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Published 22 Sept 2026, 14:43 BST

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2026TCCH-16 - Water Mains

Authority: Tai Calon Community Housing Ltd (Public body)

WorksBelow threshold - open competitionBelow thresholdSME suitable
Published estimate£1,000,000≈ £333k / year · £1,200,000 inc. VAT
Submission deadline 22 Oct 202616:00 BST · 29d 7h left
Clarification cut-off 16 Oct 202616:00 BST · questions to the authority
Contract term 3 yrsup to 5 yrs with extensions · starts 1 Dec 2026
Bids per lot · the market 3CPV 4523 · n=67 · competition analysis ↓

What is being bought

Published requirement description

The replacement, renewal, diversion, installation, testing, commissioning and associated activities required to provide compliant domestic water service connections as described within the Scope of Works.

CPV: Water mains · Water-main refurbishment construction work

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · value published
Lot #1Lot 1Renewal 3 yrsSMEPublished value£1,000,000
Contract period: 1 Dec 2026 — 30 Nov 2029 (3 yrs) · up to 5 yrs with extensionsEligibility: SME eligibleDelivery: WalesTurnover guideline: ~£666,058/yr≈ 2× annual value
Value
£1,000,000 exc. VAT · £1,200,000 inc. VAT
Extensions
2 x 12 month extensions
44161200 Water mains45232151 Water-main refurbishment construction work

Who is likely to bid for this lot ↓

What it takes to win
i

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 more
How bids are scored
Quality: 60%Price: 40%
Published award criteria (2)
  • QualityAs per tender documentation
  • Priceas per tender documentation
Conditions of participation1
  • Condition of participation
    as per the tender documentation

Competition analysis · published record, not a forecast of who will bid

Construction work for pipelines, communication and power lines, for highways, roads, airfields and railways; flatwork (CPV 4523) in Wales (Cymru) — and who usually turns up

Tai Calon Community Housing Ltd has too little published record in this market to describe on its own; the Wales (Cymru) market stands beside whatever it has. Frameworks and DPS are kept out: they attract a different number of bids. Whole-market view: Construction work for pipelines, communication and power lines, for highways, roads, airfields and railways; flatwork (CPV 4523)

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How the contest usually goes

Left: this authority. Right: the market where the work is delivered. Bids and award-vs-estimate pairs are per lot, from contested contracts only — direct awards (including PA 2023 transparency notices) report one bid by definition and are left out. On Procurement Act 2023 notices the count is the tenders assessed at the final stage, not every submission received; pairs compare like with like (VAT-exclusive, or VAT-inclusive on both sides). Empty means nothing was published, not filled in from elsewhere.

This authority

Tai Calon Community Housing Ltd

contract notices in 36 months: 1 in CPV 4523 · 1 in division 45 · 3 in all categories

Bids per lot
i

How many companies usually bid for work like this.

Middle value of published bid counts, one per lot, for this buyer or this region in the same sector.

Based on this buyer’s tenders in all categories, last 36 months: 1 lots. All 1 lots are from Procurement Act 2023 notices, which count bids assessed. Small sample.

Nothing is filled in from UK-wide numbers. An empty tile means nothing usable was published.

7all categories · 36m · n=1 lots
Single-bid lots
i

How often only one company bid.

Share of lots that received exactly one bid, on the same competitions as the bids figure.

Based on this buyer’s tenders in all categories, last 36 months: 1 lots. Small sample.

High means a thin market or an incumbent that is hard to beat.

0%all categories · 36m · n=1 lots
Award vs estimate
i

Do awards for work like this land above or below the estimate.

Estimate against award per lot, for this buyer or this region in the same sector.

Nothing published for this buyer in this sector: no comparable estimate → award pairs.

A past pattern, not a price to bid.

no comparable estimate → award pairs
Deadline → award date
i

How long buyers here take to decide after bids close.

Middle value in days from the deadline to the first award notice, on competitions that published both dates.

Based on this buyer’s tenders in all categories, last 36 months: 1 notices. Small sample.

Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.

Last 36 months.

32dall categories · 36m · n=1 notices
Notice updates
i

How often this buyer changes a notice after publishing it.

Middle number of amendments per notice. Deadline extensions and corrections both count.

Based on this buyer’s tenders in all categories, last 24 months: 17 notices.

Last 24 months.

0all categories · 24m · n=17 notices
Awarded without competition
i

How often this buyer awards without a competition.

Direct or limited awards as a share of its notices that say which procedure was used. These routes are legal in defined cases. This is just the record.

Based on this buyer’s tenders in all categories, last 36 months: 3 notices.

Last 36 months.

0%all categories · 36m · n=3 notices
How procedures are run moderate · n=3
i

Which procedures buyers here use.

Notices by the procedure they declare: open, selective, limited or direct. Open and selective are competitions; limited and direct are not.

Based on 3 notices · all categories, last 36 months.

  • Open 100%
  • Selective 0%
  • Limited 0%
  • Direct 0%

3 notices · all categories. Open and selective are competed (they feed the bid and price figures above); limited and direct are not; notices publishing no route are outside all four.

The market · delivery region

Wales (Cymru) · Construction work for pipelines, communication and power lines, for highways, roads, airfields and railways; flatwork (CPV 4523)

contract notices delivered in Wales (Cymru) in 36 months: 92 in CPV 4523 (71 competed, 16 route not published) · 875 in division 45 (744 competed, 103 route not published)

Bids per lot
i

How many companies usually bid for work like this.

Middle value of published bid counts, one per lot, for this buyer or this region in the same sector.

Based on this region’s tenders in this sector (CPV 4523), last 36 months: 67 lots. 21 lots are from Procurement Act 2023 notices (bids assessed, middle 5) and 46 from older notices (bids received, middle 3).

Nothing is filled in from UK-wide numbers. An empty tile means nothing usable was published.

3CPV 4523 · 36m · n=67 lots
Single-bid lots
i

How often only one company bid.

Share of lots that received exactly one bid, on the same competitions as the bids figure.

Based on this region’s tenders in this sector (CPV 4523), last 36 months: 67 lots.

High means a thin market or an incumbent that is hard to beat.

24%CPV 4523 · 36m · n=67 lots
Award vs estimate
i

Do awards for work like this land above or below the estimate.

Estimate against award per lot, for this buyer or this region in the same sector.

Based on this region’s tenders in this sector (CPV 4523), last 36 months: 21 pairs.

A past pattern, not a price to bid.

3% belowCPV 4523 · 36m · n=21 pairs
Deadline → award date
i

How long buyers here take to decide after bids close.

Middle value in days from the deadline to the first award notice, on competitions that published both dates.

Based on this region’s tenders in this sector (CPV 4523), last 36 months: 13 notices.

Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.

Last 36 months.

35dCPV 4523 · 36m · n=13 notices
SME bidders
i

How much of this market goes to small and medium firms.

SME bidders where buyers published the split, otherwise SME winners.

Based on this region’s tenders in this sector (CPV 4523), last 36 months: 67 lots.

Last 36 months.

79%CPV 4523 · 36m · n=67 lots
Winners based in the region
i

How much work like this goes to companies based in the delivery region.

Awards in this category delivered here where the winner’s registered address is in the region.

Based on this region’s tenders in this sector (CPV 4523), last 36 months: 39 awards.

Registered address, so a national firm with a local branch counts as outside.

Last 36 months.

79%CPV 4523 · 36m · n=39 awards
Bids per lot robust · n=67
i

How the number of bidders is spread across lots.

Each lot with a published bid count is put in a band: one bid, two to three, four to six, seven or more. Real competitions only.

Based on 67 lots on 28 contested notices · CPV 4523, last 36 months.

  • 1 bid 24%
  • 2–3 40%
  • 4–6 18%
  • 7+ 18%

Median 3 · 67 lots on 28 contested notices · CPV 4523.

Winning award vs estimate robust · n=21
i

How often winners come in below, near or above the estimate.

Each lot with both an estimate and an award is placed by how far the award sat from the estimate.

Based on 21 lot pairs · CPV 4523, last 36 months.

A past pattern, not a price to bid.

  • Below estimate 57%
  • Within ±2% 24%
  • Above estimate 19%

21 lot pairs · CPV 4523.

robust · n=21
i

Where this tender’s estimate would land if the usual pattern repeats.

We apply the buyer’s usual movement between estimate and award (or the region’s) to the estimate on this notice.

Based on the Wales (Cymru) market’s usual movement over 21 lots (CPV 4523), applied to the £1,000,000 estimate on this notice. The range comes from the region’s middle half.

A benchmark, not a price to bid.

Awards in Wales (Cymru) (CPV 4523, n=21 pairs) land a median 3% below: on this notice’s £1,000,000 that is about £969,000, middle half £910,000£1,005,000 (quartiles from Wales (Cymru) · CPV 4523). Context for a bid, not a recommended price.
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Who you are likely to meet
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Who you may be up against.

Suppliers on this buyer’s earlier similar contracts, and suppliers whose record fits this tender.

A guess from the record. Buyers do not publish who is bidding.

Suppliers on this authority’s earlier similar contracts, then suppliers with a matching track record — from published award history, not a bid list

Suppliers with a similar track record — and how they price
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Suppliers with a similar track record, and how they price.

Suppliers matched on wins in this category, history with this buyer, location and size. Their award vs estimate is from their own past wins.

A guess from the record, not a bidder list.

SupplierEvidenceLast awardTheir award vs estimateRelevance
ROAD MAINTENANCE SERVICES LIMITED 10 class wins2 months agono comparable pairs61%
Steve Davies construction SME8 class wins1 months agono comparable pairs58%
COYLE SURFACING LIMITED SME16 class wins1 months agono comparable pairs56%
OJ MORGAN SERVICES LTD SME7 class wins1 months agono comparable pairs56%
R F PRICE LIMITED SME10 class wins1 months agono comparable pairs56%

Matched by the nightly worker on class wins, buyer history, delivery geography, scale and notice text; relevance is a 0–100% heuristic score, not a probability of bidding. “Their award vs estimate” is that supplier’s median on its own comparable single-supplier wins, CPV 4523 first. Nobody here is known to be bidding.

Coverage and what to read with care
  • Each tile explains itself. The on a figure says what it is, how it is counted and which scope this notice’s own record came from (class, division, all categories, or the authority’s 24-month row). The two columns are never blended and nothing is filled from a UK-wide figure; an empty tile means the source published nothing usable. Long form: Methodology.
  • Coverage. Roughly 40 % of notices publish a bid count; about half publish an ITL1 delivery location, so the market column reads the authority’s registered region when the notice has none (labelled). About 30 % of award-vs-estimate pairs are exact matches — the buyer published the award at the estimate. n is on every figure; a thin sample is muted, never hidden.
  • “Match” and “relevance” are model scores from the nightly matcher, not published facts. Find a Tender does not publish who is bidding. Never shown: contact details, payment behaviour, or a recommended price.

Procedure terms & legal framework

From the official record
Procedure method
Below threshold - open competition
Legal basis
UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
Procurement category
Works
Notice status
Open for tender
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
No (one-off requirement)
First published
22 Sept 2026, 14:43 BST
Last source update
22 Sept 2026, 14:43 BST
Authority reference
2026TCCH-16 - Water Mains
Latest notice
Tender notice (UK4)
Classification (CPV)
Water mainsWater-main refurbishment construction work
Delivery area
Wales (UKL16)
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-0777b1 Find a Tender

How to participate & submission route

Official notice Submit via Sell2Wales
Submission portal named on this notice: Sell2Wales · Who buys & how to bid on Sell2Wales
Supplier login requiredElectronic submission allowed
Access & registration note: Free Wales registration; eTenderWales runs on Jaggaer
Expression of interest (EOI)
Tender submission deadline
22 Oct 2026, 16:00 BST
Clarification deadline
16 Oct 2026, 16:00 BST
Submission channel
Official e-sourcing portal
Electronic submission
Allowed
Detailed submission instructions & authority contactsFrom official release
Published estimate £1,000,000 excludes VAT (£1,200,000 including VAT).

Timeline

4 published dates · Europe/London
  1. Tender notice published1 day ago
    22 Sept 2026, 14:43 BST
  2. Clarification questions byin 23 days
    16 Oct 2026, 16:00 BST
  3. Submission deadlinein 29 days
    22 Oct 2026, 16:00 BST
  4. Contract startsin 69 days
    1 Dec 2026, 00:00 GMT

Commercial outcome & contract awards

Nothing awarded yet
Awards (0)
No award published
Contracts (0)
No contract published
Bid statistics
No aggregate bid statistics published

Notice history

1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender
  1. Tender notice published
    22 Sept 2026, 14:43 BSTUK4

Contracting authority & participating public bodies

Tai Calon Community Housing Ltd

Contracting authorityPublic authority - sub-central governmentWelsh devolved regulations apply GB-PPON: PQRX-4196-QHWV Solis One,, Blaina, Wales, NP13 3JW +441495294867

Official documents & specifications (3)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Tender pack and attachments

Notices published for this procedure

  • Tender notice tenderTender noticeUK4Tender notice on Find a Tender