Official UK procurement notice
Preliminary Market Engagement – Storage, Removals and Relocations Framework
Authority: City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council (Local council)
City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council is seeking to engage with the market to better understand current practice, delivery approaches and commercial arrangements for the provision of storage, removals and relocation services. The Council intends to establish a four-year framework, divided into three lots. Any costs incurred shall be borne by the supplier.
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionPreliminary Market Engagement – Storage, Removals and Relocations Framework
City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council is seeking to engage with the market to better understand current practice, delivery approaches and commercial arrangements for the provision of storage, removals and relocation services.
The Council intends to establish a four-year framework, divided into three lots.
The engagement will focus on Lot 1 (Storage and Removals). The Council wishes to understand market capabilities, obtain feedback on proposed arrangements for how ongoing storage charges are paid and how uncollected items are handled, and gather market intelligence to inform the final specification.
This event is being held online via Microsoft Teams on Tuesday 8th December 2026 from 11:00 till 13:00. A Teams link will be sent to registered suppliers before the event.
Suppliers interested in this event are asked to register by providing the following information. Please return this information via the messaging portal of Atamis by 12:00 on Tuesday 1st December 2026:
Contact Name
Job Title
Email Address
Company Name
Company Address
If you experience any difficulties registering your interest via Atamis, please provide your contact details directly to [email protected] by 12:00 on 1 December 2026 and you will be registered for the event.
Participation is voluntary and will not influence the outcome of any future procurement process. Any costs incurred shall be borne by the supplier.
No commitment is made by the Council to undertake or proceed with any procurement.
Any future procurement will be advertised separately in accordance with the Procurement Act 2023.
The Council reserves the right to determine the final procurement route and lot structure following completion of the market engagement exercise.
CPV: Relocation services · Storage and warehousing services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedWhat it takes to wini
Evaluation split and conditions of participation as published; the tender pack may add morei
- “Preliminary Market Engagement – Storage, Removals and Relocations…” 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 City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council buys Other services (CPV 9839), and who usually turns up
City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council’s published record next to the market for the same work. Compared with other frameworks and DPS only. Whole-market view: Other services (CPV 9839) →
How the contest usually goes
Winner shares use published awards; bid and price charts use contested lots.
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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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Local means the winner is registered in the region where that award was delivered.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners were registered in the region where that award was delivered.
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Half of these awards have an award date within 47 days of the bid deadline.
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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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1 bid0% / 22%
2–336% / 17%
4–629% / 13%
7+36% / 48%
How did awards compare with estimates?
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On a framework or DPS, prices are agreed when work is called off.
Not comparable on a framework or DPS: the price is set later, on each call-off.
Assess each lot i
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Open a lot for its forecast, this buyer’s previous supplier and possible competitors, from published award history, not a bid list
Lot #1CPV 9839Published estimate£1.6m
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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 23 past lots.
1 bid22%
2–317%
4–613%
7+48%
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No comparable awards for this lot yet.
Who has supplied this buyer on similar work? i
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No earlier contract of this buyer matches this lot on the published record.
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Candidate suppliers for this notice have not been worked out yet, so this is not a verdict that nobody fits.
About this data
- Estimates, labelled. The price range, possible competitors and earlier-work matches are our estimates from past awards, not published facts, win chances or price advice. The buyer’s own record and the wider market are shown apart, never mixed.
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Coming up in this sector
Contracts ending within 12 months · Retender Radar, sector filter set
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
- 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
- 11 Nov 2026, 11:15 GMT
- Last source update
- 12 Nov 2026, 11:54 GMT
- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-107495- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-07b960Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Appointment period ends
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Timeline
11 Nov 2026 → 1 Apr 2027 · 5 dates- Planning notice published2 days ago11 Nov 2026, 11:15 GMT
- Latest notice published45h ago12 Nov 2026, 11:54 GMT
- Today14 Nov 2026
- Market engagementin 17 days1 Dec 2026, 23:59 GMT
Preliminary Market Engagement – Storage, Removals and Relocations Framework
City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council is seeking to engage with the market to better understand current practice, delivery approaches and commercial arrangements for the provision of storage, removals and relocation services.
The Council intends to establish a four-year framework, divided into three lots.
The engagement will focus on Lot 1 (Storage and Removals). The Council wishes to understand market capabilities, obtain feedback on proposed arrangements for how ongoing storage charges are paid and how uncollected items are handled, and gather market intelligence to inform the final specification.
This event is being held online via Microsoft Teams on Tuesday 8th December 2026 from 11:00 till 13:00. A Teams link will be sent to registered suppliers before the event.
Suppliers interested in this event are asked to register by providing the following information. Please return this information via the messaging portal of Atamis by 12:00 on Tuesday 1st December 2026:
Contact Name
Job Title
Email Address
Company Name
Company Address
If you experience any difficulties registering your interest via Atamis, please provide your contact details directly to [email protected] by 12:00 on 1 December 2026 and you will be registered for the event.
Participation is voluntary and will not influence the outcome of any future procurement process. Any costs incurred shall be borne by the supplier.
No commitment is made by the Council to undertake or proceed with any procurement.
Any future procurement will be advertised separately in accordance with the Procurement Act 2023.
The Council reserves the right to determine the final procurement route and lot structure following completion of the market engagement exercise.
- Tender notice expectedin 37 days21 Dec 2026, 23:59 GMT
- Contract startsin 137 days1 Apr 2027, 00:00 BST
Notice history
2 events · 2 releases on Find a Tender · since 11 Nov 2026- Preliminary market engagement notice published11 Nov 2026, 11:15 GMTUK2
- Preliminary market engagement notice published12 Nov 2026, 11:54 GMTUK2
Published amendments (1)
An additional registration method has been added to the notice. Suppliers experiencing difficulties registering their interest via Atamis may provide their contact details directly to the Council by email. This amendment is intended to ensure all interested suppliers can register for the market engagement event by the stated deadline.
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