Official UK procurement notice
PLA26122 - Expression of Interest: Conservation Management Plans for Council-Owned Heritage Assets and Scheduled Monuments
Authority: Torbay Council (Local council)
Torbay Council is seeking expressions of interest from suitably qualified and experienced consultants to provide Conservation Management Plans (CMPs) for a portfolio of Council-owned heritage assets and scheduled monuments. The purpose of this exercise is to undertake market engagement, obtain indicative costs, assess market capacity and capability, and gather feedback to inform a future Heritage Places funding bid and procurement strategy.
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionTorbay Council is seeking expressions of interest from suitably qualified and experienced consultants to provide Conservation Management Plans (CMPs) for a portfolio of Council-owned heritage assets and scheduled monuments. The purpose of this exercise is to undertake market engagement, obtain indicative costs, assess market capacity and capability, and gather feedback to inform a future Heritage Places funding bid and procurement strategy. This Expression of Interest is not a procurement exercise and will not result in the award of a contract. The requirement is anticipated to comprise two lots: Lot 1 – Council-Owned Heritage Assets Lot 2 – Council-Owned Scheduled Monuments Suppliers are invited to submit responses in accordance with the EOI documentation.
CPV: Museum services and preservation services of historical sites and buildings
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedPipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How Torbay Council buys Museum services and preservation services of historical sites and buildings (CPV 9252), and who usually turns up
Torbay 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: Museum services and preservation services of historical sites and buildings (CPV 9252) →
How the contest usually goes
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How often local firms win similar work.
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Local means the winner is registered in the region where that award was delivered. The market figure counts awards delivered in South West England.
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners were registered in the region where that award was delivered.
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How long buyers here take to decide after bids close.
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Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.
Half of these awards have an award date within 57 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.
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How many bids did past lots attract?
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How many bids past lots received.
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Past bids do not predict this tender.
1 bid32% / 4%
2–321% / 46%
4–621% / 39%
7+26% / 11%
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 estimate27% / 52%
Within ±2%47% / 29%
Above estimate27% / 19%
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No supplier is confirmed as a bidder.
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Lot #1CPV 9252Published estimate£500k
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How many bids this lot may attract.
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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 15 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid27%
2–340%
4–627%
7+7%
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Where the award price may land.
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No comparable awards for this lot yet.
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Who has done similar work for this buyer.
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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.
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Who could compete for this lot?
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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
- 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
- 3 Nov 2026, 15:13 GMT
- Last source update
- 3 Nov 2026, 15:13 GMT
- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-104335- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-0796dcFind a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
3 Nov 2026 → 9 Aug 2027 · 4 dates- Planning notice published4h ago3 Nov 2026, 15:13 GMT
- Today3 Nov 2026
- Market engagementin 21 days24 Nov 2026, 23:59 GMT
Torbay Council is undertaking Preliminary Market Engagement (PME) to inform a future procurement for the preparation of Conservation Management Plans (CMPs) across a portfolio of Council-owned heritage assets and scheduled monuments.
The proposed requirement is expected to comprise two lots:
Lot 1 – Council-Owned Heritage Assets
Lot 2 – Council-Owned Scheduled Monuments
The purpose of this engagement is to:
- Obtain indicative cost information to support a Heritage Places funding bid.
- Assess market capacity and capability.
- Understand realistic delivery timescales and project phasing.
- Explore opportunities for digital and interactive Conservation Management Plans.
- Gather feedback on the use of AI and other technologies in the development and ongoing management of heritage assets.
- Inform the Council's future procurement strategy and contract structure.
Interested organisations are invited to review the accompanying documentation and submit responses to the Expression of Interest questionnaire.
Engagement Period:
Start Date: 03 November 2026
Closing Date: 24 November 2026
The Council may use information obtained through this engagement to refine the scope, structure and procurement approach for any future procurement exercise.
This Preliminary Market Engagement exercise is not a procurement process, does not constitute a call for competition, and will not result in the award of a contract.
- Tender notice expectedin 76 days18 Jan 2027, 23:59 GMT
- Contract startsin 278 days9 Aug 2027, 00:00 BST
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Preliminary market engagement notice published3 Nov 2026, 15:13 GMTUK2
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