Official UK procurement notice
Wakefield Council Virtual Wallet, Payment Card and Personal Assistant Recruitment Tool
Authority: Wakefield Council (Local council)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionWakefield Council is undertaking preliminary market engagement to understand the availability of off-the-shelf solutions to support the management, monitoring and auditing of Direct Payments within Adult Social Care. The Council is interested in Virtual Wallet tools, Payment Card solutions, Personal Assistant Recruitment Tools, or a combined solution.
CPV: Banking services · Financial transaction processing and clearing-house services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedPipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How Wakefield Council buys Financial consultancy, financial transaction processing and clearing-house services (CPV 6617), and who usually turns up
Wakefield 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: Financial consultancy, financial transaction processing and clearing-house services (CPV 6617) →
How the contest usually goes
Winner shares use published awards; bid and price charts use contested lots.
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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.
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. The market figure counts awards delivered in Yorkshire and the Humber.
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 105 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.
Missing bid counts may hide more single-bid awards. This share is a minimum.
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 bid10% / 14%
2–360% / 66%
4–610% / 17%
7+20% / 3%
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 estimate57% / 44%
Within ±2%29% / 48%
Above estimate14% / 8%
Assess each lot i
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 66Estimate not published
This lot lists more than one class in CPV 66. The comparison uses that group.
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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 32 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid13%
2–341%
4–638%
7+9%
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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.
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.
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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
- 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
- 7 Jul 2026, 15:58 BST
- Last source update
- 22 Jul 2026, 12:09 BST
- Authority reference
RFS25-086- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-069109- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06c58dFind a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
7 Jul 2026 → 30 Apr 2027 · 4 dates- Planning notice published113 days ago7 Jul 2026, 15:58 BST
- Latest notice published98 days ago22 Jul 2026, 12:09 BST
- Market engagement97 days ago22 Jul 2026, 23:59 BST
Suppliers will be asked to submit a written questionnaire response through YORtender, covering their relevant experience, solution functionality, security, accreditations, accessibility, implementation timescales, pricing, fraud prevention, reporting, resilience and support arrangements.
Your complete questionnaire must be submitted using the YORtender portal yortender.eu-supply.com/login.asp ↗. It is your responsibility to register on the portal and ensure that the appropriate person is selected as the main point of contact and that their email address is up to date. All correspondence relating to this consultation from the Council will be sent electronically via the messaging section of the portal, to this person. If you have any questions regarding this market engagement, please send them on YORtender using the messaging facility.
Completed questionnaires and any accompanying information must be uploaded to YORtender yortender.eu-supply.com ↗ reference: 100112281 by 12:00 on 22.07.2026.
The Council may also invite suppliers to provide a virtual or in-person demonstration of their solution, expected to last no more than 50 minutes. Participation is for market engagement only and does not guarantee any future procurement.
- Today28 Oct 2026
- Contract startsin 183 days30 Apr 2027, 00:00 BST
Notice history
2 events · 2 releases on Find a Tender · since 7 Jul 2026- Preliminary market engagement notice published7 Jul 2026, 15:58 BSTUK2
- Preliminary market engagement notice published22 Jul 2026, 12:09 BSTUK2
Published amendments (1)
Please be advised that the deadline for submission of Expressions of Interest for the Preliminary Market Engagement for 100112281 - RFS25-086 - Virtual Wallet, Payment Card and Personal Assistant Recruitment Tool has been extended by 24 hours. The deadline has been amended from: Wednesday 22/07/2026 at 12:00 noon to: Thursday 23/07/2026 at 12:00 noon Please ensure that any submissions are complete…
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 (2)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender