Official UK procurement notice
VCSE Prevention and Infrastructure Development 2027/28
Authority: East Riding of Yorkshire Council (Local council)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionEast Riding of Yorkshire Council is undertaking preliminary market engagement in relation to a proposed one-year VCSE Prevention plus 6 month extension and Infrastructure Development Contract commencing on 1 April 2027.
The proposed arrangements will maintain continuity of essential VCSE support while enabling the Council and the sector to develop and test longer-term approaches to collaborative working, prevention and investment across the East Riding.
The Council is currently considering a coordinated service with three connected requirements:
Prevention and resilience grant administration:
Administering relevant funding under the proposed VCSE Prevention and Investment Framework. The delivery of resilience and community coordination activity for residents, alongside grant decision-making process, grant payments, due diligence checks, performance monitoring, reporting and gathering intelligence.
VCSE infrastructure and organisational development:
Support offer for VCSE organisations, organisational development, governance support, volunteering, leadership and training, funding advice, and strategic sector representation.
Independent VCSE Participatory Research:
An independent piece of work focused on listening to and understanding the sector and working with it to shape what a future East Riding VCSE model could look like from April 2028 onwards.
A separately funded Inclusion Health function is also currently delivered through the existing contract. The Council is seeking views on whether this should sit alongside the infrastructure requirement or be separately priced as an additional requirement.
The Council is seeking views on the proposed scope, deliverability, market capacity, indicative costs and procurement structure, including the appropriate separation and boundaries between the requirements.
The Council also wishes to understand how smaller, specialist and locality-based VCSE organisations could participate meaningfully in delivery and governance, and how the proposed arrangement could reflect the geographical size and diversity of the East Riding.
The one-year arrangements are intended to maintain continuity while informing the Council’s longer-term commissioning approach. Participation in the engagement process or appointment to any transitional requirement will not guarantee the award of future contracts.
The proposed scope, budget, contract value, procurement structure and timetable remain indicative and may change following preliminary market engagement and the Council’s internal financial, legal, procurement and governance approvals. This notice does not constitute a call for competition or a commitment by the Council to proceed with the procurement.
CPV: Project-management services other than for construction work
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedPipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How East Riding of Yorkshire Council buys Management-related services (CPV 7942), and who usually turns up
East Riding of Yorkshire 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: Management-related services (CPV 7942) →
How the contest usually goes
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How often small and medium firms win.
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Small firms have won here. Neither number says whether you qualify; it describes who has been winning.
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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.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners were registered outside the region where that award was delivered.
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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.
Half of these awards have an award date within 47 days of the bid deadline.
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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.
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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.
1 bid16% / 17%
2–316% / 33%
4–631% / 33%
7+36% / 17%
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 estimate22% / 34%
Within ±2%58% / 51%
Above estimate19% / 14%
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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.
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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 7942Published estimate£416k
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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 1,820 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid15%
2–324%
4–628%
7+33%
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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.
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.
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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?
Firms with relevant past wins. On a framework, we show firms on that agreement.
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.
- 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
- Light touch regime
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 24 Sept 2026, 11:34 BST
- Last source update
- 24 Sept 2026, 11:34 BST
- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-090493- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-07795aFind a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
24 Sept 2026 → 1 Apr 2027 · 4 dates- Planning notice published33 days ago24 Sept 2026, 11:34 BST
- Market engagement7 days ago20 Oct 2026, 00:59 BST
The Council is inviting voluntary, community and social enterprise organisations, potential suppliers, partnerships, consortia and other interested parties to participate in preliminary market engagement for the proposed one-year VCSE transitional arrangements.
The purpose of this engagement is to seek views on the proposed service scope, deliverability, market capacity, indicative costs and procurement structure before the Council finalises its commissioning approach.
Engagement will be undertaken through an online questionnaire and an in-person market engagement event.
- Market engagement questionnaire:
Interested organisations are invited to complete a questionnaire by 19th October 2026
The questionnaire will seek views on:
VCSE infrastructure, support and development;
grant and Crisis and Resilience Fund administration;
independent VCSE partnership development;
Inclusion Health;
deliverability and market capacity;
indicative costs and value for money;
potential lotting and contract structures;
partnership and consortium working;
conflicts of interest and independence;
involvement of smaller, specialist and locality-based organisations;
Organisations may respond individually or provide a coordinated response on behalf of an existing partnership or network. Respondents should identify where a response represents the collective views of more than one organisation.
Please request and complete questionnaires by emailing and returning to Planning and Procurement at:
planningandprocurement@eastriding.gov.uk
- In-person market engagement event:
The Council intends to hold an in-person engagement event on:
Date: Thursday 15th October 2026
Time: 1pm to 3pm
Location: East Riding of Yorkshire Council, The Hexagon Music Centre, Beverley, HU17 9LP
The event will provide an overview of the Council’s emerging requirements and an opportunity to discuss:
continuity of VCSE infrastructure support;
grant and Crisis and Resilience Fund administration;
independent development of the future VCSE partnership model;
Inclusion Health;
potential contract and partnership structures;
market capacity and indicative costs;
involvement of smaller, specialist and locality-based organisations;
governance, accountability and conflicts of interest; and
considerations for longer-term commissioning.
Registrations should be emailed to Planning and Procurement at:
planningandprocurement@eastriding.gov.uk
Participation in either element is welcomed. Organisations do not need to attend the event to complete the questionnaire.
- Today27 Oct 2026
- Tender notice expectedin 76 days11 Jan 2027, 23:59 GMT
- Contract startsin 155 days1 Apr 2027
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Preliminary market engagement notice published24 Sept 2026, 11:34 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