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Published 25 Jun 2026, 16:39 BST

Official UK procurement notice

EMCV 001 - Planning Services Software

Official notice Competition analysis

Authority: Shropshire Council (Local council)

GoodsAbove threshold
Sectors: Software Packages & ERP (48) Delivery: West Midlands (UKG22)
Planned pipeline value£400,000pipeline notice, not a live tender
Tender notice expected Date not publishedfrom the planned procurement notice
Contract term 3 yrsends 1 Apr 2030 · up to 31 Mar 2032 with extensions · starts 1 Apr 2027

What is being bought

Published requirement description

THIS IS NOT A CALL FOR COMPETITION. THIS IS A MARKET ENGAGEMENT.

Shropshire Council is seeking to procure a software system designed to support local authority processes in the UK, including Planning Applications, Building Control functions, Local Land and Property Gazetteer (LLPG), Street Naming and Numbering, and Land Charges.

The purpose of this Preliminary Market Engagement is to assist the Council in developing its requirements and approach to the procurement, particularly in relation to the themes addressed within the Preliminary Market Engagement questionnaire.

The Council anticipates the new contract to commence in April 2027, subject to Council approval and market engagement outcomes.

CPV: Industry specific software package · Software package and information systems · Software package suites

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published
Lot #1PlannedRenewal 3 yrs
Contract period: 1 Apr 2027 – 1 Apr 2030 (3 yrs) · up to 31 Mar 2032 with extensions
Delivery: West Midlands
Extensions: Extension options published
48000000 Software package and information systems48100000 Industry specific software package48422000 Software package suites

Who is likely to bid for this lot ↓

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

How Shropshire Council buys Facilities management software package and software package suite (CPV 4842), and who usually turns up

Shropshire 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: Facilities management software package and software package suite (CPV 4842) →

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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 buyerShropshire Council · all categories
The marketFacilities management software package and software package suite (CPV 4842)
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: 24 of 49 known-size awards · market: CPV 4842 · UK-wide, n=16
49%13%

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: 36 of 62 known-location awards · market: CPV 4842 · UK-wide, n=14
58%21%

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: 26 decided notices · market: CPV 4842 · UK-wide, n=5
26 days6 days

Half of these awards have an award date within 26 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 13 of 59 procurements with awards had no recorded rival · market: CPV 4842 · UK-wide, n=24
22%50%

Missing bid counts may hide more single-bid awards. This share is a minimum.

How many bids did past lots attract?

i

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 buyer50 lots with bid counts · all categories
18% had one bid
The market7 lots with bid counts · CPV 4842 · UK-wide
0% had one bid
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
1 bid18% / 0%
Buyer: 9 of 50 lots with published bid counts. Market: 0 of 7 lots with published bid counts.
2–334% / 14%
Buyer: 17 of 50 lots with published bid counts. Market: 1 of 7 lots with published bid counts.
4–632% / 43%
Buyer: 16 of 50 lots with published bid counts. Market: 3 of 7 lots with published bid counts.
7+16% / 43%
Buyer: 8 of 50 lots with published bid counts. Market: 3 of 7 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 buyer45 lots with estimate and award · all categories
20% below estimate
The market25 lots with estimate and award · division 48 · West Midlands
44% below estimate
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
Below estimate20% / 44%
Buyer: 9 of 45 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 11 of 25 lots with an estimate and award.
Within ±2%71% / 24%
Buyer: 32 of 45 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 6 of 25 lots with an estimate and award.
Above estimate9% / 32%
Buyer: 4 of 45 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 8 of 25 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 4836 monthsPublished estimate£400k

This lot lists more than one class in CPV 48. 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 38 past lots.

A forecast, not a list of bidders.

—No model forecast yet13% chance of a single bid
Past bids on 38 similar lots
1 bid13%
5 of 38 similar past lots received 1 bid (13%).
2–332%
12 of 38 similar past lots received 2–3 (32%).
4–634%
13 of 38 similar past lots received 4–6 (34%).
7+21%
8 of 38 similar past lots received 7+ (21%).
Comparable past lots usually drew 4 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 £400k, 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
Goods
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
25 Jun 2026, 16:39 BST
Last source update
25 Jun 2026, 16:39 BST
Authority reference
EMCV 001
FTS notice number
2026/S 000-060008
Latest notice
Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
Classification (CPV)
Industry specific software packageSoftware package and information systemsSoftware package suites
Delivery area
West Midlands (UKG22)
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06bd74 Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice
Submission deadline
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Timeline

25 Jun 2026 → 1 Apr 2027 · 3 dates
  1. Planning notice published123 days ago
    25 Jun 2026, 16:39 BST
  2. Market engagement108 days ago
    10 Jul 2026, 23:59 BST

    The Council reserves the right to conclude or extend engagement activities as required.

    Organisations are invited to complete and submit the preliminary market engagement questionnaire by 5pm 10th July 2026

    Please email procurement@shropshire.gov.uk with the name of your organisation, along with the name and email address of the individual who will be completing the questionnaire. The questionnaire will then be issued to you.

  3. Today
    27 Oct 2026
  4. Contract startsin 155 days
    1 Apr 2027, 00:00 BST

Notice history

1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender
  1. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    25 Jun 2026, 16:39 BST
    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

Shropshire Council

Contracting authorityPublic authority - sub-central government GB-PPON: PCLL-9577-QDZW Guildhall, Frankwell Quay, Shrewsbury, West Midlands, SY3 8HQContact name, email, phone

Official documents & specifications (1)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure