Official UK procurement notice
Site preparation works and resurfacing – Car parks at the Leisure Centre, Beetons Way, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, IP33 3TT
Authority: West Suffolk Council (Local council)
West Suffolk Council are currently out to tender for the provision of Site preparation works and resurfacing – Car parks at the Leisure Centre, Beetons Way, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, IP33 3TT This opportunity is available in the 'Current Tenders' area of portal. The deadline for clarification questions is 12 noon Friday 27 November 2026 which must be generated via the correspondence option on the website
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionWest Suffolk Council are currently out to tender for the provision of Site preparation works and resurfacing – Car parks at the Leisure Centre, Beetons Way, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, IP33 3TT
This opportunity is available in the 'Current Tenders' area of portal. Interested parties are invited to express their interest to gain full access to the tender documentation.
The deadline date for submissions of the tender is 12 noon Friday 11 December 2026. Please note late returns will NOT be permitted
The deadline for clarification questions is 12 noon Friday 27 November 2026 which must be generated via the correspondence option on the website
CPV: Carriageway resurfacing works · Resurfacing works
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · value publishedWhat it takes to wini
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 morei
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).
Published sub-criteria (2)
- Cheryl Froud: 40%
- Cheryl Froud: 60%
Published award criteria (2)
- Cheryl Froud
- Cheryl Froud
No conditions of participation were published on the notice; check the tender documents.
- Price carries 60 of 100 points: a 10% discount moves about 6 points. This one is won on the number: sharpen the price before polishing the prose.
Price arithmetic assumes straight proportional scoring; the tender pack may use another formula.
Competition analysis · published record, not a forecast of who will bid
How West Suffolk Council buys Construction work for pipelines, communication and power lines, for highways, roads, airfields and railways; flatwork (CPV 4523), and who usually turns up
West Suffolk Council’s published record next to the market for the same work. Frameworks and DPS are left out: they draw different bid counts. Whole-market view: Construction work for pipelines, communication and power lines, for highways, roads, airfields and railways; flatwork (CPV 4523) →
How the contest usually goes
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How often small and medium firms win.
Share of awards where the winner’s size is known.
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Small firms have won here. Neither number says whether you qualify; it describes who has been winning.
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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.
Local means the winner is registered in the region where that award was delivered. The market figure counts awards delivered in East of England (authority’s region).
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners were registered outside the region where that award was delivered.
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How long buyers here take to decide after bids close.
Middle value in days from the bid deadline to the award date, on competitions that published both.
Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.
Half of these awards have an award date within 18 days of the bid deadline.
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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.
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.
1 bid16% / 18%
2–321% / 21%
4–621% / 39%
7+42% / 21%
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.
Below estimate67% / 45%
Within ±2%13% / 31%
Above estimate20% / 24%
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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.
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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 4523No real estimate
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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.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid5%
2–319%
4–616%
7+60%
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Where the award 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 statistical guide from past awards, not a price to bid.
Who has supplied this buyer on similar work? i
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.
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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.
| Supplier | This buyer’s earlier contract | Lot | Award value | Why listed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gipping Construction LtdWorked for this buyer | Proposed car park, service yard and associated landscaping.runs to Jun 2027 | — | £1.8m | Similar wording and category |
| DJ Sears Surfacing LimitedWorked for this buyer | Repair works to Rous Road Car Park - resurfacing and drainageended Oct 2025 | — | £128k | Similar wording and category |
| FABER ROOFING LIMITEDWorked for this buyer | Roof Renewal, Internal Insulation and External Cladding at 9 Bunting Road, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, IP32 7BXended Mar 2026 | — | £141k | Similar wording and category |
| Colnesett East Anglia LTDWorked for this buyer | Conversion and refurbishment 9 Short Brackland, Bury St Edmunds, IP33 1ELended Jun 2026 | — | £213k | Similar wording and category |
| Rose Builders LtdWorked for this buyer | Conversion of former bus station to part commercial & public toilets, Mildenhall, IP28 7EZruns to Jan 2027 | — | £345k | Similar wording and category |
Who could compete for this lot? i
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.
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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.
| Supplier | Won in this category | Live contracts | Award vs estimate |
|---|---|---|---|
| £330k2 awards in 36m · last 2 months ago | 1 live · £189k iPublic contracts this supplier still holds. Its awards whose published end date is still in the future, with their values. Many contracts publish no end date, so this is a floor, not the whole book. Unexpired says nothing about spare capacity. | 41% above n=1 | |
| £75k2 awards in 36m · last 9 months ago | None on file | no comparable pairs | |
| £7.9m16 awards in 36m · last this month | 1 live · £14m iPublic contracts this supplier still holds. Its awards whose published end date is still in the future, with their values. Many contracts publish no end date, so this is a floor, not the whole book. Unexpired says nothing about spare capacity. | 16% below n=3 | |
| £19m3 awards in 36m · last 2 months ago | 1 live · £12m iPublic contracts this supplier still holds. Its awards whose published end date is still in the future, with their values. Many contracts publish no end date, so this is a floor, not the whole book. Unexpired says nothing about spare capacity. | at estimate n=3 | |
| £7.2m5 awards in 36m · last 1 month ago | 1 live · £6.8m iPublic contracts this supplier still holds. Its awards whose published end date is still in the future, with their values. Many contracts publish no end date, so this is a floor, not the whole book. Unexpired says nothing about spare capacity. | 12% below n=2 |
About this data
- Source. Official UK public procurement notices (Find a Tender), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0. New notices arrive through the day; the figures are rebuilt nightly.
- Two views, kept apart. The authority’s own track record and the wider market for the same kind of work sit side by side and are never mixed. Where the local picture is too thin, a figure widens to a broader market and says which one it used.
- Forecasts are labelled. The price forecast and its range, possible competitors and the earlier-work matches are our estimates from past awards: not published facts, not win chances and not price advice. Official notices do not say who is bidding.
- Every figure shows what it rests on. Not every notice publishes a bid count, a value or a delivery region, so each figure carries the number of records behind it, and one built on few records is marked as such. The on a figure explains it; the counting rules are in the methodology. Spotted something wrong? Tell us.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Procedure method
- Open procedure
- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Works
- Notice status
- Open for tender
- Procurement threshold
- Above threshold (FTS publication)
- 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
- 2 Nov 2026, 13:17 GMT
- Last source update
- 2 Nov 2026, 13:17 GMT
- Award evaluation window
- Submission end – 17 Dec 2026
- Authority reference
WCS/21328/2026- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-103728- Latest notice
- Tender notice (UK4)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Not published
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-079597Find a Tender
How to participate & submission route
Official notice- Requests to participate (first stage)
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- Tender submission deadline
- 11 Dec 2026, 12:00 GMT
- Clarification deadline
- 27 Nov 2026, 12:00 GMT
- Electronic submission
- Not allowed
- Accepted languages
- en
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Timeline
2 Nov 2026 → 1 Feb 2027 · 5 dates- Tender notice published12h ago2 Nov 2026, 13:17 GMT
- Today3 Nov 2026
- Clarification questions byin 24 days27 Nov 2026, 12:00 GMT
- Submission deadlinein 38 days11 Dec 2026, 12:00 GMT
- Award decision expected byin 44 days17 Dec 2026, 23:59 GMT
- Contract startsin 89 days1 Feb 2027
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Tender notice published2 Nov 2026, 13:17 GMTUK4
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Nothing awarded yet- Awards (0)
- No award published
- Contracts (0)
- No contract published
- Bid statistics
- No aggregate bid statistics published
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Official documents & specifications (2)
Official links; attachments are not copiedTender pack and attachments
Notices published for this procedure
- Tender notice Tender notice on Find a Tender