Find a TenderPlanned procurementPipeline notice
Published 20 May 2026, 11:45 BST

Official UK procurement notice

New Slough Car Club Network

Authority: Slough Borough Council (Local council)

ServicesAbove thresholdSME suitableVCSE suitable
Planned pipeline value£0pipeline notice, not a live tender
Tender notice expected 31 Jul 2026from the planned procurement notice
Contract term 5 yrsends 2 Nov 2031 · up to 2 Nov 2034 with extensions · starts 3 Nov 2026

What is being bought

Published requirement description

Slough Borough Council will be seeking to award a contract to an experienced Car Club operator to provide residents and businesses with a professional and value for money car club operation in the borough.

This project is being created to publish the mandatory UK1 notice. The requirement of publishing a UK 1 Pipeline Notice on Local Authorities is to prepare the market of the councils intention to go to market. Suppliers will be notified of upcoming tenders via the CDP when the council issues either a UK 2 Preliminary Market Engagement Notice or a UK 4 Tender Notice during this duration.

CPV: Transport services (excl. Waste transport)

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published
Lot #1PlannedRenewal 5 yrsSMEVCSE
Contract period: 3 Nov 2026 – 2 Nov 2031 (5 yrs) · up to 2 Nov 2034 with extensions
Delivery: South EastEligibility: SME eligibleVCSE eligible
Extensions: Extension options published

Who is likely to bid for this lot ↓

Pipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published

How Slough Borough Council buys Transport services (except waste transport) (CPV 60), and who usually turns up

Slough Borough 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: Transport services (except waste transport) (CPV 60) →

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How the contest usually goes

Winner shares use published awards; bid and price charts use contested lots.

Question for the bid
This buyerSlough Borough Council · all categories
What to do with it
How often do SMEs win?
i

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.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 4 of 13 known-size awards · market: division 60 · South East England, n=105
31%39%

Small firms have won here. Neither number says whether you qualify; it describes who has been winning.

How often do local suppliers win?
i

How often local firms win similar work.

Winners with a registered address in the delivery region, out of awards with a known address.

Local means the winner is registered in the region where that award was delivered. The market figure counts awards delivered in South East England.

A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 5 of 14 known-location awards · market: division 60 · South East England, n=76
36%47%

Most of this buyer’s recorded winners were registered outside the region where that award was delivered.

How long to a decision?
i

How long buyers here take to decide after bids close.

Middle value in days from the bid deadline to the award date, on competitions that published both.

Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 11 decided notices · market: division 60 · South East England, n=21
86 days48 days

Half of these awards have an award date within 86 days of the bid deadline.

How often single-bid or direct?
i

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.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: at least 15 of 23 procurements with awards had no recorded rival · market: division 60 · South East England, n=110
65%34%

Direct awards or one recorded bid are common here. Check the route before spending time on a bid.

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.

Last 36 months.

This buyer12 lots with bid counts · all categories
33% had one bid
The market60 lots with bid counts · division 60 · South East England
20% had one bid
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
1 bid33% / 20%
Buyer: 4 of 12 lots with published bid counts. Market: 12 of 60 lots with published bid counts.
2–317% / 28%
Buyer: 2 of 12 lots with published bid counts. Market: 17 of 60 lots with published bid counts.
4–68% / 22%
Buyer: 1 of 12 lots with published bid counts. Market: 13 of 60 lots with published bid counts.
7+42% / 30%
Buyer: 5 of 12 lots with published bid counts. Market: 18 of 60 lots with published bid counts.

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.

Last 36 months.

This buyer8 lots with estimate and award · all categories
38% below estimate
The market14 lots with estimate and award · division 60 · South East England
43% below estimate
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
Below estimate38% / 43%
Buyer: 3 of 8 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 6 of 14 lots with an estimate and award.
Within ±2%50% / 36%
Buyer: 4 of 8 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 5 of 14 lots with an estimate and award.
Above estimate13% / 21%
Buyer: 1 of 8 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 3 of 14 lots with an estimate and award.
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Assess each lot
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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 #1CPV 6060 monthsSME suitableNo real estimate

This lot lists more than one class in CPV 60. The comparison uses that group.

Expected competition
i

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 60 past lots.

A forecast, not a list of bidders.

—No model forecast yet20% chance of a single bid
Past bids on 60 similar lots
1 bid20%
12 of 60 similar past lots received 1 bid (20%).
2–328%
17 of 60 similar past lots received 2–3 (28%).
4–622%
13 of 60 similar past lots received 4–6 (22%).
7+30%
18 of 60 similar past lots received 7+ (30%).
Comparable past lots usually drew 4 bids.
Commercial price forecast
i

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.

—No real estimate
The buyer published £0 as the estimate (a placeholder, not the contract’s value), so there is nothing to forecast against.

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.

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.

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
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 May 2026, 11:45 BST
Last source update
20 May 2026, 11:45 BST
FTS notice number
2026/S 000-046266
Latest notice
Pipeline notice (UK1)
Classification (CPV)
Transport services (excl. Waste transport)
Delivery area
South East (UKJ11)
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-069d25 Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice
Submission deadline
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Timeline

20 May 2026 → 3 Nov 2026 · 3 dates
  1. Planning notice published157 days ago
    20 May 2026, 11:45 BST
  2. Tender notice expected85 days ago
    31 Jul 2026, 23:59 BST
  3. Today
    24 Oct 2026
  4. Contract startsin 9 days
    3 Nov 2026

Notice history

1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender
  1. Pipeline notice published
    20 May 2026, 11:45 BST
    UK1

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

Slough Borough Council

Contracting authorityPublic authority - sub-central government GB-PPON: PMLW-2634-YYNX Observatory House, 25 Windsor Road, Slough, South East, SL1 2ELContact email

Official documents & specifications (1)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure

  • Pipeline notice planningPipeline noticeUK1Pipeline notice on Find a Tender