Find a TenderPlanned procurementPreliminary market engagement notice
Published 1 Dec 2025, 11:08 GMT

Official UK procurement notice

Abergele Placemaking Pentre Mawr Park

Authority: Abergele Town Council (Local council)

WorksAbove thresholdSME suitable
Planned pipeline value£25,000pipeline notice, not a live tender
Tender notice expected 19 Dec 2025from the planned procurement notice
Contract term Ends 15 Jan 2026starts 1 Jan 2026

What is being bought

Published requirement description

Abergele 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 published

Pipeline 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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How the contest usually goes

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

Question for the bidWhat 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.

Market: division 44 · Wales (Cymru), n=39
51%

Across this market, small firms won 51% of awards with a known supplier size.

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 Wales (Cymru).

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

Last 36 months.

Market: division 44 · Wales (Cymru), n=44
41%

Across this market, 41% of winners were registered in the delivery region.

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.

Market: division 44 · Wales (Cymru), n=14
60 days

Half of these awards were announced within 60 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.

The market share is a minimum: some awards have no bid count.

Thin markets produce this too; it is not proof of a tailored specification.

Last 36 months.

Market: division 44 · Wales (Cymru), n=43
44%

Across this market, at least 44% of awarded procurements had no recorded rival.

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.

The market38 lots with bid counts · division 44 · Wales (Cymru)
16% had one bid
Market · select a colour for counts
1 bid16%
Market: 6 of 38 lots with published bid counts.
2–334%
Market: 13 of 38 lots with published bid counts.
4–647%
Market: 18 of 38 lots with published bid counts.
7+3%
Market: 1 of 38 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.

The market18 lots with estimate and award · division 44 · Wales (Cymru)
44% below estimate
Market · select a colour for counts
Below estimate44%
Market: 8 of 18 lots with an estimate and award.
Within ±2%39%
Market: 7 of 18 lots with an estimate and award.
Above estimate17%
Market: 3 of 18 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 #1SME suitablePublished estimate£25k
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 38 past lots.

A forecast, not a list of bidders.

—No model forecast yet16% single-bid risk
Past bids on 38 similar lots
1 bid16%
6 of 38 similar past lots received 1 bid (16%).
2–334%
13 of 38 similar past lots received 2–3 (34%).
4–647%
18 of 38 similar past lots received 4–6 (47%).
7+3%
1 of 38 similar past lots received 7+ (3%).
Comparable past lots usually drew 3.5 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.

—No model forecast yet
No comparable awards on record for this lot’s category yet. The published estimate is £25k, and the forecast stays empty until the market has a record to read.

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
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)
Construction structures and materials; auxiliary products to construction (except electric apparatus)Construction work
Delivery area
UK
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-05ebc2 Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice
Submission deadline
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Timeline

1 Dec 2025 → 1 Jan 2026 · 4 dates
  1. Planning notice published324 days ago
    1 Dec 2025, 11:08 GMT
  2. Market engagement310 days ago
    15 Dec 2025, 23:59 GMT

    Interested parties to email [email protected]; subject line "Pentre Mawr", in the first instance, to arrange discussion / site visit

  3. Tender notice expected306 days ago
    19 Dec 2025, 23:59 GMT
  4. Contract starts294 days ago
    1 Jan 2026

Notice history

1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender
  1. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    1 Dec 2025, 11:08 GMT
    UK2

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

Abergele Town Council

Contracting authorityPublic authority - sub-central governmentWelsh devolved regulations apply GB-PPON: PPJY-3264-JLDP Town Hall, Llanddulas Road, Abergele, Wales, LL22 7BTContact name, email, phone

Official documents & specifications (1)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure