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Published 8 Sept 2026, 13:48 BST

Official UK procurement notice

South Wales Shared Apprenticeships Scheme

Official notice Competition analysis

Authority: Construction Industry Training Board (Public body)

ServicesAbove threshold
Sectors: Education & Training (80) Delivery: UK
Planned pipeline value£1,100,000pipeline notice, not a live tender · 1 value update
Tender notice expected 20 Nov 2026from the planned procurement notice
Contract term 2 yrs 4 moends 31 Mar 2029 · up to 31 Mar 2032 with extensions · starts 1 Dec 2026

What is being bought

Published requirement description

CITB are inviting bids to deliver a continuation of the existing Shared Apprenticeship Scheme covering South West and South East Wales. CITB wish to fund a single provider to deliver the Scheme from the planned point of project commencement on 1st December 2026 through to 31st March 2029. As well as new Apprentices recruited during this period, Apprentices who started their programmes before the point of project commencement must continue to be supported through to completion of their qualifications, via the funding awarded to the successful provider.

CPV: Education and training services

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published
Lot #1PlannedRenewal 2 yrs 4 mo
Contract period: 1 Dec 2026 – 31 Mar 2029 (2 yrs 4 mo) · up to 31 Mar 2032 with extensions
Delivery: UK
Extensions: Extension options published
80000000 Education and training services

Who is likely to bid for this lot ↓

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

How Construction Industry Training Board buys Education and training services (CPV 80), and who usually turns up

Construction Industry Training Board’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: Education and training services (CPV 80) →

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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 buyerConstruction Industry Training Board · division 80
The marketEducation and training services (CPV 80) · 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: 0 of 3 known-size awards · market: division 80 · UK-wide, n=2,236
0 of 356%

No small-firm winners recorded among this authority’s published awards in this sample.

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 2 known-location awards · market: division 80 · UK-wide, n=2,296
1 of 263%

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: division 80 · UK-wide, n=387
—37 days

Half of these awards have an award date within 37 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 6 procurements with awards had no recorded rival · market: division 80 · UK-wide, n=2,638
17%55%

Missing bid counts may hide more single-bid awards. This share is a minimum.

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 buyer26 lots with bid counts · all categories
12% had one bid
The market784 lots with bid counts · division 80 · UK-wide
22% had one bid
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
1 bid12% / 22%
Buyer: 3 of 26 lots with published bid counts. Market: 175 of 784 lots with published bid counts.
2–335% / 30%
Buyer: 9 of 26 lots with published bid counts. Market: 233 of 784 lots with published bid counts.
4–638% / 24%
Buyer: 10 of 26 lots with published bid counts. Market: 189 of 784 lots with published bid counts.
7+15% / 24%
Buyer: 4 of 26 lots with published bid counts. Market: 187 of 784 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 buyer13 lots with estimate and award · all categories
15% below estimate
The market493 lots with estimate and award · division 80 · UK-wide
31% below estimate
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
Below estimate15% / 31%
Buyer: 2 of 13 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 152 of 493 lots with an estimate and award.
Within ±2%69% / 56%
Buyer: 9 of 13 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 275 of 493 lots with an estimate and award.
Above estimate15% / 13%
Buyer: 2 of 13 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 66 of 493 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 8028 monthsPublished estimate£1.1m

This lot lists more than one class in CPV 80. 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 784 past lots.

A forecast, not a list of bidders.

—No model forecast yet22% chance of a single bid
Past bids on 784 similar lots
1 bid22%
175 of 784 similar past lots received 1 bid (22%).
2–330%
233 of 784 similar past lots received 2–3 (30%).
4–624%
189 of 784 similar past lots received 4–6 (24%).
7+24%
187 of 784 similar past lots received 7+ (24%).
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 £1.1m, 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
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
8 Sept 2026, 13:48 BST
Last source update
11 Sept 2026, 14:47 BST
Authority reference
TD80
FTS notice number
2026/S 000-086504
Latest notice
Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
Classification (CPV)
Education and training services
Delivery area
UK
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06f48c Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice
Submission deadline
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Timeline

8 Sept 2026 → 1 Dec 2026 · 5 dates
  1. Planning notice published49 days ago
    8 Sept 2026, 13:48 BST
  2. Latest notice published46 days ago
    11 Sept 2026, 14:47 BST
  3. Market engagement6 days ago
    20 Oct 2026, 23:59 BST

    A launch webinar with Q&A facilities will be held on Wednesday 16th September 2026. The link for joining this webinar can be found below:

    teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3am… ↗

    Alternatively, please visit CITB's Current Opportunities page for more information on this opportunity and a link to the webinar:

    www.citb.co.uk/funding-support/fund… ↗

  4. Today
    27 Oct 2026
  5. Tender notice expectedin 24 days
    20 Nov 2026, 23:59 GMT
  6. Contract startsin 34 days
    1 Dec 2026

Notice history

4 events · 3 releases on Find a Tender · since 8 Sept 2026
  1. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    8 Sept 2026, 13:48 BST
    UK2
  2. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    8 Sept 2026, 14:00 BST
    UK2
  3. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    11 Sept 2026, 14:47 BST
    UK2
  4. Published value updated
    11 Sept 2026, 14:47 BST

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

Construction Industry Training Board

Contracting authorityPublic authority - sub-central government GB-PPON: PGZW-2274-ZBTV 4 Cyrus Way, Cygnet Park, Hampton, Peterborough, East of England, PE7 8HPContact name, email

Official documents & specifications (3)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure