Official UK procurement notice
Catering Trailer at Pembrey Country Park
Authority: Carmarthenshire County Council (Local council)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionCarmarthenshire County Council wishes to procure a catering trailer at Pembrey Country Park.
We are seeking expressions of interest from suppliers who can provide a catering trailer for delivery by 01/03/2026, with a maximum budget of net £35000.
Please see specification below:
- Internal body measurements of approx.. 4.3M long x 2.13M wide x 2.08M high (14' x 7' x 6'9").
- 35mm High gloss white 5-element GRP composite lightweight ultra strong body panels and roof
- Tandem axle Trailer with 2600Kg Gross Running Gear
- 22mm thick 5-element solid lockable gas box to hold 2 x 19Kg gas bottles
- 5-Lever Locks to all doors and hatches for added security
- Approved Heavy duty Galvanised Chassis
- One Standard Hatch
- Wheel arch infill covers
- 230 Volt Mains pack (inc 2x Double Sockets and 2x water resistant 4' Fluorescent Lights) 230 volt water heater
- 230 / 12 Volt pressure sensitive water pump
- Cold water manual boiler fill.
- Non-slip lino covering over chemical resistant flooring
- Stainless steel worktops heavy duty
- Recessed Customer Shelving
- Stainless steel sinks x2
- One Double Door Cupboard under sink area
- Fold up hatch with signboard
- 16Amp Mains Lead
- 25 Ltr Fresh water container
- 23 Ltr Waste water container
- Road Lighting to E.U. Standard
- 12 Month N.I.C.E.I.C Electrical Installation Safety Certificate
- 12 month 'Gas Safe' Safety Certificate
- TWO year parts warranty on materials
- ONE year labour warranty on trailer
- Ventilation hood with grease filters
- Roof Vents
Catering Equipment
- Glass fronted under counter fridges * 2 double
- Griddle
- Double Fryer
- Freezer
- Hot water heater
Desirable
- Coffee machine
- Tall Fridge
CPV: Catering equipment · Vehicle bodies, trailers or semi-trailers
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedPipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How Carmarthenshire County Council buys Catering equipment (CPV 3931), and who usually turns up
Carmarthenshire County 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: Catering equipment (CPV 3931) →
How the contest usually goes
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How often small and medium firms win.
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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.
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Local means the winner is registered in the region where that award was delivered.
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.
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Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.
Half of these awards have an award date within 42 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.
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How many bids did past lots attract?
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How many bids past lots received.
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Past bids do not predict this tender.
1 bid11% / 0%
2–347% / 0%
4–65% / 89%
7+37% / 11%
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 estimate30% / 50%
Within ±2%50% / 17%
Above estimate20% / 33%
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What past awards tell you about each lot.
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No supplier is confirmed as a bidder.
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Lot #1CPV 3931Published estimate£35k
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How many bids this lot may attract.
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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 28 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid4%
2–332%
4–657%
7+7%
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Where the award price may land.
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No comparable awards for this lot yet.
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Who has supplied this buyer on similar work? i
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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.
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Who could compete for this lot?
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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
- Goods
- 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
- 8 Jan 2026, 09:28 GMT
- Last source update
- 8 Jan 2026, 09:28 GMT
- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-001276- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-060174Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
8 Jan 2026 → 20 Jan 2026 · 4 dates- Planning notice published293 days ago8 Jan 2026, 09:28 GMT
- Market engagement288 days ago12 Jan 2026, 23:59 GMT
Please email [email protected] to express an interest in this opportunity by 14:00 on Monday 12th January 2026.
- Tender notice expected284 days ago16 Jan 2026, 23:59 GMT
- Contract starts281 days ago20 Jan 2026
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Preliminary market engagement notice published8 Jan 2026, 09:28 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