Official UK procurement notice
Appointment of a Supplier to Operate and Manage the Sheepfolds Mobility Hub
Authority: Sunderland City Council (Local council)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionSunderland City Council (the Authority) wishes to appoint a single Supplier through a competitive procurement process to operate and manage a Mobility Hub in the Sheepfolds development.
The scope is expected to include, but is not limited to.
i. Car parking operations
ii. Electric Vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure
iii. Secure cycle parking
iv. Facility management
v. Management of ad‑hoc mobility and ancillary services (such as car clubs, parcel lockers, and other associated services within the Mobility Hub
The appointed Supplier will be expected to deliver a robust operations and management strategy that ensures the Mobility Hub is mobilised and operated in a way that maximises public benefit, supports the wider Sheepfolds development, and maintains high operational and service standards throughout the asset's lifecycle.
Any information provided by the Authority as part of this Pre‑Market Engagement (the Engagement), including (without limitation) the Questionnaire, the Briefing Document and any draft timetable, is indicative only and provided for information‑gathering purposes.
The Authority shall not be bound by any information issued as part of this Engagement and reserves the right to amend, update, or withdraw any information, documentation, or indicative timetable prior to the commencement of any formal procurement or tender process.
Likewise, any information submitted by Suppliers in response to this Engagement shall be treated as non‑binding and indicative only, and Suppliers shall not be bound by the content of their responses.
Information provided by Suppliers as part of this Engagement will not form part of any evaluation or assessment in any future tender or procurement exercise.
CPV: Car park management services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1PlannedRenewal
Pipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How Sunderland City Council buys Civic-amenity services (CPV 9835), and who usually turns up
Sunderland City Council’s published record next to the market for the same work. Frameworks and DPS are left out: they draw different bid counts. Whole-market view: Civic-amenity services (CPV 9835) →
How the contest usually goes
Winner shares use published awards; bid and price charts use contested lots.
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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.
Small firms have won here. Neither number says whether you qualify; it describes who has been winning.
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How often local firms win similar work.
Winners with a registered address in the delivery region, out of awards with a known address.
Local means the winner is registered in the region where that award was delivered. The market figure counts awards delivered in North East England.
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners were registered outside the region where that award was delivered.
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How long buyers here take to decide after bids close.
Middle value in days from the bid deadline to the award date, on competitions that published both.
Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.
Half of these awards have an award date within 41 days of the bid deadline.
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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.
Direct awards or one recorded bid are common here. Check the route before spending time on a bid.
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.
1 bid9% / 20%
2–327% / 40%
4–641% / 40%
7+23% / 0%
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.
Below estimate50% / 45%
Within ±2%36% / 27%
Above estimate14% / 27%
Assess each lot i
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.
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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 9835Estimate not published
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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 25 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid36%
2–344%
4–620%
7+0%
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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.
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.
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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.
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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
- Services
- 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
- 8 May 2026, 11:13 BST
- Last source update
- 2 Jun 2026, 14:55 BST
- Authority reference
Project Reference OPEN2026965- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-051956- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-069465Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
8 May 2026 → 30 Sept 2026 · 5 dates- Planning notice published169 days ago8 May 2026, 11:13 BST
- Latest notice published144 days ago2 Jun 2026, 14:55 BST
- Market engagement134 days ago12 Jun 2026, 23:59 BST
Suppliers are invited to complete, in full or in part, the "Mobility Hub Market Engagement Questionnaire" provided on the Open E Tender Portal.
Through this Engagement, the Authority are looking to
i. Gain market insight into appropriate commercial models and the potential scope of services that could inform the procurement approach for the external operation and management of the Mobility Hub.
ii. Develop its understanding of market capacity, capability, and structure, including the range of suppliers active in this sector and their delivery models.
iii. Inform the design of the future procurement, including the development of the Specification, contract structure, risk allocation, and overall commercial approach.
iv. Support delivery of the procurement objectives set out in Section 12 of the Procurement Act, including achieving value for money, maximising public benefit, ensuring transparency and integrity, and promoting fair and open competition.
This is your opportunity to influence and shape the development of the Specification however the Hub should be managed in a holistic way that:
i. Maximises synergies between the various component parts and services within the Mobility Hub; and
ii. Ensures high‑quality, customer‑focused operations, delivering a consistently high standard of service and user experience.
All documentation and communications relating to this Pre‑Market Engagement, and to any subsequent tender or procurement process, will be made available exclusively via the Authority's "Open" e‑Procurement Portal.
Suppliers must be registered on the Open e tender portal to participate in the engagement and any subsequent procurement process.
Suppliers can register their organisation on the Open e‑Tendering Portal by visiting open-uk.org ↗
Completed responses must be submitted via the Open e‑Tendering Portal no later than the stated submission date and time.
- Tender notice expected111 days ago5 Jul 2026, 23:59 BST
- Contract starts25 days ago30 Sept 2026, 00:00 BST
Notice history
2 events · 2 releases on Find a Tender · since 8 May 2026- Preliminary market engagement notice published8 May 2026, 11:13 BSTUK2
- Preliminary market engagement notice published2 Jun 2026, 14:55 BSTUK2
Published amendments (1)
The engagement period has been extended from 12:00 Noon on 05th June 2026 to 12:00 Noon on 12th June 2026.
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 (2)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender