Official UK procurement notice
WCC - Creative and Content services Framework
Authority: Warwickshire County Council (Local council)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionWarwickshire County Council currently commissions external graphic design services through an existing framework arrangement that is due to expire at the end of 2026. As the Council's communications needs have evolved, there is now a requirement for a broader range of creative and content services, including graphic design, video and film production, photography, copywriting, campaign development, and animation.
The Council is therefore exploring the establishment of a new Creative and Content Services Framework to support these requirements.
Prior to commencing any procurement activity, the Council is undertaking preliminary market engagement to seek feedback from organisations with expertise in these service areas, particularly in relation to the proposed framework structure and lotting arrangements.
Feedback and responses received will assist the Council in refining its approach, understanding market capability and capacity, and identifying any potential barriers to participation.
This exercise is being conducted solely to gather market intelligence and does not form part of any formal procurement process. Participation in this engagement will not confer any advantage in any future procurement opportunity.
CPV: Designs · Graphic design services · Photographs · Video films
How this framework works
From the published notice- Framework period
- 2 yrs · up to 4 yrs from 15 Dec 2026
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedWhat it takes to wini
How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
Evaluation split and conditions of participation as published; the tender pack may add morei
How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
- “WCC - Creative and Content services Framework” is a framework: the contest is a place on its panel, not a single contract.
Pipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How Warwickshire County Council buys Services related to printing (CPV 7982), and who usually turns up
Warwickshire County Council’s published record next to the market for the same work. Compared with other frameworks and DPS only. Whole-market view: Services related to printing (CPV 7982) →
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.
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners were registered in 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 77 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.
The market share is a minimum: 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 bid0% / 0%
2–314% / 13%
4–614% / 19%
7+71% / 69%
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.
On a framework or DPS, prices are agreed when work is called off.
Past prices are a guide, not a bid price.
Not comparable on a framework or DPS: the price is set later, on each call-off.
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
Our matching links this notice to “WCC - Creative Design Services Framework” of this authority, but none of the 13 panel members sit in a category matching this notice.
Lot #1CPV 32Published estimate£560k
This lot lists more than one class in CPV 32. 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 56 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid7%
2–316%
4–629%
7+48%
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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.
What this replaces i
Who has done similar work for this buyer.
Past contracts are matched by buyer, title and type of work.
64% title match.
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.
64% title match.
A past supplier may not bid again.
The prior contract this notice most likely re-tenders · matched by title and category (64% title match), the holder is not guaranteed to re-bid
WCC - Creative Design Services Framework — held by Black Pig Ltd and Kathryn Samson (+1 more); no contract end date published.
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
- Framework agreement
- Who may use this agreement
- Not stated in the notice; call-off rights may be limited to the establishing authority
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 21 Sept 2026, 09:45 BST
- Last source update
- 21 Sept 2026, 09:45 BST
- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-088959- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-077605Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Appointment period ends
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Timeline
21 Sept 2026 → 15 Dec 2026 · 3 dates- Planning notice published35 days ago21 Sept 2026, 09:45 BST
- Market engagement11 days ago16 Oct 2026, 00:59 BST
We welcome interested providers to complete the questionnaire, which will be published via the Warwickshire In-Tend Portal (Reference: WAR0092).
The Council would be grateful if you could complete and submit the questionnaire by 16th October 2026 at 12:00. Completed questionnaires should be submitted via the Warwickshire In-Tend Portal.
Providers must be registered on the system to express an interest and access the questionnaire documents. The portal can be accessed at:
in-tendhost.co.uk/warwickshirecc/aspx/… ↗
Registration and use of the portal are free of charge. During registration, you will be redirected to the In-Tend Sell2Midlands site, where you should register your organisation's details.
Once registered, log in to the Sell2Midlands site, navigate to the 'My Company Portals' section, and select 'Login to Portal' next to Warwickshire County Council. You will then be redirected to the Council's In-Tend portal, where you can access this opportunity.
If you are already registered on the Sell2Midlands site, you do not need to register again. Simply log in using your existing credentials and access the Warwickshire County Council portal.
All correspondence relating to this market engagement exercise must be submitted via the portal's correspondence function.
If you experience any difficulties registering on the portal, please contact us at:procurement@warwickshire.gov.uk
- Today27 Oct 2026
- Contract startsin 48 days15 Dec 2026
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Preliminary market engagement notice published21 Sept 2026, 09:45 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