Official UK procurement notice
Public Art in bus shelters
Authority: Castlethorpe Parish Council (Local council)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionWe are looking for an artist to tender their services to install some form of public art in two of our village bus shelters. The produced artwork must be a) thematic, reflecting village features, b) durable, weather and vandal proof and c) low maintenance. The contract has a maximum value of £38,000
Community participation is also a requirement, ideally working with our First School, Youth Club, WI etc.
CPV: Other community, social and personal services
How this framework works
From the published notice- Type
- Closed framework
- Call-offs
- every call-off is a further competition among the appointed suppliers
- Framework period
- 1 yr · up to 1 yr 6 mo from 11 Jan 2027
Published description of the framework
Criteria and Weighting Quality & Aesthetics - 40% Price & Value - 30% Technical Durability - 15% Community Engagement - 15%
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · value publishedLot #1Lot 1RenewalPublished value£38,000
- Value
- £38,000 exc. VAT · £45,600 inc. VAT
- Extensions
- If the artist needs extra time to engage with the community or if materials are on a long lead time.
What it takes to wini
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 (4)
- Aesthetics — 40%
- Durability — 15%
- Community Engagement — 15%
- Value — 30%
Competition analysis · published record, not a forecast of who will bid
Other community, social and personal services (CPV 98) in North East England — and who usually turns up
Castlethorpe Parish Council has too little published record in this market to describe on its own; the North East England market stands beside whatever it has. This notice is a framework or DPS, so only frameworks and DPS are compared. Whole-market view: Other community, social and personal services (CPV 98) →
How the contest usually goes
Left: this authority. Right: the market where the work is delivered. Bids and award-vs-estimate pairs are per lot, from contested frameworks and DPS only — direct awards (including PA 2023 transparency notices) report one bid by definition and are left out. On Procurement Act 2023 notices the count is the tenders assessed at the final stage, not every submission received; pairs compare like with like (VAT-exclusive, or VAT-inclusive on both sides). Empty means nothing was published, not filled in from elsewhere.
Castlethorpe Parish Council
no framework/DPS notices in Other community, social and personal services (CPV 98) in 36 months
Castlethorpe Parish Council has published no bid reports, no comparable estimate → award pairs and no award dates that this analysis can use — in Other community, social and personal services (CPV 98) (36 months) or across all categories (24 months).
North East England · Other community, social and personal services (CPV 98)
framework/DPS notices delivered in North East England in 36 months: 40 in division 98 (31 competed, 7 route not published)
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How many companies usually bid for work like this.
Middle value of published bid counts, one per lot, for this buyer or this region in the same sector.
Based on this region’s tenders in this industry (CPV 98), last 36 months: 23 lots. 9 lots are from Procurement Act 2023 notices (bids assessed, middle 4) and 14 from older notices (bids received, middle 5.5).
Nothing is filled in from UK-wide numbers. An empty tile means nothing usable was published.
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How often only one company bid.
Share of lots that received exactly one bid, on the same competitions as the bids figure.
Based on this region’s tenders in this industry (CPV 98), last 36 months: 23 lots.
High means a thin market or an incumbent that is hard to beat.
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Do awards for work like this land above or below the estimate.
Estimate against award per lot, for this buyer or this region in the same sector.
Nothing published for this region in this sector: not measured on frameworks — a panel award is a ceiling, not a price.
A past pattern, not a price to bid.
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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.
Based on this region’s tenders in this industry (CPV 98), last 36 months: 6 notices.
Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.
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How much of this market goes to small and medium firms.
SME bidders where buyers published the split, otherwise SME winners.
Based on this region’s tenders in this industry (CPV 98), last 36 months: 17 lots.
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How much work like this goes to companies based in the delivery region.
Awards in this category delivered here where the winner’s registered address is in the region.
Based on this region’s tenders in this industry (CPV 98), last 36 months: 53 awards.
Registered address, so a national firm with a local branch counts as outside.
Coverage and what to read with care
- Each tile explains itself. The on a figure says what it is, how it is counted and which scope this notice’s own record came from (class, division, all categories, or the authority’s 24-month row). The two columns are never blended and nothing is filled from a UK-wide figure; an empty tile means the source published nothing usable. Long form: Methodology.
- Coverage. Roughly 40 % of notices publish a bid count; about half publish an ITL1 delivery location, so the market column reads the authority’s registered region when the notice has none (labelled). About 30 % of award-vs-estimate pairs are exact matches — the buyer published the award at the estimate. n is on every figure; a thin sample is muted, never hidden.
- “Match” and “relevance” are model scores from the nightly matcher, not published facts. Find a Tender does not publish who is bidding. Never shown: contact details, payment behaviour, or a recommended price.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Procedure method
- Below threshold - open competition
- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Open admission
- Procurement threshold
- Below threshold
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Framework agreement
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- No (one-off requirement)
- First published
- 29 Sept 2026, 16:50 BST
- Last source update
- 29 Sept 2026, 16:50 BST
- Latest notice
- Tender notice (UK4)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-077ce8Find a Tender
How to participate & submission route
Official notice- Expression of interest (EOI)
- —
- Appointment period ends
- 8 Jan 2027, 23:59 GMT
- Clarification deadline
- 30 Oct 2026, 23:59 GMT
- Electronic submission
- Allowed
Timeline
4 published dates · Europe/London- Tender notice publishedearlier today29 Sept 2026, 16:50 BST
- Clarification questions byin 31 days30 Oct 2026, 23:59 GMT
- Admission / appointment period endsin 101 days · period end, not a bid countdown8 Jan 2027, 23:59 GMT
- Contract startsin 103 days11 Jan 2027, 00:00 GMT
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Nothing awarded yet- Awards (0)
- No award published
- Contracts (0)
- No contract published
- Bid statistics
- No aggregate bid statistics published
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Tender notice published29 Sept 2026, 16:50 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