Official UK procurement notice
Custom Built Event Exhibition Stands
Authority: Cardiff Metropolitan University (Education)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThe University is seeking to appoint a supplier to provide custom built event exhibition stands to support the University’s presence at large-scale Higher Education fairs and exhibitions, such as UCAS Discovery, and What Uni events across the UK.
- No preliminary market engagement: The University has a well-established understanding of the exhibition stand market through previous procurements, ongoing engagement with suppliers operating in this sector, and recent participation in relevant industry events. As a result, the University considers that sufficient market knowledge already exists to inform the procurement strategy and specification, and that publishing a Preliminary Market Engagement Notice would be unlikely to provide additional value or materially influence the design of the procurement.
CPV: Exhibition equipment
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · value publishedLot #1RenewalPublished value£350,000
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)
- Qualitative: 60%
- Commercial: 40%
Published award criteria (2)
- Qualitative
- Commercial
No conditions of participation were published on the notice; check the tender documents.
- Price carries 40 of 100 points: a 10% discount moves about 4 points. The method statement decides this lot, not the discount.
- Turnover usually expected at this size: about £349,521 (twice the annual value).
Price arithmetic assumes straight proportional scoring; the tender pack may use another formula. Turnover is an indicative market norm (≈2× annual value), not a published condition.
Competition analysis · published record, not a forecast of who will bid
How Cardiff Metropolitan University buys Miscellaneous furniture and equipment (CPV 3915), and who usually turns up
Cardiff Metropolitan University’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: Miscellaneous furniture and equipment (CPV 3915) →
How the contest usually goes
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How often small and medium firms win.
Share of awards where the winner’s size is known.
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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.
Local means the winner is registered in the region where that award was delivered.
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners were registered outside the region where that award was delivered.
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How long buyers here take to decide after bids close.
Middle value in days from the bid deadline to the award date, on competitions that published both.
Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.
Half of these awards have an award date within 31 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.
Both shares are minimums: some awards have no bid count.
Thin markets produce this too; it is not proof of a tailored specification.
Direct awards or one recorded bid are common here. Check the route before spending time on a bid.
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 bid25%
2–338%
4–638%
7+0%
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 estimate17% / 40%
Within ±2%33% / 40%
Above estimate50% / 20%
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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 3915Published estimate£350k
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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 230 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid9%
2–323%
4–638%
7+30%
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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.
| Supplier | This buyer’s earlier contract | Lot | Award value | Why listed |
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| 4Matix LtdEarlier contract | Provision of Custom Exhibition Standsnotice published Sept 2023 | — | £400k | Matched as the earlier contract |
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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.
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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. Contracts Finder contracts appear on the Retender Radar, not yet in these figures.
- 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.
What this replaces i
Who has done similar work for this buyer.
Past contracts are matched by buyer, title and type of work.
53% title match.
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.
53% title match.
A past supplier may not bid again.
The prior contract this notice most likely re-tenders · matched by title and category (53% title match), the holder is not guaranteed to re-bid
Provision of Custom Exhibition Stands — held by 4Matix Ltd; no contract end date published.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Procedure method
- Open procedure
- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Goods
- Notice status
- Open for tender
- Procurement threshold
- Above threshold (FTS publication)
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Yes (GPA, CPTPP)
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 5 Nov 2026, 12:50 GMT
- Last source update
- 5 Nov 2026, 12:50 GMT
- Award evaluation window
- Submission end – 18 Dec 2026
- Authority reference
ITT/26/23- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-105167- Latest notice
- Tender notice (UK4)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-07b3fbFind a Tender
How to participate & submission route
Official notice Submit via In-tend- Requests to participate (first stage)
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- Tender submission deadline
- 4 Dec 2026, 12:00 GMT
- Clarification deadline
- 1 Dec 2026, 12:00 GMT
- Submission channel
- Official e-sourcing portal
- Electronic submission
- Allowed
- Accepted languages
- en, cy
This tender is being conducted fully electronically via the University's 'In-Tend' e-tender portal. All tender documentation will be issued via this portal and all bidder's tender returns must also be submitted via the portal.
Cardiff Met Intend e-tender portal website address: supplier.in-tend.co.uk/cardiffmet/home ↗.
All communications issued by the University in relation to this process will be sent via the portal to the email address provided by interested parties as part of their registration. In considering which email address to use, the University strongly recommends that suppliers register a generic or shared email account. This will help to ensure continuity of communication and mitigate the risk of missed correspondence that may occur during the tendering process.
Timeline
5 Nov 2026 → 25 Jan 2027 · 5 dates- Tender notice published14h ago5 Nov 2026, 12:50 GMT
- Today6 Nov 2026
- Clarification questions byin 25 days1 Dec 2026, 12:00 GMT
- Submission deadlinein 28 days4 Dec 2026, 12:00 GMT
- Award decision expected byin 42 days18 Dec 2026, 23:59 GMT
- Contract startsin 79 days25 Jan 2027
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Tender notice published5 Nov 2026, 12:50 GMTUK4
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Nothing awarded yet- 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 (1)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Tender notice Tender notice on Find a Tender