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Published 21 Oct 2026, 09:57 BST

Official UK procurement notice

T26-121CRO Committee Management Software

Authority: Derry City and Strabane District Council (Local council)

ServicesBelow threshold - open competitionBelow threshold
Published estimate£45,000≈ £15k / year · £45,000 inc. VAT
Submission deadline 20 Nov 202612:00 GMT · 30d 0h left
Clarification cut-off 6 Nov 202612:00 GMT · questions to the authority
Contract term 3 yrsends 1 Mar 2030 · starts 1 Mar 2027

What is being bought

Published requirement description

Derry City and Strabane District Council is seeking tenders from companies for a Committee Management Software. The system shall be hosted on site by the Council. This software shall be used to compile meeting packs and minutes for Council and Committee meetings and shall also have a web output and provide details of Councillors and meeting papers to ensure accessibility to the public. 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: Content management software development services · IT software package · Miscellaneous software package and computer systems · Software package and information systems · System management software package · System, storage and content management software package

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · value published

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
How bids are scored

Lot awarding rule: Please refer to the CfT documents for further detail.

No conditions of participation were published on the notice; check the tender documents.

What this means for your bid
  • Turnover usually expected at this size: about £29,945 (twice the annual value).

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 System, storage and content management software package (CPV 4878), 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: System, storage and content management software package (CPV 4878) →

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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 buyerDerry City and Strabane District Council · all categories
What to do with it
How often do SMEs win?
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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: 128 of 149 known-size awards · market: CPV 4878 · UK-wide, n=13
86%46%

Small firms have won here. Neither number says whether you qualify; it describes who has been winning.

How often do local suppliers win?
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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 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: 64 of 77 known-location awards · market: CPV 4878 · UK-wide, n=12
83%25%

Most of this buyer’s recorded winners are registered in Northern Ireland.

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: 90 decided notices · market: division 48 · Northern Ireland, n=5
47 days29 days

Half of these awards were announced within 47 days of the bid deadline.

How often single-bid or direct?
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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.

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 56 of 150 procurements with awards had no recorded rival · market: CPV 4878 · UK-wide, n=18
37%78%

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.

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 buyer179 lots with bid counts · all categories
35% had one bid
The market407 lots with bid counts · division 48 · UK-wide
14% had one bid
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
1 bid35% / 14%
Buyer: 62 of 179 lots with published bid counts. Market: 59 of 407 lots with published bid counts.
2–341% / 32%
Buyer: 73 of 179 lots with published bid counts. Market: 129 of 407 lots with published bid counts.
4–615% / 31%
Buyer: 26 of 179 lots with published bid counts. Market: 128 of 407 lots with published bid counts.
7+10% / 22%
Buyer: 18 of 179 lots with published bid counts. Market: 91 of 407 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 buyer125 lots with estimate and award · all categories
26% below estimate
The market235 lots with estimate and award · division 48 · UK-wide
54% below estimate
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
Below estimate26% / 54%
Buyer: 32 of 125 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 127 of 235 lots with an estimate and award.
Within ±2%54% / 25%
Buyer: 67 of 125 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 58 of 235 lots with an estimate and award.
Above estimate21% / 21%
Buyer: 26 of 125 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 50 of 235 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 487836 monthsPublished estimate£45k
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 407 past lots.

A forecast, not a list of bidders.

—No model forecast yet14% single-bid risk
Past bids on 407 similar lots
1 bid14%
59 of 407 similar past lots received 1 bid (14%).
2–332%
129 of 407 similar past lots received 2–3 (32%).
4–631%
128 of 407 similar past lots received 4–6 (31%).
7+22%
91 of 407 similar past lots received 7+ (22%).
Comparable past lots usually drew 4 bids.
Commercial price forecast
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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.

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 £45k, 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.

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
Procedure method
Below threshold - open competition
Legal basis
UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
Procurement category
Services
Notice status
Open for tender
Procurement threshold
Below threshold
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
21 Oct 2026, 09:57 BST
Last source update
21 Oct 2026, 09:57 BST
Authority reference
T26-121CRO Committee Management Software
FTS notice number
2026/S 000-099288
Latest notice
Tender notice (UK4)
Classification (CPV)
Content management software development servicesIT software packageMiscellaneous software package and computer systemsSoftware package and information systemsSystem management software packageSystem, storage and content management software package
Delivery area
Northern Ireland (UKN0A)
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-078c70 Find a Tender

How to participate & submission route

Official notice
Requests to participate (first stage)
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Tender submission deadline
20 Nov 2026, 12:00 GMT
Clarification deadline
6 Nov 2026, 12:00 GMT
Electronic submission
Allowed
Detailed submission instructions & authority contactsFrom official release
Published estimate £45,000 excludes VAT (£45,000 including VAT).

Timeline

21 Oct 2026 → 1 Mar 2027 · 4 dates
  1. Tender notice publishedearlier today
    21 Oct 2026, 09:57 BST
  2. Today
    21 Oct 2026
  3. Clarification questions byin 16 days
    6 Nov 2026, 12:00 GMT
  4. Submission deadlinein 30 days
    20 Nov 2026, 12:00 GMT
  5. Contract startsin 131 days
    1 Mar 2027

Notice history

1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender
  1. Tender notice published
    21 Oct 2026, 09:57 BST
    UK4

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

Derry City and Strabane District Council

Contracting authorityPublic authority - sub-central governmentNorthern Irish devolved regulations apply GB-PPON: PGJQ-8275-HLMG 98 Strand Road, Derry, Northern Ireland, BT48 7NNContact email

Official documents & specifications (1)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure

  • Tender notice tenderTender noticeUK4Tender notice on Find a Tender