Find a TenderPlanned procurementPipeline notice
Published 16 Sept 2025, 13:38 BST

Official UK procurement notice

Green Innovation Corridor Enabling Works

Authority: Wolverhampton City Council (Local council)

WorksOpen procedureAbove thresholdSME suitable
Planned pipeline value£6,000,000pipeline notice, not a live tender
Tender notice expected 27 Jul 2026from the planned procurement notice
Contract term 9 moends 1 Nov 2027 · starts 1 Feb 2027

What is being bought

Published requirement description

The Green Innovation Corridor (GIC) is a major regeneration project in Wolverhampton, aimed at creating an Innovation District focused on green construction, engineering, and digital technologies.

The enabling works package will look to prepare the identified sites for development.

CPV: Construction work

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published
Lot #1Planned 9 moSME
Contract period: 1 Feb 2027 – 1 Nov 2027 (9 mo)
Delivery: West MidlandsEligibility: SME eligible

Who is likely to bid for this lot ↓

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

How Wolverhampton City Council buys Construction work (CPV 45), and who usually turns up

Wolverhampton City 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: Construction work (CPV 45) →

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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
This buyerWolverhampton City Council · division 45
The marketConstruction work (CPV 45) · West Midlands
What to do with it
How often do SMEs win?
i

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: 2 of 3 known-size awards · market: division 45 · West Midlands, n=662
2 of 372%

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 West Midlands.

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

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 16 of 18 known-location awards · market: division 45 · West Midlands, n=893
89%28%

Most of this buyer’s recorded winners were registered in the region where that award was delivered. More of this buyer’s work stays local than in this market: 89% against 28%, n=18.

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: division 45 · West Midlands, n=169
—51 days

Half of these awards have an award date within 51 days of the bid deadline.

How often single-bid or direct?
i

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 5 of 16 procurements with awards had no recorded rival · market: division 45 · West Midlands, n=984
31%36%

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 buyer46 lots with bid counts · all categories
13% had one bid
The market219 lots with bid counts · division 45 · West Midlands
14% had one bid
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
1 bid13% / 14%
Buyer: 6 of 46 lots with published bid counts. Market: 31 of 219 lots with published bid counts.
2–335% / 26%
Buyer: 16 of 46 lots with published bid counts. Market: 57 of 219 lots with published bid counts.
4–622% / 23%
Buyer: 10 of 46 lots with published bid counts. Market: 50 of 219 lots with published bid counts.
7+30% / 37%
Buyer: 14 of 46 lots with published bid counts. Market: 81 of 219 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 buyer5 lots with estimate and award · broad CPV 45
20% below estimate
The market201 lots with estimate and award · division 45 · West Midlands
39% below estimate
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
Below estimate20% / 39%
Buyer: 1 of 5 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 78 of 201 lots with an estimate and award.
Within ±2%60% / 35%
Buyer: 3 of 5 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 70 of 201 lots with an estimate and award.
Above estimate20% / 26%
Buyer: 1 of 5 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 53 of 201 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 459 monthsSME suitablePublished estimate£6.0m

This lot lists more than one class in CPV 45. The comparison uses that group.

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 219 past lots.

A forecast, not a list of bidders.

—No model forecast yet14% chance of a single bid
Past bids on 219 similar lots
1 bid14%
31 of 219 similar past lots received 1 bid (14%).
2–326%
57 of 219 similar past lots received 2–3 (26%).
4–623%
50 of 219 similar past lots received 4–6 (23%).
7+37%
81 of 219 similar past lots received 7+ (37%).
Comparable past lots usually drew 5 bids.
Commercial price forecast
i

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 £6.0m, and the forecast stays empty until the market has a record to read.

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.

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.

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
Unspecified in notice
Recurring procurement
Unspecified in notice
First published
16 Sept 2025, 13:38 BST
Last source update
22 May 2026, 16:28 BST
Authority reference
CWC25150MW
FTS notice number
2026/S 000-048227
Latest notice
Pipeline notice (UK1)
Classification (CPV)
Construction work
Delivery area
West Midlands (UKG39)
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-059b4d Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice
Submission deadline
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Timeline

16 Sept 2025 → 1 Feb 2027 · 5 dates
  1. Planning notice published
    16 Sept 2025, 13:38 BST
  2. Market engagement389 days ago
    30 Sept 2025, 23:59 BST

    The City of Wolverhampton Council (CWC) is looking to engage with the market and secure views on the proposed tender and contract arrangements.

    The Council seeks to appoint a suitable contractor to deliver site enabling works as part of a phased delivery model for the Green Innovation Corridor. The works will be undertaken in the surrounding areas of a busy area within the City of Wolverhampton.

    If you would like to participate in the Preliminary Market Engagement please complete and submit the questionnaire available on the ProContract portal. wolverhamptontenders.com

  3. Latest notice published155 days ago
    22 May 2026, 16:28 BST
  4. Tender notice expected89 days ago
    27 Jul 2026, 23:59 BST
  5. Today
    24 Oct 2026
  6. Contract startsin 99 days
    1 Feb 2027

Notice history

4 events · 2 releases on Find a Tender · since 16 Sept 2025
  1. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    16 Sept 2025, 13:38 BST
    UK2
  2. Pipeline notice published
    22 May 2026, 16:28 BST
    UK1
  3. Status changed to planned
    22 May 2026, 16:28 BST
  4. Procurement method changed
    22 May 2026, 16:28 BST

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

Wolverhampton City Council

Contracting authorityPublic authority - sub-central government GB-PPON: PVBV-7568-LBLL Civic Centre, St Peter's Square, Wolverhampton, West Midlands, WV1 1SHContact name, email, phone

Official documents & specifications (2)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure