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Find a Tender Service (UK Cabinet Office / Crown Commercial Service) verified 4 days ago Contract notice

Youth Engagement Services

Open United Kingdom Research & development

Buyer Maidstone Borough Council

23 days left

Key facts

Closes
12:00 (UTC)
Procedure
Open procedure Anyone may submit a bid, in one step, with no pre-selection. Full entry
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Description

Maidstone Borough Council (“the Council”) invites tenders from suitably qualified and experienced organisations to design and deliver an independent engagement programme with young people. The programme may be fully deliberative or use a hybrid approach combining in-depth deliberation with wider participation. Contract Term: We anticipate appointing the successful supplier in December 2026, with delivery commencing immediately thereafter. Engagement activity is expected to take place around February/March 2027, with a final report submitted thereafter. Key Dates & Timeline for Procurement Tender release: 23/10/26 Deadline for clarifications: 13/11/26 Deadline for submission of completed tenders: 20/11/26 Evaluation: w/c 23/11/26 Interviews: w/c 7/12/26 Appointment of contractor: w/c 7/12/26 For more information about this opportunity, please visit the eSourcing portal at: https://www.kentbusinessportal.org.uk/tenders/UK-UK-Maidstone:-Research-and-development-services-and-related-consultancy-services./M9ZU74Z39R To respond to this opportunity, please click here: https://www.kentbusinessportal.org.uk/respond/M9ZU74Z39R

Timing

27 days from publication to deadline. Usual length in United Kingdom: 26 days. Usual length

  1. Published
  2. Today
  3. Deadline
  4. Awarded pending
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Notices of this kind (United Kingdom, open procedure, below the EU threshold) give a median of 26 days, half of them between 20 and 31 days, based on 2,475 notices of the last two years.

Bid or no-bid?

2 of 6 answered from the register

Six questions before you commit a team. Under each one, what the register holds on it. The answers are yours.

  1. In your favour:

    Do we meet every eligibility criterion?

    Open procedure: any interested supplier may submit a bid.

  2. Your call:

    Can we deliver this with the team we have?

    The register holds nothing on this. The official documents will.

  3. Your call:

    Do we have two comparable references?

    Comparable work is in Research & development.

  4. In your favour:

    Is the deadline realistic for a proper offer?

    23 days left, 17 of them working days.

  5. Your call:

    Is there a margin at the likely winning price?

    In this country this kind of contract is usually awarded for between €56,430 and €302,675.

  6. Your call:

    Do we know this buyer?

    The buyer has 18 notices in the register and no pattern of winners yet.

Can I bid?

  • Open procedure: any interested supplier may submit a bid.
  • Documents in English.

Official source

Source: Find a Tender Service (UK Cabinet Office / Crown Commercial Service)

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Last verified against Find a Tender Service (UK Cabinet Office / Crown Commercial Service) 4 days ago

Documents on Find a Tender Service (UK Cabinet Office / Crown Commercial Service) (English)

Market

Research & development in United Kingdom

median award in this market
€117,154
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What this market pays

The buyer has too few awards of its own in this sector, so this is the range of the last 267 awards for Research & development in United Kingdom.

Median award
€117,154
Middle half of past awards
€56,430 to €302,675

Find a Tender Service (UK Cabinet Office / Crown Commercial Service) publishes no value for this notice, so it has no mark on the scale. The official documents may state one.

Award values as published by the official sources. Use them as a guide, not a rule: scope, lots and duration differ between contracts.

Market context

Find a Tender Service (UK Cabinet Office / Crown Commercial Service) publishes no value for this notice, so it cannot be placed among the open notices of its sector. The official documents may state one.

open now in Research & development
450
median open notice
€233,687

Who wins in this market

Many suppliers

United Kingdom · Research & development

different companies won awards here
220
of the awards went to the three most frequent winners
9%
buyers awarded contracts here
109

Based on 325 awards with a named winner over the last 3 years. Counted by award, not by value, because lot and framework amounts are not comparable. Concentrated means the three most frequent winners took 65% or more of the awards; many suppliers, under 35% with at least ten different winners.

The buyer in figures

Maidstone Borough Council

notices in the register
18
awards
6

One dot per award, on the day it was signed, sized by its value. A ring is an award with no published value.

Maidstone Borough Council

United Kingdom

This buyer has no award history in this sector yet. Usual winners, Research & development - United Kingdom

Company Wins Total awarded Last win
Ipsos (market research) LTD 13 €31.0M Sep 2026
Ove Arup 9 €7.1M Oct 2026
IFF Research Limited 8 €5.6M Sep 2026
AtkinsRéalis Jacobs Joint Venture 8 €1.8M Oct 2026
WSP uk limited 6 €5.9M Sep 2026

Based on 325 awards with a linked company profile over the last 2 years.

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