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Published 9 Oct 2026, 16:33 BST

Official UK procurement notice

The Provision of Services for all Victims of Domestic Abuse in Derby City

Authority: The Police and Crime Commissioner for Derbyshire (Police & fire)

ServicesOpen procedureAbove thresholdLight touch regimeSME suitableVCSE suitable
Published estimate£3,026,500≈ £1.5m / year · £3,631,800 inc. VAT
Submission deadline 16 Nov 202612:00 GMT · 37d 10h left
Clarification cut-off 3 Nov 202612:00 GMT · questions to the authority
Contract term 2 yrsends 31 Mar 2029 · up to 31 Mar 2032 with extensions · starts 1 Apr 2027

What is being bought

Published requirement description

This Invitation to Tender has been issued by the Police and Crime Commissioner for Derbyshire who are seeking to award a Contract for the provision of Services for all Victims of Domestic Abuse in Derby City.

CPV: Community action programme · Guidance and counselling services · Health and social work services · Social work and related services · Social work services · Social work services without accommodation

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · value published
Lot #1Renewal 2 yrsSMEVCSEPublished value£3,026,500
Contract period: 1 Apr 2027 — 31 Mar 2029 (up to 31 Mar 2032 with extensions) · up to 5 yrs with extensionsEligibility: SME eligibleVCSE eligibleDelivery: East MidlandsTurnover guideline: ~£3,022,532/yr≈ 2× annual value
Value
£3,026,500 exc. VAT · £3,631,800 inc. VAT
Extensions
The Contracting Authority may extend for a further 3 x 12 month periods
85000000 Health and social work services85300000 Social work and related services85310000 Social work services85312000 Social work services without accommodation85312300 Guidance and counselling services85322000 Community action programme

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
Quality: 80%Price: 20%
Published award criteria (2)
  • Quality
  • Price

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

What this means for your bid
  • Price carries 20 of 100 points — a 10% discount moves about 2 points. The method statement decides this lot, not the discount.
  • Turnover usually expected at this size: about £3,022,532 (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

Social work services (CPV 8531) in East Midlands — and who usually turns up

The Police and Crime Commissioner for Derbyshire has too little published record in this market to describe on its own; the East Midlands market stands beside whatever it has. Frameworks and DPS are kept out: they attract a different number of bids. Whole-market view: Social work services (CPV 8531) →

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How the contest usually goes

This buyer’s published record next to the market where the work is delivered — contested contracts only, counted per lot

Question for the bid
The marketSocial work services (CPV 8531) · East Midlands
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: 0 of 1 known-size awards · market: CPV 8531, n=41
0 of 121 of 41

No small-firm winners recorded among this authority’s published awards in this sample.

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 East Midlands.

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

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 1 of 1 known-location awards · market: CPV 8531, n=68
1 of 132 of 68

Most of this buyer’s recorded winners are registered in East Midlands.

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: no dates · market: n=31
—34 days

Half of these awards were announced within 34 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.

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.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: exactly 1 of 2 awarded contracts without a rival · market: n=51
1 of 219 of 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?

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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 buyer2 lots with bid counts · all categories · too few to chart
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The market45 lots with bid counts · CPV 8531
27% had one bid
Market · select a colour for counts
1 bid27%
Market: 12 of 45 lots with published bid counts.
2–333%
Market: 15 of 45 lots with published bid counts.
4–624%
Market: 11 of 45 lots with published bid counts.
7+16%
Market: 7 of 45 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 buyerNo matched awards
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The market30 lots with estimate and award · CPV 8531
23% below estimate
Market · select a colour for counts
Below estimate23%
Market: 7 of 30 lots with an estimate and award.
Within ±2%70%
Market: 21 of 30 lots with an estimate and award.
Above estimate7%
Market: 2 of 30 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 853127% single-bidPublished estimate£3,026,500
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 45 past lots.

A forecast, not a list of bidders.

—27% single-bid risk
Past bids on 45 similar lots
1 bid27%
12 of 45 similar past lots received 1 bid (27%).
2–333%
15 of 45 similar past lots received 2–3 (33%).
4–624%
11 of 45 similar past lots received 4–6 (24%).
7+16%
7 of 45 similar past lots received 7+ (16%).
Comparable past lots usually drew 3 bids.
Commercial price forecast
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Where the winning 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 guide, not a price to bid.

—No model forecast yet
No comparable awards on record for this lot’s category yet — the published estimate is £3.0m, and the forecast stays empty until the market has a record to read.

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.

SupplierThis buyer’s earlier contractLotAward valueMatch
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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.

SupplierWon in this categoryLive contractsAward vs estimate
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Coverage and what to read with care
  • Each figure 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 sides are never blended. A lot’s own market is read at its delivery region where the lot names one; where it names several, or none that can be resolved, the chart falls back to the UK-wide record for the same category and says so under the bar. An empty cell means the source published nothing usable. Long form: Methodology.
  • When we call out a difference. A buyer figure is only flagged against the market when the sample is large enough that the gap is unlikely to be chance; at most two callouts appear, always phrased as a comparison with both numbers and the sample size.
  • Coverage (re-measured 5 Oct on the live record, 94,497 awarded procedures of the last three years). 51 % publish a bid count and 72 % a delivery region, so the market column reads the authority’s registered region when the notice names none, labelled. Of the 17,687 award-vs-estimate pairs, 34 % sit exactly on the estimate — the buyer published the award at the figure it advertised. n is on every figure; a thin sample is muted, never hidden, and a distribution is not drawn as percentages below ten observations.
  • “Match”, text similarity, the expected-bid figure and the distribution drawn beneath it are model outputs, not published facts or win probabilities. 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
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
Light touch regime
Commercial structure
Stand-alone contract (no framework)
Competition type
Competitive procedure
GPA / WTO covered
Unspecified in notice
Recurring procurement
Unspecified in notice
First published
9 Oct 2026, 16:33 BST
Last source update
9 Oct 2026, 16:33 BST
Award evaluation window
Submission end — 18 Dec 2026
Authority reference
DP1138
FTS notice number
2026/S 000-095816
Latest notice
Tender notice (UK4)
Classification (CPV)
Community action programmeGuidance and counselling servicesHealth and social work servicesSocial work and related servicesSocial work servicesSocial work services without accommodation
Delivery area
East Midlands (UKF)
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-07851a Find a Tender

How to participate & submission route

Official notice Submit via EU-Supply (CTM)
Submission portal named on this notice: EU-Supply (CTM) · Who buys & how to bid on EU-Supply
Public notice page · account needed to bidElectronic submission allowedLanguage: EN
Access & registration note: Free · 5–10 minutes
Requests to participate (first stage)
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Tender submission deadline
16 Nov 2026, 12:00 GMT
Clarification deadline
3 Nov 2026, 12:00 GMT
Submission channel
Official e-sourcing portal
Electronic submission
Allowed
Accepted languages
en
Detailed submission instructions & authority contactsFrom official release
Published estimate £3,026,500 excludes VAT (£3,631,800 including VAT).

Timeline

5 published dates · Europe/London
  1. Tender notice publishedearlier today
    9 Oct 2026, 16:33 BST
  2. Clarification questions byin 24 days
    3 Nov 2026, 12:00 GMT
  3. Submission deadlinein 37 days
    16 Nov 2026, 12:00 GMT
  4. Award decision expected byin 70 days
    18 Dec 2026, 23:59 GMT
  5. Contract startsin 173 days
    1 Apr 2027

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

2 events · 1 release on Find a Tender · since 9 Oct 2026
  1. Tender notice published
    9 Oct 2026, 16:33 BSTUK4
  2. First tender notice published
    9 Oct 2026, 16:33 BST

Contracting authority & participating public bodies

The Police and Crime Commissioner for Derbyshire

Contracting authorityPublic authority - sub-central government GB-PPON: PZLQ-6388-PQDJ Derbyshire Constabulary Headquarters, Butterley Hall, Ripley, East Midlands, DE5 3RS Samantha Woolley [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