Find a TenderPlanned procurementPreliminary market engagement notice
Published 19 Dec 2025, 10:56 GMT

Official UK procurement notice

RBWM Traffic Modelling · UK public procurement notice

Authority: Windsor and Maidenhead Borough Council (Local council)

ServicesAbove threshold
Planned pipeline valueValue not publishedpipeline notice, not a live tender
Tender notice expected Date not publishedfrom the planned procurement notice
Contract term 5 yrsends 31 Jul 2031 · up to 31 Jul 2036 with extensions · starts 1 Aug 2026

What is being bought

Published requirement description

The Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead is seeking expressions of interest from consultants to prepare a new 'highway only' traffic model for the Borough, primarily to test growth scenarios and development sites for the review of the Borough Local Plan which will have a plan period up to 2045. The model will be a full replacement of the existing model and will be a traffic only model but developed in a way that does not preclude expanding its functionality to cover multi-modal and variable demand operations.

CPV: Computer-related services · Development consultancy services · Public road transport services

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published
Lot #1PlannedRenewal 5 yrs
Contract period: 1 Aug 2026 – 31 Jul 2031 (5 yrs) · up to 31 Jul 2036 with extensions
Delivery: South East
Extensions: Extension options published

Who is likely to bid for this lot ↓

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

How Windsor and Maidenhead Borough Council buys Public road transport services (CPV 6011), and who usually turns up

Windsor and Maidenhead Borough Council’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: Public road transport services (CPV 6011) →

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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 buyerWindsor and Maidenhead Borough Council · all categories
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: 11 of 19 known-size awards · market: CPV 6011 · South East England, n=8
58%13%

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 South East England.

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

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 12 of 25 known-location awards · market: CPV 6011 · South East England, n=11
48%64%

Most of this buyer’s recorded winners are registered outside South East England.

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: 9 decided notices · market: CPV 6011 · South East England, n=5
75 days25 days

Half of these awards were announced within 75 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.

The buyer’s share is a minimum: 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 5 of 17 procurements with awards had no recorded rival · market: CPV 6011 · South East England, n=8
29%38%

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 market13 lots with bid counts · CPV 6011 · South East England
8% had one bid
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
1 bid14% / 8%
Buyer: 2 of 14 lots with published bid counts. Market: 1 of 13 lots with published bid counts.
2–329% / 15%
Buyer: 4 of 14 lots with published bid counts. Market: 2 of 13 lots with published bid counts.
4–657% / 77%
Buyer: 8 of 14 lots with published bid counts. Market: 10 of 13 lots with published bid counts.
7+0% / 0%
Buyer: 0 of 14 lots with published bid counts. Market: 0 of 13 lots with published bid counts.

How did awards compare with estimates?

i

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 buyer5 lots with estimate and award · all categories
0% below estimate
The market58 lots with estimate and award · CPV 6011 · UK-wide
36% below estimate
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
Below estimate0% / 36%
Buyer: 0 of 5 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 21 of 58 lots with an estimate and award.
Within ±2%80% / 34%
Buyer: 4 of 5 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 20 of 58 lots with an estimate and award.
Above estimate20% / 29%
Buyer: 1 of 5 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 17 of 58 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 601160 monthsEstimate not published
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 13 past lots.

A forecast, not a list of bidders.

—No model forecast yet8% chance of a single bid
Past bids on 13 similar lots
1 bid8%
1 of 13 similar past lots received 1 bid (8%).
2–315%
2 of 13 similar past lots received 2–3 (15%).
4–677%
10 of 13 similar past lots received 4–6 (77%).
7+0%
0 of 13 similar past lots received 7+ (0%).
Comparable past lots usually drew 5 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.

—Estimate not published
The buyer published no estimate for this lot, so there is nothing to forecast against. A price prediction here would be a number about a number we do not have.

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
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
19 Dec 2025, 10:56 GMT
Last source update
19 Dec 2025, 10:56 GMT
FTS notice number
2025/S 000-084776
Latest notice
Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
Classification (CPV)
Computer-related servicesDevelopment consultancy servicesPublic road transport services
Delivery area
South East (UKJ11)
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-05fa14 Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice
Submission deadline
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Timeline

19 Dec 2025 → 1 Aug 2026 · 3 dates
  1. Planning notice published307 days ago
    19 Dec 2025, 10:56 GMT
  2. Market engagement271 days ago
    23 Jan 2026, 23:59 GMT

    The Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead is seeking expressions of interest from consultants to prepare a new 'highway only' traffic model for the Borough, primarily to test growth scenarios and development sites for the review of the Borough Local Plan which will have a plan period up to 2045. The model will be a full replacement of the existing model and will be a traffic only model but developed in a way that does not preclude expanding its functionality to cover multi-modal and variable demand operations.

    To gain a better understanding of your organisation and your views/thoughts on our proposed approach we would like you to provide a written response to a few initial questions prepared in the questionnaire. Please use the following link to access this questionnaire:

    forms.office.com/e/ZctDWznQaW ↗

    The deadline for written response is 23/01/2026 (12 pm)

    Thank you for the interest in this Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead opportunity, we very much appreciate your participation in this process and sharing your thoughts and information with us.

  3. Contract starts82 days ago
    1 Aug 2026, 00:00 BST

Notice history

1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender
  1. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    19 Dec 2025, 10:56 GMT
    UK2

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

Royal Borough of Windsor & Maidenhead

Contracting authorityPublic authority - sub-central government GB-PPON: PJQM-1124-QDHW St Ives Road, Maidenhead, South East, SL6 1RFContact email

Official documents & specifications (1)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure