Lot 1
No lot description published.
Award criteria
None as this is a Pre Market Engagement Exercise — Pre Market Engagement only
Buyer: Translink →
View official notice ↗Official source
Translink is undertaking a Pre-Market Engagement exercise (PME) that seeks input from the market to inform the upcoming procurement for Bus Shelter contract management. NOTE: This is not a call for tender. Instructions for participants which is available from the “CFT Documents” area of eTendersNI. Your response to this market engagement questionnaire MUST BE submitted as an attachment via the secure messaging function of the CfT.
UKN, GB
No lot description published.
Award criteria
None as this is a Pre Market Engagement Exercise — Pre Market Engagement only
| Item | Category | Quantity |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bus shelters, Construction materials and associated items, Goods used in construction, Structures and parts of structures, Advertising services | Not published |
Benchmarked against retained Find a Tender procedures with CPV division 44. The category anchor is Construction materials and associated items (44100000); this is a deliberately broad market comparator. The comparison is shown at several levels rather than pretending one company or region is always the best benchmark.
| Comparison set | Procedures | Reported bids per procedure | Named award suppliers | Price evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Market: CPV division 44 | 2,014 | 6 median · 43 average (569 of 2,014 with a bid count) | 6 average (626 of 2,014 with named award suppliers) | Not published |
| Same buyer | 1 | Not published | Not published | Not published |
| Delivery region: UKN | 43 | 7.5 median · 20.2 average (14 of 43 with a bid count) | 3.3 average (22 of 43 with named award suppliers) | Not published |
| Similar published value (0.5×–2×) | 176 | 3 median · 3 average (1 of 176 with a bid count) | 1 average (1 of 176 with named award suppliers) | Not published |
“Reported bids” is an official aggregate, sometimes reported per lot; it is the closest available competition measure. “Named award suppliers” are winners, not all applicants.
Not enough comparable procedures currently publish both a GBP tender value and a usable lowest-valid-bid value to calculate a responsible price-reduction benchmark. Tenderline deliberately does not infer a saving from named award suppliers or from missing award values.
No planning milestones published.
No linked framework, prior procurement or reprocurement published.
Diagnostic view. “Not published” means this current release does not provide a value.
| OCID | ocds-h6vhtk-068fd0 |
|---|---|
| Latest release ID | 040202-2026 |
| Latest release timestamp | Thu Apr 30 2026 17:38:13 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) |
| Source | find-a-tender |
| Official notice URL | https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/040202-2026 |
| Tender status | active |
| Procurement method | selective |
| Procurement method details | Competitive flexible procedure |
| Main procurement category | services |
| Above threshold | Yes |
| Legal basis | 2023/54 |
| Tender period: start | Not published |
| Tender period: end | 2026-06-10T12:00:00+01:00 |
| Expression of interest deadline | Not published |
| Enquiry deadline | 2026-05-15T12:00:00+01:00 |
| Award period: start | Not published |
| Award period: end | 2027-04-01T23:59:59+01:00 |
| Submission method details | denise.gordon@translink.co.uk |
| Submission languages | en |
| Electronic catalogue policy | Not published |
| Total tender value | £500,000 |
| Tender lots in source | 1 |
| Tender items in source | 1 |
| Tender documents in source | 2 |
| Awards in latest release | 0 |
| Contracts in latest release | 0 |
| Parties in latest release | 1 |
| Date | Event | Reference |
|---|---|---|
| 30 Apr 2026 | tender | 040202-2026 |
Unmodified official OCDS data retained by Tenderline for this procurement process.
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