Official UK procurement notice
Market Engagement - High Street Totems
Authority: Borough of Telford & Wrekin (Local council)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionTelford & Wrekin Council wishes to engage with the market regarding the supply, installation, operation and maintenance of digital advertising Totems in high street locations across the borough. The Council is exploring an advertising-funded model with no capital outlay, where the provider funds and maintains the units and shares advertising revenue with the Council.
The Council seeks to understand:
- Market capability and innovation in digital Totem technology
- Commercial models for income generation and revenue sharing
- Experience and case studies of similar schemes in other areas
- Potential for Council use of a proportion of advertising slots (e.g. 10 slots per year)
This exercise is non-binding and will inform the Council's future procurement strategy.
CPV: Advertising services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1Planned
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Past planning notice
- Procurement threshold
- Above threshold (FTS publication)
- 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
- 20 Aug 2025, 11:43 BST
- Last source update
- 20 Aug 2025, 12:08 BST
- Authority reference
TWC001096- FTS notice number
2025/S 000-050140- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-058b25Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
20 Aug 2025 → 1 Jun 2026 · 4 dates- Planning notice published20 Aug 2025, 11:43 BST
- Market engagement11 Sept 2025, 23:59 BST
This is a pre-market engagement to enable Telford & Wrekin Council to interact with potential providers and suppliers before formally starting a procurement process. It's aim is to help the Council understand the market better to refine its requirements based on supplier feedback, to encourage competition and identify challenges ahead. As this is a fact-finding exercise only there is no advantage or disadvantage to suppliers who may or may not take part.
If your organisation would like to participate please complete and return the questionnaire which can be found on the Council's e-procurement portal at in-tendhost.co.uk/telford/aspx/Home ↗
Participants should register as a supplier on the portal (if not already) and completed questionnaires should be returned by 12:00 noon on Friday 11 September 2025.
Tenders are expected to be published later in the year to allow mobilisation of contract as soon as possible after that. Contract start and end dates given in this Notice are estimated and may change.
If you express an interest in participating in this Pre Market Engagement exercise it will still be your organisation's responsibility to respond to a Contract Notice advertising the start of any procurement exercise.
- Tender notice expected330 days ago1 Dec 2025, 23:59 GMT
- Contract starts149 days ago1 Jun 2026, 00:00 BST
Notice history
3 events · 3 releases on Find a Tender · since 20 Aug 2025- Preliminary market engagement notice published20 Aug 2025, 11:43 BSTUK2
- Preliminary market engagement notice published20 Aug 2025, 11:53 BSTUK2
- Preliminary market engagement notice published20 Aug 2025, 12:08 BSTUK2
Published amendments (2)
This is the link to the Council's e-procurement portal where the questionnaire can be found: https://in-tendhost.co.uk/telford/aspx/Home
This is the link to the Council's e-procurement portal where the questionnaire can be found: https://in-tendhost.co.uk/telford/aspx/Home
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 (3)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender