME suitableVCSE suitable
Planned pipeline value£50,000,000pipeline notice, not a live tender
Tender notice expected 13 Nov 2026from the planned procurement notice
Framework period 8 yrsends 28 Mar 2035 · starts 29 Mar 2027

What is being bought

Published requirement description

YPO is seeking to establish a Framework which will be designed to provide a solution for Special Educational Needs and Disabilities Technology for public sector use.

CPV: Computer equipment and supplies · Computer screens and consoles · Computer-related equipment · Devices for the disabled · Headphones · IT software package · Multimedia equipment · Software package and information systems · Special education services · Teaching equipment

How this framework works

From the published notice
Framework period
8 yrs from 29 Mar 2027

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published
Lot #1Planned 8 yrsSMEVCSE
Contract period: 29 Mar 2027 – 28 Mar 2035 (8 yrs)
Delivery listed: Guernsey (GG), Isle of Man (IM), Jersey (JE), UKEligibility: SME eligibleVCSE eligible

Who is likely to bid for this lot ↓

What it takes to win
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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 more
What this means for your bid
  • “Special Educational Needs and Disabilities Technology” 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

How Yorkshire Purchasing Organisation buys Special education services (CPV 8034): the notice lists UK and non-UK locations

Yorkshire Purchasing Organisation’s published record is shown without a UK market comparison because the notice lists UK and non-UK delivery areas without one confirmed UK market. Check the notice description and tender documents for the actual site. This notice is a framework or DPS, so only frameworks and DPS are compared. Whole-market view: Special education services (CPV 8034) →

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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 buyerYorkshire Purchasing Organisation · all its clients
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: 22 of 26 known-size awards
85%

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.

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

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 1 of 19 known-location awards
5%

The notice lists UK and non-UK delivery areas, so this procedure has no confirmed single UK region; the buyer’s figure reads its other awards, each against its own delivery region.

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: 20 decided notices
99 days

Half of these awards were announced within 99 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.

Thin markets produce this too; it is not proof of a tailored specification.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: exactly 0 of 12 procurements with awards had no recorded rival
0%

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

How many bids did past lots attract?

i

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 buyer131 lots with bid counts · all categories
11% had one bid
Buyer · select a colour for counts
1 bid11%
Buyer: 15 of 131 lots with published bid counts.
2–315%
Buyer: 19 of 131 lots with published bid counts.
4–621%
Buyer: 28 of 131 lots with published bid counts.
7+53%
Buyer: 69 of 131 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.

On a framework or DPS, prices are agreed when work is called off.

Past prices are a guide, not a bid price.

Last 36 months.

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.

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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 #196 monthsSME suitablePublished estimate£50m

The notice lists UK and non-UK delivery areas for this lot. The figures below use UK market history and may not describe competition across every area.

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. Published delivery includes UK and non-UK areas, so the UK model may not describe every area.

A forecast, not a list of bidders.

—No model forecast yet
No comparable market history for this lot’s category yet; the expected-bid figure comes from the model alone or is withheld.
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.

—Priced at call-off
On a framework or DPS the price is agreed on each call-off, so there is no award price to forecast here: the published figure is a ceiling.

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
Goods
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
3 Jul 2026, 14:22 BST
Last source update
3 Jul 2026, 14:22 BST
FTS notice number
2026/S 000-062838
Latest notice
Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
Classification (CPV)
Computer equipment and suppliesComputer screens and consolesComputer-related equipmentDevices for the disabledHeadphonesIT software packageMultimedia equipmentSoftware package and information systemsSpecial education servicesTeaching equipment
Delivery area in notice
Guernsey (GG)Isle of Man (IM)Jersey (JE)UK
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06c386 Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice
Appointment period ends
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Timeline

3 Jul 2026 → 29 Mar 2027 · 4 dates
  1. Planning notice published109 days ago
    3 Jul 2026, 14:22 BST
  2. Today
    20 Oct 2026
  3. Market engagementin 10 days
    29 Oct 2026, 23:59 GMT

    In order to gain further insight, YPO has issue a questionnaire to interested suppliers to understand the most effective structure, scope and specifications for this proposed Framework.

    The Questionnaire can be found here: forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx ↗

  4. Tender notice expectedin 25 days
    13 Nov 2026, 23:59 GMT
  5. Contract startsin 160 days
    29 Mar 2027, 00:00 BST

Notice history

1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender
  1. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    3 Jul 2026, 14:22 BST
    UK2

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

Yorkshire Purchasing Organisation

Contracting authorityPublic authority - sub-central government GB-PPON: PMRV-4748-MNJV 41 Industrial Park, Wakefield, Yorkshire & Humber, WF2 0XEContact name, email

Official documents & specifications (1)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure