Official UK procurement notice
Cross-pavement charging for electric vehicles
Authority: Shropshire Council (Local council)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThe purpose of this notice is to inform potential suppliers of Shropshire Council’s intention to procure one or more suppliers to deliver, install, own and maintain embedded cross-pavement channel solutions within Shropshire. The cross-pavement channel solutions would allow residents without off-street parking to safely charge their vehicle while parked on-street.
This is a pre-market engagement exercise to aid the Council in gathering information. It is not an invitation to tender, or request for formal expressions of interest. A procurement exercise is expected at a future point in 2026.
Background
The Department for Transport has made funding available to local authorities to install cross-pavement channels, through the EV Pavement Channels Grant. Shropshire Council has a grant allocation, which can be used to help subsidise trial channel hardware and installation costs. Further details will be provided at procurement stage.
Approval was given to take forward a programme to deliver embedded cross-pavement channel solutions at a meeting of the Shropshire Cabinet on 11 March 2026.
The Council intends on appointing a suppliers to provide, install and maintain cross-pavement channels.
Interested suppliers should also be aware that the Council is also developing a programme of charge point delivery utilising funding from the Local Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (LEVI) fund. Procurement for this has not yet commenced.
Our anticipated requirements
The Council’s anticipated requirements are outlined here:
•Installed cross-pavement channel solutions will be owned by the supplier, rather than the Council or residents themselves.
•Cross-pavement channel solutions will be supplied, installed and maintained by the supplier, rather than by the Council.
•As far as reasonably possible, the Council is seeking a fully managed (turnkey) solution from resident application to installation and maintenance.
•The cross-pavement channel solution must be embedded within the pavement, fully concealing the cable below the surface of the pavement. A level surface providing no trip hazard must be maintained.
•The cross-pavement channel solution provider must request all necessary permits and permissions on behalf of residents prior to undertaking any works.
•The cross-pavement channel solution must be easy to use by the benefitting resident, and include measures to reduce the risk of tampering or misuse.
•The cross-pavement channel solution must require minimal maintenance by the benefitting resident.
•The supplier must agree to work collaboratively with the Council, including participating in monitoring and evaluation activities, and supporting promotional and publicity activities.
•A suitable warranty must be provided to the Council.
CPV: Car park building construction work · Chargers · Electrical equipment and apparatus · Electrical equipment for engines and vehicles · Electrical installation work · Rechargers · Road construction works
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedPipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How Shropshire Council buys Ballasts for discharge lamps or tubes (CPV 3115), and who usually turns up
Shropshire 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: Ballasts for discharge lamps or tubes (CPV 3115) →
How the contest usually goes
Winner shares use published awards; bid and price charts use contested lots.
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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.
Small firms have won here. Neither number says whether you qualify; it describes who has been winning.
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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 registered in West Midlands.
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.
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.
Half of these awards were announced within 26 days of the bid deadline.
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How often work is awarded with no recorded rival.
Direct awards and tenders where every published lot count shows one bid.
The buyer’s share is a minimum: some awards have no bid count.
Thin markets produce this too; it is not proof of a tailored specification.
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.
1 bid18% / 13%
2–334% / 40%
4–632% / 20%
7+16% / 27%
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.
Past prices are a guide, not a bid price.
Below estimate20% / 25%
Within ±2%71% / 63%
Above estimate9% / 13%
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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.
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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
Lot #1CPV 3115Published estimate£535k
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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 11 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid0%
2–355%
4–627%
7+18%
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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.
Who has supplied this buyer on similar work? i
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.
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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.
No earlier contract of this buyer matches this lot on the published record.
Who could compete for this lot? i
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.
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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- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Works
- 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
- 30 Apr 2026, 16:55 BST
- Last source update
- 1 May 2026, 15:13 BST
- Authority reference
DMNH 041- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-040648- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-068fbdFind a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
30 Apr 2026 → 5 Oct 2026 · 3 dates- Planning notice published173 days ago30 Apr 2026, 16:55 BST
- Market engagement151 days ago22 May 2026, 23:59 BST
Interested suppliers who wish to participate in this early market engagement exercise should:
1.Email [email protected] by Thursday 7th May at 17:00 Please start your subject header with ‘XPS PME’ followed by the name of your company. Within the email please include a copy of your standard contract terms and a copy of your installation manual. On receipt of your email we will issue you the Council’s draft technical specification. This focuses on the XPS product, installation and maintenance. The final specification will cover other activities including operations.
2.Respond to the MS Forms survey linked here by Friday the 22nd of May at 17:00 forms.office.com/e/B9GpwXxSBV ↗
The Council intends on hosting an early market engagement event in May 2026, allowing suppliers to demonstrate their solutions to Council officers whilst also responding to a series of questions that will be made available in advance. If you are interested in participating in this please indicate this in your response to the MS Forms link above.
Responses to the pre-market engagement form and follow up direct engagement will be used to help inform our specification and preferred procurement approach. If we need to seek any additional clarification or detail around a response, then we will contact the responder directly.
Suppliers will not be prejudiced in any future procurement processes by either responding or not responding to this pre-market engagement exercise.
- Contract starts16 days ago5 Oct 2026, 00:00 BST
Notice history
2 events · 2 releases on Find a Tender · since 30 Apr 2026- Preliminary market engagement notice published30 Apr 2026, 16:55 BSTUK2
- Preliminary market engagement notice published1 May 2026, 15:13 BSTUK2
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 (2)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender