Official UK procurement notice
Consultant for Car Parking Strategy
Authority: Wolverhampton City Council (Local council)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThe City of Wolverhampton Council is seeking to engage the market to inform the development of a new Parking Strategy that will underpin the city's ambitions for regeneration, economic growth, and inclusive access. This strategy will align with the Council's overarching framework, 'Our City: Our Plan', and support key policies including the Good Growth Strategy, City Centre Masterplan, Local Plan, Local Transport Plan, and the 2041 Net Zero Strategy.
As there are a number of strategies this would align to, the aim is to keep the car parking strategy aims as high level as possible. Our initial thoughts would centre around the following aims:
- Align parking provision with Our City's Vision - ensuring parking supports regeneration, sustainable travel, and the city's long-term ambitions, including the rationalisation and consolidation of provision to free up land for development and public spaces.
- Deliver a parking offer that stimulates demand to support a thriving economy - providing the right type, location, and quality of parking to attract visitors, support local businesses, and enhance the city centre experience, with a particular focus on the evening and night-time economy.
- Design inclusive, accessible, and safe parking experiences - making parking fair, accessible, and welcoming for all users, with a focus on digital innovation, safety, and sustainability.
The Council is committed to embedding principles of climate action, digital transformation, and fairness throughout the strategy. The approach to developing parking strategy will be evidence-based, drawing on robust analysis of current and future parking supply and demand, benchmarking against comparable cities, and meaningful engagement with stakeholders.
CPV: Car park services · Transport systems consultancy services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedPipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How Wolverhampton City Council buys Consultative engineering and construction services (CPV 7131), and who usually turns up
Wolverhampton 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: Consultative engineering and construction services (CPV 7131) →
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How often local firms win similar work.
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A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners are registered in West Midlands.
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How long buyers here take to decide after bids close.
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Half of these awards were announced within 81 days of the bid deadline.
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Past bids do not predict this tender.
1 bid13% / 5%
2–336% / 24%
4–622% / 24%
7+29% / 46%
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 estimate22% / 37%
Within ±2%68% / 43%
Above estimate10% / 20%
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Lot #1CPV 7131Estimate not published
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1 bid5%
2–324%
4–624%
7+46%
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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.
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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
- 19 Nov 2025, 15:55 GMT
- Last source update
- 19 Nov 2025, 15:55 GMT
- Authority reference
CWC25177- FTS notice number
2025/S 000-075356- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
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How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
19 Nov 2025 → 5 Dec 2025 · 2 dates- Planning notice published335 days ago19 Nov 2025, 15:55 GMT
- Contract starts319 days ago5 Dec 2025
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Preliminary market engagement notice published19 Nov 2025, 15:55 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