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Preliminary Market Engagement for Ashby Market - Operations Contract

BuyerNorth Lincolnshire Council

Statusplanning

DeadlineNot published

ValueValue not published

Published25 Feb 2026

What is being bought

Ashby Market is a historic local market that operates every Thursday throughout the year. North Lincolnshire Council are exploring options to regenerate the market and seeking responses to this preliminary market engagement exercise to inform the model for setting up and dismantling the market stalls.

Delivery location

UKE13, GB

Lot details

Lot 1

No lot description published.

Statusplanning

Contract periodFrom 1 Aug 2026 to 31 Jul 2028

SME suitabilitySuitable for SMEs

What is included

Item	Category	Quantity
1	Fair services, Miscellaneous services	Not published

Comparable-procurement analytics

Benchmarked against retained Find a Tender procedures with CPV division 92. The category anchor is Fair services (92331100); this is a deliberately broad market comparator. The comparison is shown at several levels rather than pretending one company or region is always the best benchmark.

Comparison set	Procedures	Reported bids per procedure	Named award suppliers	Price evidence
Market: CPV division 92	1,697	4 median · 29.3 average (510 of 1,697 with a bid count)	3.5 average (573 of 1,697 with named award suppliers)	1 comparable price pairs
Same buyer	0	Not published	Not published	Not published
Delivery region: UKE13	8	3 median · 3 average (1 of 8 with a bid count)	1 average (1 of 8 with named award suppliers)	Not published

“Reported bids” is an official aggregate, sometimes reported per lot; it is the closest available competition measure. “Named award suppliers” are winners, not all applicants.

Price-outcome signal

Not enough comparable procedures currently publish both a GBP tender value and a usable lowest-valid-bid value to calculate a responsible price-reduction benchmark. Tenderline deliberately does not infer a saving from named award suppliers or from missing award values.

Procurement strategy & market signals

Framework agreementNot published

Dynamic purchasing systemNot published

Competitive procurementNot published

Recurring requirementNot published

Procurement method rationaleNot published

Rationale classificationsNot published

Special regimeNot published

Covered byNot published

Submission policyNot published

Selection criteriaNot published

Risk detailsNot published

Planning & early market engagement

BudgetValue not published

No-engagement rationaleNot published

Planning documents1

Planning milestones1

Milestone	Type	Due	Status
Expressions of interest must be submitted through North Lincolnshire Council's e-tendering platform, NLCProcure. This will enable access to the pre-market engagement documentation and give the supplier the opportunity to ask clarification questions. All responses must be submitted through NLCProcure, which can be accessed through this link: https://procure.northlincs.gov.uk/s/	engagement	10 Mar 2026	scheduled

Related procurements

No linked framework, prior procurement or reprocurement published.

Documents & submission route

Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender planning · marketEngagementNotice

Source data inventory

Diagnostic view. “Not published” means this current release does not provide a value.

OCID	ocds-h6vhtk-065af2
Latest release ID	016754-2026
Latest release timestamp	Wed Feb 25 2026 10:06:02 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Source	find-a-tender
Official notice URL	Not published
Tender status	planning
Procurement method	Not published
Procurement method details	Not published
Main procurement category	services
Above threshold	No
Legal basis	2023/54
Tender period: start	Not published
Tender period: end	Not published
Expression of interest deadline	Not published
Enquiry deadline	Not published
Award period: start	Not published
Award period: end	Not published
Submission method details	Not published
Submission languages	Not published
Electronic catalogue policy	Not published
Total tender value	Not published
Tender lots in source	1
Tender items in source	1
Tender documents in source	0
Awards in latest release	0
Contracts in latest release	0
Parties in latest release	1

Notice history

Date	Event	Reference
25 Feb 2026	planningUpdate	016754-2026
24 Feb 2026	planning	016446-2026

All source data

Unmodified official OCDS data retained by Tenderline for this procurement process.

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