Official UK procurement notice
Bus Passenger Shelter Advertising Concession
Authority: Newport City Council (Local council)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionDue to the forthcoming expiration of the Council’s existing passenger shelter advertising concession, the Council will be looking to invite tenders in due course for the grant of a fifteen year concession, extendable for a further 5 years by mutual consent, allowing the provision and maintenance of “advertising bus passenger shelters” and Information Panels within the City of Newport.
CPV: Advertising and marketing services · Sales or marketing software package · Trade-advertising material, commercial catalogues and manuals
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedPipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How Newport City Council buys Advertising and marketing services (CPV 7934), and who usually turns up
Newport City Council’s own published record, next to the published market for the same work. Frameworks and DPS are kept out: they attract a different number of bids. Whole-market view: Advertising and marketing services (CPV 7934) →
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.
Here, local means registered in Wales (Cymru).
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners are registered outside Wales (Cymru).
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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.
Half of these awards were announced within 58 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 bid50% / 9%
2–317% / 30%
4–617% / 35%
7+17% / 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 estimate29% / 21%
Within ±2%57% / 53%
Above estimate14% / 26%
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 7934Published estimate£50k
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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 23 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid9%
2–330%
4–635%
7+26%
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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
- Below threshold
- 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
- 11 Nov 2025, 19:19 GMT
- Last source update
- 11 Nov 2025, 19:19 GMT
- FTS notice number
2025/S 000-072979- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-05df18Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
11 Nov 2025 → 1 Jul 2026 · 4 dates- Planning notice published344 days ago11 Nov 2025, 19:19 GMT
- Market engagement334 days ago21 Nov 2025, 23:59 GMT
Due to the forthcoming expiration of the Council’s existing passenger shelter advertising concession, the Council is inviting tenders for the grant of a fifteen year concession, extendable for a further 5 years by mutual consent, allowing the provision and maintenance of “advertising bus passenger shelters” and Information Panels within the City of Newport. It is anticipated the concession would commence in July 2026 .
There is an extensive network of bus services operating in Newport, which has a population of approximately 160,000 largely concentrated in the urban area of the city but also with extensive links across authority borders.
The new agreement will cover a range of sites as follows:
(i) There are currently 80 Advertising Shelters within the city that are or have been occupied by advertising shelters in accordance with the agreement referred to above.
(ii) There are also 80 Non advertising Shelters which were provided as part of the existing contract
(iii) There are many other shelters and stops within the city that do not have the benefits afforded by the provision of a shelter of any type which could be considered attractive for advertising purposes.
(iv) There are also currently 11 Council information and Advertising panels in the City Centre. These are internally illuminated.
The Council anticipates that most if not all of the stop locations with existing advertisement,non advertising shelters and Council information boards will be included in the new agreement but all existing shelters and Information boards at the locations are owned by the current contract provider so any new provider would need to provide their own provision.
The Council will welcome proposals to install advertisement shelters at other bus stops, subject to Traffic Management, Planning and Advertising Permissions being made available and also towards the use of Digital displays where these are practicable.
The Council is seeking expressions of interest from parties able to deliver this concession for the period stated. Please either confirm your expression of interest or contact [email protected] to register your interest in the upcoming tender event.
- Tender notice expected310 days ago15 Dec 2025, 23:59 GMT
- Contract starts113 days ago1 Jul 2026, 00:00 BST
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Preliminary market engagement notice published11 Nov 2025, 19:19 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