Find a TenderPlanned procurementPipeline notice
Published 26 May 2026, 14:31 BST

Official UK procurement notice

CPU 5935 Highways Patching (Hand Lay) Framework

Authority: Nottingham City Council (Local council)

Framework agreementWorksOpen procedureAbove thresholdSME suitableVCSE suitable
Planned pipeline value£3,000,000pipeline notice, not a live tender
Tender notice expected 12 Nov 2026from the planned procurement notice
Framework period 4 yrsends 10 Jan 2031 · starts 11 Jan 2027

What is being bought

Published requirement description

Nottingham City Council will be seeking tenders from suitable and experienced suppliers for inclusion on a Framework to deliver Asphalt Patching and Hand Lay works within the boundaries of NCC.

This is a Pipeline Notice published in accordance with the Procurement Act 2023 to forewarn the market of a future tender opportunity, and does not require any action from potential bidders at this time. When the tender goes live a further notice will be published giving details. The tender will be published on the Councils e-tendering platform which can be found at www.eastmidstenders.org ↗. We advise registering on the portal to be notified directly of tenders published by the Council."

CPV: Works for complete or part construction and civil engineering work

How this framework works

From the published notice
Framework period
4 yrs from 11 Jan 2027

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published
Lot #1Planned 4 yrsSMEVCSE
Contract period: 11 Jan 2027 – 10 Jan 2031 (4 yrs)
Delivery: East MidlandsEligibility: SME eligibleVCSE eligible

Who is likely to bid for this lot ↓

What it takes to win
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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 more
What this means for your bid
  • “CPU 5935 Highways Patching (Hand Lay) Framework” is a framework: the contest is a place on its panel, not a single contract.

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

How Nottingham City Council buys Works for complete or part construction and civil engineering work (CPV 4520), and who usually turns up

Nottingham City Council’s own published record, next to the published market for the same work. This notice is a framework or DPS, so only frameworks and DPS are compared. Whole-market view: Works for complete or part construction and civil engineering work (CPV 4520) →

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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 buyerNottingham City Council · division 45
What to do with it
How often do SMEs win?
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How often small and medium firms win.

Share of awards where the winner’s size is known.

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

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 25 of 31 known-size awards · market: CPV 4520 · UK-wide, n=49
81%73%

Small firms have won here. Neither number says whether you qualify; it describes who has been winning.

How often do local suppliers win?
i

How often local firms win similar work.

Winners with a registered address in the delivery region, out of awards with a known address.

Here, local means the winner is registered in the region where that contract was delivered.

A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 18 of 32 known-location awards · market: CPV 4520 · UK-wide, n=41
56%88%

Most of this buyer’s recorded winners are registered in East Midlands.

How long to a decision?
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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.

Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 9 decided notices · market: CPV 4520 · East Midlands, n=6
63 days125 days

Half of these awards were announced within 63 days of the bid deadline.

How often single-bid or direct?
i

How often work is awarded with no recorded rival.

Direct awards and tenders where every published lot count shows one bid.

The market share is a minimum: some awards have no bid count.

Thin markets produce this too; it is not proof of a tailored specification.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: exactly 1 of 10 procurements with awards had no recorded rival · market: division 45 · East Midlands, n=58
10%7%

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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How many bids past lots received.

Each colour is a bid-count range. Only competed lots with a published count are included.

Past bids do not predict this tender.

Last 36 months.

This buyer24 lots with bid counts · broad CPV 45
8% had one bid
The market18 lots with bid counts · CPV 4520 · East Midlands
0% had one bid
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
1 bid8% / 0%
Buyer: 2 of 24 lots with published bid counts. Market: 0 of 18 lots with published bid counts.
2–338% / 6%
Buyer: 9 of 24 lots with published bid counts. Market: 1 of 18 lots with published bid counts.
4–621% / 0%
Buyer: 5 of 24 lots with published bid counts. Market: 0 of 18 lots with published bid counts.
7+33% / 94%
Buyer: 8 of 24 lots with published bid counts. Market: 17 of 18 lots with published bid counts.

How did awards compare with estimates?

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Where winning prices landed against estimates.

Each colour shows awards below, close to or above the published estimate, one lot at a time.

On a framework or DPS, prices are agreed when work is called off.

Past prices are a guide, not a bid price.

Last 36 months.

Not comparable on a framework or DPS. The notice sets up a supplier panel and a ceiling value; what the work actually costs is agreed later, on each call-off or mini-competition, and those publish as contract notices of their own. The award-vs-estimate record of this market therefore sits on the call-offs; this page shows it on the contracts, not on the panel that frames them.

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Assess each lot
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What past awards tell you about each lot.

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

Our matching links this notice to “CPU 6932 Highways Road Marking and Antiskid Framework” of this authority, but none of the 4 panel members sit in a category matching this notice.

Lot #1CPV 452048 monthsSME suitablePublished estimate£3.0m
Expected competition
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How many bids this lot may attract.

The forecast uses similar past competitions. The bar shows either that forecast or past bid counts; the line below says which.

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 18 past lots.

A forecast, not a list of bidders.

—No model forecast yet0% single-bid risk
Past bids on 18 similar lots
1 bid0%
0 of 18 similar past lots received 1 bid (0%).
2–36%
1 of 18 similar past lots received 2–3 (6%).
4–60%
0 of 18 similar past lots received 4–6 (0%).
7+94%
17 of 18 similar past lots received 7+ (94%).
Comparable past lots usually drew 109 bids.
Commercial price forecast
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Where the award price may land.

The forecast uses similar awards and the buyer’s estimate. The band covers the middle half of likely prices.

No comparable awards for this lot yet.

A statistical guide from past awards, not a price to bid.

—Priced at call-off
On a framework or DPS the price is agreed on each call-off, so there is no award price to forecast here: the published figure is a ceiling.

Who has supplied this buyer on similar work?
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Who has done similar work for this buyer.

Past contracts are matched by buyer, title and type of work.

A past supplier may not bid again.

SupplierThis buyer’s earlier contractLotAward valueWhy listed
Rhodes & Sons Construction LtdLive contractCPU 6932 Highways Road Marking and Antiskid Frameworkruns to May 2030Mastic Patching—Matched as the earlier contract
CF Construction (Collingham) LtdEarlier contractCPU 4613 Highways Resource Support Frameworknotice published Apr 2023——Matched as the earlier contract
ST Construction (Nottingham) LTDEarlier contractCPU 4613 Highways Resource Support Frameworknotice published Apr 2023——Matched as the earlier contract
Trust Utility Management LtdEarlier contractCPU 4613 Highways Resource Support Frameworknotice published Apr 2023——Matched as the earlier contract
Jordan Road SurfacingEarlier contractCPU4615 Highways Patching (Hand Lay) Frameworknotice published Mar 2023——Matched as the earlier contract

Who could compete for this lot?
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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.
  • Every figure shows what it rests on. Not every notice publishes a bid count, a value or a delivery region, so each figure carries the number of records behind it, and one built on few records is marked as such. The on a figure explains it; the counting rules are in the methodology. Spotted something wrong? Tell us.

Procedure terms & legal framework

From the official record
Procedure method
Open procedure
Legal basis
UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
Procurement category
Works
Notice status
Planned procurement
Procurement threshold
Above threshold (FTS publication)
Regulatory regime
Standard
Commercial structure
Framework agreement
Who may use this agreement
Not stated in the notice; call-off rights may be limited to the establishing authority
Competition type
Competitive procedure
GPA / WTO covered
Unspecified in notice
Recurring procurement
Unspecified in notice
First published
26 May 2026, 14:31 BST
Last source update
26 May 2026, 14:31 BST
Authority reference
CPU 5935
FTS notice number
2026/S 000-048842
Latest notice
Pipeline notice (UK1)
Classification (CPV)
Works for complete or part construction and civil engineering work
Delivery area
East Midlands (UKF14)
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06a3c7 Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice
Appointment period ends
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Timeline

26 May 2026 → 11 Jan 2027 · 3 dates
  1. Planning notice published147 days ago
    26 May 2026, 14:31 BST
  2. Today
    20 Oct 2026
  3. Tender notice expectedin 24 days
    12 Nov 2026, 23:59 GMT
  4. Contract startsin 83 days
    11 Jan 2027

Notice history

1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender
  1. Pipeline notice published
    26 May 2026, 14:31 BST
    UK1

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

Nottingham City Council

Contracting authorityPublic authority - sub-central government GB-PPON: PZGG-1891-TDCX Loxley House, Station Street, Nottingham, East Midlands, NG2 3NGContact email

Official documents & specifications (1)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure

  • Pipeline notice planningPipeline noticeUK1Pipeline notice on Find a Tender