Official UK procurement notice
Concession Contract for the Provision of Catering Services at Paisley Arts Centre
Authority: Renfrewshire Leisure Limited trading as OneRen
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionOneRen has a requirement to appoint an experienced, community-focused supplier to establish and grow a destination daytime café within the iconic, newly refurbished Paisley Arts Centre. OneRen are looking for a catering partner to create a vibrant hub for Renfrewshire residents, students, and local businesses, making Paisley Arts Centre a central meeting point for the community.
As part of the development process for the procurement approach, OneRen is seeking views and information from the marketplace in connection with the areas set out in this Prior Information Notice (PIN).
Market consultation is an important part of the procurement process and gives us an opportunity to consider your specialist opinion and expertise. As such, we are requesting that all interested suppliers complete the below survey by 12:00 noon on 28 November 2025.
CPV: Bar management services · Catering services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1The services to be provided will include the provision of food, drinks, and service…Planned
The services to be provided will include the provision of food, drinks, and service for the purpose-built café bar space.
The successful supplier will also operate performance bars, providing an offer for Paisley Arts Centre’s performance programme of theatre (including panto), comedy, and music.
Currently, the daytime café is open 6 days per week. However, OneRen will be open to suggestions from the successful supplier in relation to café opening days and times, but a minimum of 4 days will be required to coincide with peak times. Performance bars will be expected to be available for every programmed performance.
OneRen invites suppliers to attend an optional visit at Paisley Arts Centre to view the facilities and offers suppliers the opportunity to gain an understanding of the venue’s size, layout, and set-up, as well as gaining an understanding of the types of programmed events that take place.
Suppliers can book a viewing time, at their convenience, with OneRen’s Catering Manager, Diana West [[email protected]]. Attendance at the venue will not form part of any evaluation process if your organisation decides to submit a bid for this opportunity once published.
Pipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How Renfrewshire Leisure Limited trading as OneRen buys Catering services (CPV 5552), and who usually turns up
Renfrewshire Leisure Limited trading as OneRen has little published record in this market. Frameworks and DPS are left out: they draw different bid counts. Whole-market view: Catering services (CPV 5552) →
How the contest usually goes
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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.
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
No winner locations published for this authority. Local means a registered address 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 70 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.
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 bid13%
2–332%
4–650%
7+5%
How did awards compare with estimates?
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Where winning prices landed against estimates.
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Past prices are a guide, not a bid price.
Below estimate18%
Within ±2%42%
Above estimate40%
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No supplier is confirmed as a bidder.
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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 #1The services to be provided will include the provision of food, drinks, and service…CPV 5552Estimate not published
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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 13 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid0%
2–385%
4–615%
7+0%
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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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A past supplier may not bid again.
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A past supplier may not bid again.
No earlier contract of this buyer matches this lot on the published record.
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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.
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Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record · publisher note attached- Legal basis
- CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Planned procurement
- Procurement threshold
- Unspecified in notice
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Yes (GPA)
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 7 Nov 2025, 16:13 GMT
- Last source update
- 7 Nov 2025, 16:13 GMT
- FTS notice number
2025/S 000-072171- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
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How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
7 Nov 2025 → 15 Dec 2025 · 2 dates- Notice published355 days ago7 Nov 2025, 16:13 GMT
- Tender notice expected318 days ago15 Dec 2025
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
Official links; attachments are not copiedNo document links were published on the notice.