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Published 9 Oct 2026, 11:03 BST

Official UK procurement notice

Silsden Road (Addingham) Play Area Refurbishment

Authority: City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council (Local council)

WorksBelow threshold - open competitionBelow thresholdSME suitable
Published estimate£116,000≈ £87k / year · £139,200 inc. VAT
Submission deadline 20 Nov 202612:00 GMT · 41d 10h left
Clarification cut-off 9 Nov 202612:00 GMT · questions to the authority
Contract term 1 yr 4 moends 28 Apr 2028 · starts 14 Dec 2026

What is being bought

Published requirement description

Project to design, supply, and install a replacement play area

CPV: Flatwork for children's play area · Landscaping work for playgrounds · Park and playground equipment · Playground equipment

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · value published
Lot #1 1 yr 4 moSMEPublished value£116,000
Contract period: 14 Dec 2026 — 28 Apr 2028 (1 yr 4 mo)Eligibility: SME eligibleTurnover guideline: ~£168,699/yr≈ 2× annual value
Value
£116,000 exc. VAT · £139,200 inc. VAT
37535200 Playground equipment43325000 Park and playground equipment45112723 Landscaping work for playgrounds45236210 Flatwork for children's play area
Pre-qualification & selection criteria (PQQ)1
  • Condition of participation
    It is a pre-condition of tender all Contractors must be a member of the Association of Play Industries (API) and Safety Schemes in Procurement (SSIP).

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

Lot awarding rule: Suppliers scores from their response to Tenders Quality, Social Value and Pricing Matrix Criteria will be added together to give an overall score. The Supplier with the highest overall score shall be awarded the contract (subject to clarifications being satisfactory responded to and the Authority’s available budget.

Conditions of participation1
  • Condition of participation
    It is a pre-condition of tender all Contractors must be a member of the Association of Play Industries (API) and Safety Schemes in Procurement (SSIP).
What this means for your bid
  • Turnover usually expected at this size: about £168,699 (twice the annual value).

Turnover is an indicative market norm (≈2× annual value), not a published condition.

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

How City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council buys Building demolition and wrecking work and earthmoving work (CPV 4511) — and who usually turns up

City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council’s own published record, next to the Yorkshire and the Humber market for the same work. Frameworks and DPS are kept out: they attract a different number of bids. Whole-market view: Building demolition and wrecking work and earthmoving work (CPV 4511) →

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How the contest usually goes

This buyer’s published record next to the market where the work is delivered — contested contracts only, counted per lot

Question for the bid
The marketBuilding demolition and wrecking work and earthmoving work (CPV 4511) · Yorkshire and the Humber (authority’s region)
What to do with it
How often do SMEs win?
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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: 154 of 409 known-size awards · market: CPV 4511, n=27
38%93%

Small firms have won here. Neither number says whether you qualify; it describes who has been winning.

How often do local suppliers win?
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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 Yorkshire and the Humber.

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

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 382 of 574 known-location awards · market: CPV 4511, n=45
67%22%

Most of this buyer’s recorded winners are registered in Yorkshire and the Humber.

How long to a decision?
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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: 42 decided notices · market: n=22
37 days28 days

Half of these awards were announced within 37 days of the bid deadline.

How often single-bid or direct?
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How often work is awarded with no recorded rival.

Direct awards and tenders where every published lot count shows one bid.

Both shares are minimums: 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 268 of 344 awarded contracts without a rival · market: n=38
78%11%

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?

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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 buyer76 lots with bid counts · all categories
34% had one bid
The market25 lots with bid counts · CPV 4511
12% had one bid
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
1 bid34% / 12%
Buyer: 26 of 76 lots with published bid counts. Market: 3 of 25 lots with published bid counts.
2–316% / 20%
Buyer: 12 of 76 lots with published bid counts. Market: 5 of 25 lots with published bid counts.
4–630% / 40%
Buyer: 23 of 76 lots with published bid counts. Market: 10 of 25 lots with published bid counts.
7+20% / 28%
Buyer: 15 of 76 lots with published bid counts. Market: 7 of 25 lots with published bid counts.

How did awards compare with estimates?

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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 buyer48 lots with estimate and award · all categories
21% below estimate
The market36 lots with estimate and award · CPV 4511
39% below estimate
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
Below estimate21% / 39%
Buyer: 10 of 48 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 14 of 36 lots with an estimate and award.
Within ±2%67% / 39%
Buyer: 32 of 48 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 14 of 36 lots with an estimate and award.
Above estimate13% / 22%
Buyer: 6 of 48 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 8 of 36 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 451112% single-bidPublished estimate£116,000
Expected competition
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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 25 past lots.

A forecast, not a list of bidders.

—12% single-bid risk
Past bids on 25 similar lots
1 bid12%
3 of 25 similar past lots received 1 bid (12%).
2–320%
5 of 25 similar past lots received 2–3 (20%).
4–640%
10 of 25 similar past lots received 4–6 (40%).
7+28%
7 of 25 similar past lots received 7+ (28%).
Comparable past lots usually drew 5 bids.
Commercial price forecast
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Where the winning 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 guide, not a price to bid.

—No model forecast yet
No comparable awards on record for this lot’s category yet — the published estimate is £116k, and the forecast stays empty until the market has a record to read.

Who has supplied this buyer on similar work?
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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.

SupplierThis buyer’s earlier contractLotAward valueMatch
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Who could compete for this lot?
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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.

SupplierWon in this categoryLive contractsAward vs estimate
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Coverage and what to read with care
  • Each figure 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 sides are never blended. A lot’s own market is read at its delivery region where the lot names one; where it names several, or none that can be resolved, the chart falls back to the UK-wide record for the same category and says so under the bar. An empty cell means the source published nothing usable. Long form: Methodology.
  • When we call out a difference. A buyer figure is only flagged against the market when the sample is large enough that the gap is unlikely to be chance; at most two callouts appear, always phrased as a comparison with both numbers and the sample size.
  • Coverage (re-measured 5 Oct on the live record, 94,497 awarded procedures of the last three years). 51 % publish a bid count and 72 % a delivery region, so the market column reads the authority’s registered region when the notice names none, labelled. Of the 17,687 award-vs-estimate pairs, 34 % sit exactly on the estimate — the buyer published the award at the figure it advertised. n is on every figure; a thin sample is muted, never hidden, and a distribution is not drawn as percentages below ten observations.
  • “Match”, text similarity, the expected-bid figure and the distribution drawn beneath it are model outputs, not published facts or win probabilities. 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
Unspecified in notice
First published
9 Oct 2026, 11:03 BST
Last source update
9 Oct 2026, 11:03 BST
Authority reference
Silsden Road
FTS notice number
2026/S 000-095542
Latest notice
Tender notice (UK4)
Classification (CPV)
Flatwork for children's play areaLandscaping work for playgroundsPark and playground equipmentPlayground equipment
Delivery area
Not published
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-078476 Find a Tender

How to participate & submission route

Official notice Submit via EU-Supply (CTM)
Submission portal named on this notice: EU-Supply (CTM) · Who buys & how to bid on EU-Supply
Public notice page · account needed to bidElectronic submission allowed
Access & registration note: Free · 5–10 minutes
Requests to participate (first stage)
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Tender submission deadline
20 Nov 2026, 12:00 GMT
Clarification deadline
9 Nov 2026, 12:00 GMT
Submission channel
Official e-sourcing portal
Electronic submission
Allowed
Detailed submission instructions & authority contactsFrom official release
Published estimate £116,000 excludes VAT (£139,200 including VAT).

Timeline

4 published dates · Europe/London
  1. Tender notice published1 day ago
    9 Oct 2026, 11:03 BST
  2. Clarification questions byin 30 days
    9 Nov 2026, 12:00 GMT
  3. Submission deadlinein 41 days
    20 Nov 2026, 12:00 GMT
  4. Contract startsin 65 days
    14 Dec 2026

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

2 events · 1 release on Find a Tender · since 9 Oct 2026
  1. Tender notice published
    9 Oct 2026, 11:03 BSTUK4
  2. First tender notice published
    9 Oct 2026, 11:03 BST

Contracting authority & participating public bodies

City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council

Contracting authorityPublic authority - sub-central government GB-PPON: PBWW-4714-TBHN Britannia House, Hall Ings, Bradford, Yorkshire & Humber, BD1 1HX Michael Walbank [email protected]

Official documents & specifications (1)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure

  • Tender notice tenderTender noticeUK4Tender notice on Find a Tender