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RDC AB Replacement of Bexhill Seafront Fountain (ESPH729 JB)

BuyerRother District Council

Statusplanning

DeadlineNot published

ValueValue not published

Published11 Nov 2025

What is being bought

The Council and the East Sussex Procurement Hub are at an early stage in development of its proposals for the Replacement of the Bexhill Seafront Fountain and seeks input from the market as to what might be the most potentially advantageous way of packaging and scoping any future procurement opportunity.

Lot details

Lot 1

No lot description published.

Statusplanning

Contract periodFrom 1 Jan 2026 to 31 Dec 2026

SME suitabilitySuitable for SMEs

What is included

Item	Category	Quantity
1	Construction work for water projects	Not published

Comparable-procurement analytics

Benchmarked against retained Find a Tender procedures with CPV division 45. The category anchor is Construction work for water projects (45240000); this is a deliberately broad market comparator. The comparison is shown at several levels rather than pretending one company or region is always the best benchmark.

Comparison set	Procedures	Reported bids per procedure	Named award suppliers	Price evidence
Market: CPV division 45	7,214	3 median · 22.7 average (1,246 of 7,214 with a bid count)	3.4 average (1,374 of 7,214 with named award suppliers)	Not published
Same buyer	1	Not published	Not published	Not published

“Reported bids” is an official aggregate, sometimes reported per lot; it is the closest available competition measure. “Named award suppliers” are winners, not all applicants.

Price-outcome signal

Not enough comparable procedures currently publish both a GBP tender value and a usable lowest-valid-bid value to calculate a responsible price-reduction benchmark. Tenderline deliberately does not infer a saving from named award suppliers or from missing award values.

Procurement strategy & market signals

Framework agreementNot published

Dynamic purchasing systemNot published

Competitive procurementNot published

Recurring requirementNot published

Procurement method rationaleNot published

Rationale classificationsNot published

Special regimeNot published

Covered byNot published

Submission policyNot published

Selection criteriaNot published

Risk detailsNot published

Planning & early market engagement

BudgetValue not published

No-engagement rationaleNot published

Planning documents1

Planning milestones1

Milestone	Type	Due	Status
Preliminary Engagement for Bexhill Water Fountain. For more information see: https://in-tendhost.co.uk/esph/aspx/Home	engagement	28 Nov 2025	scheduled

Related procurements

No linked framework, prior procurement or reprocurement published.

Documents & submission route

Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender planning · marketEngagementNotice

Source data inventory

Diagnostic view. “Not published” means this current release does not provide a value.

OCID	ocds-h6vhtk-05d285
Latest release ID	072767-2025
Latest release timestamp	Tue Nov 11 2025 12:36:23 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Source	find-a-tender
Official notice URL	Not published
Tender status	planning
Procurement method	Not published
Procurement method details	Not published
Main procurement category	works
Above threshold	Not published
Legal basis	2023/54
Tender period: start	Not published
Tender period: end	Not published
Expression of interest deadline	Not published
Enquiry deadline	Not published
Award period: start	Not published
Award period: end	Not published
Submission method details	Not published
Submission languages	Not published
Electronic catalogue policy	Not published
Total tender value	Not published
Tender lots in source	1
Tender items in source	1
Tender documents in source	0
Awards in latest release	0
Contracts in latest release	0
Parties in latest release	1

Notice history

Date	Event	Reference
11 Nov 2025	planningUpdate	072767-2025
23 Oct 2025	planning	067841-2025

All source data

Unmodified official OCDS data retained by Tenderline for this procurement process.

Complete current OCDS release JSON

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Complete JSON history (2 releases)

11 Nov 2025 · 072767-2025 · planningUpdate

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23 Oct 2025 · 067841-2025 · planning

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