Find a TenderPlanned procurementPipeline notice
Published 9 Apr 2026, 12:21 BST

Official UK procurement notice

Highways Term Service Works Contract

Authority: London Borough of Islington (Local council)

Works
Planned pipeline value£31,500,000pipeline notice, not a live tender
Tender notice expected 1 Dec 2026from the planned procurement notice
Contract term 2 yrsends 30 Jun 2029 · starts 1 Jul 2027

What is being bought

Published requirement description

This notice is a PIPELINE NOTICE and therefore is NOT currently a call for competition. For the avoidance of doubt, the Pipeline Notice is intended to provide the most accurate forecast currently available for the council’s high value procurement activity, but does not commit the council to procuring any contract and may be amended after publication.

CPV: Construction work

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published
Lot #1Planned 2 yrs
Contract period: 1 Jul 2027 – 30 Jun 2029 (2 yrs)
Delivery: UK

Who is likely to bid for this lot ↓

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

How Islington buys Construction work (CPV 45), and who usually turns up

Islington’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: 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 buyerIslington · division 45
The marketConstruction work (CPV 45) · Greater London (authority’s region)
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: 12 of 13 known-size awards · market: division 45 · Greater London (authority’s region), n=906
92%69%

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.

Here, local means registered in Greater London (authority’s region).

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

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 11 of 12 known-location awards · market: division 45 · Greater London (authority’s region), n=1,332
92%36%

Most of this buyer’s recorded winners are registered in Greater London. More of this buyer’s work stays local than in this market: 92% against 36%, n=12.

How long to a decision?
i

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.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 8 decided notices · market: division 45 · Greater London (authority’s region), n=191
118 days51 days

Half of these awards were announced within 118 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 3 of 26 procurements with awards had no recorded rival · market: division 45 · Greater London (authority’s region), n=1,340
12%31%

Missing bid counts may hide more single-bid awards. This share is a minimum.

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 buyer72 lots with bid counts · all categories
6% had one bid
The market402 lots with bid counts · division 45 · Greater London (authority’s region)
14% had one bid
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
1 bid6% / 14%
Buyer: 4 of 72 lots with published bid counts. Market: 55 of 402 lots with published bid counts.
2–325% / 28%
Buyer: 18 of 72 lots with published bid counts. Market: 111 of 402 lots with published bid counts.
4–649% / 27%
Buyer: 35 of 72 lots with published bid counts. Market: 107 of 402 lots with published bid counts.
7+21% / 32%
Buyer: 15 of 72 lots with published bid counts. Market: 129 of 402 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 buyer1 lot with estimate and award · broad CPV 45 · too few to chart
The market215 lots with estimate and award · division 45 · Greater London (authority’s region)
39% below estimate
Market · select a colour for counts
Below estimate39%
Market: 83 of 215 lots with an estimate and award.
Within ±2%31%
Market: 67 of 215 lots with an estimate and award.
Above estimate30%
Market: 65 of 215 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 #124 monthsPublished estimate£32m
Expected competition
i

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 402 past lots.

A forecast, not a list of bidders.

—No model forecast yet14% single-bid risk
Past bids on 402 similar lots
1 bid14%
55 of 402 similar past lots received 1 bid (14%).
2–328%
111 of 402 similar past lots received 2–3 (28%).
4–627%
107 of 402 similar past lots received 4–6 (27%).
7+32%
129 of 402 similar past lots received 7+ (32%).
Comparable past lots usually drew 4 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 £32m, 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
Legal basis
UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
Procurement category
Works
Notice status
Planned procurement
Procurement threshold
Unspecified in notice
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
9 Apr 2026, 12:21 BST
Last source update
9 Apr 2026, 12:21 BST
FTS notice number
2026/S 000-032344
Latest notice
Pipeline notice (UK1)
Classification (CPV)
Construction work
Delivery area
UK
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-067eed Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice
Submission deadline
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Timeline

9 Apr 2026 → 1 Jul 2027 · 3 dates
  1. Planning notice published194 days ago
    9 Apr 2026, 12:21 BST
  2. Today
    20 Oct 2026
  3. Tender notice expectedin 42 days
    1 Dec 2026, 23:59 GMT
  4. Contract startsin 253 days
    1 Jul 2027, 00:00 BST

Notice history

1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender
  1. Pipeline notice published
    9 Apr 2026, 12:21 BST
    UK1

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

London Borough of Islington

Contracting authorityPublic authority - sub-central government GB-PPON: PBMD-2513-CWJJ Islington Town Hall, London, London, N1 2UDContact name, email, phone

Official documents & specifications (1)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure

  • Pipeline notice planningPipeline noticeUK1Pipeline notice on Find a Tender