Official UK procurement notice
LPC1: Peatland Restoration and Grazing Infrastructure
Authority: Neath Port Talbot County Borough Council (Local council)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionNeath Port Talbot Council seeks to appoint a suitably experienced contractor to deliver a programme of works across two project sites:
Site A: Cwmparc
Located within the uplands above Treorchy, the Cwmparc site comprises both a plateau peatland restoration area and the adjacent cwm valley. Works at this site include peatland restoration interventions together with the installation of grazing infrastructure designed to support long-term habitat management.
Site B: Cefn Morfudd
Located on the upland plateau above Neath, Cefn Morfudd contains areas of degraded peatland requiring restoration through hydrological interventions, together with associated infrastructure works. Parts of the site are subject to additional operational constraints including Scheduled Ancient Monuments and areas requiring specialist UXO supervision.
The contract has been divided into three principal work packages:
• Work Package A: Cwmparc Peatland Restoration
• Work Package B: Cefn Morfudd Peatland Restoration
• Work Package C: Cwmparc Grazing Infrastructure
Bidders must provide a single submission covering all work packages.
The contract will run over two winter working periods:
• November 2026 to 28 February 2027
• 1 October 2027 to 28 February 2028
CPV: Dam construction work · Drainage works · Dyke construction work · Excavating and earthmoving work · Ground-drainage work · Land rehabilitation work · Landscaping work · Landscaping work for green areas · Site-development work · Siteworks
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · value publishedLot #1Lot 1Published value£174,078
- Value
- £174,078 exc. VAT · £208,894 inc. VAT
What it takes to wini
How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
Evaluation split and conditions of participation as published — the tender pack may add morei
How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
Published sub-criteria (5)
- Understanding of the Project, Sites and Constraints — 10.5%
- Approach to Delivery — 24.5%
- Relevant Experience and Technical Expertise to deliver this contract — 24.5%
- Commercial — 30%
- QA, Risk Management and Long-Term Sustainability — 10.5%
No conditions of participation were published on the notice; check the tender documents.
Competition analysis · published record, not a forecast of who will bid
How Neath Port Talbot County Borough Council buys Building demolition and wrecking work and earthmoving work (CPV 4511) — and who usually turns up
Neath Port Talbot County Borough Council’s own published record, next to the Wales (Cymru) market for the same work. Frameworks and DPS are kept out: they attract a different number of bids. Whole-market view: Building demolition and wrecking work and earthmoving work (CPV 4511) →
How the contest usually goes
Left: this authority. Right: the market where the work is delivered. Bids and award-vs-estimate pairs are per lot, from contested contracts only — direct awards (including PA 2023 transparency notices) report one bid by definition and are left out. On Procurement Act 2023 notices the count is the tenders assessed at the final stage, not every submission received; pairs compare like with like (VAT-exclusive, or VAT-inclusive on both sides). Empty means nothing was published, not filled in from elsewhere.
Neath Port Talbot County Borough Council
contract notices in 36 months: 1 in CPV 4511 · 4 in division 45 · 28 in all categories (2 route not published)
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How many companies usually bid for work like this.
Middle value of published bid counts, one per lot, for this buyer or this region in the same sector.
Based on this buyer’s tenders in this industry (CPV 45), last 36 months: 3 lots. 2 lots are from Procurement Act 2023 notices (bids assessed, middle 2) and 1 from older notices (bids received, middle 2).
Nothing is filled in from UK-wide numbers. An empty tile means nothing usable was published.
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How often only one company bid.
Share of lots that received exactly one bid, on the same competitions as the bids figure.
Based on this buyer’s tenders in this industry (CPV 45), last 36 months: 3 lots.
High means a thin market or an incumbent that is hard to beat.
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Do awards for work like this land above or below the estimate.
Estimate against award per lot, for this buyer or this region in the same sector.
Based on this buyer’s tenders in all categories, last 36 months: 14 pairs.
A past pattern, not a price to bid.
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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.
Based on this buyer’s tenders in all categories, last 36 months: 9 notices.
Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.
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How often this buyer changes a notice after publishing it.
Middle number of amendments per notice. Deadline extensions and corrections both count.
Based on this buyer’s tenders in all categories, last 24 months: 55 notices.
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How often this buyer awards without a competition.
Direct or limited awards as a share of its notices that say which procedure was used. These routes are legal in defined cases. This is just the record.
Based on this buyer’s tenders in this industry (CPV 45), last 36 months: 4 notices.
Wales (Cymru) · Building demolition and wrecking work and earthmoving work (CPV 4511)
contract notices delivered in Wales (Cymru) in 36 months: 64 in CPV 4511 (56 competed, 7 route not published) · 886 in division 45 (755 competed, 103 route not published)
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How many companies usually bid for work like this.
Middle value of published bid counts, one per lot, for this buyer or this region in the same sector.
Based on this region’s tenders in this sector (CPV 4511), last 36 months: 33 lots. 19 lots are from Procurement Act 2023 notices (bids assessed, middle 2) and 14 from older notices (bids received, middle 3).
Nothing is filled in from UK-wide numbers. An empty tile means nothing usable was published.
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How often only one company bid.
Share of lots that received exactly one bid, on the same competitions as the bids figure.
Based on this region’s tenders in this sector (CPV 4511), last 36 months: 33 lots.
High means a thin market or an incumbent that is hard to beat.
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Do awards for work like this land above or below the estimate.
Estimate against award per lot, for this buyer or this region in the same sector.
Based on this region’s tenders in this sector (CPV 4511), last 36 months: 19 pairs.
A past pattern, not a price to bid.
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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.
Based on this region’s tenders in this sector (CPV 4511), last 36 months: 11 notices.
Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.
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How much of this market goes to small and medium firms.
SME bidders where buyers published the split, otherwise SME winners.
Based on this region’s tenders in this sector (CPV 4511), last 36 months: 33 lots.
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How much work like this goes to companies based in the delivery region.
Awards in this category delivered here where the winner’s registered address is in the region.
Based on this region’s tenders in this sector (CPV 4511), last 36 months: 25 awards.
Registered address, so a national firm with a local branch counts as outside.
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Where this tender’s estimate would land if the usual pattern repeats.
We apply the buyer’s usual movement between estimate and award (or the region’s) to the estimate on this notice.
Based on this buyer’s own usual movement over 14 lots (all categories), applied to the £174,078 estimate on this notice.
A benchmark, not a price to bid.
Coverage and what to read with care
- Each tile explains itself. The on a figure says what it is, how it is counted and which scope this notice’s own record came from (class, division, all categories, or the authority’s 24-month row). The two columns are never blended and nothing is filled from a UK-wide figure; an empty tile means the source published nothing usable. Long form: Methodology.
- Coverage. Roughly 40 % of notices publish a bid count; about half publish an ITL1 delivery location, so the market column reads the authority’s registered region when the notice has none (labelled). About 30 % of award-vs-estimate pairs are exact matches — the buyer published the award at the estimate. n is on every figure; a thin sample is muted, never hidden.
- “Match” and “relevance” are model scores from the nightly matcher, not published facts. Find a Tender does not publish who is bidding. Never shown: contact details, payment behaviour, or a recommended price.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Procedure method
- Below threshold - open competition
- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Works
- Notice status
- Open for tender
- Procurement threshold
- Below threshold
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- No (one-off requirement)
- First published
- 2 Oct 2026, 08:16 BST
- Last source update
- 2 Oct 2026, 08:16 BST
- Authority reference
CPU26-27-40- Latest notice
- Tender notice (UK4)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-077f25Find a Tender
How to participate & submission route
Official notice- Expression of interest (EOI)
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- Tender submission deadline
- 30 Oct 2026, 12:00 GMT
- Clarification deadline
- 23 Oct 2026, 12:00 BST
- Electronic submission
- Allowed
Suppliers’ Instructions ‘How to Express Interest in this ITT’: 1. Register your company on the etenderwales portal (this is required only once. However if your details have changed since you registered you will need to up-date them). - Browse to the eSourcing Portal: www.etenderwales.bravosolution.co.uk - Click the ‘Suppliers register here’ link. - Complete the ‘Organisation Details’ and ‘User Details’ sections. - Note the username you choose and click ‘save’ when more…
complete. - You will shortly receive and email with your unique password (please keep this secure). - Agree to the terms and conditions and click ‘continue’. 2. Express an interest in the ITT. - Login to the portal with the username / password. - Click the ‘ITT Open to all Suppliers’ link. - Alternatively, search for the relevant ITT (itt_126531). - Click on the relevant ITT to access the content. - Click the ‘Express Interest’ button on the right-hand side of the screen. - This will move the ITT into your ‘My ITT pages’. (This is a secure area reserved for your projects only.) - Click on the ITT code, you can now access any attachments by selecting ‘Buyer Attachments’. 3. Responding to the ITT. - You can now choose to ‘Respond’ or ‘Decline to Respond’ (please give a reason if declining). - Note the ‘Closing Date’, and then follow the onscreen instructions to complete the ITT. Helpdesk details on homepage of etenderwales.Timeline
4 published dates · Europe/London- Tender notice publishedjust passed2 Oct 2026, 08:16 BST
- Clarification questions byin 21 days23 Oct 2026, 12:00 BST
- Submission deadlinein 28 days30 Oct 2026, 12:00 GMT
- Contract startsin 52 days23 Nov 2026, 00:00 GMT
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Nothing awarded yet- Awards (0)
- No award published
- Contracts (0)
- No contract published
- Bid statistics
- No aggregate bid statistics published
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Tender notice published2 Oct 2026, 08:16 BSTUK4
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Official documents & specifications (1)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Tender notice Tender notice on Find a Tender