Official UK procurement notice
Independent Living Skills App for Young People
Authority: Neath Port Talbot County Borough Council (Local council)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionBackground
Neath Port Talbot County Borough Council's Commissioning Team is exploring the potential development of an Independent Living Skills App for young people living in supported accommodation and those preparing to move into independent living.
The concept has evolved from previous work undertaken to develop an Independent Living Skills Workbook. Feedback gathered through engagement with stakeholders indicated a preference for a digital solution, with an app being viewed as a more engaging, accessible and interactive way of supporting young people to develop essential life skills.
The proposed app could include content relating to daily living skills, health and wellbeing and tenancy rights and responsibilities and is intended to be a mixed model of engagement through guidance, learning and self-development.
The Council is currently undertaking soft market testing to understand the opportunities, constraints and indicative costs associated with developing such a solution before determining any future procurement approach.
Purpose of Market Engagement:-
The Council wishes to engage with organisations that have experience in app design, development and implementation, particularly those with experience in:
- Youth and children's services
- Housing and supported accommodation services
- Educational and skills development applications
- Public sector and local authority projects
- User-centred and co-produced digital solutions
Feedback gathered through these engagement sessions will help inform future decision-making and procurement considerations.
The Council has identified a potential funding opportunity to support this work and is undertaking market engagement activity to better understand the feasibility, costs, technical requirements and delivery timescales associated with developing such a solution. Supplier feedback will help inform the Council's assessment of what may be achievable within the funding and implementation timeframe available.
Areas for Discussion:-
A discussion paper containing further information and specific questions will be circulated to organisations in advance of the engagement sessions, however the Council is seeking feedback in the following areas:
- Potential approaches to app development and delivery
- User engagement and accessibility considerations
- Data protection, cyber security and information governance considerations
- Hosting and technical requirements
- Ongoing maintenance and support arrangements
- Indicative development and implementation timescales
- Licensing options and commercial models
- Indicative costs and budget considerations
- Key risks, dependencies and lessons learned from similar projects
Market Engagement Sessions:-
Individual engagement sessions will be held virtually via Microsoft Teams.
Sessions will last up to one hour and will be allocated on a first come, first served basis.
Monday the 19th of October 2026:
- 09:30 – 10:30
- 10:30 – 11:30
- 11:30 – 12:30
- 13:00 – 14:00
- 14:00 – 15:00
Tuesday the 20th of October 2026:
- 09:30 – 10:30
- 10:30 – 11:30
- 11:30 – 12:30
- 13:00 – 14:00
Wednesday the 21st of October 2026
- 09:30 – 10:30
- 10:30 – 11:30
- 11:30 – 12:30
- 13:00 – 14:00
- 14:00 – 15:00
How to Register:-
Organisations wishing to participate should email:
Please provide:
- Organisation name
- Contact name
- Contact email address
CPV: Custom software development services · Programming services of application software · Software programming and consultancy services · Systems analysis and programming services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedPipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How Neath Port Talbot County Borough Council buys Programming services of packaged software products (CPV 7221), and who usually turns up
Neath Port Talbot County Borough 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: Programming services of packaged software products (CPV 7221) →
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How often local firms win similar work.
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Local means the winner is registered in the region where that award was delivered. The market figure counts awards delivered in Wales (Cymru).
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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Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.
Half of these awards have an award date within 57 days of the bid deadline.
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Both shares are minimums: some awards have no bid count.
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Past bids do not predict this tender.
1 bid31% / 0%
2–338% / 80%
4–619% / 20%
7+13% / 0%
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 estimate53% / 47%
Within ±2%41% / 33%
Above estimate6% / 19%
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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 72No real estimate
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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 54 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid15%
2–343%
4–620%
7+22%
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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
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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?
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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
- Below threshold
- 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
- 2 Oct 2026, 11:11 BST
- Last source update
- 2 Oct 2026, 11:11 BST
- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-093213- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-077f6eFind a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
2 Oct 2026 → 1 Dec 2026 · 4 dates- Planning notice published26 days ago2 Oct 2026, 11:11 BST
- Market engagement7 days ago21 Oct 2026, 23:59 BST
Background:-
Neath Port Talbot County Borough Council's Commissioning Team is exploring the potential development of an Independent Living Skills App for young people living in supported accommodation and those preparing to move into independent living.
The concept has evolved from previous work undertaken to develop an Independent Living Skills Workbook. Feedback gathered through engagement with stakeholders indicated a preference for a digital solution, with an app being viewed as a more engaging, accessible and interactive way of supporting young people to develop essential life skills.
The proposed app could include content relating to daily living skills, health and wellbeing and tenancy rights and responsibilities and is intended to be a mixed model of engagement through guidance, learning and self-development.
The Council is currently undertaking soft market testing to understand the opportunities, constraints and indicative costs associated with developing such a solution before determining any future procurement approach.
Purpose of Market Engagement:-
The Council wishes to engage with organisations that have experience in app design, development and implementation, particularly those with experience in:
- Youth and children's services
- Housing and supported accommodation services
- Educational and skills development applications
- Public sector and local authority projects
- User-centred and co-produced digital solutions
Feedback gathered through these engagement sessions will help inform future decision-making and procurement considerations.
The Council has identified a potential funding opportunity to support this work and is undertaking market engagement activity to better understand the feasibility, costs, technical requirements and delivery timescales associated with developing such a solution. Supplier feedback will help inform the Council's assessment of what may be achievable within the funding and implementation timeframe available.
Areas for Discussion:-
A discussion paper containing further information and specific questions will be circulated to organisations in advance of the engagement sessions, however the Council is seeking feedback in the following areas:
- Potential approaches to app development and delivery
- User engagement and accessibility considerations
- Data protection, cyber security and information governance considerations
- Hosting and technical requirements
- Ongoing maintenance and support arrangements
- Indicative development and implementation timescales
- Licensing options and commercial models
- Indicative costs and budget considerations
- Key risks, dependencies and lessons learned from similar projects
Market Engagement Sessions:-
Individual engagement sessions will be held virtually via Microsoft Teams.
Sessions will last up to one hour and will be allocated on a first come, first served basis.
Monday the 19th of October 2026:
- 09:30 – 10:30
- 10:30 – 11:30
- 11:30 – 12:30
- 13:00 – 14:00
- 14:00 – 15:00
Tuesday the 20th of October 2026:
- 09:30 – 10:30
- 10:30 – 11:30
- 11:30 – 12:30
- 13:00 – 14:00
Wednesday the 21st of October 2026
- 09:30 – 10:30
- 10:30 – 11:30
- 11:30 – 12:30
- 13:00 – 14:00
- 14:00 – 15:00
How to Register:-
Organisations wishing to participate should email:
Please provide:
- Organisation name
- Contact name
- Contact email address
- Today29 Oct 2026
- Tender notice expectedin 4 days2 Nov 2026, 23:59 GMT
- Contract startsin 32 days1 Dec 2026
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Preliminary market engagement notice published2 Oct 2026, 11:11 BSTUK2
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 (1)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender