Official UK procurement notice
Garden Furniture · UK public procurement notice
Authority: Anchor Hanover Group (Public body)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThis procurement seeks to replace the current multi-supplier model for garden furniture with a single contracted supplier. Existing spend of approximately £377k per annum (Inc VAT).
By consolidating spend under one contract, Anchor aims to leverage purchasing volumes, reduce administrative overhead, improve contract governance, standardise product offerings, and secure a consistent and reliable supply of garden furniture across the business.
CPV: Garden furniture
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1PlannedRenewal
Pipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How Anchor Hanover Group buys Domestic furniture (CPV 3914), and who usually turns up
Anchor Hanover Group’s own published record, next to the published market for the same work. Frameworks and DPS are kept out: they attract a different number of bids. Whole-market view: Domestic furniture (CPV 3914) →
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.
No small-firm winners recorded among this authority’s published awards in this sample.
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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.
Here, local means registered in Yorkshire and the Humber.
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners are registered in Yorkshire and the Humber.
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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.
Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.
Half of these awards were announced within 76 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.
The market share is a minimum: some awards have no bid count.
Thin markets produce this too; it is not proof of a tailored specification.
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.
1 bid0% / 0%
2–329% / 53%
4–648% / 26%
7+24% / 21%
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 estimate60% / 22%
Within ±2%10% / 56%
Above estimate30% / 22%
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 3914Published estimate£1.6m
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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 15 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid13%
2–320%
4–633%
7+33%
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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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| Alexander Rose LtdLive contract | Purchase of Garden Furnitureruns to Mar 2027 | — | £50k | 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.
- 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.
59% 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.
59% title match.
A past supplier may not bid again.
The prior contract this notice most likely re-tenders · matched by title and category (59% title match), the holder is not guaranteed to re-bid
Purchase of Garden Furniture — held by Alexander Rose Ltd; the published contract ends 31 Mar 2027.
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
- 14 Oct 2026, 11:44 BST
- Last source update
- 15 Oct 2026, 09:11 BST
- Authority reference
Project-00257- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-097268- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-07875bFind a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
14 Oct 2026 → 1 Apr 2027 · 3 dates- Planning notice published7 days ago14 Oct 2026, 11:44 BST
- Today21 Oct 2026
- Market engagementin 2 days23 Oct 2026, 23:59 BST
This pre‑market engagement aims to gather insight from qualified Garden Furniture providers to help shape an upcoming procurement process. The purpose is to understand current market capabilities, innovative service delivery models, and best‑practice approaches.
Anchor plans to run a Pre-Market Engagement between 14/10/2026 - 23/10/2026.
- Contract startsin 161 days1 Apr 2027, 00:00 BST
Notice history
3 events · 2 releases on Find a Tender · since 14 Oct 2026- Preliminary market engagement notice published14 Oct 2026, 11:44 BSTUK2
- Preliminary market engagement notice published15 Oct 2026, 09:11 BSTUK2
- Published value updated to £1,570,83315 Oct 2026, 09:11 BSTwas £314,167
Published amendments (1)
Update to full contract value
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 (2)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender