Find a TenderPlanned procurementPreliminary market engagement notice
Published 13 Nov 2026, 15:37 GMT

Official UK procurement notice

Liverpool City Council - Capital Projects Professional Services Framework

Authority: Liverpool City Council (Local council)

Framework agreementServicesAbove thresholdSME suitableVCSE suitable
Planned pipeline value£6,000,000pipeline notice, not a live tender
Tender notice expected 28 Feb 2027from the planned procurement notice
Framework period 4 yrsends 29 Sept 2031 · starts 30 Sept 2027

What is being bought

Published requirement description

Liverpool City Council seeks to establish a professional services framework to allow their Capital Projects department to call-off from. The department currently procures a range of professional services individually which means dedicating a significant amount of time and resource.

CPV: Advisory and consultative engineering services · Advisory architectural services · Architectural design services · Architectural, engineering and planning services · Architectural, engineering and surveying services · Building services · Civil engineering consultancy services · Construction-related services · Energy and related services · Engineering design services · Environmental engineering consultancy services · Hazard protection and control consultancy services · +3 more

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How this framework works

From the published notice
Framework period
4 yrs from 30 Sept 2027

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published

What it takes to win
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Evaluation split and conditions of participation as published; the tender pack may add more
What this means for your bid
  • “Liverpool City Council - Capital Projects Professional Services…” is a framework: the contest is a place on its panel, not a single contract.

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

How Liverpool City Council buys Consultative engineering and construction services (CPV 7131), and who usually turns up

Liverpool City Council’s published record next to the market for the same work. Compared with other frameworks and DPS only. Whole-market view: Consultative engineering and construction services (CPV 7131) →

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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 buyerLiverpool City Council · all categories
What to do with it
How often do SMEs win?
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The counts under this question show how many awards have a known supplier size.

Buyer: 92 of 126 known-size awards · market: CPV 7131 · North West England, n=51
73%51%

Small firms have won here. Neither number says whether you qualify; it describes who has been winning.

How often do local suppliers win?
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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 North West England.

Buyer: 89 of 140 known-location awards · market: CPV 7131 · North West England, n=76
64%28%

Most of this buyer’s recorded winners were registered in the region where that award was delivered.

How long to a decision?
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Buyer: 5 decided notices · market: CPV 7131 · North West England, n=16
35 days105 days

Half of these awards have an award date within 35 days of the bid deadline.

How often single-bid or direct?
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Both shares are minimums: some awards have no bid count.

Buyer: at least 2 of 13 procurements with awards had no recorded rival · market: CPV 7131 · North West England, n=13
15%23%

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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This buyer30 lots with bid counts · all categories
10% had one bid
The market70 lots with bid counts · CPV 7131 · North West England
0% had one bid
% of lots with a published bid count: this buyer (30) / the market (70) · select a colour for counts
1 bid10% / 0%
Buyer: 3 of 30 lots with published bid counts. Market: 0 of 70 lots with published bid counts.
2–313% / 7%
Buyer: 4 of 30 lots with published bid counts. Market: 5 of 70 lots with published bid counts.
4–620% / 23%
Buyer: 6 of 30 lots with published bid counts. Market: 16 of 70 lots with published bid counts.
7+57% / 70%
Buyer: 17 of 30 lots with published bid counts. Market: 49 of 70 lots with published bid counts.

How did awards compare with estimates?

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On a framework or DPS, prices are agreed when work is called off.

Not comparable on a framework or DPS: the price is set later, on each call-off.

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Assess each lot
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Open a lot for its forecast, this buyer’s previous supplier and possible competitors, from published award history, not a bid list

Lot #1CPV 713148 monthsSME suitablePublished estimate£6.0m
Expected competition
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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 70 past lots.

—No model forecast yet0% chance of a single bid
Past bids on 70 similar lots
1 bid0%
0 of 70 similar past lots received 1 bid (0%).
2–37%
5 of 70 similar past lots received 2–3 (7%).
4–623%
16 of 70 similar past lots received 4–6 (23%).
7+70%
49 of 70 similar past lots received 7+ (70%).
Comparable past lots usually drew 9 bids.
Commercial price forecast
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No comparable awards for this lot yet.

—Priced at call-off
On a framework or DPS the price is agreed on each call-off, so there is no award price to forecast here: the published figure is a ceiling.

Who has supplied this buyer on similar work?
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No earlier contract of this buyer matches this lot on the published record.

Who could compete for this lot?
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Candidate suppliers for this notice have not been worked out yet, so this is not a verdict that nobody fits.

About this data
  • Estimates, labelled. The price range, possible competitors and earlier-work matches are our estimates from past awards, not published facts, win chances or price advice. The buyer’s own record and the wider market are shown apart, never mixed.
  • Source. Official UK public procurement notices (Find a Tender and Contracts Finder), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0, updated through the day and rebuilt nightly. Not every figure uses both feeds, and each one shows how many records it rests on: see 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
Framework agreement
Who may use this agreement
Not stated in the notice; call-off rights may be limited to the establishing authority
Competition type
Competitive procedure
GPA / WTO covered
Unspecified in notice
Recurring procurement
Unspecified in notice
First published
13 Nov 2026, 15:37 GMT
Last source update
13 Nov 2026, 15:37 GMT
FTS notice number
2026/S 000-108136
Latest notice
Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
Classification (CPV)
Advisory and consultative engineering servicesAdvisory architectural servicesArchitectural design servicesArchitectural, engineering and planning servicesArchitectural, engineering and surveying servicesBuilding servicesCivil engineering consultancy servicesConstruction-related servicesEnergy and related servicesEngineering design services
+5 moreEnvironmental engineering consultancy servicesHazard protection and control consultancy services
Delivery area
North West (UKD72)
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-07bbfa Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice
Appointment period ends
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Timeline

13 Nov 2026 → 30 Sept 2027 · 4 dates
  1. Planning notice published3h ago
    13 Nov 2026, 15:37 GMT
  2. Today
    13 Nov 2026
  3. Market engagementin 28 days
    11 Dec 2026, 23:59 GMT

    A pre-market engagement form can be found attached within this ProContract Link - procontract.due-north.com/Advert ↗

    This contains the scope as well as a questionnaire. Please download, complete and return this by noon on the 11th of December 2026.

    Details of where to return the questionnaire are within the form itself.

  4. Tender notice expectedin 107 days
    28 Feb 2027, 23:59 GMT
  5. Contract startsin 320 days
    30 Sept 2027, 00:00 BST

Notice history

1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender
  1. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    13 Nov 2026, 15:37 GMT
    UK2

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

Liverpool City Council

Contracting authorityPublic authority - sub-central government GB-PPON: PRVY-7813-WLPG Cunard Building, Liverpool, North West, L3 1DSContact email

Official documents & specifications (1)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure