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Published 21 May 2026, 10:52 BST

Official UK procurement notice

A62 to Cooper Bridge Junction Improvements

Authority: The Council of the Borough of Kirklees (Local council)

WorksAward under frameworkAbove threshold
Planned pipeline valueValue not publishedpipeline notice, not a live tender
Tender notice expected Date not publishedfrom the planned procurement notice
Contract term 3 yrs 10 moends 31 Oct 2030 · starts 4 Jan 2027

What is being bought

Published requirement description

The existing A62 / A644 Cooper Bridge junction comprises of a signalised three-armed roundabout connecting the A62 Cooper Bridge Road (southern arm), the A644 Wakefield Road (western arm) and the A62 Leeds Road (eastern arm). The junction is severely congested in the AM and PM traffic peaks.

The proposed highway improvements will not only ease congestion issues but also support housing and employment growth ambitions highlighted within the existing Kirklees Local Plan (adopted 2019).

The Council is now intending to proceed with phase one of the project and is seeking to progress a procurement for the appoint of a suitably qualified and experienced contractor to support this works requirement via a two-stage design and build process to construct the required improvements at Cooper Bridge junction.

CPV: Construction work

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published
Lot #1Planned 3 yrs 10 mo
Contract period: 4 Jan 2027 – 31 Oct 2030 (3 yrs 10 mo)

Who is likely to bid for this lot ↓

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

How The Council of the Borough of Kirklees buys Construction work (CPV 45), and who usually turns up

The Council of the Borough of Kirklees’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: Construction work (CPV 45) →

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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
The marketConstruction work (CPV 45) · Yorkshire and the Humber
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: 10 of 17 known-size awards · market: division 45 · Yorkshire and the Humber, n=818
59%76%

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 Yorkshire and the Humber.

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

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 5 of 11 known-location awards · market: division 45 · Yorkshire and the Humber, n=1,301
45%39%

Most of this buyer’s recorded winners are registered outside Yorkshire and the Humber.

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: 13 decided notices · market: division 45 · Yorkshire and the Humber, n=165
31 days35 days

Half of these awards were announced within 31 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 3 of 18 procurements with awards had no recorded rival · market: division 45 · Yorkshire and the Humber, n=1,259
17%32%

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.

Last 36 months.

This buyer21 lots with bid counts · all categories
24% had one bid
The market315 lots with bid counts · division 45 · Yorkshire and the Humber
27% had one bid
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
1 bid24% / 27%
Buyer: 5 of 21 lots with published bid counts. Market: 86 of 315 lots with published bid counts.
2–329% / 23%
Buyer: 6 of 21 lots with published bid counts. Market: 73 of 315 lots with published bid counts.
4–633% / 21%
Buyer: 7 of 21 lots with published bid counts. Market: 66 of 315 lots with published bid counts.
7+14% / 29%
Buyer: 3 of 21 lots with published bid counts. Market: 90 of 315 lots with published bid counts.

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.

Last 36 months.

This buyer15 lots with estimate and award · all categories
0% below estimate
The market238 lots with estimate and award · division 45 · Yorkshire and the Humber
45% below estimate
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
Below estimate0% / 45%
Buyer: 0 of 15 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 107 of 238 lots with an estimate and award.
Within ±2%67% / 29%
Buyer: 10 of 15 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 69 of 238 lots with an estimate and award.
Above estimate33% / 26%
Buyer: 5 of 15 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 62 of 238 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 #146 monthsEstimate 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 315 past lots.

A forecast, not a list of bidders.

—No model forecast yet27% single-bid risk
Past bids on 315 similar lots
1 bid27%
86 of 315 similar past lots received 1 bid (27%).
2–323%
73 of 315 similar past lots received 2–3 (23%).
4–621%
66 of 315 similar past lots received 4–6 (21%).
7+29%
90 of 315 similar past lots received 7+ (29%).
Comparable past lots usually drew 3 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.

Restricted route (Stage 2 ITT / Shortlist): Bidding is restricted to invited candidates who qualified at Stage 1. Uninvited suppliers cannot participate in this round.

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
Award under framework
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
21 May 2026, 10:52 BST
Last source update
21 May 2026, 10:52 BST
FTS notice number
2026/S 000-046877
Latest notice
Pipeline notice (UK1)
Classification (CPV)
Construction work
Delivery area
Yorkshire & Humber (UKE44)
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-069eac Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice
Submission deadline
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Timeline

21 May 2026 → 4 Jan 2027 · 2 dates
  1. Planning notice published152 days ago
    21 May 2026, 10:52 BST
  2. Today
    20 Oct 2026
  3. Contract startsin 75 days
    4 Jan 2027

Notice history

1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender
  1. Pipeline notice published
    21 May 2026, 10:52 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

The Council of the Borough of Kirklees

Contracting authorityPublic authority - sub-central government GB-PPON: PXHZ-9111-QHMJ The Town Hall, Ramsden Street, Huddersfield, Yorkshire & Humber, HD1 2TAContact email

Official documents & specifications (1)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure

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