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RFQ 2025/18 - Technical Support for Down Arts Centre

Buyer: Newry, Mourne and Down District Council (NMD) →

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BuyerNewry, Mourne and Down District Council (NMD)
StatusClosed
Deadline26 Sept 2025
Value£28,000
Published5 Sept 2025

What is being bought

NMDDC wish to engage suitably qualified and experienced technician support for a 2-year period to provide the below 3 classes of technical support in order to service the variety of shows programmed in DAC which require varying levels of technical support. 1. theatre technical, 2. audio technical and 3. systems technical.

Delivery location

UK, GB

Categories

Sound technician 92370000

Lot details

Lot 1

No lot description published.

Statusactive
Value£28,000
Contract periodFrom 13 Oct 2025 to 12 Oct 2027
SME suitabilitySuitable for SMEs

Award criteria
Project Specific Questions — Project Specific Questions (40%)
Cost — Cost (60%)

What is included

ItemCategoryQuantity
1Sound technicianNot published

Comparable-procurement analytics

Benchmarked against retained Find a Tender procedures with CPV division 92. The category anchor is Sound technician (92370000); 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 setProceduresReported bids per procedureNamed award suppliersPrice evidence
Market: CPV division 927683 median · 23.5 average (134 of 768 with a bid count)2.6 average (153 of 768 with named award suppliers)Not published
Same buyer62Not publishedNot publishedNot published
Delivery region: UK1823 median · 15.9 average (25 of 182 with a bid count)2.7 average (27 of 182 with named award suppliers)Not published
Similar published value (0.5×–2×)112Not publishedNot publishedNot 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 regimelightTouch
Covered byNot published
Submission policyallowed
Selection criteriaNot published
Risk detailsNot published

Planning & early market engagement

BudgetNot published
No-engagement rationaleNot published
Planning documents0
Planning milestones0

No planning milestones published.

Related procurements

No linked framework, prior procurement or reprocurement published.

Documents & submission route

Source data inventory

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

OCIDocds-h6vhtk-059501
Latest release ID054309-2025
Latest release timestampFri Sep 05 2025 13:12:02 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Sourcefind-a-tender
Official notice URLhttps://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/054309-2025
Tender statusactive
Procurement methodopen
Procurement method detailsBelow threshold - open competition
Main procurement categoryservices
Above thresholdNo
Legal basis2023/54
Tender period: startNot published
Tender period: end2025-09-26T13:00:00+01:00
Expression of interest deadlineNot published
Enquiry deadline2025-09-18T13:00:00+01:00
Award period: startNot published
Award period: endNot published
Submission method detailsTo access this opportunity, log in to https://suppliers.multiquote.com and view the opportunity. If you are not registered with MultiQuote, please visit https://suppliers.multiquote.com, complete the registration form on the log in page and quote the title and reference of the notice in your registration.
Submission languagesNot published
Electronic catalogue policyNot published
Total tender value£28,000
Tender lots in source1
Tender items in source1
Tender documents in source1
Awards in latest release0
Contracts in latest release0
Parties in latest release1

Notice history

DateEventReference
5 Sept 2025tender054309-2025

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 (1 releases)
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