Official UK procurement notice
Preliminary Market Engagement - Traffic Regulation Order (TRO) Management System
Authority: Rhondda Cynon Taf CBC (Public body)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionRequest for Information from Suppliers
Rhondda Cynon Taf County Borough Council is seeking to engage with the market regarding the provision of a digital Traffic Regulation Order (TRO) management system. The purpose of this exercise is to gather information on available solutions and confirm supplier capability against the essential criteria outlined in the specification.
The Council currently operates under a three-user license and anticipates maintaining similar multi-user access as part of this procurement. The contract is expected to be for a 3–5 year term, with optional year-on-year renewal subject to price. Full details of the essential and optional requirements are outlined on the attached requirements document. Suppliers are invited to provide feedback on if core requirements are met, compliance with national standards (including DTRO requirements), bilingual capability, and options for future-proofing. This engagement will help ensure the Council selects a solution that delivers robust, secure, and efficient TRO management while supporting statutory obligations.
Interested suppliers should respond via the UK2 notice and complete the questionnaire located on etenderwales etenderwales.ukp.app.jaggaer.com/home.html ↗ ref ppq 33798 to confirm compliance with the essential criteria set out in the specification.
CPV: Compliance software package · Transport equipment and auxiliary products to transportation
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedPipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How Rhondda Cynon Taf CBC buys Compliance software package (CPV 4817), and who usually turns up
Rhondda Cynon Taf CBC’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: Compliance software package (CPV 4817) →
How the contest usually goes
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How often small and medium firms win.
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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.
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A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners were registered outside the region where that award was delivered.
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How long buyers here take to decide after bids close.
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Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.
Half of these awards have an award date within 62 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.
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How many bids past lots received.
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Past bids do not predict this tender.
1 bid17% / 16%
2–332% / 31%
4–629% / 32%
7+22% / 22%
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 estimate26% / 55%
Within ±2%47% / 25%
Above estimate26% / 20%
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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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No supplier is confirmed as a bidder.
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Lot #1CPV 4817Published estimate£110k
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How many bids this lot may attract.
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A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid16%
2–331%
4–632%
7+22%
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Where the award price may land.
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No comparable awards for this lot yet.
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Who has supplied this buyer on similar work? i
Who has done similar work for this buyer.
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A past supplier may not bid again.
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Who has done similar work for this buyer.
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A past supplier may not bid again.
No earlier contract of this buyer matches this lot on the published record.
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Who could compete for this lot?
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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.
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Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Goods
- Notice status
- Planned procurement
- Procurement threshold
- Below threshold
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 10 Dec 2025, 11:23 GMT
- Last source update
- 10 Dec 2025, 11:23 GMT
- Authority reference
RCT/CE/RCT61- FTS notice number
2025/S 000-081398- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-05f297Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
10 Dec 2025 → 1 Apr 2026 · 4 dates- Planning notice published323 days ago10 Dec 2025, 11:23 GMT
- Market engagement310 days ago22 Dec 2025, 23:59 GMT
Complete the questionnaire and return by 12 noon on the 22nd December 2025, via etenderwales pqq 33798
- Tender notice expected268 days ago2 Feb 2026, 23:59 GMT
- Contract starts211 days ago1 Apr 2026, 00:00 BST
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Preliminary market engagement notice published10 Dec 2025, 11:23 GMTUK2
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