Official UK procurement notice
De Montfort Hall Ticketing Solution - PME
Authority: Leicester City Council (Local council)
We are undertaking a Pre-Market Engagement (PME) exercise to better understand the current ticketing solutions available within the market and to explore emerging technologies and innovative approaches that could enhance future service delivery. The purpose of this engagement is to gather information from suppliers on the capabilities, functionality, and developments within the ticketing sector, including opportunities to improve user experience, operational efficiency, accessibility, reporting, integration, and digital transformation.
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionWe are undertaking a Pre-Market Engagement (PME) exercise to better understand the current ticketing solutions available within the market and to explore emerging technologies and innovative approaches that could enhance future service delivery. The purpose of this engagement is to gather information from suppliers on the capabilities, functionality, and developments within the ticketing sector, including opportunities to improve user experience, operational efficiency, accessibility, reporting, integration, and digital transformation. We are particularly interested in understanding innovative solutions, market trends, and best practice that may help inform our future procurement strategy and requirements. This engagement is for information-gathering purposes only and does not constitute a call for competition or a commitment to commence a procurement process. Supplier participation will help shape our understanding of the market and support the development of a well-informed future requirement.
CPV: Software package and information systems
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1PlannedRenewal
Pipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How Leicester City Council buys Software package and information systems (CPV 48), and who usually turns up
Leicester City 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: Software package and information systems (CPV 48) →
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.
Local means the winner is registered in the region where that award was delivered. The market figure counts awards delivered in East Midlands.
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. More of this buyer’s work stays local than in this market: 38% against 11%, n=21.
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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 83 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.
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 bid5% / 14%
2–362% / 32%
4–629% / 39%
7+5% / 14%
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 estimate50% / 64%
Within ±2%7% / 18%
Above estimate43% / 18%
Assess each lot i
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 48Published estimate£400k
This lot lists more than one class in CPV 48. The comparison uses that group.
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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 28 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid14%
2–332%
4–639%
7+14%
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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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| Retail Systems Technology LtdLive contract | 0894EVTCI - De Montfort Hall EPOS Solutionruns to Jul 2029 | De Montfort Hall EPOS Solution | £170k | Matched as the earlier contract |
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. 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.
47% 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.
47% title match.
A past supplier may not bid again.
The prior contract this notice most likely re-tenders · matched by title and category (47% title match), the holder is not guaranteed to re-bid
0894EVTCI - De Montfort Hall EPOS Solution — held by Retail Systems Technology Ltd; the published contract ends 31 Jul 2029.
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
- Above threshold (FTS publication)
- 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
- 5 Nov 2026, 12:03 GMT
- Last source update
- 5 Nov 2026, 12:03 GMT
- Authority reference
1145EVTCI- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-105120- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-07b3dcFind a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
5 Nov 2026 → 14 Jul 2027 · 4 dates- Planning notice published2 days ago5 Nov 2026, 12:03 GMT
- Today7 Nov 2026
- Market engagementin 13 days20 Nov 2026, 23:59 GMT
To participate, register your interest and complete the PME document provided. Submit your document before the deadline.
We are undertaking a Pre-Market Engagement (PME) exercise to better understand the current ticketing solutions available within the market and to explore emerging technologies and innovative approaches that could enhance future service delivery.
The purpose of this engagement is to gather information from suppliers on the capabilities, functionality, and developments within the ticketing sector, including opportunities to improve user experience, operational efficiency, accessibility, reporting, integration, and digital transformation. We are particularly interested in understanding innovative solutions, market trends, and best practice that may help inform our future procurement strategy and requirements.
This engagement is for information-gathering purposes only and does not constitute a call for competition or a commitment to commence a procurement process. Supplier participation will help shape our understanding of the market and support the development of a well-informed future requirement.
- Tender notice expectedin 85 days31 Jan 2027, 23:59 GMT
- Contract startsin 248 days14 Jul 2027, 00:00 BST
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Preliminary market engagement notice published5 Nov 2026, 12:03 GMTUK2
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 (1)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender