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Published 24 Apr 2026, 16:54 BST

Official UK procurement notice

P2347 Average Speed Enforcement (ASE) Camera Signs - Market Engagement Exercise

Official notice Competition analysis

Authority: Birmingham City Council (Local council)

ServicesSME suitable
Sectors: Transport Equipment & Vehicles (34)Installation services (except software) (51) Delivery: West Midlands (UKG31)
Planned pipeline valueValue not publishedpipeline notice, not a live tender
Tender notice expected 25 May 2026from the planned procurement notice
Contract term 6 moends 9 Feb 2027 · starts 10 Aug 2026

What is being bought

Published requirement description

This is a Market Engagement Exercise for an upcoming procurement for a supplier to carry out the installation of Average Speed Enforcement Cameras Signs, including all necessary supporting infrastructure and associated works and signage removal of ‘new 30 mph speed limit signage’. Please see the market engagement documentation for further details.

If you are interested in participating in this pre-market engagement, please register online against the project via the Council’s In-tend e-tendering portal in-tendhost.co.uk/birminghamcc ↗

A questionnaire is attached to those parties who express an interest on Intend in response to the UK2 Preliminary Market Engagement Notice for this procurement project.

Registration and access to the In-tend electronic tendering tool is free and all correspondence for this pre-market engagement must be made via this on-line process. Please report any problems in accessing or using the In-tend e-portal to the Corporate Procurement Team via email at [email protected]

Suppliers may ask clarification questions regarding the market engagement exercise during the period 24/04/2026 – 07/05/2026 but these questions must be submitted via the project correspondence function on Intend.

Interested parties must download a market testing questionnaire from the e-portal and submit completed questionnaires by 12pm (noon) on 11th May 2026.

CPV: Installation services (except software) · Transport equipment and auxiliary products to transportation

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published
Lot #1Planned 6 moSME
Contract period: 10 Aug 2026 – 9 Feb 2027 (6 mo)
Delivery: West MidlandsEligibility: SME eligible
34000000 Transport equipment and auxiliary products to transportation51000000 Installation services (except software)

Who is likely to bid for this lot ↓

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

How Birmingham City Council buys Transport equipment and products (CPV 34), and who usually turns up

Birmingham City 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: Transport equipment and products (CPV 34) →

1

How the contest usually goes

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

Question for the bid
This buyerBirmingham City Council · all categories
The marketTransport equipment and products (CPV 34) · West Midlands
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: 116 of 161 known-size awards · market: division 34 · West Midlands, n=117
72%44%

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.

Here, local means registered in West Midlands.

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

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 157 of 208 known-location awards · market: division 34 · West Midlands, n=173
75%18%

Most of this buyer’s recorded winners are registered in West Midlands.

How long to a decision?
i

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.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 13 decided notices · market: division 34 · West Midlands, n=21
62 days66 days

Half of these awards were announced within 62 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 23 of 90 procurements with awards had no recorded rival · market: division 34 · West Midlands, n=200
26%60%

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?

i

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 buyer57 lots with bid counts · all categories
28% had one bid
The market27 lots with bid counts · division 34 · West Midlands
33% had one bid
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
1 bid28% / 33%
Buyer: 16 of 57 lots with published bid counts. Market: 9 of 27 lots with published bid counts.
2–335% / 30%
Buyer: 20 of 57 lots with published bid counts. Market: 8 of 27 lots with published bid counts.
4–621% / 26%
Buyer: 12 of 57 lots with published bid counts. Market: 7 of 27 lots with published bid counts.
7+16% / 11%
Buyer: 9 of 57 lots with published bid counts. Market: 3 of 27 lots with published bid counts.

How did awards compare with estimates?

i

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 buyer64 lots with estimate and award · all categories
48% below estimate
The market18 lots with estimate and award · division 34 · West Midlands
17% below estimate
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
Below estimate48% / 17%
Buyer: 31 of 64 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 3 of 18 lots with an estimate and award.
Within ±2%47% / 56%
Buyer: 30 of 64 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 10 of 18 lots with an estimate and award.
Above estimate5% / 28%
Buyer: 3 of 64 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 5 of 18 lots with an estimate and award.
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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.

Open a lot for its forecast, this buyer’s previous supplier and possible competitors, from published award history, not a bid list

Lot #16 monthsSME suitableEstimate not published
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 27 past lots.

A forecast, not a list of bidders.

—No model forecast yet33% chance of a single bid
Past bids on 27 similar lots
1 bid33%
9 of 27 similar past lots received 1 bid (33%).
2–330%
8 of 27 similar past lots received 2–3 (30%).
4–626%
7 of 27 similar past lots received 4–6 (26%).
7+11%
3 of 27 similar past lots received 7+ (11%).
Comparable past lots usually drew 3 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.

—Estimate not published
The buyer published no estimate for this lot, so there is nothing to forecast against. A price prediction here would be a number about a number we do not have.

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
Unspecified in notice
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
24 Apr 2026, 16:54 BST
Last source update
28 Apr 2026, 15:05 BST
Authority reference
P2347
FTS notice number
2026/S 000-038701
Latest notice
Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
Classification (CPV)
Installation services (except software)Transport equipment and auxiliary products to transportation
Delivery area
West Midlands (UKG31)
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-068b0d Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice
Submission deadline
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Timeline

24 Apr 2026 → 10 Aug 2026 · 5 dates
  1. Planning notice published181 days ago
    24 Apr 2026, 16:54 BST
  2. Latest notice published177 days ago
    28 Apr 2026, 15:05 BST
  3. Market engagement164 days ago
    11 May 2026, 23:59 BST

    This is a Market Engagement Exercise for an upcoming procurement for a supplier to carry out the installation of Average Speed Enforcement Cameras Signs, including all necessary supporting infrastructure and associated works and signage removal of ‘new 30 mph speed limit signage’. Please see the market engagement documentation for further details.

    If you are interested in participating in this pre-market engagement, please register online against the project via the Council’s In-tend e-tendering portal in-tendhost.co.uk/birminghamcc ↗

    A questionnaire is attached to those parties who express an interest on Intend in response to the UK2 Preliminary Market Engagement Notice for this procurement project.

    Registration and access to the In-tend electronic tendering tool is free and all correspondence for this pre-market engagement must be made via this on-line process. Please report any problems in accessing or using the In-tend e-portal to the Corporate Procurement Team via email at [email protected]

    Suppliers may ask clarification questions regarding the market engagement exercise during the period 24/04/2026 – 07/05/2026 but these questions must be submitted via the project correspondence function on Intend.

    Interested parties must download a market testing questionnaire from the e-portal and submit completed questionnaires by 12pm (noon) on 11th May 2026.

  4. Tender notice expected150 days ago
    25 May 2026, 23:59 BST
  5. Contract starts74 days ago
    10 Aug 2026, 00:00 BST

Notice history

2 events · 2 releases on Find a Tender · since 24 Apr 2026
  1. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    24 Apr 2026, 16:54 BST
    UK2
  2. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    28 Apr 2026, 15:05 BST
    UK2

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

Birmingham City Council

Contracting authorityPublic authority - sub-central government GB-PPON: PCJJ-4826-QMLZ Council House, 1 Victoria Square, Birmingham, West Midlands, B1 1BBContact email

Official documents & specifications (2)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure