Official UK procurement notice
Meet The Buyer Event · UK public procurement notice
Authority: West Berkshire District Council (Local council)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThis is a notice for a Meet the Buyer event, not a procurement exercise.
CPV: Administration, defence and social security services · Agricultural machinery · Agricultural, farming, fishing, forestry and related products · Agricultural, forestry, horticultural, aquacultural and apicultural services · Architectural, construction, engineering and inspection services · Business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing and security · Chemical products · Clothing, footwear, luggage articles and accessories · Collected and purified water · Construction structures and materials; auxiliary products to construction (except electric apparatus) · Construction work · Education and training services · +33 more
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1Planned
Pipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How West Berkshire District Council buys Agricultural, farming, fishing, forestry (CPV 03), and who usually turns up
West Berkshire District Council’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: Agricultural, farming, fishing, forestry (CPV 03) →
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 South East England.
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners are registered in South East England.
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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 29 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 bid73%
2–30%
4–627%
7+0%
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 estimate67%
Within ±2%33%
Above estimate0%
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 #1Estimate not published
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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 11 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid73%
2–30%
4–627%
7+0%
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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
- 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
- 12 Jun 2026, 10:18 BST
- Last source update
- 12 Jun 2026, 10:18 BST
- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-055547- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06b3bfFind a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
12 Jun 2026 → 25 Jun 2026 · 3 dates- Planning notice published131 days ago12 Jun 2026, 10:18 BST
- Contract starts118 days ago25 Jun 2026, 00:00 BST
- Market engagement117 days ago25 Jun 2026, 23:59 BST
Join West Berkshire Council for a 'Meet the Buyer' event designed to help local businesses, suppliers and organisations.
Whether you're new to public sector procurement or already working with the Council, this event will give you valuable insights into how we buy goods and services, what opportunities are available, and how you can get involved.
As part of our commitment to supporting local businesses and communities, we are making it easier for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), voluntary organisations and social enterprises to access opportunities and secure work with the Council.
Refreshments and lunch will be provided. There will be opportunities to speak to officers and attend additional demonstrations during the day
In the afternoon, we will be hosting a specific social care provider session looking at the market and wider strategies however all are welcome to stay for some fantastic sessions on AI and other specialities.
Please register due to limited availability
www.eventbrite.com/e/meet-the-buyer-tic… ↗
Thursday 25th June 2026
09:00 - 16:00
Shaw House, Church Rd, Shaw, Newbury RG14 2DR
09:00 - 09:15am - Arrive, refreshments
09:30 - Formal Introduction by Councillor Jeff Brooks - Leader Of West Berkshire Council
"Importance of buying local"
09:45 - Procurement Strategy/Social Value Strategy - Richard Howroyd
10:15 - SME's working with the Public Sector - Paul Wright - PAWA Consulting Ltd
10:45 - Break, refreshments
11:00 - In-Tend- Sarah Wood
(For individual demonstrations café afterwards as required)
11:15 - Neutral vendor arrangements - Speaker TBC
11:45 - Questions & Answers - Panel Session
All things procurement
12:00 - 13:00 Lunch
13:00 - Formal Introduction by Councillor Vicky Poole - Portfolio Holder
"All things procurement"
13:15 - New framework approach/brokerage service - Thomas Bailey
13:45 - Adult Social Care Update - Paul Coe/Melanie O'Rourke
14:15 - Break
14:30 - Use of AI in Social Care - Simon Allen - Director Of AI Solutions
15:30 - Questions & Answers - Panel Session
All things framework
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Preliminary market engagement notice published12 Jun 2026, 10:18 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