Find a TenderPlanned procurementPipeline notice
Published 21 May 2026, 19:03 BST

Official UK procurement notice

Insurance Tender Various Lines Required

Authority: Oldham Council (Local council)

Services
Planned pipeline value£4,800,000pipeline notice, not a live tender
Tender notice expected 19 Dec 2026from the planned procurement notice
Contract term 3 yrsends 28 Feb 2030 · starts 1 Mar 2027

What is being bought

Published requirement description

Various line of Insurance cover required:

Commercial Combined (Property)

Terrorism

Crisis Resilience

Fine Art

Combined Liability

Excess Liability

Crime (FG)

PA & Travel

School Journey

Engineering Hired in Plant

Legal Expenses

Motor Fleet

Engineering Insurance

Engineering Inspection

CPV: Accident and health insurance services · Brokerage and related securities and commodities services · Damage or loss insurance services · Freight insurance and Insurance services relating to transport · Insurance agency services · Insurance brokerage services · Insurance claims adjustment services · Legal insurance and all-risk insurance services · Liability insurance services

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published

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

How Oldham Council buys Insurance services (CPV 6651), and who usually turns up

Oldham 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: Insurance services (CPV 6651) →

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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 buyerOldham Council · all categories
The marketInsurance services (CPV 6651) · North West England
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: 21 of 27 known-size awards · market: CPV 6651 · North West England, n=53
78%2%

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. The market figure counts awards delivered in North West England.

A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 37 of 56 known-location awards · market: CPV 6651 · North West England, n=68
66%10%

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: 10 decided notices · market: CPV 6651 · North West England, n=16
26 days60 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 43 of 57 procurements with awards had no recorded rival · market: CPV 6651 · North West England, n=54
75%44%

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.

Last 36 months.

This buyer13 lots with bid counts · all categories
8% had one bid
The market43 lots with bid counts · CPV 6651 · North West England
9% had one bid
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
1 bid8% / 9%
Buyer: 1 of 13 lots with published bid counts. Market: 4 of 43 lots with published bid counts.
2–369% / 58%
Buyer: 9 of 13 lots with published bid counts. Market: 25 of 43 lots with published bid counts.
4–615% / 30%
Buyer: 2 of 13 lots with published bid counts. Market: 13 of 43 lots with published bid counts.
7+8% / 2%
Buyer: 1 of 13 lots with published bid counts. Market: 1 of 43 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 buyer10 lots with estimate and award · all categories
50% below estimate
The market15 lots with estimate and award · CPV 6651 · North West England
73% below estimate
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
Below estimate50% / 73%
Buyer: 5 of 10 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 11 of 15 lots with an estimate and award.
Within ±2%30% / 13%
Buyer: 3 of 10 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 2 of 15 lots with an estimate and award.
Above estimate20% / 13%
Buyer: 2 of 10 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 2 of 15 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 6636 monthsPublished estimate£4.8m

This lot lists more than one class in CPV 66. The comparison uses that group.

Expected competition
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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 57 past lots.

A forecast, not a list of bidders.

—No model forecast yet9% chance of a single bid
Past bids on 57 similar lots
1 bid9%
5 of 57 similar past lots received 1 bid (9%).
2–354%
31 of 57 similar past lots received 2–3 (54%).
4–633%
19 of 57 similar past lots received 4–6 (33%).
7+4%
2 of 57 similar past lots received 7+ (4%).
Comparable past lots usually drew 3 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 £4.8m, 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
Services
Notice status
Planned procurement
Procurement threshold
Unspecified in notice
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
21 May 2026, 19:03 BST
Last source update
22 May 2026, 09:37 BST
FTS notice number
2026/S 000-047527
Latest notice
Pipeline notice (UK1)
Classification (CPV)
Accident and health insurance servicesBrokerage and related securities and commodities servicesDamage or loss insurance servicesFreight insurance and Insurance services relating to transportInsurance agency servicesInsurance brokerage servicesInsurance claims adjustment servicesLegal insurance and all-risk insurance servicesLiability insurance services
Delivery area
North West (UKD)
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06a017 Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice
Submission deadline
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Timeline

21 May 2026 → 1 Mar 2027 · 3 dates
  1. Planning notice published158 days ago
    21 May 2026, 19:03 BST
  2. Today
    27 Oct 2026
  3. Tender notice expectedin 53 days
    19 Dec 2026, 23:59 GMT
  4. Contract startsin 124 days
    1 Mar 2027

Notice history

2 events · 2 releases on Find a Tender · since 21 May 2026
  1. Pipeline notice published
    21 May 2026, 19:03 BST
    UK1
  2. Pipeline notice published
    22 May 2026, 09:37 BST
    UK1
Published amendments (1)

Miocare life insurance not included in this tender - Deleted

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

Oldham Metropolitan Borough Council

Contracting authorityPublic authority - sub-central government GB-PPON: PMRJ-8362-DVNT Spindles Shopping Centre, West Street, Oldham, North West, OL1 1HDContact email

Official documents & specifications (2)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure

  • Pipeline notice planningPipeline noticeUK1Pipeline notice on Find a Tender
  • Pipeline notice planningPipeline noticeUK1Pipeline notice on Find a Tender