plannedFind a Tender · planning Update

Core Surfacing 2027-2031

BuyerCumberland Council

Statusplanned

DeadlineNot published

Value£75,000,000

Published14 Apr 2026

What is being bought

Core Highway Surfacing works, covering the delivery of significant resurfacing and maintenance works across the council's highways network. The contract is to be a single supplier works contract for large scale, machine laid surfacing and associated civil engineering works. Delivery of highway surfacing schemes across the Cumberland area Maintenance and repair of existing highways Inlay, overlay, and full/partial reconstruction Associated civil engineering works Road marking replacements Traffic management Duration is for up to 6 years. Initial period of 4 years with the option to extend for up to two further periods of 1 year each.

Delivery location

UKD1, GB

Lot details

Lot 1

No lot description published.

Statusplanned

Contract periodFrom 1 Apr 2027 to 31 Mar 2031

SME suitabilitySuitable for SMEs

What is included

Item	Category	Quantity
1	Construction work	Not published

Comparable-procurement analytics

Benchmarked against retained Find a Tender procedures with CPV division 45. The category anchor is Construction work (45000000); 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 45	8,126	4 median · 23.8 average (1,610 of 8,126 with a bid count)	3.6 average (1,774 of 8,126 with named award suppliers)	Not published
Same buyer	8	Not published	Not published	Not published
Delivery region: UKD1	19	1 median · 10.3 average (9 of 19 with a bid count)	4.1 average (9 of 19 with named award suppliers)	Not published
Similar published value (0.5×–2×)	389	4 median · 119.8 average (5 of 389 with a bid count)	11.6 average (5 of 389 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.

Price-outcome signal

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.

Procurement strategy & market signals

Framework agreementNot published

Dynamic purchasing systemNot published

Competitive procurementNot published

Recurring requirementNot published

Procurement method rationaleNot published

Rationale classificationsNot published

Special regimeNot published

Covered byNot published

Submission policyNot published

Selection criteriaNot published

Risk detailsNot published

Planning & early market engagement

BudgetValue not published

No-engagement rationaleNot published

Planning documents1

Planning milestones0

No planning milestones published.

Related procurements

No linked framework, prior procurement or reprocurement published.

Documents & submission route

Pipeline notice on Find a Tender planning · plannedProcurementNotice

Source data inventory

Diagnostic view. “Not published” means this current release does not provide a value.

OCID	ocds-h6vhtk-068102
Latest release ID	033686-2026
Latest release timestamp	Tue Apr 14 2026 10:58:16 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Source	find-a-tender
Official notice URL	Not published
Tender status	planned
Procurement method	open
Procurement method details	Open procedure
Main procurement category	works
Above threshold	Yes
Legal basis	2023/54
Tender period: start	Not published
Tender period: end	Not published
Expression of interest deadline	Not published
Enquiry deadline	Not published
Award period: start	Not published
Award period: end	Not published
Submission method details	Not published
Submission languages	Not published
Electronic catalogue policy	Not published
Total tender value	£75,000,000
Tender lots in source	1
Tender items in source	1
Tender documents in source	0
Awards in latest release	0
Contracts in latest release	0
Parties in latest release	1

Notice history

Date	Event	Reference
14 Apr 2026	planningUpdate	033686-2026
13 Apr 2026	planning	033270-2026

All source data

Unmodified official OCDS data retained by Tenderline for this procurement process.

Complete current OCDS release JSON

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Complete JSON history (2 releases)

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