Find a TenderPlanned procurementPreliminary market engagement notice
Published 24 Jun 2026, 11:01 BST

Official UK procurement notice

Expression of Interest for the Supply of Hackney Carriage / Private Hire Plates, Stickers and Fixings through a direct fulfilment service only.

Authority: City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council (Local council)

GoodsAbove thresholdSME suitable
Planned pipeline value£600,000pipeline notice, not a live tender
Tender notice expected 21 Jul 2026from the planned procurement notice
Contract term 4 yrsends 31 Aug 2030 · starts 1 Sept 2026

What is being bought

Published requirement description

The Council is seeking expressions of interest from suppliers who can supply Hackney Carriage / Private Hire Plates, Stickers and Fixings through a direct fulfilment service only.

CPV: Sign materials · Signage · Signs and related items

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published
Lot #1Planned 4 yrsSME
Contract period: 1 Sept 2026 – 31 Aug 2030 (4 yrs)
Delivery: Yorkshire & HumberEligibility: SME eligible

Who is likely to bid for this lot ↓

Pipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published

How City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council buys Road equipment (CPV 3492), and who usually turns up

City of Bradford Metropolitan District 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: Road equipment (CPV 3492) →

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How the contest usually goes

Winner shares use published awards; bid and price charts use contested lots.

Question for the bid
The marketRoad equipment (CPV 3492) · Yorkshire and the Humber
What to do with it
How often do SMEs win?
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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.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 7 of 7 known-size awards · market: CPV 3492 · Yorkshire and the Humber, n=22
100%73%

Small firms have won here. Neither number says whether you qualify; it describes who has been winning.

How often do local suppliers win?
i

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 Yorkshire and the Humber.

A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 3 of 11 known-location awards · market: CPV 3492 · Yorkshire and the Humber, n=39
27%21%

Most of this buyer’s recorded winners were registered outside the region where that award was delivered.

How long to a decision?
i

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.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: no decision dates published · market: CPV 3492 · Yorkshire and the Humber, n=6
—35 days

Half of these awards have an award date within 35 days of the bid deadline.

How often single-bid or direct?
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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.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: at least 9 of 11 procurements with awards had no recorded rival · market: CPV 3492 · Yorkshire and the Humber, n=39
82%28%

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.

Last 36 months.

This buyer65 lots with bid counts · all categories
37% had one bid
The market13 lots with bid counts · CPV 3492 · Yorkshire and the Humber
8% had one bid
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
1 bid37% / 8%
Buyer: 24 of 65 lots with published bid counts. Market: 1 of 13 lots with published bid counts.
2–311% / 23%
Buyer: 7 of 65 lots with published bid counts. Market: 3 of 13 lots with published bid counts.
4–635% / 46%
Buyer: 23 of 65 lots with published bid counts. Market: 6 of 13 lots with published bid counts.
7+17% / 23%
Buyer: 11 of 65 lots with published bid counts. Market: 3 of 13 lots with published bid counts.

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.

Last 36 months.

This buyer53 lots with estimate and award · all categories
19% below estimate
The market12 lots with estimate and award · CPV 3492 · Yorkshire and the Humber
33% below estimate
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
Below estimate19% / 33%
Buyer: 10 of 53 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 4 of 12 lots with an estimate and award.
Within ±2%72% / 33%
Buyer: 38 of 53 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 4 of 12 lots with an estimate and award.
Above estimate9% / 33%
Buyer: 5 of 53 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 4 of 12 lots with an estimate and award.
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Assess each lot
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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 349248 monthsSME suitablePublished estimate£600k
Expected competition
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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 13 past lots.

A forecast, not a list of bidders.

—No model forecast yet8% chance of a single bid
Past bids on 13 similar lots
1 bid8%
1 of 13 similar past lots received 1 bid (8%).
2–323%
3 of 13 similar past lots received 2–3 (23%).
4–646%
6 of 13 similar past lots received 4–6 (46%).
7+23%
3 of 13 similar past lots received 7+ (23%).
Comparable past lots usually drew 5 bids.
Commercial price forecast
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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.

—No model forecast yet
No comparable awards on record for this lot’s category yet. The published estimate is £600k, and the forecast stays empty until the market has a record to read.

Who has supplied this buyer on similar work?
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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.

SupplierThis buyer’s earlier contractLotAward valueWhy listed
NewAuto Ltd T/A MOGO UKEarlier contractThe supply of Hackney Carriage and Private Hire Licence plates.ended Aug 2026—£66kMatched as the earlier contract

Who could compete for this lot?
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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.

What this replaces
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Who has done similar work for this buyer.

Past contracts are matched by buyer, title and type of work.

42% title match.

A past supplier may not bid again.

The prior contract this notice most likely re-tenders · matched by title and category (42% title match), the holder is not guaranteed to re-bid

The supply of Hackney Carriage and Private Hire Licence plates. — held by NewAuto Ltd T/A MOGO UK; the published contract ends 31 Aug 2026.

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
24 Jun 2026, 11:01 BST
Last source update
24 Jun 2026, 11:01 BST
Authority reference
CBMDC - 100111835
FTS notice number
2026/S 000-059294
Latest notice
Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
Classification (CPV)
Sign materialsSignageSigns and related items
Delivery area
Yorkshire & Humber (UKE41)
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06bbe2 Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice
Submission deadline
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Timeline

24 Jun 2026 → 1 Sept 2026 · 4 dates
  1. Planning notice published122 days ago
    24 Jun 2026, 11:01 BST
  2. Market engagement109 days ago
    7 Jul 2026, 23:59 BST
  3. Tender notice expected95 days ago
    21 Jul 2026, 23:59 BST
  4. Contract starts54 days ago
    1 Sept 2026

Notice history

1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender
  1. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    24 Jun 2026, 11:01 BST
    UK2

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

City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council

Contracting authorityPublic authority - sub-central government GB-PPON: PBWW-4714-TBHN Britannia House, Hall Ings, Bradford, Yorkshire & Humber, BD1 1HXContact name, email, phone

Official documents & specifications (1)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure