Official UK procurement notice
Market Engagement - Earls Hall Primary School Additional Resource Base Design & Build Construction
Authority: Southend-on-Sea City Council (Local council)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionSouthend-on-Sea City Council (SCC) seeks to engage the market through this Market Engagement exercise in preparation for the potential procurement of a contractor for the design and build construction of an additional resource base at Earls Hall Primary School.
The project will provide specialist accommodation for pupils with Education, Health and Care Plans (EHCPs), supporting the Council's objective of increasing local specialist education provision and enabling more children to be educated within their local community.
CPV: Building construction work
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedPipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How Southend-on-Sea City Council buys Building construction work (CPV 4521), and who usually turns up
Southend-on-Sea City Council’s published record next to the market for the same work. Frameworks and DPS are left out: they draw different bid counts. Whole-market view: Building construction work (CPV 4521) →
How the contest usually goes
Winner shares use published awards; bid and price charts use contested lots.
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Small firms have won here. Neither number says whether you qualify; it describes who has been winning.
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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 East of England.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners were registered in the region where that award was delivered.
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Half of these awards have an award date within 29 days of the bid deadline.
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Both shares are minimums: some awards have no bid count.
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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1 bid7% / 8%
2–340% / 30%
4–620% / 36%
7+33% / 26%
How did awards compare with estimates?
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Below estimate40% / 43%
Within ±2%30% / 19%
Above estimate30% / 38%
Assess each lot i
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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 4521Estimate not published
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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 53 past lots.
1 bid8%
2–330%
4–636%
7+26%
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No comparable awards for this lot yet.
Who has supplied this buyer on similar work? i
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No earlier contract of this buyer matches this lot on the published record.
Who could compete for this lot? i
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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.
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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
- Below threshold
- 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
- 11 Nov 2026, 13:53 GMT
- Last source update
- 11 Nov 2026, 13:53 GMT
- Authority reference
DN835774- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-107150- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-07b9b1Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
11 Nov 2026 → 26 Jul 2027 · 3 dates- Planning notice published2 days ago11 Nov 2026, 13:53 GMT
- Today14 Nov 2026
- Market engagementin 18 days2 Dec 2026, 23:59 GMT
Early Market Engagement:
Southend-on-Sea City Council wishes to receive market knowledge from potential contractors who have experience of design and build construction within occupied educational environments.
The Market Engagement Documents can be accessed via: procontract-due- ↗ north; Procurement reference: DN835774.
The deadline for receipt of clarification requests or further information requests, relating to this process is: 18:00 on Thursday 26th November 2026. The deadline for submission of completed responses relating to this process is: 15:00 on Wednesday 2nd December 2026.
- Contract startsin 253 days26 Jul 2027, 00:00 BST
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Preliminary market engagement notice published11 Nov 2026, 13:53 GMTUK2
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