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Published 13 Apr 2026, 11:13 BST

Official UK procurement notice

Offender Device Risk Management Solution

Official notice Competition analysis

Authority: Greater Manchester Combined Authority (Local council)

ServicesAbove thresholdSME suitable
Sectors: IT Services & Software (72) Delivery: UK
Planned pipeline valueValue not publishedpipeline notice, not a live tender
Tender notice expected Date not publishedfrom the planned procurement notice
Contract term 3 yrsends 31 May 2030 · starts 1 Jun 2027

What is being bought

Published requirement description

Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA), as the contracting authority for Greater Manchester Police (GMP), seeks information from the market about potential software solutions that can support GMP's Sex Offender Management Unit (SOMU) in the monitoring of Sexual Harm Prevention Order (SHPO) conditions.

This type of software is used to support SOMU in reducing and responding to further offending by Sex Offenders, including sexual communication with children, downloading indecent images of children and breaches of SHPOs.

CPV: IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published
Lot #1Planned 3 yrsSME
Contract period: 1 Jun 2027 – 31 May 2030 (3 yrs)
Delivery: UKEligibility: SME eligible
72000000 IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support

Who is likely to bid for this lot ↓

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

How Greater Manchester Combined Authority buys IT services: consulting, software, internet (CPV 72), and who usually turns up

Greater Manchester Combined Authority’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: IT services: consulting, software, internet (CPV 72) →

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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 buyerGreater Manchester Combined Authority · division 72
The marketIT services: consulting, software, internet (CPV 72) · 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: 13 of 41 known-size awards · market: division 72 · UK-wide, n=3,447
32%37%

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.

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

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 10 of 37 known-location awards · market: division 72 · UK-wide, n=2,655
27%37%

Most of this buyer’s recorded winners were registered outside 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: division 72 · UK-wide, n=398
—50 days

Half of these awards have an award date within 50 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 45 of 56 procurements with awards had no recorded rival · market: division 72 · UK-wide, n=5,289
80%63%

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 buyer55 lots with bid counts · all categories
25% had one bid
The market789 lots with bid counts · division 72 · UK-wide
12% had one bid
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
1 bid25% / 12%
Buyer: 14 of 55 lots with published bid counts. Market: 97 of 789 lots with published bid counts.
2–327% / 28%
Buyer: 15 of 55 lots with published bid counts. Market: 219 of 789 lots with published bid counts.
4–625% / 28%
Buyer: 14 of 55 lots with published bid counts. Market: 223 of 789 lots with published bid counts.
7+22% / 32%
Buyer: 12 of 55 lots with published bid counts. Market: 250 of 789 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 buyer29 lots with estimate and award · all categories
38% below estimate
The market531 lots with estimate and award · division 72 · UK-wide
46% below estimate
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
Below estimate38% / 46%
Buyer: 11 of 29 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 244 of 531 lots with an estimate and award.
Within ±2%59% / 38%
Buyer: 17 of 29 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 200 of 531 lots with an estimate and award.
Above estimate3% / 16%
Buyer: 1 of 29 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 87 of 531 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 7236 monthsSME suitableEstimate not published

This lot lists more than one class in CPV 72. The comparison uses that group.

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 789 past lots.

A forecast, not a list of bidders.

—No model forecast yet12% chance of a single bid
Past bids on 789 similar lots
1 bid12%
97 of 789 similar past lots received 1 bid (12%).
2–328%
219 of 789 similar past lots received 2–3 (28%).
4–628%
223 of 789 similar past lots received 4–6 (28%).
7+32%
250 of 789 similar past lots received 7+ (32%).
Comparable past lots usually drew 4 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.

—Estimate not published
The buyer published no estimate for this lot, so there is nothing to forecast against. A price prediction here would be a number about a number we do not have.

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
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
13 Apr 2026, 11:13 BST
Last source update
13 Apr 2026, 11:13 BST
Authority reference
A1213
FTS notice number
2026/S 000-033170
Latest notice
Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
Classification (CPV)
IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support
Delivery area
UK
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-0680ce Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice
Submission deadline
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Timeline

13 Apr 2026 → 1 Jun 2027 · 3 dates
  1. Planning notice published197 days ago
    13 Apr 2026, 11:13 BST
  2. Market engagement179 days ago
    1 May 2026, 23:59 BST

    Prior to any procurement process, GMP is undertaking a period of market engagement.

    Interested parties will be invited to express an interest in this engagement and complete a short questionnaire, which will allow GMP to better understand the current market and assist the Authority in the development of the final specification and most appropriate route to market.

    Expressions of interest, and requests to complete the questionnaire can be made by contacting Chris Garner (GMP Procurement Officer) via email at christopher.garner@gmp.police.uk. Clarifications may also be sought via the same address. Please quote reference A1213 on all correspondence.

    It should be noted that tender documents have not yet been issued for this contract. The full specification will be made available at that start of any formal procurement process.

  3. Today
    28 Oct 2026
  4. Contract startsin 215 days
    1 Jun 2027, 00:00 BST

Notice history

1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender
  1. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    13 Apr 2026, 11:13 BST
    UK2

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

Greater Manchester Combined Authority

Contracting authorityPublic authority - sub-central government GB-PPON: PXBN-3793-LCTQ 56 Oxford Street, Manchester, North West, M1 6EUContact email

Official documents & specifications (1)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure