Official UK procurement notice
Enabling Services Strategic Review
Authority: The Chief Constable of Thames Valley Police (Police & fire)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionPre-Market Engagement (PME)
Background
Thames valley Police (TVP) is the largest non-metropolitan police force in the country and polices the counties of Oxfordshire, Berkshire and Buckinghamshire. It also provides services to a number of other forces under collaborative arrangements. The force employs nearly 10,000 officers and staff.
TVP, like so many organisations, is looking to improve the quality and efficiency of the services that the People and Financial Directorates and the Tasking & Resilience department (our Enabling Services) provide to the Force and their wider stakeholder requirements. The Enabling Services are therefore looking to transform the quality of the services it provides in terms of ensuring an excellent customer experience whilst also creating much greater insights to allow the Force to make better decisions. This is all against the backdrop of needing to reduce non-value-added costs and so deliver cashable savings to the Force.
The Force are looking to appoint by competitive process a strategic partner who can ensure we use our current systems to deliver on our ambitions.
Work to date has identified 3 essential first stage requirements.
- the implementation of a Transactional service centre
- Experience in building change programmes alongside the implementation of an integrated IT solution incorporating ITSM, CRM (incl CMDM) and Agentic AI and a single customer front end portal.
- The ability for improved decision making by ensuring that there is appropriate and accurate data/information available at the time required in a format to support decision makers.
- We are looking to appoint a strategic partner capable of delivering not just short-term change but to change the capabilities and culture of the organisation to ensure that continuous improvement becomes a core skill. This will mean that the Force's Enabling Services can manage change as an evolutionary internal process and not need to engage external consultancy support in the future. This will include a set of clear and achievable recommendations as to changes in the structure and delivery mechanisms for change management process and management within the Force. Customer focus and Data maturity sit alongside efficiency.
Followed by a Stage 2 Data Integration (this will be based upon the CMDB integration system.
Budget for the entire project across all phases will be in the region of £4m-£5m.
CPV: Administrative services for business operations · Business development consultancy services · Human resources management consultancy services · Project management consultancy services · Project-design services other than for construction work · Project-supervision services other than for construction work · System quality assurance assessment and review services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1Planned
Pipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How The Chief Constable of Thames Valley Police buys Business and management consultancy services (CPV 7941), and who usually turns up
The Chief Constable of Thames Valley Police’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: Business and management consultancy services (CPV 7941) →
How the contest usually goes
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How often small and medium firms win.
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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.
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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 33 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.
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How many bids did past lots attract?
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How many bids past lots received.
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Past bids do not predict this tender.
1 bid16%
2–320%
4–624%
7+40%
How did awards compare with estimates?
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Where winning prices landed against estimates.
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Past prices are a guide, not a bid price.
Below estimate42%
Within ±2%49%
Above estimate9%
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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.
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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.
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Lot #1CPV 7941Estimate not published
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How many bids this lot may attract.
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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 278 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid16%
2–320%
4–624%
7+40%
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Where the award price may land.
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No comparable awards for this lot yet.
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Who has supplied this buyer on similar work? i
Who has done similar work for this buyer.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
- 26 Jan 2026, 14:26 GMT
- Last source update
- 6 Feb 2026, 09:31 GMT
- Authority reference
PS25019- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-010771- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-060eb5Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
26 Jan 2026 → 1 Jul 2026 · 5 dates- Planning notice published273 days ago26 Jan 2026, 14:26 GMT
- Latest notice published262 days ago6 Feb 2026, 09:31 GMT
- Market engagement250 days ago18 Feb 2026, 23:59 GMT
Event Details:
Date: Early March 2026
Time: Individual timeslots to be confirmed - Please confirm any dates that you CANNOT attend
Duration: 60-90 minutes
Please confirm your availability and provide a short summary of your relevant experience by Noon 18th February 2026 to Rob.Hillier@thamesvalley.police.uk. We will then confirm your allocated MS-Teams slot to present to TVP.
Further information relating to this project and requirements for presentations can be found in the link below.
- Tender notice expected191 days ago18 Apr 2026, 23:59 BST
- Contract starts118 days ago1 Jul 2026, 00:00 BST
Notice history
2 events · 2 releases on Find a Tender · since 26 Jan 2026- Preliminary market engagement notice published26 Jan 2026, 14:26 GMTUK2
- Preliminary market engagement notice published6 Feb 2026, 09:31 GMTUK2
Published amendments (1)
Expansion of CPV codes to help ensure suppliers are aware of opportunity
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
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender