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Published 22 Sept 2026, 15:19 BST

Official UK procurement notice

T26-128HCO Delivery of an Ending Violence Against Women and Girls (EVAWG) Programme for Young People in the Faughan and Sperrin District Electoral Areas (DEAs)

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

ServicesBelow threshold - open competitionBelow threshold
Published estimate£30,000£30,000 inc. VAT
Submission deadline 23 Oct 202612:00 BST · 26d 8h left
Clarification cut-off 9 Oct 202612:00 BST · questions to the authority
Contract term 5 mostarts 30 Oct 2026
Bids per lot · this authority 2all categories · n=204 · competition analysis ↓

What is being bought

Published requirement description

Derry City and Strabane District Council seeks tenders from suitably qualified organisations to design and deliver a youth-focused programme that contributes to the delivery of The Executive Office's Ending Violence Against Women and Girls (EVAWG) Strategic Framework within the Faughan and Sperrin DEAs. The provision of the Ending Violence Against Women and Girls (EVAWG) Programme for Young People in the Faughan and Sperrin District Electoral Areas (DEAs) will build upon the previous programming that has been undertaken by these two areas over the last two years. The appointed organisation shall be required, as a condition of contract, to work in close collaboration with the Rural Partnership Boards in Faughan and Sperrin, together with other relevant stakeholders, to co-design and deliver tailored, place-based programmes that respond to the specific needs of each rural area. The organisation shall ensure the active involvement of the Local Growth Partnership Boards throughout programme development and delivery. 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: Health and social work services · Other community, social and personal services · Research and development services and related consultancy services

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · value published
Lot #1Lot 1 5 moPublished value£30,000
Contract period: 30 Oct 2026 — 31 Mar 2027 (5 mo)Delivery: Northern IrelandTurnover guideline: ~£60,000/yr≈ 2× annual value
Value
£30,000 exc. VAT · £30,000 inc. VAT
73000000 Research and development services and related consultancy services85000000 Health and social work services98000000 Other community, social and personal services

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
How bids are scored

Please refer to the CfT documents for further detail.

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

Competition analysis · published record, not a forecast of who will bid

How Derry City and Strabane District Council buys Research and development services (CPV 73) — and who usually turns up

Derry City and Strabane District Council’s own published record, next to the Northern Ireland market for the same work. Frameworks and DPS are kept out: they attract a different number of bids. Whole-market view: Research and development services (CPV 73) →

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How the contest usually goes

Left: this authority. Right: the market where the work is delivered. Bids and award-vs-estimate pairs are per lot, from contested contracts only — direct awards (including PA 2023 transparency notices) report one bid by definition and are left out. On Procurement Act 2023 notices the count is the tenders assessed at the final stage, not every submission received; pairs compare like with like (VAT-exclusive, or VAT-inclusive on both sides). Empty means nothing was published, not filled in from elsewhere.

This authority

Derry City and Strabane District Council

contract notices in 36 months: 3 in division 73 · 253 in all categories (3 without competition · 7 route not published)

Bids per lot
i

How many companies usually bid for work like this.

Middle value of published bid counts, one per lot, for this buyer or this region in the same sector.

Based on this buyer’s tenders in all categories, last 36 months: 204 lots. 95 lots are from Procurement Act 2023 notices (bids assessed, middle 3) and 109 from older notices (bids received, middle 2).

Nothing is filled in from UK-wide numbers. An empty tile means nothing usable was published.

2all categories · 36m · n=204 lots
Single-bid lots
i

How often only one company bid.

Share of lots that received exactly one bid, on the same competitions as the bids figure.

Based on this buyer’s tenders in all categories, last 36 months: 204 lots.

High means a thin market or an incumbent that is hard to beat.

29%all categories · 36m · n=204 lots
Award vs estimate
i

Do awards for work like this land above or below the estimate.

Estimate against award per lot, for this buyer or this region in the same sector.

Based on this buyer’s tenders in all categories, last 36 months: 127 pairs.

A past pattern, not a price to bid.

at estimateall categories · 36m · n=127 pairs
Deadline → award date
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.

Based on this buyer’s tenders in all categories, last 36 months: 87 notices.

Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.

Last 36 months.

46dall categories · 36m · n=87 notices
Notice updates
i

How often this buyer changes a notice after publishing it.

Middle number of amendments per notice. Deadline extensions and corrections both count.

Based on this buyer’s tenders in all categories, last 24 months: 207 notices.

Last 24 months.

3all categories · 24m · n=207 notices
Awarded without competition
i

How often this buyer awards without a competition.

Direct or limited awards as a share of its notices that say which procedure was used. These routes are legal in defined cases. This is just the record.

Based on this buyer’s tenders in this industry (CPV 73), last 36 months: 3 notices.

Last 36 months.

0%division 73 · 36m · n=3 notices
Bids per lot robust · n=204
i

How the number of bidders is spread across lots.

Each lot with a published bid count is put in a band: one bid, two to three, four to six, seven or more. Real competitions only.

Based on 204 lots on 166 contested notices · all categories, last 36 months.

  • 1 bid 29%
  • 2–3 42%
  • 4–6 15%
  • 7+ 13%

Middle value 2 · 204 lots on 166 contested notices · all categories.

Winning award vs estimate robust · n=127
i

How often winners come in below, near or above the estimate.

Each lot with both an estimate and an award is placed by how far the award sat from the estimate.

Based on 127 lot pairs · all categories, last 36 months.

A past pattern, not a price to bid.

  • Below estimate 30%
  • Within ±2% 48%
  • Above estimate 22%

127 lot pairs · all categories.

The market · delivery region

Northern Ireland · Research and development services (CPV 73)

contract notices delivered in Northern Ireland in 36 months: 49 in division 73 (44 competed, 3 route not published)

Bids per lot
i

How many companies usually bid for work like this.

Middle value of published bid counts, one per lot, for this buyer or this region in the same sector.

Based on this region’s tenders in this industry (CPV 73), last 36 months: 40 lots. 19 lots are from Procurement Act 2023 notices (bids assessed, middle 2) and 21 from older notices (bids received, middle 4).

Nothing is filled in from UK-wide numbers. An empty tile means nothing usable was published.

3division 73 · 36m · n=40 lots
Single-bid lots
i

How often only one company bid.

Share of lots that received exactly one bid, on the same competitions as the bids figure.

Based on this region’s tenders in this industry (CPV 73), last 36 months: 40 lots.

High means a thin market or an incumbent that is hard to beat.

18%division 73 · 36m · n=40 lots
Award vs estimate
i

Do awards for work like this land above or below the estimate.

Estimate against award per lot, for this buyer or this region in the same sector.

Based on this region’s tenders in this industry (CPV 73), last 36 months: 30 pairs.

A past pattern, not a price to bid.

at estimatedivision 73 · 36m · n=30 pairs
Deadline → award date
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.

Based on this region’s tenders in this industry (CPV 73), last 36 months: 14 notices.

Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.

Last 36 months.

29ddivision 73 · 36m · n=14 notices
SME bidders
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How much of this market goes to small and medium firms.

SME bidders where buyers published the split, otherwise SME winners.

Based on this region’s tenders in this industry (CPV 73), last 36 months: 39 lots.

Last 36 months.

40%division 73 · 36m · n=39 lots
Winners based in the region
i

How much work like this goes to companies based in the delivery region.

Awards in this category delivered here where the winner’s registered address is in the region.

Based on this region’s tenders in this industry (CPV 73), last 36 months: 22 awards.

Registered address, so a national firm with a local branch counts as outside.

Last 36 months.

82%division 73 · 36m · n=22 awards
Bids per lot robust · n=40
i

How the number of bidders is spread across lots.

Each lot with a published bid count is put in a band: one bid, two to three, four to six, seven or more. Real competitions only.

Based on 40 lots on 30 contested notices · division 73, last 36 months.

  • 1 bid 18%
  • 2–3 40%
  • 4–6 20%
  • 7+ 23%

Middle value 3 · 40 lots on 30 contested notices · division 73.

Winning award vs estimate robust · n=30
i

How often winners come in below, near or above the estimate.

Each lot with both an estimate and an award is placed by how far the award sat from the estimate.

Based on 30 lot pairs · division 73, last 36 months.

A past pattern, not a price to bid.

  • Below estimate 40%
  • Within ±2% 60%
  • Above estimate 0%

30 lot pairs · division 73.

robust · n=127
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Where this tender’s estimate would land if the usual pattern repeats.

We apply the buyer’s usual movement between estimate and award (or the region’s) to the estimate on this notice.

Based on this buyer’s own usual movement over 127 lots (all categories), applied to the £30,000 estimate on this notice.

A benchmark, not a price to bid.

The middle award in Derry City and Strabane District Council (all categories, n=127 pairs) lands at estimate: on this notice’s £30,000 that is about £29,940. Context for a bid, not a recommended price.
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Who you are likely to meet
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Who you may be up against.

Suppliers on this buyer’s earlier similar contracts, and suppliers whose record fits this tender.

A guess from the record. Buyers do not publish who is bidding.

Suppliers on this authority’s earlier similar contracts, then suppliers with a matching track record — from published award history, not a bid list

Suppliers with a similar track record — and how they price
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Suppliers with a similar track record, and how they price.

Suppliers matched on wins in this category, history with this buyer, location and size. Their award vs estimate is from their own past wins.

A guess from the record, not a bidder list.

SupplierEvidenceLast awardTheir award vs estimateRelevance
Metro Dynamics Limited SME14 class winsthis monthno comparable pairs57%
EQUALITY COLLABS LTD SME2 class wins9 months agoat estimate n=255%
Janice Smith Consulting SME3 class wins42 months agono comparable pairs55%
Sector 3 Solutions SME3 class wins42 months agono comparable pairs55%
Ideas Alliance CIC SME2 class wins15 months agono comparable pairs54%

Matched by the nightly worker on class wins, buyer history, delivery geography, scale and notice text; relevance is a 0–100% heuristic score, not a probability of bidding. “Their award vs estimate” is that supplier’s middle value on its own comparable single-supplier wins. Nobody here is known to be bidding.

Coverage and what to read with care
  • Each tile explains itself. The on a figure says what it is, how it is counted and which scope this notice’s own record came from (class, division, all categories, or the authority’s 24-month row). The two columns are never blended and nothing is filled from a UK-wide figure; an empty tile means the source published nothing usable. Long form: Methodology.
  • Coverage. Roughly 40 % of notices publish a bid count; about half publish an ITL1 delivery location, so the market column reads the authority’s registered region when the notice has none (labelled). About 30 % of award-vs-estimate pairs are exact matches — the buyer published the award at the estimate. n is on every figure; a thin sample is muted, never hidden.
  • “Match” and “relevance” are model scores from the nightly matcher, not published facts. Find a Tender does not publish who is bidding. Never shown: contact details, payment behaviour, or a recommended price.

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
No (one-off requirement)
First published
22 Sept 2026, 15:19 BST
Last source update
22 Sept 2026, 15:19 BST
Authority reference
T26-128HCO
Latest notice
Tender notice (UK4)
Classification (CPV)
Health and social work servicesOther community, social and personal servicesResearch and development services and related consultancy services
Delivery area
Northern Ireland (UKN0A)
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-0777c4 Find a Tender

How to participate & submission route

Official notice
Expression of interest (EOI)
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Tender submission deadline
23 Oct 2026, 12:00 BST
Clarification deadline
9 Oct 2026, 12:00 BST
Electronic submission
Allowed
Detailed submission instructions & authority contactsFrom official release
Published estimate £30,000 excludes VAT (£30,000 including VAT).

Timeline

4 published dates · Europe/London
  1. Tender notice published4 days ago
    22 Sept 2026, 15:19 BST
  2. Clarification questions byin 12 days
    9 Oct 2026, 12:00 BST
  3. Submission deadlinein 26 days
    23 Oct 2026, 12:00 BST
  4. Contract startsin 33 days
    30 Oct 2026, 00:00 GMT

Commercial outcome & contract awards

Nothing awarded yet
Awards (0)
No award published
Contracts (0)
No contract published
Bid statistics
No aggregate bid statistics published

Notice history

1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender
  1. Tender notice published
    22 Sept 2026, 15:19 BSTUK4

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 7NN [email protected]

Official documents & specifications (1)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure

  • Tender notice tenderTender noticeUK4Tender notice on Find a Tender