Official UK procurement notice
Provision, installation, and ongoing maintenance of new bus shelters across Slough Borough
Authority: Slough Borough Council (Local council)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThis project involves the delivery of a fully managed bus shelter and billboard advertising service across Slough, a rapidly growing and densely populated town in Berkshire. The contract, awarded by Slough Borough Council, will run for 11 years with an optional 4-year extension.
The Contractor will be responsible for the supply, installation, maintenance, cleaning, and advertising of 176 bus shelters and 3 billboards, including the introduction of digital advertising screens. All associated costs, such as planning permissions, electricity, and business rates; will be covered by the Contractor.
The project also includes lifecycle management of assets and the generation of revenue for the Council through fixed annual payments, revenue share, and provision of digital advertising space for public messaging.
The Council will receive fixed annual income from advertising (£250,000 from bus shelters and £7,500 from billboards, index-linked), a share of advertising revenue (3% net), and 10% of digital screen time for Council messaging.
CPV: Advertising management services · Advertising services · Bus shelters · Communication and multimedia software package · Construction materials and associated items · Construction work · Repair and maintenance services · Services provided by extra-territorial organisations and bodies · Sports information billboards · Wood
The lotProcurement structure
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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).
Evaluation split and conditions of participation as published; the tender pack may add morei
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).
Published sub-criteria (2)
- Technical Submission: 60%
- Commercial submissions: 40%
Published award criteria (2)
- Technical Submission
- Commercial submissions
- Price carries 40 of 100 points: a 10% discount moves about 4 points. The method statement decides this lot, not the discount.
Price arithmetic assumes straight proportional scoring; the tender pack may use another formula.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Procedure method
- Below threshold - open competition
- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Works
- Notice status
- Closed
- 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
- 13 May 2026, 14:57 BST
- Last source update
- 13 May 2026, 14:57 BST
- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-044007- Latest notice
- Tender notice (UK4)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Not published
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-0697e6Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
- 13 Jul 2026, 12:00 BST
- Submission channel
- Official e-sourcing portal
- Electronic submission
- Allowed
Timeline
13 May 2026 → 1 Nov 2026 · 3 dates- Tender notice published166 days ago13 May 2026, 14:57 BST
- Submission deadline105 days ago13 Jul 2026, 12:00 BST
- Today26 Oct 2026
- Contract startsin 6 days1 Nov 2026
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Tender notice published13 May 2026, 14:57 BSTUK4
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Official documents & specifications (2)
Official links; attachments are not copiedTender pack and attachments
Notices published for this procedure
- Tender notice Tender notice on Find a Tender