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RFQ 2025/29 - Comprehensive Services Contract for the Evaluation, Risk Assessment, and Post-Inspection Reporting of Newry Mourne and Down District Play Areas

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

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BuyerNewry, Mourne and Down District Council (NMD)
StatusClosed
Deadline21 Oct 2025
Value£18,000
Published8 Oct 2025

What is being bought

Newry, Mourne and Down District Council (The Council) seeks to appoint a suitably qualified and independent inspector to carry out annual risk assessments, post-inspection reporting, and comprehensive play area audit reporting for all sites. This process is essential to ensuring the highest standards of safety, compliance with legal obligations, and the continued enhancement of recreational spaces for residents and visitors.

Delivery location

UK, GB

Categories

Repair and maintenance services of playground equipment 50870000

Lot details

Lot 1

No lot description published.

Statusactive
Value£18,000
Contract periodFrom 2 Jan 2026 to 29 Dec 2028
SME suitabilitySuitable for SMEs

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

What is included

ItemCategoryQuantity
1Repair and maintenance services of playground equipmentNot published

Comparable-procurement analytics

Benchmarked against retained Find a Tender procedures with CPV division 50. The category anchor is Repair and maintenance services of playground equipment (50870000); 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 506,1024 median · 21 average (2,258 of 6,102 with a bid count)3.5 average (2,533 of 6,102 with named award suppliers)Not published
Same buyer6Not publishedNot publishedNot published
Delivery region: UK1,1035 median · 68.8 average (347 of 1,103 with a bid count)7.4 average (428 of 1,103 with named award suppliers)Not published
Similar published value (0.5×–2×)52Not 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 regimeNot published
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-05aab6
Latest release ID063350-2025
Latest release timestampWed Oct 08 2025 13:36:02 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Sourcefind-a-tender
Official notice URLhttps://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/063350-2025
Tender statusactive
Procurement methodopen
Procurement method detailsBelow threshold - open competition
Main procurement categoryservices
Above thresholdNo
Legal basis2023/54
Tender period: startNot published
Tender period: end2025-10-21T13:00:00+01:00
Expression of interest deadlineNot published
Enquiry deadline2025-10-16T13:00:00+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£18,000
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
8 Oct 2025tender063350-2025

All source data

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

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Complete JSON history (1 releases)
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