Find a TenderPlanned procurementPreliminary market engagement notice
Published 11 Aug 2026, 16:34 BST

Official UK procurement notice

Power Park Vision 2026 · UK public procurement notice

Authority: East Suffolk Council (Local council)

ServicesSME suitable
Planned pipeline valueValue not publishedpipeline notice, not a live tender
Tender notice expected 25 Sept 2026from the planned procurement notice
Contract term 1 yrends 19 Nov 2027 · starts 20 Nov 2026

What is being bought

Published requirement description

East Suffolk Council (the Council) is seeking Expressions of Interest (EOI) from suitably qualified and experienced consultants to undertake a comprehensive review, revision, and production of a new PowerPark Vision for 2026 and beyond.

CPV: Advertising consultancy services · Business analysis consultancy services · Design consultancy services · Energy and related services · Energy-efficiency consultancy services · Energy-management services

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published

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

How East Suffolk Council buys Consultative engineering and construction services (CPV 7131), and who usually turns up

East Suffolk 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: Consultative engineering and construction services (CPV 7131) →

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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 buyerEast Suffolk Council · division 71
The marketConsultative engineering and construction services (CPV 7131) · East of England (authority’s region)
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: 11 of 15 known-size awards · market: CPV 7131 · East of England (authority’s region), n=176
73%60%

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 East of England (authority’s region).

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

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 10 of 16 known-location awards · market: CPV 7131 · East of England (authority’s region), n=217
63%14%

Most of this buyer’s recorded winners are registered in East of England.

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: 4 decided notices · market: CPV 7131 · East of England (authority’s region), n=28
28 days51 days

Half of these awards were announced within 28 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 4 of 18 procurements with awards had no recorded rival · market: CPV 7131 · East of England (authority’s region), n=269
22%46%

Missing bid counts may hide more single-bid awards. This share is a minimum.

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 buyer5 lots with bid counts · broad CPV 71
0% had one bid
The market43 lots with bid counts · CPV 7131 · East of England (authority’s region)
14% had one bid
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
1 bid0% / 14%
Buyer: 0 of 5 lots with published bid counts. Market: 6 of 43 lots with published bid counts.
2–340% / 7%
Buyer: 2 of 5 lots with published bid counts. Market: 3 of 43 lots with published bid counts.
4–620% / 26%
Buyer: 1 of 5 lots with published bid counts. Market: 11 of 43 lots with published bid counts.
7+40% / 53%
Buyer: 2 of 5 lots with published bid counts. Market: 23 of 43 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 buyer22 lots with estimate and award · all categories
41% below estimate
The market41 lots with estimate and award · CPV 7131 · East of England (authority’s region)
41% below estimate
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
Below estimate41% / 41%
Buyer: 9 of 22 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 17 of 41 lots with an estimate and award.
Within ±2%50% / 37%
Buyer: 11 of 22 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 15 of 41 lots with an estimate and award.
Above estimate9% / 22%
Buyer: 2 of 22 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 9 of 41 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 713112 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 43 past lots.

A forecast, not a list of bidders.

—No model forecast yet14% chance of a single bid
Past bids on 43 similar lots
1 bid14%
6 of 43 similar past lots received 1 bid (14%).
2–37%
3 of 43 similar past lots received 2–3 (7%).
4–626%
11 of 43 similar past lots received 4–6 (26%).
7+53%
23 of 43 similar past lots received 7+ (53%).
Comparable past lots usually drew 7 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
11 Aug 2026, 16:34 BST
Last source update
11 Aug 2026, 16:43 BST
Authority reference
2890-RFQ-O
FTS notice number
2026/S 000-076415
Latest notice
Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
Classification (CPV)
Advertising consultancy servicesBusiness analysis consultancy servicesDesign consultancy servicesEnergy and related servicesEnergy-efficiency consultancy servicesEnergy-management services
Delivery area
Not published
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06e1ca Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice
Submission deadline
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Timeline

11 Aug 2026 → 20 Nov 2026 · 4 dates
  1. Planning notice published72 days ago
    11 Aug 2026, 16:34 BST
  2. Market engagement48 days ago
    4 Sept 2026, 23:59 BST

    East Suffolk Council is seeking to commission a consultancy team to undertake a review and refresh of the existing PowerPark Vision, originally developed in 2020.

    Please send Your Expression of Interest by completing the Request for Information attached can be returned to [email protected] by 4th September, 2029 12noon . Please register for free on the following link: in-tendhost.co.uk/eastsuffolk ↗ to view the full documentation

  3. Tender notice expected27 days ago
    25 Sept 2026, 23:59 BST
  4. Today
    22 Oct 2026
  5. Contract startsin 28 days
    20 Nov 2026

Notice history

2 events · 2 releases on Find a Tender · since 11 Aug 2026
  1. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    11 Aug 2026, 16:34 BST
    UK2
  2. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    11 Aug 2026, 16:43 BST
    UK2
Published amendments (1)

East Suffolk Council is seeking to commission a consultancy team to undertake a review and refresh of the existing PowerPark Vision, originally developed in 2020. Please send Your Expression of Interest by completing the Request for Information attached can be returned to [email protected] by 4th September, 2029 12noon . Please register for free on the following link: https://in-t…

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

East Suffolk Council

Contracting authorityPublic authority - sub-central government GB-PPON: PLPP-1174-BHLX East Suffolk House, Station Road, Melton, Woodbridge, East of England, IP12 1RTContact email

Official documents & specifications (2)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure