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PAN3520 - Hire, Installation and Removal of Lighting and Animations

services
Open procedure
Event services
Installation services (except software)
Published value
£250,000
Submission deadline 17 Sept 2026, 12:00 BST
Lots published1
Procurement Executive Summary
AI & Search Synopsis
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Tenderline Synopsis: Leicester City Council: "PAN3520 - Hire, Installation and Removal of Lighting and Animations". Published status: active. Published value: £250,000. 1 published lot. Recorded submission deadline: 17 Sept 2026, 12:00 BST. Published submission portal: procontract.due-north.com.
Contracting AuthorityLeicester City CouncilScope & CategoriesSERVICES (1 lot)Submission Window
10d 7h left
17 Sept 2026, 12:00 BST
Submission GatewayLegal Basis & Regime2023/54 · Open procedure · Above thresholdEstimated Value (exc. VAT)£250,000
Bidder Intelligence · Authority Profile: Leicester City Council
Market Analytics
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Derived from OCDS awards & bid statistics
Published history for Leicester City Council. These figures describe retained records, not a forecast of bids or a measure of buyer bias.
Published-to-award variance
Not availableInsufficient comparable data
Requires at least 5 comparable procedures
Competition Density
7.3Bids / Report
7.7% of reports have one bid
Supplier ConcentrationHigh Concentration
Alzheimer's SocietyTop vendor: 66.9% of attributable value
Payment Terms
Check noticePublished terms
Payment obligations depend on the applicable regime and contract. Consult the official documents.
Coverage: 121 active published awards; 13 bid reports (which may be per lot). Supplier values exclude multi-supplier awards, frameworks and DPS, and use GBP only. They are published award values, not payments. Published-to-award variance compares single-lot, single-award, single-supplier GBP procedures with explicitly non-framework/non-DPS status; increases remain in the average. Unpublished data stays unknown. Awarded suppliers are winners, not all bidders.
Historical Awarded Suppliers With This Authority:
Supplier NameHistoric AwardsAttributable GBP Value
Alzheimer's Society2 wins£2,656,114
INTUITIVE THINKING SKILLS LTD1 win£437,125
Personnel Checks t/a Taxi Plus1 win£387,964
Inclusion Healthcare Social Enterprise CIC1 win£282,989
Heads Up Leicester Limited1 win£119,739
Procedure terms
Contracting AuthorityLeicester City Council
Procedure methodOpen procedure
Procurement categoryservices
Statusactive
Framework / DPSNot published
CompetitionNot published
Above thresholdYes
Legal basisUKPGA · 2023/54
Tender period startsNot published
Clarification deadline3 Sept 2026, 12:00 BST
Electronic submissionallowed
Submission languagesen
Published17 Aug 2026, 14:35 BST
Last source update17 Aug 2026, 14:35 BST
Recurring procurementYes
ClassificationEvent services, Installation services (except software)
OCIDocds-h6vhtk-06e5b2
How to participate
Submission methodNot published
Electronic submissionallowed
Clarification deadline3 Sept 2026, 12:00 BST
Submission languagesen
Expression of interest deadlineNot published
Submission instructions
https://procontract.due-north.com/Advert?advertId=2b0225d9-9786-f111-813c-005056b64545
What is being bought
Leicester City Council invites Tenders for the hire, installation and removal of lighting and animations (for the Christmas period) for its Tourism, Culture & Inward Investment Team for Town Hall Square, Leicester. A site visit is being held to the site at 10am on 25 August 2026. Suppliers shall confirm attendance via the ProContract portal. The proposed contract will be for one year with options to extend for a period or periods totalling no more than up to a further four years. Further information about the opportunity can be found in the tender documentation. Submissions must be received by 12:00 noon on 17 September 2026 at the very latest via the EastMidsTenders portal: https://www.eastmidstenders.org/index.html. Any queries/questions regarding this opportunity must be received via the ProContract portal only. To assist potential Suppliers, the link, https://supplierhelp.due-north.com/ provides helpful user guides on using the ProContract portal. Furthermore, Suppliers will be required to register on the Central Digital Platform (a Find a Tender service). To assist prospective Suppliers, Cabinet Office have published video guides with accompanying PDF user manuals which will help Suppliers understand and navigate the platform, including how to register, upload organisational information and search and bid for opportunities. Please click on the following link: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/information-and-guidance-for-suppliers.
What changed
From the official release history
  1. Published value updated to £250,000
    17 Aug 2026, 14:35 BST
  2. Status changed to active
    17 Aug 2026, 14:35 BST
  3. Official notice release published
    17 Aug 2026, 14:35 BST
  4. Submission deadline changed to 17 Sept 2026, 12:00 BST
    17 Aug 2026, 14:35 BST
  5. Buyer information updated
    17 Aug 2026, 14:35 BST
Lots and requirements (1)
Published by the contracting authority
  • Lot 1 · #1
    Individual lot title not published
    active
    Renewal
    Published value£250,000
    The source published no individual title or description for this lot.
    Contract period19 Oct 2026, 00:00 BST — 18 Oct 2027, 23:59 BST
    Eligibility
    SME eligible
    Options / renewalThe proposed contract will be for one year with options to extend for a period or periods totalling no more than up to a further four years.
Timeline
  1. Procedure published
    17 Aug 2026, 14:35 BST
  2. Submission deadline
    17 Sept 2026, 12:00 BST
Commercial outcome and competition
AwardsNo award published
ContractsNo contract published
Bid statisticsNo aggregate bid statistics published
Buyer and organisations in this procedure

Leicester City Council

Contracting authority GB-PPON-PXRT-5737-VBQD
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Documents (2)
Official links; attachments are not copied
Related procedures (0)
No data
No related procedures published
Planning and rationale
Planning budgetNot published
No-engagement rationaleThe services are standard, well-understood requirements where Supplier input would not add value.
Procedure rationaleNot published