Official UK procurement notice
Play Area Works and maintenance
Authority: Bedford Borough Council (Local council)
Bedford Borough Council is inviting tenders for the provision of Play Area Maintenance Services.
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionBedford Borough Council is inviting tenders for the provision of Play Area Maintenance Services
CPV: Repair and maintenance services of playground equipment · Repair and maintenance work in connection with sports facilities
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The lotProcurement structure
single lot · value publishedWhat it takes to wini
Evaluation split and conditions of participation as published; the tender pack may add morei
Lot awarding rule: 70% price 30% quality
No conditions of participation were published on the notice; check the tender documents.
- Turnover usually expected at this size: about £98,865 (twice the annual value).
Turnover is an indicative market norm (≈2× annual value), not a published condition.
Competition analysis · published record, not a forecast of who will bid
How Bedford Borough Council buys Building construction work (CPV 4521), and who usually turns up
Bedford 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: Building construction work (CPV 4521) →
How the contest usually goes
Winner shares use published awards; bid and price charts use contested lots.
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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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Local means the winner is registered in the region where that award was delivered. The market figure counts awards delivered in East of England.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners were registered outside the region where that award was delivered.
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Half of these awards have an award date within 36 days of the bid deadline.
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Both shares are minimums: some awards have no bid count.
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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1 bid27% / 8%
2–353% / 30%
4–613% / 36%
7+7% / 26%
How did awards compare with estimates?
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Below estimate46% / 43%
Within ±2%31% / 19%
Above estimate23% / 38%
Assess each lot i
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Open a lot for its forecast, this buyer’s previous supplier and possible competitors, from published award history, not a bid list
Lot #1CPV 4521Published estimate£99k
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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 53 past lots.
1 bid8%
2–330%
4–636%
7+26%
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No comparable awards for this lot yet.
Who has supplied this buyer on similar work? i
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No earlier contract of this buyer matches this lot on the published record.
Who could compete for this lot? i
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Candidate suppliers for this notice have not been worked out yet, so this is not a verdict that nobody fits.
About this data
- Estimates, labelled. The price range, possible competitors and earlier-work matches are our estimates from past awards, not published facts, win chances or price advice. The buyer’s own record and the wider market are shown apart, never mixed.
- Source. Official UK public procurement notices (Find a Tender and Contracts Finder), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0, updated through the day and rebuilt nightly. Not every figure uses both feeds, and each one shows how many records it rests on: see the methodology. Spotted something wrong? Tell us.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Procedure method
- Below threshold - open competition
- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Open for tender
- 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
- 13 Nov 2026, 15:02 GMT
- Last source update
- 13 Nov 2026, 15:02 GMT
- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-108091- Latest notice
- Tender notice (UK4)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-07bbdcFind a Tender
How to participate & submission route
Official notice Submit via In-tend- Requests to participate (first stage)
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- Tender submission deadline
- 30 Nov 2026, 12:00 GMT
- Clarification deadline
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- Submission channel
- Official e-sourcing portal
- Electronic submission
- Allowed
Timeline
13 Nov 2026 → 1 Jan 2027 · 3 dates- Tender notice publishedjust passed13 Nov 2026, 15:02 GMT
- Today13 Nov 2026
- Submission deadlinein 16 days30 Nov 2026, 12:00 GMT
- Contract startsin 48 days1 Jan 2027
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Tender notice published13 Nov 2026, 15:02 GMTUK4
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Nothing awarded yet- 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
- Tender notice Tender notice on Find a Tender