Official UK procurement notice
T26-113BUS Business Sprint Fast Track SME Growth Support Programme
Authority: Derry City and Strabane District Council (Local council)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionDCSDC is seeking to appoint a suitably qualified delivery partner to design, manage and deliver the Business Sprint: Fast Track Programme. This targeted intervention will provide ambitious micro and small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) with intensive, tailored support to accelerate growth, enhance innovation capability, improve investment readiness and increase engagement with regional and national business support programmes. The programme forms part of a wider strategic investment through the Local Economic Partnership (LEP) and Department for the Economy's Regional Balance Fund and is intended to contribute to a more productive, innovative and resilient local economy, capable of generating sustainable employment and long-term economic prosperity across the Derry City and Strabane district. Your submission must be submitted via eTendersNI, via this CFT. No other method of submissions will be accepted. Please refer to the CfT documents for further detail.
CPV: Business analysis consultancy services · Business and management consultancy services · Market research services · Miscellaneous business and business-related services · Miscellaneous business-related services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · value publishedLot #1Published value£450,000
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).
Published sub-criteria (2)
- Quality: 90%
- Cost: 10%
Published award criteria (2)
- Quality: Please see tender docs for further detail.
- Cost: Please see tender docs for further detail.
No conditions of participation were published on the notice; check the tender documents.
- Price carries 10 of 100 points: a 10% discount moves about 1 point. The method statement decides this lot, not the discount.
- Turnover usually expected at this size: about £448,770 (twice the annual value).
Price arithmetic assumes straight proportional scoring; the tender pack may use another formula. Turnover is an indicative market norm (≈2× annual value), not a published condition.
Competition analysis · published record, not a forecast of who will bid
How Derry City and Strabane District Council buys Business and management consultancy services (CPV 7941), and who usually turns up
Derry City and Strabane District 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: Business and management consultancy services (CPV 7941) →
How the contest usually goes
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How often small and medium firms win.
Share of awards where the winner’s size is known.
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Small firms have won here. Neither number says whether you qualify; it describes who has been winning.
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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 registered in Northern Ireland.
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners are registered in Northern Ireland.
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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 28 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.
Direct awards or one recorded bid are common here. Check the route before spending time on a bid.
How many bids did past lots attract?
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How many bids past lots received.
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Past bids do not predict this tender.
1 bid50% / 16%
2–310% / 32%
4–610% / 32%
7+30% / 19%
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.
Below estimate60% / 38%
Within ±2%20% / 58%
Above estimate20% / 4%
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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.
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What past awards tell you about each lot.
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No supplier is confirmed as a bidder.
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Lot #1CPV 7941Published estimate£450k
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How many bids this lot may attract.
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Each lot shows its own forecast based on its own category; forecasts for different lots of the same notice are not comparative.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid26%
2–322%
4–634%
7+19%
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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.
Based on 32 comparable awards. Each lot reflects its own category; forecasts for different lots of the same notice are not comparative.
A statistical guide from past awards, not a price to bid.
Middle 50%£387k–£450k
Estimate£450k
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.
| Supplier | This buyer’s earlier contract | Lot | Award value | Why listed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kaizen Print LtdWorked for this buyer | T25-090BUS Design Support Tenderended Sept 2026 | — | £1 | Similar wording and category |
| Ardmore advertising and Marketing LTDWorked for this buyer | T23-047BUS Provision of Marketing Communication Services including Website for the Northern Ireland Enterprise Support Service.notice published Jan 2024 | — | — | Similar wording and category |
| Cedel Communications LtdWorked for this buyer | T26-015BUS Supply of Radio Communication for Eventsruns to Mar 2029 | — | £1 | Similar wording and category |
| BDO LLPWorked for this buyer | T25-205CRO VAT Support Consultancy Servicesruns to Mar 2027 | — | £41k | Similar wording and category |
| OGMA SAFETY LTDWorked for this buyer | T25-096BUS Event Crowd Management 2025-28runs to Mar 2028 | — | £300k | Similar wording and category |
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.
| Supplier | Won in this category | Live contracts | Award vs estimate |
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| £6.0m1 awards in 36m · last 3 months ago | 1 live · £6.0m iPublic contracts this supplier still holds. Its awards whose published end date is still in the future, with their values. Many contracts publish no end date, so this is a floor, not the whole book. Unexpired says nothing about spare capacity. | at estimate n=2 | |
BDO LLPLarge | £19m49 awards in 36m · last 1 months ago | 14 live · £5.9m iPublic contracts this supplier still holds. Its awards whose published end date is still in the future, with their values. Many contracts publish no end date, so this is a floor, not the whole book. Unexpired says nothing about spare capacity. | at estimate n=13 |
| £4.4m1 awards in 36m · last 14 months ago | 1 live · £4.4m iPublic contracts this supplier still holds. Its awards whose published end date is still in the future, with their values. Many contracts publish no end date, so this is a floor, not the whole book. Unexpired says nothing about spare capacity. | at estimate n=1 | |
| £300k1 awards in 36m · last 14 months ago | 1 live · £300k iPublic contracts this supplier still holds. Its awards whose published end date is still in the future, with their values. Many contracts publish no end date, so this is a floor, not the whole book. Unexpired says nothing about spare capacity. | 17% below n=1 | |
| 1 awards in 36m · last 6 months ago | None on file | no comparable pairs |
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- Procedure method
- Open procedure
- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Open for tender
- 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
- 6 Aug 2026, 15:19 BST
- Last source update
- 21 Oct 2026, 10:54 BST
- Award evaluation window
- Submission end – 11 Jan 2027
- Authority reference
T26-113BUS Business Sprint Fast Track SME Growth Support Programme- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-099343- Latest notice
- Tender notice (UK4)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06de16Find a Tender
How to participate & submission route
Official notice- Requests to participate (first stage)
- —
- Tender submission deadline
- 20 Nov 2026, 12:00 GMT
- Clarification deadline
- 6 Nov 2026, 12:00 GMT
- Electronic submission
- Allowed
- Accepted languages
- en
Timeline
6 Aug 2026 → 29 Jan 2027 · 7 dates- Planning notice published77 days ago6 Aug 2026, 15:19 BST
- Market engagement47 days ago4 Sept 2026, 23:59 BST
Please refer to the CfT documents for further detail.
- Tender notice published1 day ago21 Oct 2026, 10:54 BST
- Today22 Oct 2026
- Clarification questions byin 15 days6 Nov 2026, 12:00 GMT
- Submission deadlinein 29 days20 Nov 2026, 12:00 GMT
- Award decision expected byin 82 days11 Jan 2027, 23:59 GMT
- Contract startsin 99 days29 Jan 2027
Notice history
6 events · 2 releases on Find a Tender · since 6 Aug 2026- Preliminary market engagement notice published6 Aug 2026, 15:19 BSTUK2
- Tender notice published21 Oct 2026, 10:54 BSTUK4
- Published value updated21 Oct 2026, 10:54 BST
- Status changed to active21 Oct 2026, 10:54 BST
- Procurement method changed21 Oct 2026, 10:54 BST
- Deadline published: 20 Nov 2026, 12:00 GMT21 Oct 2026, 10:54 BST
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Nothing awarded yet- 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 (2)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Tender notice Tender notice on Find a Tender
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender