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Published 16 Jun 2025, 14:14 BST

Official UK procurement notice

Sports, Fitness and Play Equipment

Authority: Crescent Purchasing Consortium Limited (Public body)

Framework agreementGoodsSME suitable
Planned pipeline valueValue not publishedpipeline notice, not a live tender
Tender notice expected 3 May 2027from the planned procurement notice
Framework period 8 yrsends 14 Jun 2035 · starts 15 Jun 2027

What is being bought

Published requirement description

CPC will be re-tendering the current Sports, Fitness and Play Equipment Framework which is due to expire on 14/05/2027

The current framework scope includes a range of goods and services (but is not limited to) the following areas under the current lot structure:

Lot 1: Sports Equipment - Sports equipment and accessories for use in game sports, gymnastics, athletics, strength and resistance, play, health and fitness, testing and measurement, inclusive sports and play, and storage.

Lot 2: Commercial Fitness and Gym Equipment - Commercial fitness and gym equipment supply, installation, servicing, and maintenance. Equipment offered includes cardio, strength and resistance, health and fitness, functional fitness, inclusive fitness, and storage. Some suppliers are also able to offer gym fitout and design as a turnkey solution.

Lot 3: Playground and Outdoor Gym Equipment - Playground equipment, supply, installation, servicing, and maintenance. Equipment offered includes multi use play systems, obstacle courses, climbing systems, freestanding playground equipment, educational play, inclusive play, outdoor gym resistance, outdoor gym cardio, outdoor gym functional equipment, inclusive outdoor gym equipment.

CPV: Sports goods and equipment

How this framework works

From the published notice
Framework period
8 yrs from 15 Jun 2027

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published
Lot #1Planned 8 yrsSME
Contract period: 15 Jun 2027 – 14 Jun 2035 (8 yrs)
Delivery: UKEligibility: SME eligible

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
What this means for your bid
  • “Sports, Fitness and Play Equipment” is a framework: the contest is a place on its panel, not a single contract.

Pipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published

How Crescent Purchasing Consortium Limited buys Sports goods and equipment (CPV 3740), and who usually turns up

Crescent Purchasing Consortium Limited’s published record next to the market for the same work. Compared with other frameworks and DPS only. Whole-market view: Sports goods and equipment (CPV 3740) →

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How the contest usually goes

Winner shares use published awards; bid and price charts use contested lots.

Question for the bid
This buyerCrescent Purchasing Consortium Limited · all categories
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: 0 of 3 known-size awards · market: CPV 3740 · UK-wide, n=30
0 of 397%

No small-firm winners recorded among this authority’s published awards in this sample.

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.

Local means the winner is registered in the region where that award was delivered.

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

Last 36 months.

Buyer: no winner locations published · market: CPV 3740 · UK-wide, n=28
—29%

No winner locations published for this authority. Local means a registered address in the region where that award was delivered.

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 bid deadline to the award date, on competitions that published both.

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

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 8 decided notices · market: division 37 · UK-wide, n=14
62 days51 days

Half of these awards have an award date within 62 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.

The market share is a minimum: some awards have no bid count.

Thin markets produce this too; it is not proof of a tailored specification.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: exactly 0 of 2 procurements with awards had no recorded rival · market: division 37 · UK-wide, n=18
0 of 211%

Missing bid counts may hide more single-bid awards. This share is a minimum.

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 buyer163 lots with bid counts · all categories
0% had one bid
The market38 lots with bid counts · CPV 3740 · UK-wide
0% had one bid
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
1 bid0% / 0%
Buyer: 0 of 163 lots with published bid counts. Market: 0 of 38 lots with published bid counts.
2–37% / 29%
Buyer: 11 of 163 lots with published bid counts. Market: 11 of 38 lots with published bid counts.
4–628% / 37%
Buyer: 46 of 163 lots with published bid counts. Market: 14 of 38 lots with published bid counts.
7+65% / 34%
Buyer: 106 of 163 lots with published bid counts. Market: 13 of 38 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.

On a framework or DPS, prices are agreed when work is called off.

Past prices are a guide, not a bid price.

Last 36 months.

Not comparable on a framework or DPS: the price is set later, on each call-off.

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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 374096 monthsSME suitableEstimate not published
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 38 past lots.

A forecast, not a list of bidders.

—No model forecast yet0% chance of a single bid
Past bids on 38 similar lots
1 bid0%
0 of 38 similar past lots received 1 bid (0%).
2–329%
11 of 38 similar past lots received 2–3 (29%).
4–637%
14 of 38 similar past lots received 4–6 (37%).
7+34%
13 of 38 similar past lots received 7+ (34%).
Comparable past lots usually drew 6 bids.
Commercial price forecast
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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.

—Priced at call-off
On a framework or DPS the price is agreed on each call-off, so there is no award price to forecast here: the published figure is a ceiling.

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 valueWhy listed
Dyaco UK LimitedEarlier contractSports, Fitness and Play Equipmentnotice published May 2023Commercial Fitness and Gym Equipment—Matched as the earlier contract
Premier Play Solutions LtdEarlier contractSports, Fitness and Play Equipmentnotice published May 2023Playground and Outdoor Gym Equipment—Matched as the earlier contract
PULSE FITNESS LIMITEDEarlier contractSports, Fitness and Play Equipmentnotice published May 2023Commercial Fitness and Gym Equipment—Matched as the earlier contract
Landscape Engineering LtdEarlier contractSports, Fitness and Play Equipmentnotice published May 2023Playground and Outdoor Gym Equipment—Matched as the earlier contract
KOMPAN LimitedEarlier contractSports, Fitness and Play Equipmentnotice published May 2023Playground and Outdoor Gym Equipment—Matched as the earlier contract

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.

Candidate suppliers for this notice have not been worked out yet, so this is not a verdict that nobody fits.

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.

What this replaces
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Who has done similar work for this buyer.

Past contracts are matched by buyer, title and type of work.

100% title match.

A past supplier may not bid again.

The prior contract this notice most likely re-tenders · matched by title and category (100% title match), the holder is not guaranteed to re-bid

Sports, Fitness and Play Equipment, winner not published; no contract end date published.

Procedure terms & legal framework

From the official record
Legal basis
UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
Procurement category
Goods
Notice status
Planned procurement
Procurement threshold
Unspecified in notice
Regulatory regime
Standard
Commercial structure
Framework agreement
Who may use this agreement
Not stated in the notice; call-off rights may be limited to the establishing authority
Competition type
Competitive procedure
GPA / WTO covered
Unspecified in notice
Recurring procurement
Unspecified in notice
First published
16 Jun 2025, 14:14 BST
Last source update
16 Jun 2025, 14:14 BST
FTS notice number
2025/S 000-032621
Latest notice
Pipeline notice (UK1)
Classification (CPV)
Sports goods and equipment
Delivery area
UK
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-054953 Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice
Appointment period ends
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Timeline

16 Jun 2025 → 15 Jun 2027 · 3 dates
  1. Planning notice published
    16 Jun 2025, 14:14 BST
  2. Today
    24 Oct 2026
  3. Tender notice expectedin 191 days
    3 May 2027, 23:59 BST
  4. Contract startsin 233 days
    15 Jun 2027, 00:00 BST

Notice history

1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender
  1. Pipeline notice published
    16 Jun 2025, 14:14 BST
    UK1

Commercial outcome & contract awards

Pipeline notice
Awards (0)
No award published
Contracts (0)
No contract published
Bid statistics
No aggregate bid statistics published

Contracting authority & participating public bodies

CRESCENT PURCHASING LIMITED

Contracting authorityPublic authority - sub-central government GB-CHC: 1130461 · GB-PPON: PZPR-8554-XHNX Procurement House, 23 Leslie Hough Way, Salford, North West, M6 6AJContact email

Official documents & specifications (1)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure

  • Pipeline notice planningPipeline noticeUK1Pipeline notice on Find a Tender