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Published 1 Jul 2026, 13:21 BST

Official UK procurement notice

Preliminary Market Engagement (PME) for Installation, Operation and Maintenance of Electric Vehicle Charge Points Across 6 London Boroughs

Official notice Competition analysis

Authority: London Borough of Ealing (Local council)

ServicesAbove thresholdConcession
Sectors: Petroleum products, fuel, electricity and other sources of energy (09)Electrical machinery, apparatus, equipment and consumables; lighting (31)Repair & Maintenance (50)
+1 moreInstallation services (except software) (51)
 Delivery: London (UKI)
Concession value (operator's revenue)£482,266,978operator revenue, not the authority's budget
Tender notice expected 15 Oct 2026from the planned procurement notice
Contract term 15 yrsends 31 May 2042 · up to 31 May 2043 with extensions · starts 1 Jun 2027

What is being bought

Published requirement description

The Council, as part of a partnership of six West and North London boroughs, is preparing to procure Electric Vehicle Charge Point (EVCP) infrastructure through the Local Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (LEVI) funding programme. Funding of approximately £7.54 million (to be equally split across the partnership) has been secured from the Office for Zero Emission Vehicles (OZEV), and the Partnership is now seeking feedback through this Pre Market Engagement.

CPV: Battery chargers · Chargers · Electrical equipment and apparatus · Electricity · Installation services of electric motors · Rechargers · Repair and maintenance services · Repair and maintenance services of electrical machinery, apparatus and associated equipment

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published
Lot #1PlannedRenewal 15 yrs
Contract period: 1 Jun 2027 – 31 May 2042 (15 yrs) · up to 31 May 2043 with extensions
Delivery: London
Extensions: Extension options published
09310000 Electricity31158000 Chargers31158100 Battery chargers31600000 Electrical equipment and apparatus31681500 Rechargers50000000 Repair and maintenance services

Who is likely to bid for this lot ↓

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

How London Borough of Ealing buys Installation services of electrical equipment (CPV 5111), and who usually turns up

London Borough of Ealing’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: Installation services of electrical equipment (CPV 5111) →

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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 buyerLondon Borough of Ealing · all categories
The marketInstallation services of electrical equipment (CPV 5111)
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: 10 of 19 known-size awards · market: CPV 5111 · UK-wide, n=27
53%67%

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 Greater London.

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

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 12 of 20 known-location awards · market: CPV 5111 · Greater London, n=5
60%0%

Most of this buyer’s recorded winners are registered in Greater London.

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 5111 · UK-wide, n=5
99 days79 days

Half of these awards were announced within 99 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 9 of 22 procurements with awards had no recorded rival · market: CPV 5111 · Greater London, n=7
41%71%

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?

i

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 buyer14 lots with bid counts · all categories
14% had one bid
The market12 lots with bid counts · CPV 5111 · UK-wide
25% had one bid
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
1 bid14% / 25%
Buyer: 2 of 14 lots with published bid counts. Market: 3 of 12 lots with published bid counts.
2–343% / 25%
Buyer: 6 of 14 lots with published bid counts. Market: 3 of 12 lots with published bid counts.
4–636% / 33%
Buyer: 5 of 14 lots with published bid counts. Market: 4 of 12 lots with published bid counts.
7+7% / 17%
Buyer: 1 of 14 lots with published bid counts. Market: 2 of 12 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 buyer4 lots with estimate and award · all categories · too few to chart
The market6 lots with estimate and award · CPV 5111 · UK-wide
50% below estimate
Market · select a colour for counts
Below estimate50%
Market: 3 of 6 lots with an estimate and award.
Within ±2%50%
Market: 3 of 6 lots with an estimate and award.
Above estimate0%
Market: 0 of 6 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 5111180 monthsPublished estimate£482m
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 12 past lots.

A forecast, not a list of bidders.

—No model forecast yet17% single-bid risk
Past bids on 12 similar lots
1 bid17%
2 of 12 similar past lots received 1 bid (17%).
2–317%
2 of 12 similar past lots received 2–3 (17%).
4–650%
6 of 12 similar past lots received 4–6 (50%).
7+17%
2 of 12 similar past lots received 7+ (17%).
Comparable past lots usually drew 4 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.

—No model forecast yet
No comparable awards on record for this lot’s category yet. The published estimate is £482m, and the forecast stays empty until the market has a record to read.

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
Above threshold (FTS publication)
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
1 Jul 2026, 13:21 BST
Last source update
1 Jul 2026, 17:02 BST
Authority reference
232557HE
FTS notice number
2026/S 000-061958
Latest notice
Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
Classification (CPV)
Battery chargersChargersElectrical equipment and apparatusElectricityInstallation services of electric motorsRechargersRepair and maintenance servicesRepair and maintenance services of electrical machinery, apparatus and associated equipment
Delivery area
London (UKI)
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06c142 Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice
Submission deadline
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Timeline

1 Jul 2026 → 1 Jun 2027 · 4 dates
  1. Planning notice published113 days ago
    1 Jul 2026, 13:21 BST
  2. Market engagement85 days ago
    28 Jul 2026, 23:59 BST

    This Pre Market Engagement pertains to a future contract opportunity which will be advertised in its own right in due course. For the avoidance of doubt this Pre Market Engagement, is not a call for competition, or a request to express interest in bidding for work.

    For the purposes of this market engagement, we are asking all participants to review the draft specification and terms of reference and complete the pre-market engagement questionnaire which can be found on our e-procurement portal ealinglbc-atamis.my.site.com/s/Welcome ↗

    Once you register with Atamis, go to the documents section, download the questionnaire and submit your completed questionnaire as an attachment on the requirement section.

  3. Tender notice expected6 days ago
    15 Oct 2026, 23:59 BST
  4. Today
    22 Oct 2026
  5. Contract startsin 222 days
    1 Jun 2027, 00:00 BST

Notice history

3 events · 3 releases on Find a Tender · since 1 Jul 2026
  1. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    1 Jul 2026, 13:21 BST
    UK2
  2. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    1 Jul 2026, 13:25 BST
    UK2
  3. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    1 Jul 2026, 17:02 BST
    UK2
Published amendments (2)

deadline for return of PME question changed

Link to portal changed to https://ealinglbc-atamis.my.site.com/s/Welcome

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

London Borough of Ealing

Contracting authorityPublic authority - sub-central government GB-PPON: PRHZ-3346-MGDQ W5 2HL, London, London, W5 2HLContact name, email

Official documents & specifications (3)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure