Official UK procurement notice
UK2 - Preliminary Market Engagement Notice
Authority: Ministry of Justice (Central government)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionTracked Courier Services to Ministry of Justice (MoJ), MoJ HQ, HMCTS, HMPPS, Executive Agencies and ALB’s. This Preliminary Market Engagement Notice is for information only.
The information contained in this notice, including information relating to the nature and scope of the requirements, the estimated value, the service classification of this requirement and the list of CPV codes, is only indicative at this early stage. This is neither exhaustive nor binding and the Authority reserves the right at its absolute discretion to amend at the time of issue of any further notices or at any other time.
The publication of this notice in no way obliges the Authority to commence any competitive tender process. The Authority is not and shall not be liable for any costs incurred by those expressing an interest in participating in this engagement exercise.
The scope, services and requirements described below are indicative, non-binding and subject to change.
The anticipated service may include:
- scheduled (including next- day) services
- unscheduled/ad-hoc services
- secure courier services (unscheduled and scheduled)
- secure same day services
- international courier services
- bulk deliveries
To note that the Authority reserves the right to revise the estimated value in any subsequent notices and the estimated contract dates are also subject to change.
The anticipated route to market is a call off from an existing framework agreement at this stage and the Authority reserves the right to amend this route to market as no final decision has been taken at this stage.
CPV: Courier 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 Courier services (CPV 6412), 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: Courier services (CPV 6412) →
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.
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 56 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.
Both shares are minimums: 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 bid7% / 23%
2–357% / 55%
4–623% / 14%
7+14% / 9%
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% / 21%
Within ±2%30% / 68%
Above estimate15% / 11%
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 6412Published estimate£30m
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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 22 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid23%
2–355%
4–614%
7+9%
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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- Procedure method
- Award under framework
- 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
- 19 May 2026, 16:14 BST
- Last source update
- 22 Jun 2026, 11:19 BST
- Authority reference
Project_16579- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-058398- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-069c2dFind a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
19 May 2026 → 1 Apr 2028 · 5 dates- Planning notice published159 days ago19 May 2026, 16:14 BST
- Latest notice published126 days ago22 Jun 2026, 11:19 BST
- Market engagement102 days ago15 Jul 2026, 23:59 BST
The MoJ would like Government Commercial Agency (GCA), previously known as Crown Commercial Services RM6354- Lot 3a- Collections and Delivery suppliers to express their interest by completing the engagement declaration before 3pm on Wednesday 1 July 2026 (to note that this is the same deadline for supplier questions). All services described are within the scope of GCA RM6354 Lot 3a- Collections and Deliveries at this stage and no final decision has been made for the future procurement or the scope of requirements.
RFI Questionnaire
MoJ will be issuing a RFI questionnaire with background to the services and instructions to all the approved framework suppliers as part of this preliminary market engagement. The questionnaire will ask suppliers for information on: (i) various aspects of the tracked courier services that the MoJ intends to procure; and (ii) the previous experience of suppliers in delivering similar services (iii) any other information deemed necessary for the department to understand suppliers delivery models.
The deadline to submit questions to the commercial team is also 3pm Wednesday 1 July 2026. The Authority will aim to anonymise and respond to all questions, subject to confidentiality obligations via a Q&A log no later than 5pm Wednesday 8 July 2026.
Please submit questions to the following email address quoting reference Project 16579; [email protected]
The supplier RFI responses must be returned to MoJ no later than 5pm Wednesday 15 July via the following email address 2026; [email protected]
The supplier RFI responses will not be scored or evaluated.
MoJ may follow up with individual suppliers to clarify responses in their RFI submissions and any other engagement as required. Any clarifications of general relevance will be shared with all participating suppliers in anonymised form.
- Today25 Oct 2026
- Tender notice expectedin 157 days31 Mar 2027, 23:59 BST
- Contract starts1 Apr 2028, 00:00 BST
Notice history
2 events · 2 releases on Find a Tender · since 19 May 2026- Pipeline notice published19 May 2026, 16:14 BSTUK1
- Preliminary market engagement notice published22 Jun 2026, 11:19 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 (2)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender
- Pipeline notice Pipeline notice on Find a Tender