Official UK procurement notice
Preliminary Market Engagement Notice for new Framework Agreement for Small (Lower) Value Works within North Wales
Authority: Denbighshire County Council (Local council)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionHysbysiad am Ymgysylltiad Rhagarweiniol â'r Farchnad ar gyfer Cytundeb Fframwaith newydd ar gyfer Gwaith Gwerth Bach (Isel) yng Ngogledd Cymru.
Cyngor Sir Ddinbych, yn gweithredu fel awdurdod cynnal Partneriaeth Adeiladu Gogledd Cymru, fydd yn ymgymryd â ymgysylltu rhagarweiniol â’r farchnad (PME) cyn ymarfer cynnal a gorchwylir arfaethedig mewn perthynas â sefydlu Cytundeb Fframwaith newydd ar gyfer Gweithiau Gwerth Isel. Disgwylir i werth prosiectau unigol amrywio rhwng £30,000 a £300,000 gan gynnwys TAW.
Denbighshire County Council, acting as host authority of the North Wales Construction Partnership, will be undertaking Preliminary Market Engagement (PME) in advance of a proposed procurement exercise in relation to the establishment of a new Framework Agreement for Small Value Works. The anticipated value of individual projects is expected to range between £30,000 and £300,000 inc.VAT.
The proposed framework is intended to support the delivery of a range of low to medium value construction works across North Wales, including but not limited to:
- General building works
- Reactive and planned maintenance
- Minor refurbishment projects
- Roofing and external works
- Mechanical and electrical works
- Accessibility adaptions
- Housing improvement works
The framework is anticipated to support wider objectives relating to fair work, sustainability, local supply chain participation, and delivery of social value outcomes in accordance with the requirements of the Procurement Act 2023 and the Social Partnership and Public Procurement (Wales) Act 2023.
CPV: Building completion work · Building installation work · Site preparation work · Works for complete or part construction and civil engineering work
How this framework works
From the published notice- Framework period
- 4 yrs from 1 Apr 2027
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedWhat it takes to wini
How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
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How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
- “Preliminary Market Engagement Notice for new Framework Agreement for…” is a framework: the contest is a place on its panel, not a single contract.
Pipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How Denbighshire County Council buys Building installation work (CPV 4530), and who usually turns up
Denbighshire County Council’s own published record, next to the published market for the same work. This notice is a framework or DPS, so only frameworks and DPS are compared. Whole-market view: Building installation work (CPV 4530) →
How the contest usually goes
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How often small and medium firms win.
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No small-firm winners recorded among this authority’s published awards in this sample.
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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 the winner is registered in the region where that contract was delivered.
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners are registered in Wales (Cymru).
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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.
Half of these awards were announced within 31 days of the bid deadline.
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Missing bid counts may hide more single-bid awards. This share is a minimum.
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Past bids do not predict this tender.
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4–620% / 40%
7+80% / 60%
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.
On a framework or DPS, prices are agreed when work is called off.
Past prices are a guide, not a bid price.
Not comparable on a framework or DPS. The notice sets up a supplier panel and a ceiling value; what the work actually costs is agreed later, on each call-off or mini-competition, and those publish as contract notices of their own. The award-vs-estimate record of this market therefore sits on the call-offs; this page shows it on the contracts, not on the panel that frames them.
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See the forecast, this buyer’s earlier suppliers and firms with relevant wins.
No supplier is confirmed as a bidder.
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Lot #1CPV 4530No real estimate
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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 205 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid1%
2–35%
4–626%
7+67%
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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.
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Who has supplied this buyer on similar work? i
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A past supplier may not bid again.
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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
- Works
- Notice status
- Planned procurement
- Procurement threshold
- Above threshold (FTS publication)
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Framework agreement
- Who may use this agreement
- Not stated in the notice; call-off rights may be limited to the establishing authority
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 29 May 2026, 11:50 BST
- Last source update
- 1 Jun 2026, 09:22 BST
- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-051179- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
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How it was run
Official notice- Appointment period ends
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Timeline
29 May 2026 → 1 Apr 2027 · 5 dates- Planning notice published144 days ago29 May 2026, 11:50 BST
- Latest notice published141 days ago1 Jun 2026, 09:22 BST
- Market engagement116 days ago25 Jun 2026, 23:59 BST
The purpose of this engagement is to inform the market of a forthcoming opportunity and to gather feedback from suppliers to help shape the procurement strategy and ensure the framework is accessible, proportionate, and delivers value for money.
This engagement aims to:
- Understand current market capacity and capability
- Encourage participation from SMEs, local suppliers, social enterprises and third sector organisations
- Explore framework structure, including potential lotting by value, trade (e.g. General Building, Mechanical & Electrical, Roofing) and/or geographic area
- Inform proportionate selection and award criteria
- Identify potential contractual arrangements (e.g. NEC4 Short Form or JCT)
- Understand opportunities to embed social value, community benefits and fair work outcomes
- Ensure the framework is accessible and commercially viable for suppliers
- Obtain feedback on contract management and performance measures
- Support compliance with Procurement legislation transparency and engagement principles
- Inform proposed procurement timetable, type of framework, and framework duration
Engagement will be undertaken via an in-person supplier briefing event:
Location: The OPTIC Centre, St Asaph
Date: 25th June 2026
Time: 2:00pm
The Authority may also consider additional engagement methods, including follow-up discussions or requests for written feedback where appropriate.
Suppliers interested in attending the engagement event should register their interest via Sell2Wales and follow the link to complete the brief questionnaire and book your place
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- Today20 Oct 2026
- Tender notice expectedin 14 days2 Nov 2026, 23:59 GMT
- Contract startsin 163 days1 Apr 2027, 00:00 BST
Notice history
2 events · 2 releases on Find a Tender · since 29 May 2026- Preliminary market engagement notice published29 May 2026, 11:50 BSTUK2
- Preliminary market engagement notice published1 Jun 2026, 09:22 BSTUK2
Published amendments (1)
Change to contact email address Change to hyperlink to register for PME event
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 (2)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender