Official UK procurement notice
Contract for the Provision of a Right to Light Consultant Surveyor
Authority: Northumberland County Council (Local council)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionNorthumberland County Council are seeking to appoint a Right to Light Consultant Surveyor to provide professional Right to Light services relating to any Right to Light claims made by potentially affected neighbouring property owners near the new Maltings Theatre development at Eastern Lane in Berwick-upon-Tweed.
The appointed consultant shall investigate the potential impact of each claim and provide an estimated value on the compensation payable for any loss of light.
CPV: Architectural, engineering and surveying services · Building surveying services · Surveying services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · value publishedLot #1Lot 1RenewalPublished value£72,000
- Value
- £72,000 exc. VAT · £72,000 inc. VAT
- Extensions
- 2 Extensions are available in increments of 12 months. Subject to further requirements and performance.
What it takes to wini
How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
Evaluation split and conditions of participation as published — the tender pack may add morei
How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
Published sub-criteria (2)
- Quality — 70%
- Total Price — 30%
Published award criteria (2)
- Total Price — The Authority will give the lowest price submission 30% of the marks and will use the following methodology to evaluate the remaining offers: Lowest total contract Price x Maximum price score 30% Quotations total contract price
- Quality — Suppliers responses to 3 questions will be evaluated by the authority evaluation panel and a score given for each. The score will be divided by the total score available (5). The total sum in each section will then be multiplied by the weighted criteria to create a total score. The 70% includes social value at 5%
No conditions of participation were published on the notice; check the tender documents.
Competition analysis · published record, not a forecast of who will bid
How Northumberland County Council buys Consultative engineering and construction services (CPV 7131) — and who usually turns up
Northumberland County Council’s own published record, next to the North East England 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) →
How the contest usually goes
Left: this authority. Right: the market where the work is delivered. Bids and award-vs-estimate pairs are per lot, from contested contracts only — direct awards (including PA 2023 transparency notices) report one bid by definition and are left out. On Procurement Act 2023 notices the count is the tenders assessed at the final stage, not every submission received; pairs compare like with like (VAT-exclusive, or VAT-inclusive on both sides). Empty means nothing was published, not filled in from elsewhere.
Northumberland County Council
contract notices in 36 months: 1 in CPV 7131 (1 without competition) · 4 in division 71 (2 without competition · 1 route not published) · 104 in all categories (18 without competition · 11 route not published)
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How many companies usually bid for work like this.
Middle value of published bid counts, one per lot, for this buyer or this region in the same sector.
Based on this buyer’s tenders in all categories, last 36 months: 27 lots. 6 lots are from Procurement Act 2023 notices (bids assessed, middle 5) and 21 from older notices (bids received, middle 3).
Nothing is filled in from UK-wide numbers. An empty tile means nothing usable was published.
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How often only one company bid.
Share of lots that received exactly one bid, on the same competitions as the bids figure.
Based on this buyer’s tenders in all categories, last 36 months: 27 lots.
High means a thin market or an incumbent that is hard to beat.
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Do awards for work like this land above or below the estimate.
Estimate against award per lot, for this buyer or this region in the same sector.
Based on this buyer’s tenders in all categories, last 36 months: 32 pairs.
A past pattern, not a price to bid.
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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.
Based on this buyer’s tenders in all categories, last 36 months: 7 notices.
Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.
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How often this buyer changes a notice after publishing it.
Middle number of amendments per notice. Deadline extensions and corrections both count.
Based on this buyer’s tenders in all categories, last 24 months: 138 notices.
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How often this buyer awards without a competition.
Direct or limited awards as a share of its notices that say which procedure was used. These routes are legal in defined cases. This is just the record.
Based on this buyer’s tenders in this industry (CPV 71), last 36 months: 3 notices.
North East England · Consultative engineering and construction services (CPV 7131)
contract notices delivered in North East England in 36 months: 162 in CPV 7131 (93 competed, 33 route not published) · 376 in division 71 (234 competed, 64 route not published)
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How many companies usually bid for work like this.
Middle value of published bid counts, one per lot, for this buyer or this region in the same sector.
Based on this region’s tenders in this sector (CPV 7131), last 36 months: 72 lots. 52 lots are from Procurement Act 2023 notices (bids assessed, middle 10) and 20 from older notices (bids received, middle 3.5).
Nothing is filled in from UK-wide numbers. An empty tile means nothing usable was published.
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How often only one company bid.
Share of lots that received exactly one bid, on the same competitions as the bids figure.
Based on this region’s tenders in this sector (CPV 7131), last 36 months: 72 lots.
High means a thin market or an incumbent that is hard to beat.
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Do awards for work like this land above or below the estimate.
Estimate against award per lot, for this buyer or this region in the same sector.
Based on this region’s tenders in this sector (CPV 7131), last 36 months: 29 pairs.
A past pattern, not a price to bid.
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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.
Based on this region’s tenders in this sector (CPV 7131), last 36 months: 29 notices.
Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.
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How much of this market goes to small and medium firms.
SME bidders where buyers published the split, otherwise SME winners.
Based on this region’s tenders in this sector (CPV 7131), last 36 months: 61 lots.
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How much work like this goes to companies based in the delivery region.
Awards in this category delivered here where the winner’s registered address is in the region.
Based on this region’s tenders in this sector (CPV 7131), last 36 months: 88 awards.
Registered address, so a national firm with a local branch counts as outside.
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Where this tender’s estimate would land if the usual pattern repeats.
We apply the buyer’s usual movement between estimate and award (or the region’s) to the estimate on this notice.
Based on this buyer’s own usual movement over 32 lots (all categories), applied to the £72,000 estimate on this notice.
A benchmark, not a price to bid.
Coverage and what to read with care
- Each tile explains itself. The on a figure says what it is, how it is counted and which scope this notice’s own record came from (class, division, all categories, or the authority’s 24-month row). The two columns are never blended and nothing is filled from a UK-wide figure; an empty tile means the source published nothing usable. Long form: Methodology.
- Coverage. Roughly 40 % of notices publish a bid count; about half publish an ITL1 delivery location, so the market column reads the authority’s registered region when the notice has none (labelled). About 30 % of award-vs-estimate pairs are exact matches — the buyer published the award at the estimate. n is on every figure; a thin sample is muted, never hidden.
- “Match” and “relevance” are model scores from the nightly matcher, not published facts. Find a Tender does not publish who is bidding. Never shown: contact details, payment behaviour, or a recommended price.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Procedure method
- Below threshold - open competition
- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Open for tender
- 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
- No (one-off requirement)
- First published
- 25 Sept 2026, 09:55 BST
- Last source update
- 25 Sept 2026, 09:55 BST
- Authority reference
NCC2011- Latest notice
- Tender notice (UK4)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-077a24Find a Tender
How to participate & submission route
Official notice Submit via OPEN-UK- Expression of interest (EOI)
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- Tender submission deadline
- 14 Oct 2026, 12:00 BST
- Clarification deadline
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- Submission channel
- Official e-sourcing portal
- Electronic submission
- Allowed
Timeline
3 published dates · Europe/London- Tender notice publishedearlier today25 Sept 2026, 09:55 BST
- Submission deadlinein 19 days14 Oct 2026, 12:00 BST
- Contract startsin 38 days2 Nov 2026, 00:00 GMT
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Nothing awarded yet- Awards (0)
- No award published
- Contracts (0)
- No contract published
- Bid statistics
- No aggregate bid statistics published
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Tender notice published25 Sept 2026, 09:55 BSTUK4
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Official documents & specifications (1)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Tender notice Tender notice on Find a Tender