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Published 24 Apr 2026, 14:38 BST

Official UK procurement notice

70 affordable homes · UK public procurement notice

Authority: Ashfield District Council (Local council)·On behalf of: Nottinghamshire County Council

WorksCompetitive flexible procedureAbove thresholdSME suitable
Planned pipeline valueValue not publishedpipeline notice, not a live tender
Tender notice expected 4 Dec 2026from the planned procurement notice
Contract term 7 moends 30 Sept 2027 · starts 1 Mar 2027

What is being bought

Published requirement description

Building of 70 affordable homes at a site located within the Ashfield district

CPV: Building construction work

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published
Lot #1Planned 7 moSME
Contract period: 1 Mar 2027 – 30 Sept 2027 (7 mo)
Delivery: East MidlandsEligibility: SME eligible

Who is likely to bid for this lot ↓

Pipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published

How Ashfield District Council buys Building construction work (CPV 4521), and who usually turns up

Ashfield District Council’s own published record, next to the published market for the same work. Frameworks and DPS are kept out: they attract a different number of bids. Whole-market view: Building construction work (CPV 4521) →

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How the contest usually goes

Winner shares use published awards; bid and price charts use contested lots.

Question for the bid
This buyerAshfield District Council · division 45
The marketBuilding construction work (CPV 4521) · East Midlands
What to do with it
How often do SMEs win?
i

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.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 7 of 9 known-size awards · market: CPV 4521 · East Midlands, n=115
78%80%

Small firms have won here. Neither number says whether you qualify; it describes who has been winning.

How often do local suppliers win?
i

How often local firms win similar work.

Winners with a registered address in the delivery region, out of awards with a known address.

Here, local means registered in East Midlands.

A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 7 of 12 known-location awards · market: CPV 4521 · East Midlands, n=170
58%34%

Most of this buyer’s recorded winners are registered in East Midlands.

How long to a decision?
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.

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

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 3 decided notices · market: CPV 4521 · East Midlands, n=37
173 days53 days

Half of these awards were announced within 173 days of the bid deadline.

How often single-bid or direct?
i

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.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: at least 2 of 11 procurements with awards had no recorded rival · market: CPV 4521 · East Midlands, n=173
18%39%

Missing bid counts may hide more single-bid awards. This share is a minimum.

How many bids did past lots attract?

i

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.

Last 36 months.

This buyer4 lots with bid counts · broad CPV 45 · too few to chart
The market50 lots with bid counts · CPV 4521 · East Midlands
8% had one bid
Market · select a colour for counts
1 bid8%
Market: 4 of 50 lots with published bid counts.
2–318%
Market: 9 of 50 lots with published bid counts.
4–636%
Market: 18 of 50 lots with published bid counts.
7+38%
Market: 19 of 50 lots with published bid counts.

How did awards compare with estimates?

i

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.

Last 36 months.

This buyer5 lots with estimate and award · broad CPV 45
40% below estimate
The market49 lots with estimate and award · CPV 4521 · East Midlands
51% below estimate
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
Below estimate40% / 51%
Buyer: 2 of 5 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 25 of 49 lots with an estimate and award.
Within ±2%20% / 22%
Buyer: 1 of 5 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 11 of 49 lots with an estimate and award.
Above estimate40% / 27%
Buyer: 2 of 5 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 13 of 49 lots with an estimate and award.
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Assess each lot
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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 45217 monthsSME suitableEstimate not published
Expected competition
i

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 50 past lots.

A forecast, not a list of bidders.

—No model forecast yet8% single-bid risk
Past bids on 50 similar lots
1 bid8%
4 of 50 similar past lots received 1 bid (8%).
2–318%
9 of 50 similar past lots received 2–3 (18%).
4–636%
18 of 50 similar past lots received 4–6 (36%).
7+38%
19 of 50 similar past lots received 7+ (38%).
Comparable past lots usually drew 5.5 bids.
Commercial price forecast
i

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.

—Estimate not published
The buyer published no estimate for this lot, so there is nothing to forecast against. A price prediction here would be a number about a number we do not have.

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.

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.

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
Procedure method
Competitive flexible procedure
Legal basis
UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
Procurement category
Works
Notice status
Planned procurement
Procurement threshold
Above threshold (FTS publication)
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
24 Apr 2026, 14:38 BST
Last source update
24 Apr 2026, 14:38 BST
FTS notice number
2026/S 000-037642
Latest notice
Pipeline notice (UK1)
Classification (CPV)
Building construction work
Delivery area
East Midlands (UKF)
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-068acf Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice
Submission deadline
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Timeline

24 Apr 2026 → 1 Mar 2027 · 3 dates
  1. Planning notice published179 days ago
    24 Apr 2026, 14:38 BST
  2. Today
    20 Oct 2026
  3. Tender notice expectedin 45 days
    4 Dec 2026, 23:59 GMT
  4. Contract startsin 131 days
    1 Mar 2027

Notice history

1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender
  1. Pipeline notice published
    24 Apr 2026, 14:38 BST
    UK1

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

2 public bodies on the notice

Ashfield District Council

Contracting authorityPublic authority - sub-central government GB-PPON: PMGL-3337-TLYD Urban Road, Kirkby in Ashfield, East Midlands, NG17 8DAContact email

Other public bodies

  • Nottinghamshire County CouncilProcess contact pointProcuring entityProcurement PartnerGB-PPON: PBCV-5152-BXBP Nottingham, East MidlandsContact email

Official documents & specifications (1)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure

  • Pipeline notice planningPipeline noticeUK1Pipeline notice on Find a Tender