Official UK procurement notice
Abergele Placemaking Pentre Mawr Park
Authority: Abergele Town Council (Local council)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionAbergele Town Council is working with Conwy County Borough Council to repair the Viewing Platform in Pentre Mawr Park.
Scope:
To repair the viewing platform in Pentre Mawr Park which is requiring repair and maintenance due to the asset being over 10 years old
The aim of the work is to ensure that the platform is fit for purpose and safe for public use:
- Removal of rotten wood and structural repairs to the joists, posts, decking etc
- Replace any missing sections of the platform
- Safety upgrades to the railings;
- Surface preparation and treatment
- Adhering to safety protocols and environmental factors
An initial site survey and inspection will need to be carried out to determine the extent of the work required
The viewing platform was installed in c2010 from a grant provided to a local Friends group and is under the ownership of Conwy County Borough Council. This repair and maintenance work is to be commissioned by Abergele Town Council. Contractors will need to ensure that they meet with the Health & Safety requirements of both Councils.
The contractor must determine if there is a need for scaffolding or other equipment and build this into the cost provided.
The contractor is responsible for ensuring that all waste is removed from site following completion of the work
The contractor will need to ensure that the area is safe to ensure no risk to the general public using the park.
Please indicate the length of time that the work will take, and also when the work is likely to commence if your quotation is successful.
An Officer from the County Council will have the final signoff on the completion of the work
Awarding of the contract
The awarding of contracts is made by members at a full town council meeting which are generally held on the third Thursday of the month. Following the meeting, companies who took part in the quoting process will be informed whether they were successful or not.
*The awarding of the contract is subject to the conditions being adhered to. Failure to comply could lead to the contract to be offered to a competitor.
Terms and conditions
The contractor must supply any outstanding documents (such as risk assessment, method statement, insurance certificate, certificates of competency/required licences) within 14 days of the contract being awarded.
Abergele Town Council reserves the right to cancel a contract if there is failure from the contractor to complete the work within a reasonable timeframe surrounding the completion date.
Costs
All costs, expenses and liabilities incurred by Contractors in connection with the preparation and submission of any quotation shall be borne by them.
CPV: Construction structures and materials; auxiliary products to construction (except electric apparatus) · Construction work
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedPipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
Construction structures and materials (CPV 44) in Wales (Cymru), and who usually turns up
Abergele Town Council has too little published record in this market to describe on its own. Published market evidence for the same work stands beside whatever it has. Frameworks and DPS are kept out: they attract a different number of bids. Whole-market view: Construction structures and materials (CPV 44) →
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Across this market, small firms won 51% of awards with a known supplier size.
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How often local firms win similar work.
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Here, local means registered in Wales (Cymru).
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Across this market, 41% of winners were registered in the delivery region.
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How long buyers here take to decide after bids close.
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Half of these awards were announced within 60 days of the bid deadline.
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Thin markets produce this too; it is not proof of a tailored specification.
Across this market, at least 44% of awarded procurements had no recorded rival.
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Past bids do not predict this tender.
1 bid16%
2–334%
4–647%
7+3%
How did awards compare with estimates?
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Where winning prices landed against estimates.
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Below estimate44%
Within ±2%39%
Above estimate17%
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No supplier is confirmed as a bidder.
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Lot #1Published estimate£25k
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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 38 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid16%
2–334%
4–647%
7+3%
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Where the award price may land.
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No comparable awards for this lot yet.
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A past supplier may not bid again.
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A past supplier may not bid again.
No earlier contract of this buyer matches this lot on the published record.
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None is confirmed as a bidder.
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Who could compete for this lot?
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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.
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Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- 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
- 1 Dec 2025, 11:08 GMT
- Last source update
- 1 Dec 2025, 11:08 GMT
- FTS notice number
2025/S 000-078410- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-05ebc2Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
1 Dec 2025 → 1 Jan 2026 · 4 dates- Planning notice published324 days ago1 Dec 2025, 11:08 GMT
- Market engagement310 days ago15 Dec 2025, 23:59 GMT
Interested parties to email [email protected]; subject line "Pentre Mawr", in the first instance, to arrange discussion / site visit
- Tender notice expected306 days ago19 Dec 2025, 23:59 GMT
- Contract starts294 days ago1 Jan 2026
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Preliminary market engagement notice published1 Dec 2025, 11:08 GMTUK2
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