Official UK procurement notice
Future Independent Voice for Social Care in Peterborough
Authority: Peterborough City Council (Local council)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionUPDATE REGARDING CANCELLATION 31/07/2026 -
Unfortunately, due to unforeseen circumstances we need to postpone this event. We still seek engagement on this in future, but cannot give a specific date for this at this time. The advert on ProContract linked below has been un-published.
ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION:
Peterborough City Council is inviting potential providers to attend a market engagement event to help shape the future of independent voice and engagement for Adult Social Care in Peterborough.
We want to hear from organisations with experience of listening to people, engaging communities, gathering insight, and ensuring that residents' voices influence how services are designed and improved. Your feedback will help us test our proposed approach and understand how the market could support a future service from April 2027
Current Context
Healthwatch Cambridgeshire and Peterborough to deliver the statutory local Healthwatch function in line with the Health and Social Care Act. Under this arrangement Healthwatch Cambridgeshire and Peterborough act as an independent champion for residents when it comes to health and social care services. They ensure local people's voices are heard and used to improve care across our communities.
This contract expires in April 2027.
Should it become law, the NHS Modernisation Bill will remove PCC's statutory duty to establish a local Healthwatch covering health and care services. Instead local authorities will have a broader duty in relation coproduction of social care services.
The Future Service
Despite these changes, PCC want to ensure that, from April 2027, there is still an independent voice for local people using Adult Social Care services.
At a minimum, Key deliverables will be:
- Providing a route for feedback into the council
- Ensuring the voice of those impacted contributes to council decisions relating to Social Care.
- Analysis and presentation of themes, creating a picture of local demand, priorities and areas for improvement
- Support a range of partnership boards, focused on key local priorities and areas of need
- Establish a visible, trusted presence in Peterborough.
- Broad engagement of all people and communities in Peterborough, ensuring there is a representative voice
- Establishing a strong feedback loop, where people are clear on the impact their voice is having
Timeline
PCC's existing contract with Healthwatch Cambridgeshire and Peterborough expires of 31st March 2027.
Event
We would really value the input and feedback of potential providers on the proposed model. We will be holding a market engagement event for interested providers on Tuesday 4th August.
The event will cover:
- The proposed service model
- Provider expectations
- An opportunity for potential providers to ask questions
The event will be held online. If you are interested in the service, please sign-up via the following link:
forms.office.com/pages/responsepage.aspx ↗
The ProContract page can be found here: procontract.due-north.com/Advert ↗
CPV: Health and social work services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1PlannedRenewal
Pipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How Peterborough City Council buys Health and social work services (CPV 85), and who usually turns up
Peterborough City 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: Health and social work services (CPV 85) →
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. More of this buyer’s work stays local than in this market: 77% against 45%, n=22.
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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 62 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 bid9% / 19%
2–327% / 29%
4–627% / 29%
7+36% / 22%
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% / 38%
Within ±2%50% / 56%
Above estimate20% / 6%
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 85Estimate not published
This lot lists more than one class in CPV 85. The comparison uses that group.
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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 268 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid19%
2–329%
4–629%
7+22%
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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- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Planned procurement
- Procurement threshold
- Above threshold (FTS publication)
- 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
- 13 Jul 2026, 10:05 BST
- Last source update
- 31 Jul 2026, 09:39 BST
- Authority reference
DN822052- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-072494- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06c93aFind a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
13 Jul 2026 → 1 Apr 2027 · 4 dates- Planning notice published107 days ago13 Jul 2026, 10:05 BST
- Latest notice published89 days ago31 Jul 2026, 09:39 BST
- Market engagement85 days ago4 Aug 2026, 23:59 BST
UPDATE REGARDING CANCELLATION 31/07/2026 -
Unfortunately, due to unforeseen circumstances we need to postpone this event. We still seek engagement on this in future, but cannot give a specific date for this at this time. The advert on ProContract linked below has been un-published.
ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION:
Peterborough City Council is inviting potential providers to attend a market engagement event to help shape the future of independent voice and engagement for Adult Social Care in Peterborough.
We want to hear from organisations with experience of listening to people, engaging communities, gathering insight, and ensuring that residents' voices influence how services are designed and improved. Your feedback will help us test our proposed approach and understand how the market could support a future service from April 2027
Current Context
Healthwatch Cambridgeshire and Peterborough to deliver the statutory local Healthwatch function in line with the Health and Social Care Act. Under this arrangement Healthwatch Cambridgeshire and Peterborough act as an independent champion for residents when it comes to health and social care services. They ensure local people's voices are heard and used to improve care across our communities.
This contract expires in April 2027.
Should it become law, the NHS Modernisation Bill will remove PCC's statutory duty to establish a local Healthwatch covering health and care services. Instead local authorities will have a broader duty in relation coproduction of social care services.
The Future Service
Despite these changes, PCC want to ensure that, from April 2027, there is still an independent voice for local people using Adult Social Care services.
At a minimum, Key deliverables will be:
- Providing a route for feedback into the council
- Ensuring the voice of those impacted contributes to council decisions relating to Social Care.
- Analysis and presentation of themes, creating a picture of local demand, priorities and areas for improvement
- Support a range of partnership boards, focused on key local priorities and areas of need
- Establish a visible, trusted presence in Peterborough.
- Broad engagement of all people and communities in Peterborough, ensuring there is a representative voice
- Establishing a strong feedback loop, where people are clear on the impact their voice is having
Timeline
PCC's existing contract with Healthwatch Cambridgeshire and Peterborough expires of 31st March 2027.
Event
We would really value the input and feedback of potential providers on the proposed model. We will be holding a market engagement event for interested providers on Tuesday 4th August.
The event will cover:
- The proposed service model
- Provider expectations
- An opportunity for potential providers to ask questions
The event will be held online. If you are interested in the service, please sign-up via the following link:
forms.office.com/pages/responsepage.aspx ↗
The ProContract page can be found here: procontract.due-north.com/Advert ↗
- Today29 Oct 2026
- Contract startsin 153 days1 Apr 2027, 00:00 BST
Notice history
3 events · 3 releases on Find a Tender · since 13 Jul 2026- Preliminary market engagement notice published13 Jul 2026, 10:05 BSTUK2
- Preliminary market engagement notice published21 Jul 2026, 16:37 BSTUK2
- Preliminary market engagement notice published31 Jul 2026, 09:39 BSTUK2
Published amendments (1)
UPDATE REGARDING CANCELLATION 31/07/2026 - Unfortunately, due to unforeseen circumstances we need to postpone this event. We still seek engagement on this in future, but cannot give a specific date for this at this time. The advert on ProContract linked in this notice has been un-published.
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 (3)
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
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender