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Published 28 May 2025, 15:51 BST

Official UK procurement notice

Manned Guarding · UK public procurement notice

Official notice Competition analysis

Authority: Waythrough (Public body)

ServicesBelow thresholdSME suitableVCSE suitable
Sectors: Business Services & Consultancy (79) Delivery: UK
Planned pipeline value£3,770,000pipeline notice, not a live tender · 1 value update
Tender notice expected 19 Oct 2026from the planned procurement notice
Contract term 3 yrsends 31 Dec 2029 · up to 31 Dec 2032 with extensions · starts 1 Jan 2027

What is being bought

Published requirement description

Provision of Manned Guarding and Security Services

CPV: Security services

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published
Lot #1PlannedRenewal 3 yrsSMEVCSE
Contract period: 1 Jan 2027 – 31 Dec 2029 (3 yrs) · up to 31 Dec 2032 with extensions
Delivery: UKEligibility: SME eligibleVCSE eligible
Extensions: Extension options published
79710000 Security services

Who is likely to bid for this lot ↓

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

How Waythrough buys Security services (CPV 7971), and who usually turns up

Waythrough’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: Security services (CPV 7971) →

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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 buyerWaythrough · all categories
The marketSecurity services (CPV 7971) · UK-wide
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: no supplier sizes published · market: CPV 7971 · UK-wide, n=277
—56%

No supplier sizes published for this authority.

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.

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

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 1 of 1 known-location awards · market: CPV 7971 · UK-wide, n=296
1 of 157%

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: no decision dates published · market: CPV 7971 · UK-wide, n=88
—64 days

Half of these awards have an award date within 64 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 1 of 4 procurements with awards had no recorded rival · market: CPV 7971 · UK-wide, n=399
1 of 443%

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?

i

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 buyerNo bid counts published
The market183 lots with bid counts · CPV 7971 · UK-wide
16% had one bid
Market · select a colour for counts
1 bid16%
Market: 29 of 183 lots with published bid counts.
2–317%
Market: 32 of 183 lots with published bid counts.
4–621%
Market: 38 of 183 lots with published bid counts.
7+46%
Market: 84 of 183 lots with published bid counts.

How did awards compare with estimates?

i

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 buyerNo estimate-and-award pairs published
The market120 lots with estimate and award · CPV 7971 · UK-wide
29% below estimate
Market · select a colour for counts
Below estimate29%
Market: 35 of 120 lots with an estimate and award.
Within ±2%48%
Market: 58 of 120 lots with an estimate and award.
Above estimate23%
Market: 27 of 120 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 797136 monthsSME suitablePublished estimate£3.8m
Expected competition
i

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 183 past lots.

A forecast, not a list of bidders.

—No model forecast yet16% chance of a single bid
Past bids on 183 similar lots
1 bid16%
29 of 183 similar past lots received 1 bid (16%).
2–317%
32 of 183 similar past lots received 2–3 (17%).
4–621%
38 of 183 similar past lots received 4–6 (21%).
7+46%
84 of 183 similar past lots received 7+ (46%).
Comparable past lots usually drew 6 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 £3.8m, 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
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
28 May 2025, 15:51 BST
Last source update
15 Sept 2026, 10:34 BST
Authority reference
CA15900
FTS notice number
2026/S 000-087163
Latest notice
Pipeline notice (UK1)
Classification (CPV)
Security services
Delivery area
UK
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-052838 Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice
Submission deadline
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Timeline

28 May 2025 → 1 Jan 2027 · 4 dates
  1. Planning notice published
    28 May 2025, 15:51 BST
  2. Latest notice published41 days ago
    15 Sept 2026, 10:34 BST
  3. Tender notice expected7 days ago
    19 Oct 2026, 23:59 BST
  4. Today
    27 Oct 2026
  5. Contract startsin 65 days
    1 Jan 2027

Notice history

8 events · 7 releases on Find a Tender · since 28 May 2025
  1. Pipeline notice published
    28 May 2025, 15:51 BST
    UK1
  2. Pipeline notice published
    12 Sept 2025, 16:12 BST
    UK1
  3. Pipeline notice published
    3 Oct 2025, 16:08 BST
    UK1
  4. Pipeline notice published
    16 Feb 2026, 15:25 GMT
    UK1
  5. Pipeline notice published
    9 Apr 2026, 12:43 BST
    UK1
  6. Pipeline notice published
    4 Aug 2026, 14:21 BST
    UK1
  7. Published value updated to £3,770,000
    4 Aug 2026, 14:21 BST
    was £3,070,000
  8. Pipeline notice published
    15 Sept 2026, 10:34 BST
    UK1
Published amendments (6)

The Opportunity has been delayed due to limited resources and dates changed accordingly

The Opportunity has been delayed due to limited resources and dates changed accordingly

The opportunity has been delayed due to limited resources and dates changed accordingly.

Due to limited resources the dates may change accordingly.

The route to market was not confirmed at the time this UK1 Notice was published. This has now been determined and we intend to use the Facilities Management and Workplace Services DPS - GCA RM6264 for this procurement. Suppliers wishing to participate must be registered and admitted to the DPS. Further details can be found here: https://supplierregistration.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/sr The further comp…

Routine re-releases (7)
  • 2026-02: 1 release · 16 Feb 2026
  • 2025-10: 1 release · 3 Oct 2025
  • 2025-09: 1 release · 12 Sept 2025
  • 2025-05: 1 release · 28 May 2025

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

Waythrough

Contracting authorityPublic undertaking GB-PPON: PMYH-4419-QWJP Inspiration House, Unit 22 Bowburn North Industrial Estate, Bowburn, North East, DH6 5PFContact name, email, phone

Official documents & specifications (7)

Official links; attachments are not copied

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