Official UK procurement notice
Biddulph Christmas Lights · UK public procurement notice
Authority: Biddulph Town Council (Local council)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionTender for the installation of Christmas lights, storage throughout the year and attendance at the annual switch-on event, including ongoing maintenance (3 Years)
CPV: Installation services of machinery and equipment
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The lotProcurement structure
single lot · value publishedLot #1Published value£60,000
What it takes to wini
Evaluation split and conditions of participation as published; the tender pack may add morei
- Experience and qualifications
- Price
No conditions of participation were published on the notice; check the tender documents.
- Turnover usually expected at this size: about £39,964 (twice the annual value).
Turnover is an indicative market norm (≈2× annual value), not a published condition.
Competition analysis · published record, not a forecast of who will bid
How Biddulph Town Council buys Installation services of machinery and equipment (CPV 5150), and who usually turns up
Biddulph Town Council has little published record in this market. Frameworks and DPS are left out: they draw different bid counts. Whole-market view: Installation services of machinery and equipment (CPV 5150) →
How the contest usually goes
Winner shares use published awards; bid and price charts use contested lots.
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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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Local means the winner is registered in the region where that award was delivered. The market figure counts awards delivered in West Midlands.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners were registered in the region where that award was delivered.
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Half of these awards have an award date within 56 days of the bid deadline.
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Both shares are minimums: some awards have no bid count.
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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1 bid14%
2–357%
4–614%
7+14%
How did awards compare with estimates?
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Below estimate44%
Within ±2%40%
Above estimate17%
Assess each lot i
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Open a lot for its forecast, this buyer’s previous supplier and possible competitors, from published award history, not a bid list
Lot #1CPV 5150Published estimate£60k
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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 77 past lots.
1 bid19%
2–334%
4–625%
7+22%
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No comparable awards for this lot yet.
Who has supplied this buyer on similar work? i
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No earlier contract of this buyer matches this lot on the published record.
Who could compete for this lot? i
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Candidate suppliers for this notice have not been worked out yet, so this is not a verdict that nobody fits.
About this data
- Estimates, labelled. The price range, possible competitors and earlier-work matches are our estimates from past awards, not published facts, win chances or price advice. The buyer’s own record and the wider market are shown apart, never mixed.
- Source. Official UK public procurement notices (Find a Tender and Contracts Finder), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0, updated through the day and rebuilt nightly. Not every figure uses both feeds, and each one shows how many records it rests on: see the methodology. Spotted something wrong? Tell us.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Procedure method
- Open procedure
- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Open for tender
- 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
- 13 Nov 2026, 10:44 GMT
- Last source update
- 13 Nov 2026, 10:44 GMT
- Award evaluation window
- Submission end – 12 Jan 2027
- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-107879- Accelerated
- State of urgency
- Latest notice
- Tender notice (UK4)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-07bb57Find a Tender
How to participate & submission route
Official notice Submit via portal- Requests to participate (first stage)
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- Tender submission deadline
- 24 Nov 2026, 12:00 GMT
- Clarification deadline
- —
- Submission channel
- Official e-sourcing portal
- Electronic submission
- Not allowed
- Accepted languages
- en
Email tenders to: [email protected] FAO Sarah Haydon
Information available at biddulph.co.uk/vacancies-tenders/ ↗
Timeline
13 Nov 2026 → 18 Jan 2027 · 4 dates- Tender notice published1h ago13 Nov 2026, 10:44 GMT
- Today13 Nov 2026
- Submission deadlinein 11 days24 Nov 2026, 12:00 GMT
- Award decision expected byin 60 days12 Jan 2027, 23:59 GMT
- Contract startsin 65 days18 Jan 2027
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Tender notice published13 Nov 2026, 10:44 GMTUK4
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Nothing awarded yet- 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 copiedTender pack and attachments
Notices published for this procedure
- Tender notice Tender notice on Find a Tender