Official UK procurement notice
Garage Equipment - Maintenance, Service, Repair and Calibration
Authority: Dorset Police (Police & fire)·On behalf of: Devon and Cornwall Police
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionContract for the provision of Garage Equipment, Maintenance, Service, Repair and Calibration for the region's in-house Fleet Vehicle Workshops.
CPV: Calibration services · Repair and maintenance services · Repair and maintenance services of electrical machinery, apparatus and associated equipment · Technical inspection and testing services · Workshop equipment
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedPipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How Dorset Police buys Repair and maintenance services of machinery (CPV 5053), and who usually turns up
Dorset 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: Repair and maintenance services of machinery (CPV 5053) →
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 South West England.
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners were registered outside 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 35 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.
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 bid18%
2–30%
4–647%
7+35%
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 estimate67%
Within ±2%33%
Above estimate0%
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 5043Published estimate£750k
This lot is listed as CPV 5043. 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. The bar shows 130 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid11%
2–328%
4–636%
7+25%
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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
- 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
- 29 Sept 2026, 14:53 BST
- Last source update
- 30 Sept 2026, 15:11 BST
- Authority reference
C21047 / 1399- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-092470- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-077cafFind a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
29 Sept 2026 → 2 Jul 2027 · 5 dates- Planning notice published29 days ago29 Sept 2026, 14:53 BST
- Latest notice published28 days ago30 Sept 2026, 15:11 BST
- Today29 Oct 2026
- Market engagementin 47h30 Oct 2026, 23:59 GMT
Initial market engagement, via a staged approach, is expected to involve suppliers presenting their proposed service offering to relevant regional stakeholders, supported by a PowerPoint presentation. This will be followed by a question-and-answer session to explore any areas requiring further clarification or discussion. Further engagement may include supplier visits to Force workshops, where considered appropriate and by invitation. Any queries should be directed to Sara Callow at Devon and Cornwall Police in the first instance.
(sara.callow@devonandcornwall.pnn.police.uk)
Please note this procurement also encompasses the Dorset and Wiltshire Fire and Rescue Service.
- Tender notice expectedin 74 days11 Jan 2027, 23:59 GMT
- Contract startsin 245 days2 Jul 2027, 00:00 BST
Notice history
2 events · 2 releases on Find a Tender · since 29 Sept 2026- Preliminary market engagement notice published29 Sept 2026, 14:53 BSTUK2
- Preliminary market engagement notice published30 Sept 2026, 15:11 BSTUK2
Published amendments (1)
To include Devon and Cornwall Constabulary as a Contracting Authority and not the Managing Authority. This procurement is for the five regional Police Forces and the Dorset and Wiltshire Fire and Rescue Service.
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
5 public bodies on the noticeConsortium members and other public bodies
- Avon and Somerset ConstabularyContracting authorityPublic authority - sub-central government
- Devon and Cornwall PoliceContracting authorityPublic authority - sub-central governmentSWPPS will manage the tendering process and contract on for the regional contracting authorities comprising of The Police and Crime Commissioners for Avon and Somerset, Gloucestershire and Wiltshire and The Chief Constables for Devon & Cornwall and Dorset Police Forces, and will procure on behalf of Dorset and Wiltshire Fire and Rescue Service.
- Gloucestershire ConstabularyContracting authorityPublic authority - sub-central government
- Wiltshire PoliceContracting authorityPublic authority - sub-central government
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