Official UK procurement notice
Design, supply and install bus shelters & digital infrastructure across the Cumberland area
Authority: Cumberland Council (Local council)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionCumberland Council is seeking a contractor to design, supply and install bus shelters & digital infrastructure across the Cumberland area.
It is anticipated that the project will require (but not limited to)
- Removal of old shelters
- Site design - ensuring the most appropriate shelter and digital infrastructure design
- Supply of shelters and digital infrastructure
- Installation of shelters and digital infrastructure (some digital infrastructure maybe required on 3rd party land)
- Necessary utility connections
- Securing the necessary consents and permissions (e.g. landowner, highways (traffic management))
- Commissioning
The aim is to develop the new 'Cumberland Go' and create a sense of place, improving passenger information to encourage increased bus usage across Cumberland
Whilst the overall contract value is expected to be up to £4,500,000, the contract will be structured on a drawdown basis in line with the available funding profile.
The project will run between October 2026 - April 2028. Delivery of the phases to meet the funding profile will be April 2027; July 2027 (indicative) and April 2028.
CPV: Bus shelters · Installation of street furniture
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · value publishedLot #1PlannedPublished value£4,500,000
Pipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How Cumberland Council buys Structures and parts of structures (CPV 4421), and who usually turns up
Cumberland 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: Structures and parts of structures (CPV 4421) →
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. The market figure counts awards delivered in North West England.
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners were registered in 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 34 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 bid14% / 0%
2–332% / 40%
4–633% / 40%
7+20% / 20%
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 estimate30% / 43%
Within ±2%58% / 39%
Above estimate12% / 17%
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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 4421Published estimate£4.5m
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How many bids this lot may attract.
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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 35 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid0%
2–334%
4–640%
7+26%
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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- 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
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Yes (GPA)
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 22 May 2026, 10:52 BST
- Last source update
- 15 Jul 2026, 14:06 BST
- Award evaluation window
- Submission end – 21 Sept 2026
- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-066803- Latest notice
- Planned procurement notice (UK3)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06a08eFind a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
- 7 Sept 2026, 23:59 BST
- Electronic submission
- Allowed
- Accepted languages
- en
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Cumberland Council is fully supportive of all aspects of diversity including ethnicity, race, religion, age, disability and sexual orientation. In this respect Cumberland Council welcomes expressions of interest from ethnic minority, disabled and other diverse business communities and the voluntary sector. Economic operators are therefore required to fully comply with all statutory obligations/applicable legislation and there will be a requirement to participate in the authority's supplier audits on all aspects of diversity.
The contracting authority expressly reserves the right:
(i) not to award any contract as a result of the procurement process commenced by publication of this notice; and
(ii) to make whatever changes it may see fit to the content and structure of the tendering competition; and in no circumstances will the contracting authority be liable for any costs incurred by the candidates. Any expenditure, work or effort undertaken prior to contract award is accordingly a matter solely for the commercial judgement of potential suppliers.
The contracting authority reserve the right to use any electronic portal during the life of the agreement.
Timeline
22 May 2026 → 31 Oct 2026 · 6 dates- Planning notice published155 days ago22 May 2026, 10:52 BST
- Latest notice published101 days ago15 Jul 2026, 14:06 BST
- Tender notice expected92 days ago24 Jul 2026, 23:59 BST
- Submission deadline47 days ago7 Sept 2026, 23:59 BST
- Award decision expected by33 days ago21 Sept 2026, 23:59 BST
- Today24 Oct 2026
- Contract startsin 6 days31 Oct 2026
Notice history
7 events · 4 releases on Find a Tender · since 22 May 2026- Pipeline notice published22 May 2026, 10:52 BSTUK1
- Pipeline notice published1 Jun 2026, 16:40 BSTUK1
- Planned procurement notice published14 Jul 2026, 13:20 BSTUK3
- Procurement method changed14 Jul 2026, 13:20 BST
- Deadline published: 4 Sept 2026, 23:59 BST14 Jul 2026, 13:20 BST
- Planned procurement notice published15 Jul 2026, 14:06 BSTUK3
- Deadline moved to 7 Sept 2026, 23:59 BST15 Jul 2026, 14:06 BST+3 days · was 4 Sept 2026, 23:59 BST
Routine re-releases (4)
- 2026-05: 1 release · 22 May 2026
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 (4)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Planned procurement notice Planned procurement notice on Find a Tender
- Planned procurement notice Planned procurement notice on Find a Tender
- Pipeline notice Pipeline notice on Find a Tender
- Pipeline notice Pipeline notice on Find a Tender