Official UK procurement notice
Future Port Talbot (FPT) Consultation and Engagement Services
Authority: Associated British Ports
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionAssociated British Ports (ABP) is seeking to appoint a suitably experienced consultation and engagement consultant to support the Future Port Talbot (FPT) Programme. The Consultant will provide strategic and delivery support for stakeholder engagement and pre-application consultation associated with ABP’s proposed Infrastructure Consent Order (ICO) application under the Infrastructure (Wales) Act 2024.
- How the procedure runs: Associated British Ports (ABP) intends to conduct a two-stage competitive flexible procedure. Stage 1 will comprise a participation stage, during which suppliers will be required to complete a Procurement Specific Questionnaire (PSQ). Responses will be assessed against the published conditions of participation and evaluation criteria, including suppliers’ suitability, capability, capacity, relevant experience and financial standing. Following evaluation of Stage 1, up to four suppliers will be shortlisted and invited to participate in Stage 2. Stage 2 will comprise an Invitation to Tender (ITT), during which shortlisted suppliers will be invited to submit detailed quality and commercial proposals.
CPV: Advertising and marketing services · Public relations consultancy services · Public relations management services · Public relations services · Stakeholders representation services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · value publishedWhat 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)
- Technical assessment: 60%
- Commercial assessment: 40%
Published award criteria (2)
- Technical assessment: Full details of the award criteria, sub-criteria, weightings and evaluation methodology will be provided in the Invitation to Tender documentation issued to suppliers shortlisted following the participation stage.
- Commercial assessment: Full details of the award criteria, sub-criteria, weightings and evaluation methodology will be provided in the Invitation to Tender documentation issued to suppliers shortlisted following the participation stage.
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 £398,907 (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 Associated British Ports buys Business and management consultancy services (CPV 7941), and who usually turns up
Associated British Ports’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: Business and management consultancy services (CPV 7941) →
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Local means the winner is registered in the region where that award was delivered. The market figure counts awards delivered in Wales (Cymru).
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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Half of these awards have an award date within 81 days of the bid deadline.
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Past bids do not predict this tender.
1 bid9%
2–327%
4–614%
7+50%
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Below estimate48%
Within ±2%14%
Above estimate38%
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Lot #1CPV 79Published estimate£400k
This lot lists more than one class in CPV 79. The comparison uses that group.
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A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid11%
2–330%
4–626%
7+33%
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No comparable awards for this lot yet.
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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 and Contracts Finder), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0. New notices arrive through the day; the figures are rebuilt nightly. Contracts Finder appears in live search, the Retender Radar, contract pages, organisation counts and the buyer's decision figure; the other analytical figures are built from Find a Tender notices.
- 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.
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Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Procedure method
- Competitive flexible procedure
- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Requests to participate open
- Procurement threshold
- Above threshold (FTS publication)
- Regulatory regime
- Utilities
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 9 Nov 2026, 14:09 GMT
- Last source update
- 9 Nov 2026, 14:09 GMT
- Award evaluation window
- Submission end – 8 Mar 2027
- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-106270- Latest notice
- Tender notice (UK4)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-07b7aaFind a Tender
- How it runs
Associated British Ports (ABP) intends to conduct a two-stage competitive flexible procedure. Stage 1 will comprise a participation stage, during which suppliers will be required to complete a Procurement Specific Questionnaire (PSQ). Responses will be assessed against the published conditions of participation and evaluation criteria, including suppliers’ suitability, capability, capacity, relevant experience and financial standing. Following evaluation of Stage 1, up to four suppliers will be shortlisted and invited to participate in Stage 2. Stage 2 will comprise an Invitation to Tender (ITT), during which shortlisted suppliers will be invited to submit detailed quality and commercial proposals.
- Risks
The consultation and engagement requirements for Future Port Talbot may evolve as the application progresses. Additional consultation, stakeholder engagement or associated services may be required in response to emerging requirements, stakeholder or consenting authority feedback, or changes to the application that cannot reasonably be identified at the date of procurement. The contract may therefore require modification if this risk materialises.
How to participate & submission route
Official notice Submit via In-tend- Requests to participate (first stage)
- 4 Dec 2026, 14:00 GMT
- Tender submission deadline
- 4 Dec 2026, 14:00 GMT
- Clarification deadline
- —
- Submission channel
- Official e-sourcing portal
- Electronic submission
- Allowed
- Accepted languages
- en
In order to proceed with the PSQ, the Applicant must be registered on In-Tend via the following link (in-tendhost.co.uk/abp/aspx/Registration ↗).
Timeline
9 Nov 2026 → 5 Apr 2027 · 4 dates- Tender notice published1h ago9 Nov 2026, 14:09 GMT
- Today9 Nov 2026
- Submission deadlinein 24 days4 Dec 2026, 14:00 GMT
- Award decision expected byin 119 days8 Mar 2027, 23:59 GMT
- Contract startsin 146 days5 Apr 2027, 00:00 BST
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Tender notice published9 Nov 2026, 14:09 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