Official UK procurement notice
Tribunal Clerking · UK public procurement notice
Authority: Ministry of Justice (Central government)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThe Authority requires a fully managed Tribunal Clerking Service to support the effective delivery of in-person and hybrid tribunal hearings at court, hospital, community and other approved venues across England.
The Supplier shall deliver an outcome-based service and shall be accountable for the recruitment, vetting, training, scheduling, deployment, supervision, management and performance of all Supplier Personnel. The Authority is not procuring temporary workers or individual personnel and shall not supervise, direct or control Supplier Personnel as workers.
The required outcome is that accepted hearings receive a complete, reliable and appropriately assured clerking service so that the tribunal panel and participants can conduct the hearing effectively.
CPV: Administration services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedPipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How Ministry of Justice buys Administration services (CPV 7510), and who usually turns up
Ministry of Justice’s published record next to the market for the same work. Frameworks and DPS are left out: they draw different bid counts. Whole-market view: Administration services (CPV 7510) →
How the contest usually goes
Winner shares use published awards; bid and price charts use contested lots.
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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.
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.
Local means the winner is registered in the region where that award was delivered. The market figure counts awards delivered in Greater London (authority’s region).
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners were registered in the region where that award was delivered.
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How long buyers here take to decide after bids close.
Middle value in days from the bid deadline to the award date, on competitions that published both.
Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.
Half of these awards have an award date within 59 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.
Each colour is a bid-count range. Only competed lots with a published count are included.
Past bids do not predict this tender.
1 bid17% / 33%
2–367% / 56%
4–60% / 0%
7+17% / 11%
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 estimate56% / 29%
Within ±2%30% / 43%
Above estimate15% / 29%
Assess each lot i
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.
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 7510Published estimate£1.8m
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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 49 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid27%
2–335%
4–627%
7+12%
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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.
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.
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.
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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.
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
- 22 Oct 2026, 10:55 BST
- Last source update
- 22 Oct 2026, 10:55 BST
- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-099854- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Not published
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-078d9eFind a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
22 Oct 2026 → 1 Jun 2027 · 4 dates- Planning notice published3 days ago22 Oct 2026, 10:55 BST
- Today25 Oct 2026
- Market engagementin 18 days12 Nov 2026, 23:59 GMT
Tribunal Clerking Services Market Engagement Notice
HM Courts & Tribunals Service (HMCTS) is undertaking preliminary market engagement in relation to a potential future requirement for the provision of Tribunal Clerking Services across England.
The purpose of this engagement is to better understand the capabilities and capacity of the managed services market and to inform the development of HMCTS's procurement strategy and route to market. No procurement has commenced, and this market engagement exercise does not constitute a call for competition.
HMCTS is seeking participation from organisations with experience in delivering managed services, workforce management solutions, operational support services, business process outsourcing (BPO), hearing support services, scheduling and resource deployment services, or similar service delivery models.
Market Engagement Event
HMCTS will host a virtual market engagement event on:
Date: 12 November 2026
Time: 10:00 to 12:00 (GMT)
Location: Microsoft Teams
The session will provide an overview of the proposed requirement and will seek supplier feedback on:
The proposed service requirement and operating model.
Supplier capability and capacity to deliver the service.
Potential delivery models and commercial approaches.
Routes to market and procurement options.
Market appetite and likely levels of competition.
The engagement exercise will assist HMCTS in understanding current market capability and identifying the most appropriate commercial approach to meet future service requirements.
How to Register
Organisations wishing to attend should email: [email protected]
with the subject line: Tribunal Clerking Market Engagement
The email should include the following details for each attendee:
Full name
Job title
Email address
Following receipt of the registration request, HMCTS will issue a Microsoft Teams invitation to the nominated attendees.
Important Information
Participation in this market engagement exercise is entirely voluntary and will not form part of any future evaluation process. Attendance, non-attendance, or any information provided during the event will not confer any advantage or disadvantage in any future procurement activity.
HMCTS reserves the right to amend, postpone or cancel the engagement event and any subsequent procurement activity at its discretion.
HMCTS looks forward to engaging with the market and welcoming interested organisations to the event.
- Tender notice expectedin 79 days12 Jan 2027, 23:59 GMT
- Contract startsin 218 days1 Jun 2027, 00:00 BST
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Preliminary market engagement notice published22 Oct 2026, 10:55 BSTUK2
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
Official documents & specifications (1)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender