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Published 13 Nov 2025, 16:32 GMT

Official UK procurement notice

Behavioural Insights Training · UK public procurement notice

Authority: Equality and Human Rights Commission (Central government)

ServicesBelow thresholdConcession
Concession value (operator's revenue)£16,667operator revenue, not the authority's budget
Tender notice expected 3 Dec 2025from the planned procurement notice
Contract term 3 moends 31 Mar 2026 · starts 5 Jan 2026

What is being bought

Published requirement description

The Equality and Human Rights Commission is seeking to appoint a suitably experienced supplier to deliver Behavioural Insights Training to employees within our Regulation Network.

CPV: Education and training services

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published

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

How Equality and Human Rights Commission buys Education and training services (CPV 80), and who usually turns up

Equality and Human Rights Commission’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: Education and training services (CPV 80) →

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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 buyerEquality and Human Rights Commission · all categories
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: 5 of 6 known-size awards · market: division 80 · UK-wide, n=2,238
83%56%

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.

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.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 8 of 8 known-location awards · market: division 80 · UK-wide, n=2,296
100%63%

Most of this buyer’s recorded winners were registered in the region where that award was delivered.

How long to a decision?
i

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.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: no decision dates published · market: division 80 · UK-wide, n=387
—37 days

Half of these awards have an award date within 37 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 2 of 8 procurements with awards had no recorded rival · market: division 80 · UK-wide, n=2,640
25%55%

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 buyerToo few to chart: 1 lot with bid counts, 5 needed · all categories
The market784 lots with bid counts · division 80 · UK-wide
22% had one bid
Market · select a colour for counts
1 bid22%
Market: 175 of 784 lots with published bid counts.
2–330%
Market: 233 of 784 lots with published bid counts.
4–624%
Market: 189 of 784 lots with published bid counts.
7+24%
Market: 187 of 784 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 buyerToo few to chart: 2 lots with estimate and award, 5 needed · broad CPV 80
The market493 lots with estimate and award · division 80 · UK-wide
31% below estimate
Market · select a colour for counts
Below estimate31%
Market: 152 of 493 lots with an estimate and award.
Within ±2%56%
Market: 275 of 493 lots with an estimate and award.
Above estimate13%
Market: 66 of 493 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 803 monthsPublished estimate£17k

This lot lists more than one class in CPV 80. The comparison uses that group.

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 784 past lots.

A forecast, not a list of bidders.

—No model forecast yet22% chance of a single bid
Past bids on 784 similar lots
1 bid22%
175 of 784 similar past lots received 1 bid (22%).
2–330%
233 of 784 similar past lots received 2–3 (30%).
4–624%
189 of 784 similar past lots received 4–6 (24%).
7+24%
187 of 784 similar past lots received 7+ (24%).
Comparable past lots usually drew 3 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 model forecast yet
No comparable awards on record for this lot’s category yet. The published estimate is £17k, 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.

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
Below threshold
Regulatory regime
Concession
Commercial structure
Stand-alone contract (no framework)
Competition type
Competitive procedure
GPA / WTO covered
Unspecified in notice
Recurring procurement
Unspecified in notice
First published
13 Nov 2025, 16:32 GMT
Last source update
13 Nov 2025, 16:32 GMT
Authority reference
EHRC 2526-17
FTS notice number
2025/S 000-073702
Latest notice
Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
Classification (CPV)
Education and training services
Delivery area
North East (UKC)North West (UKD)Yorkshire & Humber (UKE)East Midlands (UKF)West Midlands (UKG)East of England (UKH)London (UKI)South East (UKJ)
+3 moreSouth West (UKK)Wales (UKL)Scotland (UKM)
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-05e0d5 Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice
Submission deadline
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Timeline

13 Nov 2025 → 5 Jan 2026 · 4 dates
  1. Planning notice published347 days ago
    13 Nov 2025, 16:32 GMT
  2. Market engagement339 days ago
    21 Nov 2025, 23:59 GMT

    Any clarification questions regarding the engagement process should be submitted through the proactis portal no later than 21 November 2025 at 5pm.

  3. Tender notice expected327 days ago
    3 Dec 2025, 23:59 GMT
  4. Contract starts295 days ago
    5 Jan 2026

Notice history

1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender
  1. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    13 Nov 2025, 16:32 GMT
    UK2

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

Equality and Human Rights Commission

Contracting authorityPublic authority - central government GB-PPON: PGVT-4498-NMMJ 3rd Floor Arndale House, Arndale Centre, Manchester, North West, M4 3AQContact email

Official documents & specifications (1)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure