Official UK procurement notice
Bin Permits · UK public procurement notice
Authority: West Northamptonshire Council (Local council)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionGarden Waste Bin Permit Printing and Delivery
West Northamptonshire Council wishes to invite bidders for provision of supply a fully integrated Garden Waste Permit System for the production and management of garden waste permits for the area of West Northamptonshire, to include:
- Print permits
- Send permits to eligible residents within West Northamptonshire with bins
- Send Permits to eligible residents within West Northamptonshire with Sacks
- Be able to integrate with Council systems
- Supply an online portal to the Council
- Provide Training for staff on the portal
- Provide updates on level of subscriptions
- Dispatch deadlines
Please read and follow the information and guidance supplied below and within the Tender documents, this will help with your tender submission.
Word count limits apply, any information going over will not be considered.
Respond to ALL questions.
Additional documents or information not required will be disregarded.
Please note timeline with regards to questions and submission dates.
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Contract Term: 3 years - (+1 optional year)
Contract Start: April 2027
- The authority expects to re-tender this requirement around 1 Sept 2030, 23:59 BST.
CPV: Printing and delivery services · Printing and distribution services · Printing and related services · Printing services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · value publishedWhat it takes to wini
How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
Evaluation split and conditions of participation as published; the tender pack may add morei
How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
Published sub-criteria (2)
- Weighted: 40%
- Weighted: 60%
Published award criteria (2)
- Weighted: Cost weighted split 60%
- Weighted: Quality Weighted Split 40%
No conditions of participation were published on the notice; check the tender documents.
- Price carries 60 of 100 points: a 10% discount moves about 6 points. This one is won on the number: sharpen the price before polishing the prose.
- Turnover usually expected at this size: about £293,066 (twice the annual value).
Price arithmetic assumes straight proportional scoring; the tender pack may use another formula. 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 West Northamptonshire Council buys Printing and related services (CPV 7980), and who usually turns up
West Northamptonshire 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: Printing and related services (CPV 7980) →
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 East Midlands.
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners were registered in 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 50 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 bid2% / 0%
2–35% / 41%
4–68% / 33%
7+85% / 26%
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 estimate16% / 29%
Within ±2%53% / 67%
Above estimate32% / 5%
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 79Published estimate£440k
This lot lists more than one class in CPV 79. The comparison uses that group.
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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.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid4%
2–331%
4–635%
7+29%
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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.
Based on 3 comparable awards. Each lot reflects its own category; forecasts for different lots of the same notice are not comparative.
A statistical guide from past awards, not a price to bid.
Middle 50%£440k
Estimate£440k
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.
| Supplier | This buyer’s earlier contract | Lot | Award value | Why listed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PermiServ LtdWorked for this buyer | Garden Waste Permit Systemnotice published May 2024 | — | — | Similar wording and category |
| Tangerine Red LimitedWorked for this buyer | Framework Agreement for Graphics Printing and Installation with Graphic Design Support Servicesnotice published Nov 2025 | Lot 1 - The Supply, Installation and Maintenance of Hoarding | — | Similar wording and category |
| Graphics Arts (Coventry) LtdWorked for this buyer | Framework Agreement for Graphics Printing and Installation with Graphic Design Support Servicesnotice published Nov 2025 | Lot 1 - The Supply, Installation and Maintenance of Hoarding | — | Similar wording and category |
| 1st Reaction Security LtdWorked for this buyer | Security Services Framework - Lot 4 (Out of Hours Services, Monitoring and Maintenance)notice published Aug 2025 | — | — | Similar wording and category |
| Chase Services Group LtdWorked for this buyer | WNC Security Services Frameworknotice published May 2025 | Ad hoc Guarding Services | — | Similar wording and category |
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.
| Supplier | Won in this category | Live contracts | Award vs estimate |
|---|---|---|---|
| £2.4m14 awards in 36m · last 1 months ago | 10 live · £1.5m iPublic contracts this supplier still holds. Its awards whose published end date is still in the future, with their values. Many contracts publish no end date, so this is a floor, not the whole book. Unexpired says nothing about spare capacity. | at estimate n=6 | |
| 1 awards in 36m · last 11 months ago | None on file | no comparable pairs | |
| 1 awards in 36m · last 11 months ago | None on file | no comparable pairs | |
Euro Labels LtdLarge | — | None on file | at estimate n=1 |
| £16m34 awards in 36m · last 2 months ago | 20 live · £23m iPublic contracts this supplier still holds. Its awards whose published end date is still in the future, with their values. Many contracts publish no end date, so this is a floor, not the whole book. Unexpired says nothing about spare capacity. | at estimate n=12 |
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
- 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
- Yes · next expected 1 Sept 2030
- First published
- 23 Oct 2026, 14:57 BST
- Last source update
- 23 Oct 2026, 14:57 BST
- Award evaluation window
- Submission end – 30 Nov 2026
- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-100608- Latest notice
- Tender notice (UK4)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-078f4cFind a Tender
How to participate & submission route
Official notice Submit via In-tend- Requests to participate (first stage)
- —
- Tender submission deadline
- 18 Nov 2026, 12:00 GMT
- Clarification deadline
- 11 Nov 2026, 23:59 GMT
- Submission channel
- Official e-sourcing portal
- Electronic submission
- Allowed
- Accepted languages
- en
Please upload your tender response(s) and all related documents via the supplier portal supplier.in-tend.co.uk/wnc/home ↗. Please submit by the stated deadline of 12 noon on 17th November 2026. Tenders will not be accepted after this deadline.
Timeline
23 Oct 2026 → 1 Apr 2027 · 5 dates- Tender notice published1 day ago23 Oct 2026, 14:57 BST
- Today24 Oct 2026
- Clarification questions byin 18 days11 Nov 2026, 23:59 GMT
- Submission deadlinein 25 days18 Nov 2026, 12:00 GMT
- Award decision expected byin 37 days30 Nov 2026, 23:59 GMT
- Contract startsin 158 days1 Apr 2027, 00:00 BST
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Tender notice published23 Oct 2026, 14:57 BSTUK4
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
- Bidding documents and specifications Tender documents can be accessed via the supplier portal In-tend, link supplied.
Notices published for this procedure
- Tender notice Tender notice on Find a Tender