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Published 5 Oct 2026, 08:15 BST

Official UK procurement notice

Resurfacing of Church Car Park - Church Street, Audley

Authority: Audley Rural Parish Council (Local council)·On behalf of: The Borough Council of Newcastle-under-Lyme

WorksBelow threshold - open competitionBelow thresholdSME suitable
Published estimate£90,000£108,000 inc. VAT
Submission deadline 9 Nov 202634d 15h left
Clarification cut-off 3 Nov 202617:00 GMT · questions to the authority
Contract term 2 mostarts 4 Jan 2027
Bids per lot · the market 4CPV 4523 · n=36 · competition analysis ↓

What is being bought

Published requirement description

Removal of the existing surfacing and resurfacing of Church Car park - Church Street, Audley.

CPV: Resurfacing works

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · value published
Lot #1Lot 1 2 moSMEPublished value£90,000
Contract period: 4 Jan 2027 — 12 Mar 2027 (2 mo)Eligibility: SME eligibleDelivery: North West, West MidlandsTurnover guideline: ~£180,000/yr≈ 2× annual value
Value
£90,000 exc. VAT · £108,000 inc. VAT
45233251 Resurfacing works

Who is likely to bid for this lot ↓

What it takes to win
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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 more
How bids are scored
Quality: 50%Price: 50%
Published sub-criteria (2)
  • Resurfacing of Church Car Park - Church Street, Audley — 50%
  • Resurfacing of Church Car Park - Church Street, Audley — 50%
Published award criteria (2)
  • Resurfacing of Church Car Park - Church Street, Audley — The Quality portion (50%) will be assessed on 30% Quality, 30% Experience (preferably the delivery of car park schemes), 10% Reference, and local social responsibility 30%.
  • Resurfacing of Church Car Park - Church Street, Audley — Price submitted for the delivery of the project.
Conditions of participation1
  • Condition of participation
    Contained within the Invitation to Tender documents.

Competition analysis · published record, not a forecast of who will bid

Construction work for pipelines, communication and power lines, for highways, roads, airfields and railways; flatwork (CPV 4523) in North West England — and who usually turns up

Audley Rural Parish Council has too little published record in this market to describe on its own; the North West England market stands beside whatever it has. Frameworks and DPS are kept out: they attract a different number of bids. Whole-market view: Construction work for pipelines, communication and power lines, for highways, roads, airfields and railways; flatwork (CPV 4523) →

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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 contracts 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.

This authority

Audley Rural Parish Council

contract notices in 36 months: 1 in CPV 4523 · 1 in division 45 · 1 in all categories

Bids per lot
i

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.

Nothing published for this buyer in this sector: no bid reports published.

Nothing is filled in from UK-wide numbers. An empty tile means nothing usable was published.

—no bid reports published
Single-bid lots
i

How often only one company bid.

Share of lots that received exactly one bid, on the same competitions as the bids figure.

Nothing published for this buyer in this sector: no bid reports published.

High means a thin market or an incumbent that is hard to beat.

—no bid reports published
Award vs estimate
i

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 buyer in this sector: no comparable estimate → award pairs.

A past pattern, not a price to bid.

—no comparable estimate → award pairs
Deadline → award date
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.

Based on this buyer’s tenders in this sector (CPV 4523), last 36 months: 1 notices. Small sample.

Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.

Last 36 months.

65dCPV 4523 · 36m · n=1 notices
Notice updates
i

How often this buyer changes a notice after publishing it.

Middle number of amendments per notice. Deadline extensions and corrections both count.

Based on this buyer’s tenders in all categories, last 24 months: 1 notices. Small sample.

Last 24 months.

3all categories · 24m · n=1 notices
Awarded without competition
i

How often this buyer awards without a competition.

Direct or limited awards as a share of its notices that say which procedure was used. These routes are legal in defined cases. This is just the record.

Nothing published for this buyer in this sector: no notices in this market.

Last 36 months.

—no notices in this market
The market · delivery region

North West England · Construction work for pipelines, communication and power lines, for highways, roads, airfields and railways; flatwork (CPV 4523)

contract notices delivered in North West England in 36 months: 143 in CPV 4523 (121 competed, 18 route not published) · 1,320 in division 45 (991 competed, 208 route not published)

Bids per lot
i

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 sector (CPV 4523), last 36 months: 36 lots. 27 lots are from Procurement Act 2023 notices (bids assessed, middle 4) and 9 from older notices (bids received, middle 5).

Nothing is filled in from UK-wide numbers. An empty tile means nothing usable was published.

4CPV 4523 · 36m · n=36 lots
Single-bid lots
i

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 sector (CPV 4523), last 36 months: 36 lots.

High means a thin market or an incumbent that is hard to beat.

6%CPV 4523 · 36m · n=36 lots
Award vs estimate
i

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.

Based on this region’s tenders in this sector (CPV 4523), last 36 months: 33 pairs.

A past pattern, not a price to bid.

at estimateCPV 4523 · 36m · n=33 pairs
Deadline → award date
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.

Based on this region’s tenders in this sector (CPV 4523), last 36 months: 27 notices.

Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.

Last 36 months.

40dCPV 4523 · 36m · n=27 notices
SME bidders
i

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 sector (CPV 4523), last 36 months: 29 lots.

Last 36 months.

78%CPV 4523 · 36m · n=29 lots
Winners based in the region
i

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 sector (CPV 4523), last 36 months: 53 awards.

Registered address, so a national firm with a local branch counts as outside.

Last 36 months.

81%CPV 4523 · 36m · n=53 awards
Bids per lot robust · n=36
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How the number of bidders is spread across lots.

Each lot with a published bid count is put in a band: one bid, two to three, four to six, seven or more. Real competitions only.

Based on 36 lots on 33 contested notices · CPV 4523, last 36 months.

  • 1 bid 6%
  • 2–3 39%
  • 4–6 28%
  • 7+ 28%

Middle value 4 · 36 lots on 33 contested notices · CPV 4523.

Winning award vs estimate robust · n=33
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How often winners come in below, near or above the estimate.

Each lot with both an estimate and an award is placed by how far the award sat from the estimate.

Based on 33 lot pairs · CPV 4523, last 36 months.

A past pattern, not a price to bid.

  • Below estimate 33%
  • Within ±2% 48%
  • Above estimate 18%

33 lot pairs · CPV 4523.

robust · n=33
i

Where this tender’s estimate would land if the usual pattern repeats.

We apply the buyer’s usual movement between estimate and award (or the region’s) to the estimate on this notice.

Based on the North West England market’s usual movement over 33 lots (CPV 4523), applied to the £90,000 estimate on this notice. The range comes from the region’s middle half.

A benchmark, not a price to bid.

The middle award in North West England (CPV 4523, n=33 pairs) lands at estimate: on this notice’s £90,000 that is about £90,000, middle half £81,900–£90,000 (quartiles from North West England · CPV 4523). Context for a bid, not a recommended price.
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
Works
Notice status
Open for tender
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
No (one-off requirement)
First published
5 Oct 2026, 08:15 BST
Last source update
5 Oct 2026, 08:15 BST
Latest notice
Tender notice (UK4)
Classification (CPV)
Resurfacing works
Delivery area
North West (UKD)West Midlands (UKG)
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-07803e Find a Tender

How to participate & submission route

Official notice Submit via mytenders
Submission portal named on this notice: mytenders · Who buys & how to bid on myTenders
Supplier login requiredElectronic submission allowed
Access & registration note: Free publication showcase; bidding happens on buyer portals
Expression of interest (EOI)
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Tender submission deadline
9 Nov 2026, 00:00 GMT
Clarification deadline
3 Nov 2026, 17:00 GMT
Submission channel
Official e-sourcing portal
Electronic submission
Allowed
Detailed submission instructions & authority contactsFrom official release
Published estimate £90,000 excludes VAT (£108,000 including VAT).

Timeline

4 published dates · Europe/London
  1. Tender notice publishedearlier today
    5 Oct 2026, 08:15 BST
  2. Clarification questions byin 29 days
    3 Nov 2026, 17:00 GMT
  3. Submission deadlinein 35 days
    9 Nov 2026, 00:00 GMT
  4. Contract startsin 91 days
    4 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
  1. Tender notice published
    5 Oct 2026, 08:15 BSTUK4

Contracting authority & participating public bodies

2 public bodies on the notice

Audley Rural Parish Council

Contracting authorityPublic authority - sub-central government GB-PPON: PXRM-6729-TDQV The Croft, Barthomley Road, Audley, West Midlands, ST7 8HU

Other public bodies

Official documents & specifications (17)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Tender pack and attachments

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Notices published for this procedure

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