Official UK procurement notice
CBC-2139-T-SK Information Advice and Guidance services
Authority: Central Bedfordshire Council (Local council)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThe Council will be procuring community-based Information Advice and Guidance services.
Technical requirements and tender instructions of the Information Advice and Guidance Service is available within the Invitation to Tender documentation.
The Council will provide as much support and information as it can to help guide you through the quotation process.
Questions asked together with the response, will be made available to all tenderers, to ensure a fair and consistent approach to all.
If there is anything you are not sure about or need clarification on, please use the Correspondence facility within the In-tend electronic tendering system.
Last date for receiving questions on the In-Tend system: 13/11/2026
Completed proposals and attachments should be submitted electronically by the due date via our In-tend electronic tendering system.
Quotations must be uploaded via the My Return section of the system.
Quotations submitted through the correspondence facility will not be considered.
Your proposal must be submitted via the In-tend system by no later than 12pm (noon) on 23/11/2026.
Proposal received after that time will be excluded.
CPV: Community health services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · value publishedLot #1RenewalPublished value£252,000
What it takes to wini
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 morei
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).
Lot awarding rule: The Award Criteria for the Contract includes four transparent, measurable, and specific questions which the Council will use to determine the Most Advantageous Tender. The following weightings will be used to determine the Most Advantageous Tender: Price: 30.00% Quality: 70.00%
No conditions of participation were published on the notice; check the tender documents.
- Turnover usually expected at this size: about £251,655 (twice the annual value).
Turnover is an indicative market norm (≈2× annual value), not a published condition.
Competition analysis · published record, not a forecast of who will bid
How Central Bedfordshire Council buys Social work services (CPV 8531), and who usually turns up
Central Bedfordshire Council’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: Social work services (CPV 8531) →
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 East of England.
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 60 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 bid0% / 27%
2–333% / 18%
4–633% / 30%
7+33% / 25%
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 estimate30% / 48%
Within ±2%50% / 40%
Above estimate20% / 12%
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 8532Published estimate£252k
This lot is listed as CPV 8532. The table above uses the notice category.
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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.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid19%
2–347%
4–627%
7+7%
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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.
Based on 25 comparable awards. Each lot reflects its own category; forecasts for different lots of the same notice are not comparative.
A statistical guide from past awards, not a price to bid.
Middle 50%£231k–£252k
Estimate£252k
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.
| Supplier | Won in this category | Live contracts | Award vs estimate |
|---|---|---|---|
Barnardo'sLarge | £167m83 awards in 36m · last this month | 31 live · £87m iPublic contracts this supplier still holds. Its awards whose published end date is still in the future, with their values. Many contracts publish no end date, so this is a floor, not the whole book. Unexpired says nothing about spare capacity. | at estimate n=38 |
| £308m18 awards in 36m · last 4 months ago | 3 live · £218m iPublic contracts this supplier still holds. Its awards whose published end date is still in the future, with their values. Many contracts publish no end date, so this is a floor, not the whole book. Unexpired says nothing about spare capacity. | at estimate n=9 | |
| £157m18 awards in 36m · last 3 months ago | 13 live · £156m iPublic contracts this supplier still holds. Its awards whose published end date is still in the future, with their values. Many contracts publish no end date, so this is a floor, not the whole book. Unexpired says nothing about spare capacity. | 4% below n=6 | |
| £40m22 awards in 36m · last 1 month ago | 5 live · £6.7m iPublic contracts this supplier still holds. Its awards whose published end date is still in the future, with their values. Many contracts publish no end date, so this is a floor, not the whole book. Unexpired says nothing about spare capacity. | at estimate n=16 | |
| £3.9m12 awards in 36m · last this month | 12 live · £8.2m iPublic contracts this supplier still holds. Its awards whose published end date is still in the future, with their values. Many contracts publish no end date, so this is a floor, not the whole book. Unexpired says nothing about spare capacity. | at estimate n=2 |
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
- Below threshold - open competition
- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Open for tender
- Procurement threshold
- Below threshold
- 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
- 8 Sept 2026, 11:00 BST
- Last source update
- 26 Oct 2026, 16:20 GMT
- Authority reference
CBC-2139-T-SK- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-101210- Latest notice
- Tender notice (UK4)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06f447Find a Tender
How to participate & submission route
Official notice Submit via In-tend- Requests to participate (first stage)
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- Tender submission deadline
- 23 Nov 2026, 12:00 GMT
- Clarification deadline
- 13 Nov 2026, 23:59 GMT
- Submission channel
- Official e-sourcing portal
- Electronic submission
- Allowed
Timeline
8 Sept 2026 → 1 Apr 2027 · 7 dates- Planning notice published50 days ago8 Sept 2026, 11:00 BST
- Market engagement32 days ago25 Sept 2026, 23:59 BST
Interested organisations are invited to complete and submit the RFI questionnaire via the In-Tend portal by the stated deadline. Responses will be used to inform the Council's understanding of the market and potential future procurement options. Participation is voluntary and does not form part of any formal procurement or evaluation process.
- Tender notice published46h ago26 Oct 2026, 16:20 GMT
- Today28 Oct 2026
- Next notice expectedin 4 days1 Nov 2026, 23:59 GMT
- Clarification questions byin 16 days13 Nov 2026, 23:59 GMT
- Submission deadlinein 25 days23 Nov 2026, 12:00 GMT
- Contract startsin 154 days1 Apr 2027, 00:00 BST
Notice history
6 events · 2 releases on Find a Tender · since 8 Sept 2026- Preliminary market engagement notice published8 Sept 2026, 11:00 BSTUK2
- Tender notice published26 Oct 2026, 16:20 GMTUK4
- Published value published: £252,00026 Oct 2026, 16:20 GMT
- Status changed to active26 Oct 2026, 16:20 GMT
- Procurement method changed26 Oct 2026, 16:20 GMT
- Deadline published: 23 Nov 2026, 12:00 GMT26 Oct 2026, 16:20 GMT
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Nothing awarded yet- 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
- Tender notice Tender notice on Find a Tender
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender