Official UK procurement notice
Market Engagement- Adventure playgrounds
Authority: London Borough of Hackney (Local council)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThe Council is seeking to procure 4 site-specific service contracts to deliver adventure playground services for the following locations:
Shakespeare Walk Adventure Playground (Stoke Newington)
Evergreen Adventure Playground (Dalston)
Homerton Grove Adventure Playground (Homerton)
Pearson Street Adventure Playground (Hoxton)
The Providers are required to have experience in the safe management of adventure playgrounds to deliver:
Inclusive Environments: Dedicated support for SEND and neurodivergent youth.
Specialised Training: Delivery of playwork that demonstrates cultural humility and an awareness of trauma-informed and anti-racist practice.
Youth Leadership: Co-production opportunities where young people design playground assets and activities.
Community Enrichment: Informal learning opportunities
CPV: Other community, social and personal services · Recreational, cultural and sporting services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedPipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How London Borough of Hackney buys Recreational, cultural and sporting (CPV 92), and who usually turns up
London Borough of Hackney’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: Recreational, cultural and sporting (CPV 92) →
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 Greater London.
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners are registered in Greater London.
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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.
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.
1 bid13% / 9%
2–326% / 39%
4–652% / 43%
7+9% / 9%
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 estimate46% / 37%
Within ±2%8% / 40%
Above estimate46% / 23%
Assess each lot i
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 #1Published estimate£1.5m
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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 23 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid9%
2–339%
4–643%
7+9%
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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
- Below threshold
- Regulatory regime
- Light touch regime
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 10 Jul 2026, 11:04 BST
- Last source update
- 10 Jul 2026, 11:04 BST
- Authority reference
DN821872- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-065050- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06c848Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
10 Jul 2026 → 1 Apr 2027 · 4 dates- Planning notice published105 days ago10 Jul 2026, 11:04 BST
- Market engagement92 days ago22 Jul 2026, 23:59 BST
Hackney Council Market Engagement: Adventure Playground Services 2026
Calling all local Playwork and Youth Sector providers.
Hackney Council’s Children and Families Service is preparing to re-procure service contracts for 4 of the borough’s Adventure playgrounds. We are committed to maintaining these "sanctuary spaces" as universal, free, and open-access for children aged 6 to 15.
This session is a vital opportunity for local Voluntary and Community Sector (VCS) partners to hear our vision and help shape the future of play in Hackney.
The Opportunity
We are re-procuring site-specific service contracts for the following locations:
Shakespeare Walk Adventure Playground (Stoke Newington)
Evergreen Adventure Playground (Dalston)
Homerton Grove Adventure Playground (Homerton)
Pearson Street Adventure Playground (Hoxton)
These will be tendered as 4 separate, independent contracts on the ProContract e-tendering portal. Bidders may apply for multiple sites if they have the capacity, though each will be evaluated independently.
Event Details
Join our virtual market engagement session to learn more about the service requirements, procurement timelines, and the "STAR" model driving our approach.
Date: 17th July 2026
Time: 11:30AM-12:30PM
Platform: Google Meet (Link to be provided upon registration)
What We Are Looking For
We are seeking providers with experience in the safe management of adventure playgrounds to deliver:
Inclusive Environments: Dedicated support for SEND and neurodivergent youth.
Specialised Training: Delivery of playwork that demonstrates cultural humility and an awareness of trauma-informed and anti-racist practice.
Youth Leadership: Co-production opportunities where young people design playground assets and activities.
Community Enrichment: Informal learning opportunities
How to Register
Please register your interest and secure your place by messaging us through the ProContract Supplier Portal. If you are not yet registered on the portal If you are not yet registered on the portal, you can do so by visiting the official London Tenders Portal website directly to find registration instructions. Should you have any questions, please contact [email protected].
- Tender notice expected51 days ago1 Sept 2026, 23:59 BST
- Today23 Oct 2026
- Contract startsin 160 days1 Apr 2027, 00:00 BST
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Preliminary market engagement notice published10 Jul 2026, 11:04 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