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Published 24 Jun 2026, 11:45 BST

Official UK procurement notice

Tenancy Academy (Pilot Study) - Tenant Education, Skills and Tenancy Sustainment Programme

Official notice Competition analysis

Authority: Cornwall Council (Local council)

ServicesAbove thresholdSME suitableVCSE suitable
Sectors: Education & Training (80) Delivery: South West (UKK3)
Planned pipeline value£1pipeline notice, not a live tender
Tender notice expected 1 Apr 2027from the planned procurement notice
Contract term 1 yrends 30 Jun 2028 · starts 1 Jul 2027

What is being bought

Published requirement description

Cornwall Council is exploring the delivery of a time-limited Tenancy Academy pilot to support tenancy sustainment, prevent homelessness, and reduce demand on temporary accommodation and housing services.

The pilot will test targeted education and skills-based interventions for households at risk of tenancy breakdown, including those in temporary accommodation preparing to move on and tenants in the social and private rented sectors.

Delivery is expected to be flexible and cohort-based, focused on improving financial capability, tenancy knowledge, and tenant-landlord relationships.

The pilot will generate evidence on cost, effectiveness, outcomes, and value for money to inform future service design and commissioning decisions.

The estimated value provided is indicative only for the purpose of publishing this preliminary engagement notice.The Council is using this Soft Market Test to inform the scale, design, and potential value of any future opportunity. A confirmed contract value has not yet been established.

CPV: Training services

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published
Lot #1Planned 1 yrSMEVCSE
Contract period: 1 Jul 2027 – 30 Jun 2028 (1 yr)
Delivery: South WestEligibility: SME eligibleVCSE eligible
80500000 Training services

Who is likely to bid for this lot ↓

Pipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published

How Cornwall Council buys Training services (CPV 8050), and who usually turns up

Cornwall 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: Training services (CPV 8050) →

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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 buyerCornwall Council · division 80
The marketTraining services (CPV 8050)
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: 85 of 98 known-size awards · market: CPV 8050 · South West England, n=59
87%47%

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.

Here, local means registered in South West England.

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

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 100 of 104 known-location awards · market: CPV 8050 · South West England, n=85
96%38%

Most of this buyer’s recorded winners are registered in South West England.

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 · market: CPV 8050 · UK-wide, n=52
43 days34 days

Half of these awards were announced within 43 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.

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 4 of 8 procurements with awards had no recorded rival · market: CPV 8050 · South West England, n=88
50%51%

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?

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 buyer59 lots with bid counts · all categories
12% had one bid
The market14 lots with bid counts · CPV 8050 · South West England
0% had one bid
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
1 bid12% / 0%
Buyer: 7 of 59 lots with published bid counts. Market: 0 of 14 lots with published bid counts.
2–346% / 7%
Buyer: 27 of 59 lots with published bid counts. Market: 1 of 14 lots with published bid counts.
4–615% / 43%
Buyer: 9 of 59 lots with published bid counts. Market: 6 of 14 lots with published bid counts.
7+27% / 50%
Buyer: 16 of 59 lots with published bid counts. Market: 7 of 14 lots with published bid counts.

How did awards compare with estimates?

i

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 buyer44 lots with estimate and award · all categories
18% below estimate
The market14 lots with estimate and award · CPV 8050 · South West England
64% below estimate
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
Below estimate18% / 64%
Buyer: 8 of 44 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 9 of 14 lots with an estimate and award.
Within ±2%64% / 36%
Buyer: 28 of 44 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 5 of 14 lots with an estimate and award.
Above estimate18% / 0%
Buyer: 8 of 44 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 0 of 14 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 805012 monthsSME suitableNo real estimate
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. The bar shows 14 past lots.

A forecast, not a list of bidders.

—No model forecast yet0% single-bid risk
Past bids on 14 similar lots
1 bid0%
0 of 14 similar past lots received 1 bid (0%).
2–37%
1 of 14 similar past lots received 2–3 (7%).
4–643%
6 of 14 similar past lots received 4–6 (43%).
7+50%
7 of 14 similar past lots received 7+ (50%).
Comparable past lots usually drew 6 bids.
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.

—No real estimate
The buyer published £1 as the estimate (a placeholder, not the contract’s value), so there is nothing to forecast against.

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
Services
Notice status
Planned procurement
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
24 Jun 2026, 11:45 BST
Last source update
13 Jul 2026, 14:12 BST
Authority reference
DN819869
FTS notice number
2026/S 000-065646
Latest notice
Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
Classification (CPV)
Training services
Delivery area
South West (UKK3)
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06bbf8 Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice
Submission deadline
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Timeline

24 Jun 2026 → 1 Jul 2027 · 5 dates
  1. Planning notice published119 days ago
    24 Jun 2026, 11:45 BST
  2. Latest notice published100 days ago
    13 Jul 2026, 14:12 BST
  3. Market engagement84 days ago
    29 Jul 2026, 23:59 BST

    Cornwall Council is conducting a Soft Market Test (SMT) as part of preliminary market engagement to inform the potential development of a time‑limited Tenancy Academy pilot.

    The engagement will gather structured feedback from providers on delivery models, outcomes and measurement approaches, risks, scalability, and indicative costs. This will support the design of the service specification, performance framework, and commercial approach for any future procurement.

    Interested organisations are invited to review the SMT document and submit responses using the structured template provided via the ProContract (Due North) system by the stated deadline 29th July 2026.

    A direct link to the project can be found here:

    procontract.due-north.com/Advert ↗

    This engagement is for information gathering purposes only and does not constitute a call for competition. Participation will not confer any advantage in any future procurement process. All information will be handled transparently and in accordance with procurement regulations.

    The Council may use the findings to inform any subsequent procurement, which would be advertised separately via the central digital platform.

  4. Today
    21 Oct 2026
  5. Tender notice expectedin 162 days
    1 Apr 2027, 23:59 BST
  6. Contract startsin 252 days
    1 Jul 2027, 00:00 BST

Notice history

2 events · 2 releases on Find a Tender · since 24 Jun 2026
  1. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    24 Jun 2026, 11:45 BST
    UK2
  2. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    13 Jul 2026, 14:12 BST
    UK2
Published amendments (1)

change of opportunity link

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

Cornwall Council

Contracting authorityPublic authority - sub-central government GB-PPON: PYRH-9827-DWLP County Hall, Truro, South West, TR1 3AYContact name, email, phone

Official documents & specifications (2)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure