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Published 30 Sept 2026, 16:46 BST

Official UK procurement notice

Corporate Laptop Refresh Programme - Market Engagement

Official notice
Competition analysis

Authority: Milton Keynes Council (Local council)

GoodsSME suitable
Sectors: Office and computing machinery, equipment and supplies except furniture and software packages (30) Delivery: South East (UKJ12)
Planned pipeline valueValue not publishedpipeline notice, not a live tender
Tender notice expected 1 Dec 2026from the planned procurement notice
Contract term 6 moends 2 Jul 2027 · starts 4 Jan 2027
Notice summaryFrom the published notice

Milton Keynes City Council (the Council) is undertaking an Early Market Engagement exercise with suppliers to obtain market intelligence and supplier feedback to inform the Council's procurement strategy for the replacement of approximately 1,600 corporate laptops. This market engagement is intended solely to gather information and feedback from the market.

What is being bought

Published requirement description

Milton Keynes City Council (the Council) is undertaking an Early Market Engagement exercise with suppliers to obtain market intelligence and supplier feedback to inform the Council's procurement strategy for the replacement of approximately 1,600 corporate laptops. This market engagement is intended solely to gather information and feedback from the market. It is not a call for competition, invitation to tender, pre-qualification exercise or a commitment by the Council to undertake any procurement or award any contract. Any future procurement opportunity will be advertised separately and conducted through an appropriate procurement process.

Suppliers that would like to take part in this market engagement process are invited to "Express Interest" on Council's e-tendering portal, InTend, supplier.in-tend.co.uk/milton-keynes/home ↗ upon which they will be given access to the market engagement documentation.

Deadline for submissions of the supplier response will be 12 noon; 14 October 2026.

Any questions relating to this market engagement should be made via InTend correspondence.

CPV: Personal computers · Portable computers

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published
Lot #1Planned 6 moSME
Contract period: 4 Jan 2027 – 2 Jul 2027 (6 mo)
Delivery: South EastEligibility: SME eligible
30213000 Personal computers30213100 Portable computers

Who is likely to bid for this lot ↓

Pipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published

How Milton Keynes Council buys Data-processing machines (hardware) (CPV 3021), and who usually turns up

Milton Keynes 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: Data-processing machines (hardware) (CPV 3021) →

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How the contest usually goes

Winner shares use published awards; bid and price charts use contested lots.

Question for the bid
This buyerMilton Keynes Council · division 30
The marketData-processing machines (hardware) (CPV 3021)
What to do with it
How often do SMEs win?
i

The counts under this question show how many awards have a known supplier size.

Buyer: 0 of 3 known-size awards · market: CPV 3021 · South East England, n=13
0 of 331%

No small-firm winners recorded among this authority’s published awards in this sample.

How often do local suppliers win?
i

Local means the winner is registered in the region where that award was delivered. The market figure counts awards delivered in South East England.

Buyer: 849 of 897 known-location awards · market: CPV 3021 · South East England, n=13
95%31%

Most of this buyer’s recorded winners were registered in the region where that award was delivered.

How long to a decision?
i
Buyer: 16 decided notices · market: CPV 3021 · UK-wide, n=9
80 days25 days

Half of these awards have an award date within 80 days of the bid deadline.

How often single-bid or direct?
i

Both shares are minimums: some awards have no bid count.

Buyer: at least 66 of 899 procurements with awards had no recorded rival · market: CPV 3021 · South East England, n=20
7%25%

Missing bid counts may hide more single-bid awards. This share is a minimum.

How many bids did past lots attract?

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This buyer883 lots with bid counts · all categories
7% had one bid
The market17 lots with bid counts · CPV 3021 · UK-wide
12% had one bid
% of lots with a published bid count: this buyer (883) / the market (17) · select a colour for counts
1 bid7% / 12%
Buyer: 64 of 883 lots with published bid counts. Market: 2 of 17 lots with published bid counts.
2–39% / 18%
Buyer: 83 of 883 lots with published bid counts. Market: 3 of 17 lots with published bid counts.
4–69% / 6%
Buyer: 82 of 883 lots with published bid counts. Market: 1 of 17 lots with published bid counts.
7+74% / 65%
Buyer: 654 of 883 lots with published bid counts. Market: 11 of 17 lots with published bid counts.

How did awards compare with estimates?

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This buyer46 lots with estimate and award · all categories
41% below estimate
The market10 lots with estimate and award · CPV 3021 · UK-wide
50% below estimate
% of lots with an estimate and award: this buyer (46) / the market (10) · select a colour for counts
Below estimate41% / 50%
Buyer: 19 of 46 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 5 of 10 lots with an estimate and award.
Within ±2%33% / 40%
Buyer: 15 of 46 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 4 of 10 lots with an estimate and award.
Above estimate26% / 10%
Buyer: 12 of 46 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 1 of 10 lots with an estimate and award.
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Assess each lot
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Open a lot for its forecast, this buyer’s previous supplier and possible competitors, from published award history, not a bid list

Lot #1CPV 30216 monthsSME suitableEstimate not published
Expected competition
i

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 17 past lots.

—No model forecast yet12% chance of a single bid
Past bids on 17 similar lots
1 bid12%
2 of 17 similar past lots received 1 bid (12%).
2–318%
3 of 17 similar past lots received 2–3 (18%).
4–66%
1 of 17 similar past lots received 4–6 (6%).
7+65%
11 of 17 similar past lots received 7+ (65%).
Comparable past lots usually drew 7 bids.
Commercial price forecast
i

No comparable awards for this lot yet.

—Estimate not published
The buyer published no estimate for this lot, so there is nothing to forecast against. A price prediction here would be a number about a number we do not have.

Who has supplied this buyer on similar work?
i

No earlier contract of this buyer matches this lot on the published record.

Who could compete for this lot?
i

Candidate suppliers for this notice have not been worked out yet, so this is not a verdict that nobody fits.

About this data
  • Estimates, labelled. The price range, possible competitors and earlier-work matches are our estimates from past awards, not published facts, win chances or price advice. The buyer’s own record and the wider market are shown apart, never mixed.
  • Source. Official UK public procurement notices (Find a Tender and Contracts Finder), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0, updated through the day and rebuilt nightly. Not every figure uses both feeds, and each one shows how many records it rests on: see the methodology. Spotted something wrong? Tell us.

Coming up in this sector

Contracts ending within 12 months · Retender Radar, sector filter set

Contracts ending in Office and computing machinery, equipment and supplies except furniture and software packagesRetender Radar, CPV 30: incumbents and end dates for the next 12 months

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
Unspecified in notice
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
30 Sept 2026, 16:46 BST
Last source update
30 Sept 2026, 16:46 BST
Authority reference
2026-268
FTS notice number
2026/S 000-092571
Latest notice
Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
Classification (CPV)
Personal computersPortable computers
Delivery area
South East (UKJ12)
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-077e0d Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice
Submission deadline
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Timeline

30 Sept 2026 → 4 Jan 2027 · 4 dates
  1. Planning notice published45 days ago
    30 Sept 2026, 16:46 BST
  2. Market engagement31 days ago
    14 Oct 2026, 23:59 BST

    Market Engagement document is available at the Council's e-tendering portal, InTend, supplier.in-tend.co.uk/milton-keynes/home ↗.

  3. Today
    15 Nov 2026
  4. Tender notice expectedin 16 days
    1 Dec 2026, 23:59 GMT
  5. Contract startsin 49 days
    4 Jan 2027

Notice history

1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender
  1. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    30 Sept 2026, 16:46 BST
    UK2

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

Milton Keynes City Council

Contracting authorityPublic authority - sub-central government GB-PPON: PLDZ-6131-PWZH Civic Offices, 1 Saxon Gate East, Milton Keynes, South East, MK9 3EJContact name, email, phone

Official documents & specifications (1)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure