Official UK procurement notice
Highway Asset Management Solution
Authority: Manchester City Council (Local council)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionManchester City Council is conducting a preliminary market testing for a Highway Asset Management solution. The engagement will provide insights into the functionality, benefits, and potential applications of the solution. The exercise will assist the Council gather insights in advance of a potential future procurement. Please note this is not a call for competition and Manchester City Council reserves the right not to proceed to procurement.
Manchester's Highway Asset Management solution comprises of:
o A fully integrated data capture system in respect for various types of highway safety inspections, defect recording and contract management of works to repairs defects. Solution to support the creation, editing and deletion of a highway safety inspection network based on a United Kingdom Pavement Management System road network.
o Contract management for cyclic cleansing, ad-hoc inspections and repairs of drainage assets.
o A Street works system to manage sample, routine inspections and highway licences e.g scaffolding, hoarding skips etc which will need to interface with the national street works register (Street Manager)
o An Asset Management System able to utilise various data sets (eg. highway condition data, defect data, SCRIM survey data etc) to identify proposed carriageway and footway planned maintenance schemes. Solution to support the creation, editing and deletion of Manchester's road network which is based on a United Kingdom Pavement Management System road network.
CPV: Computer-related management services · Data collection and collation services · Highways engineering services · Technical support services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedPipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How Manchester City Council buys Consultative engineering and construction services (CPV 7131), and who usually turns up
Manchester City Council’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: Consultative engineering and construction services (CPV 7131) →
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.
Small firms have won here. Neither number says whether you qualify; it describes who has been winning.
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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 North West England.
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners are registered in North West England.
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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 83 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.
Both shares are minimums: 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 bid12% / 24%
2–338% / 13%
4–627% / 20%
7+23% / 43%
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 estimate25% / 41%
Within ±2%63% / 38%
Above estimate12% / 21%
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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.
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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 7131Published estimate£600k
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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 46 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid24%
2–313%
4–620%
7+43%
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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.
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.
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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.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Services
- 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
- 21 Apr 2026, 16:03 BST
- Last source update
- 21 Apr 2026, 16:03 BST
- Authority reference
P-1018- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-036268- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-0687caFind a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
21 Apr 2026 → 1 Feb 2027 · 3 dates- Planning notice published182 days ago21 Apr 2026, 16:03 BST
- Market engagement162 days ago11 May 2026, 23:59 BST
The Council is using the e-business portal known as the Chest. Participants will need to register their details at the following link www.the-chest.org.uk ↗ . Once registered, participants will be emailed a log-in and password which will allow them to gain access to the documentation relating to this market engagement exercise. Participants will need to electronically submit their completed Preliminary Market Engagement Questionnaire via the on-line portal by 11th May 2026 as referred to in the Preliminary Market Engagement documentation.
We would like to invite you to attend a session where you can demonstrate your Asset management solution. Please let us know of your intention to be included in the demonstrations by completing and submitting the 'Preliminary Market Engagement Questionnaire - Highway Asset Management' doc via the E Procurement platform, CHEST. You will then contacted to discuss and agree dates for the demonstration sessions which we plan for sometime around end of May/June.
- Today20 Oct 2026
- Contract startsin 103 days1 Feb 2027
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Preliminary market engagement notice published21 Apr 2026, 16:03 BSTUK2
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 (1)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender