Official UK procurement notice
Preliminary Market Engagement (PME) for Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (EVI) for Staffordshire Car Parks (LEVI Funded)
Authority: Staffordshire County Council (Local council)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionStaffordshire County Council (SCC) is undertaking Pre‑Market Engagement (PME) to inform the procurement strategy for an Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (EVI) scheme forming part of the Council's wider EVI programme of works.
The scheme proposes the delivery, operation and maintenance of EV charging infrastructure within public car parks across Staffordshire (approximately 70 sites, 600 fast charging sockets, 7-22kW and 40 sockets with a 50kW minimum output), supported by £2.58m of LEVI capital grant funding alongside private sector investment. SCC is currently considering options for the appointment of a delivery partner through a concession contract model.
Suppliers/service providers are being requested to complete a PME Questionnaire.
The purpose of this questionnaire is to:
test market appetite and attractiveness of the scheme;
assess alignment with the LEVI‑recommended Heads of Terms;
validate assumptions on risk allocation, contract length, and commercial structure;
understand realistic procurement and delivery timescales; and
identify opportunities to improve deliverability, value for money, accessibility and futureproofing.
Identify any barriers and/or risks for suppliers in the delivery of this scheme, including participating in the formal procurement process.
Participation is voluntary and forms part of informal market engagement only. Responses will be anonymised and will not confer any advantage or disadvantage in any future procurement process. Feedback will be considered to inform the final sourcing strategy and tender documentation.
The PME Questionnaire must be returned by 5pm 3rd June 2026 by email to; [email protected]
Questions or clarifications relating to the PME Questionnaire may be raised at any point prior to the PME Questionnaire response deadline. Suppliers/service providers should submit any questions by email to [email protected]
CPV: Installation services of electrical equipment · Other electrical installation work · Works for complete or part construction and civil engineering work
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedPipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How Staffordshire County Council buys Electrical installation work (CPV 4531), and who usually turns up
Staffordshire County 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: Electrical installation work (CPV 4531) →
How the contest usually goes
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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.
Small firms have won here. Neither number says whether you qualify; it describes who has been winning.
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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.
Local means the winner is registered in the region where that award was delivered. The market figure counts awards delivered in West Midlands.
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.
Middle value in days from the bid deadline to the award date, on competitions that published both.
Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.
Half of these awards have an award date within 56 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.
Thin markets produce this too; it is not proof of a tailored specification.
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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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.
1 bid15% / 22%
2–319% / 26%
4–648% / 4%
7+19% / 48%
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 estimate5% / 40%
Within ±2%95% / 47%
Above estimate0% / 13%
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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.
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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 4531Estimate not published
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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 23 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid22%
2–326%
4–64%
7+48%
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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.
A statistical guide from past awards, not a price to bid.
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.
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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.
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.
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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
- Unspecified in notice
- Regulatory regime
- Concession
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 12 May 2026, 18:18 BST
- Last source update
- 12 May 2026, 18:18 BST
- Authority reference
IA3899- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-043666- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-069719Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
12 May 2026 → 1 Apr 2027 · 3 dates- Planning notice published169 days ago12 May 2026, 18:18 BST
- Market engagement147 days ago3 Jun 2026, 23:59 BST
Suppliers/service providers are requested to complete a PME Questionnaire.
To see the questionnaire please email: [email protected]
Reference: Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (EVI) for Staffordshire Car Parks (LEVI Funded) PME IA3899
PME Questionnaire return deadline is 5pm 3rd June 2026
Contact for PME Questionnaire/Response/Correspondence
Staffordshire County Council - Economy, Infrastructure & Skills Directorate
Email: [email protected]
Reference: Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (EVI) for Staffordshire Car Parks (LEVI Funded) PME IA3899
- Today29 Oct 2026
- Contract startsin 153 days1 Apr 2027, 00:00 BST
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Preliminary market engagement notice published12 May 2026, 18:18 BSTUK2
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