Official UK procurement notice
Design Supply and install Junior Play Area - Kynaston Rd
Authority: Shrewsbury Town Council (Local council)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionTenders are invited for the refurbishment of the existing play at Kynaston Road, Shrewsbury SY1 3JR
Background
A list of essential equipment is stated in this document and includes inclusive play equipment for all abilities from the ages of 6 through to 12, (see individual site specifications).
The main objectives of the project are to:
(i) Improve the variety of play equipment on site
(ii) Increase playing space on the site
(iii) Provide residents with a safe place to play
Budget
An estimated Budget has been set for this project of £85K
CPV: Landscaping work for playgrounds · Roundabouts, swings, shooting galleries and other fairground amusements
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · value publishedLot #1Lot 1Published value£85,000
- Value
- £85,000 exc. VAT · £102,000 inc. VAT
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).
Evaluation and awarding of the contract The contract will be awarded to the company that complies with all written requirements, has satisfactory references and offers the best value of service. The play value scoring matrix is attached below is to be used, this will be checked by officers to confirm figures are correct and appropriate. Guarantees and warranties will be assessed on their own merit to ensure ongoing maintenance is kept to a minimum. Shrewsbury Town Council may require further information from the tenderer after the submission deadline, if this occurs the Operations Manager will contact the nominated person named in the tenderer questionnaire. The Contract will be evaluated on the following basis. Play Value 20% • Activity count • Capacity of play area • Additional value Price 20% • Ability to stick budget • Discounts applied Inclusive Play Elements 20% • Knowledge of inclusive play items • Activity count • Recognition of hidden needs (autism, sensory, neurodiverse etc) • Ensuring inclusive items are exclusively for the disabled Guarantees and Warranties 20% • Length of Play equipment guarantees • Length of safety surface warrantees • Length of Installation warrantees Capability 20% • Providing an achievable timescale proposal • Ability to complete project to expect timescales • Qualifications for installation teams
No conditions of participation were published on the notice; check the tender documents.
Competition analysis · published record, not a forecast of who will bid
Building demolition and wrecking work and earthmoving work (CPV 4511) in West Midlands — and who usually turns up
Shrewsbury Town Council has too little published record in this market to describe on its own; the West Midlands market stands beside whatever it has. Frameworks and DPS are kept out: they attract a different number of bids. Whole-market view: Building demolition and wrecking work and earthmoving work (CPV 4511) →
How the contest usually goes
Left: this authority. Right: the market where the work is delivered. Bids and award-vs-estimate pairs are per lot, from contested contracts only — direct awards (including PA 2023 transparency notices) report one bid by definition and are left out. On Procurement Act 2023 notices the count is the tenders assessed at the final stage, not every submission received; pairs compare like with like (VAT-exclusive, or VAT-inclusive on both sides). Empty means nothing was published, not filled in from elsewhere.
Shrewsbury Town Council
contract notices in 36 months: 1 in CPV 4511 · 3 in division 45 · 10 in all categories
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How many companies usually bid for work like this.
Middle value of published bid counts, one per lot, for this buyer or this region in the same sector.
Nothing published for this buyer in this sector: no bid reports published.
Nothing is filled in from UK-wide numbers. An empty tile means nothing usable was published.
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How often only one company bid.
Share of lots that received exactly one bid, on the same competitions as the bids figure.
Nothing published for this buyer in this sector: no bid reports published.
High means a thin market or an incumbent that is hard to beat.
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Do awards for work like this land above or below the estimate.
Estimate against award per lot, for this buyer or this region in the same sector.
Nothing published for this buyer in this sector: no comparable estimate → award pairs.
A past pattern, not a price to bid.
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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.
Nothing published for this buyer in this sector: no award dates published.
Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.
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How often this buyer changes a notice after publishing it.
Middle number of amendments per notice. Deadline extensions and corrections both count.
Based on this buyer’s tenders in all categories, last 24 months: 10 notices.
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How often this buyer awards without a competition.
Direct or limited awards as a share of its notices that say which procedure was used. These routes are legal in defined cases. This is just the record.
Based on this buyer’s tenders in this industry (CPV 45), last 36 months: 3 notices.
West Midlands · Building demolition and wrecking work and earthmoving work (CPV 4511)
contract notices delivered in West Midlands in 36 months: 94 in CPV 4511 (78 competed, 9 route not published) · 1,240 in division 45 (889 competed, 222 route not published)
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How many companies usually bid for work like this.
Middle value of published bid counts, one per lot, for this buyer or this region in the same sector.
Based on this region’s tenders in this sector (CPV 4511), last 36 months: 24 lots. 21 lots are from Procurement Act 2023 notices (bids assessed, middle 3) and 3 from older notices (bids received, middle 6).
Nothing is filled in from UK-wide numbers. An empty tile means nothing usable was published.
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How often only one company bid.
Share of lots that received exactly one bid, on the same competitions as the bids figure.
Based on this region’s tenders in this sector (CPV 4511), last 36 months: 24 lots.
High means a thin market or an incumbent that is hard to beat.
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Do awards for work like this land above or below the estimate.
Estimate against award per lot, for this buyer or this region in the same sector.
Based on this region’s tenders in this sector (CPV 4511), last 36 months: 27 pairs.
A past pattern, not a price to bid.
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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.
Based on this region’s tenders in this sector (CPV 4511), last 36 months: 18 notices.
Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.
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How much of this market goes to small and medium firms.
SME bidders where buyers published the split, otherwise SME winners.
Based on this region’s tenders in this sector (CPV 4511), last 36 months: 24 lots.
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How much work like this goes to companies based in the delivery region.
Awards in this category delivered here where the winner’s registered address is in the region.
Based on this region’s tenders in this sector (CPV 4511), last 36 months: 43 awards.
Registered address, so a national firm with a local branch counts as outside.
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Where this tender’s estimate would land if the usual pattern repeats.
We apply the buyer’s usual movement between estimate and award (or the region’s) to the estimate on this notice.
Based on the West Midlands market’s usual movement over 27 lots (CPV 4511), applied to the £85,000 estimate on this notice. The range comes from the region’s middle half.
A benchmark, not a price to bid.
Coverage and what to read with care
- Each tile explains itself. The on a figure says what it is, how it is counted and which scope this notice’s own record came from (class, division, all categories, or the authority’s 24-month row). The two columns are never blended and nothing is filled from a UK-wide figure; an empty tile means the source published nothing usable. Long form: Methodology.
- Coverage. Roughly 40 % of notices publish a bid count; about half publish an ITL1 delivery location, so the market column reads the authority’s registered region when the notice has none (labelled). About 30 % of award-vs-estimate pairs are exact matches — the buyer published the award at the estimate. n is on every figure; a thin sample is muted, never hidden.
- “Match” and “relevance” are model scores from the nightly matcher, not published facts. Find a Tender does not publish who is bidding. Never shown: contact details, payment behaviour, or a recommended price.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Procedure method
- Below threshold - open competition
- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Works
- Notice status
- Open for tender
- 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
- No (one-off requirement)
- First published
- 6 Oct 2026, 14:30 BST
- Last source update
- 6 Oct 2026, 14:30 BST
- Authority reference
Kynaston Road Junior Play Area- Latest notice
- Tender notice (UK4)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-0781c9Find a Tender
How to participate & submission route
Official notice- Expression of interest (EOI)
- —
- Tender submission deadline
- 20 Nov 2026, 13:00 GMT
- Clarification deadline
- 6 Nov 2026, 13:00 GMT
- Electronic submission
- Not allowed
Timeline
4 published dates · Europe/London- Tender notice publishedearlier today6 Oct 2026, 14:30 BST
- Clarification questions byin 31 days6 Nov 2026, 13:00 GMT
- Submission deadlinein 45 days20 Nov 2026, 13:00 GMT
- Contract startsin 86 days1 Jan 2027, 00:00 GMT
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Nothing awarded yet- Awards (0)
- No award published
- Contracts (0)
- No contract published
- Bid statistics
- No aggregate bid statistics published
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Tender notice published6 Oct 2026, 14:30 BSTUK4
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Official documents & specifications (2)
Official links; attachments are not copiedTender pack and attachments
- Bidding documents and specifications Tender details
Notices published for this procedure
- Tender notice Tender notice on Find a Tender