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Published 28 Jul 2026, 10:33 BST

Official UK procurement notice

Stops and Shelters: Supply, Maintenance and Advertising

Official notice Competition analysis

Authority: Merseytravel (Public body)

ServicesCompetitive flexible procedureAbove threshold
Sectors: Medical Devices & Pharma (33)Construction Materials & Prefab (44)Business Services & Consultancy (79) Delivery: North West (UKD7)
Planned pipeline value£255,000,000pipeline notice, not a live tender
Tender notice expected 1 Nov 2026from the planned procurement notice
Contract term 10 yrsends 16 Jan 2038 · up to 16 Jan 2043 with extensions · starts 17 Jan 2028

What is being bought

Published requirement description

Merseytravel intends to procure a contract for a single strategic supplier to provide a fully integrated solution for the design, supply, installation, maintenance, refurbishment and advertising services of the Liverpool City Region's bus stop and shelter estate.

The requirement will support the region's bus franchising programme.

CPV: Advertising and marketing services · Bus shelters · Transport equipment and auxiliary products to transportation

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published
Lot #1PlannedRenewal 10 yrs
Contract period: 17 Jan 2028 – 16 Jan 2038 (10 yrs) · up to 16 Jan 2043 with extensions
Delivery: North West
Extensions: Extension options published
33952000 Transport equipment and auxiliary products to transportation44212321 Bus shelters79340000 Advertising and marketing services

Who is likely to bid for this lot ↓

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

How Merseytravel buys Advertising and marketing services (CPV 7934), and who usually turns up

Merseytravel’s own published record, next to the published market for the same work. Frameworks and DPS are kept out: they attract a different number of bids. Whole-market view: Advertising and marketing services (CPV 7934) →

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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 buyerMerseytravel · all categories
The marketAdvertising and marketing services (CPV 7934) · North West England
What to do with it
How often do SMEs win?
i

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: 15 of 26 known-size awards · market: CPV 7934 · North West England, n=52
58%60%

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

How often do local suppliers win?
i

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 North West England.

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

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 21 of 44 known-location awards · market: CPV 7934 · North West England, n=88
48%31%

Most of this buyer’s recorded winners are registered outside North West England.

How long to a decision?
i

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: 7 decided notices · market: CPV 7934 · North West England, n=19
98 days44 days

Half of these awards were announced within 98 days of the bid deadline.

How often single-bid or direct?
i

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 16 of 47 procurements with awards had no recorded rival · market: CPV 7934 · North West England, n=93
34%40%

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 buyer10 lots with bid counts · all categories
0% had one bid
The market22 lots with bid counts · CPV 7934 · North West England
5% had one bid
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
1 bid0% / 5%
Buyer: 0 of 10 lots with published bid counts. Market: 1 of 22 lots with published bid counts.
2–310% / 27%
Buyer: 1 of 10 lots with published bid counts. Market: 6 of 22 lots with published bid counts.
4–620% / 45%
Buyer: 2 of 10 lots with published bid counts. Market: 10 of 22 lots with published bid counts.
7+70% / 23%
Buyer: 7 of 10 lots with published bid counts. Market: 5 of 22 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 buyer6 lots with estimate and award · all categories
67% below estimate
The market16 lots with estimate and award · CPV 7934 · North West England
19% below estimate
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
Below estimate67% / 19%
Buyer: 4 of 6 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 3 of 16 lots with an estimate and award.
Within ±2%17% / 63%
Buyer: 1 of 6 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 10 of 16 lots with an estimate and award.
Above estimate17% / 19%
Buyer: 1 of 6 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 3 of 16 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 7934120 monthsPublished estimate£255m
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 22 past lots.

A forecast, not a list of bidders.

—No model forecast yet5% single-bid risk
Past bids on 22 similar lots
1 bid5%
1 of 22 similar past lots received 1 bid (5%).
2–327%
6 of 22 similar past lots received 2–3 (27%).
4–645%
10 of 22 similar past lots received 4–6 (45%).
7+23%
5 of 22 similar past lots received 7+ (23%).
Comparable past lots usually drew 5 bids.
Commercial price forecast
i

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.

—No model forecast yet
No comparable awards on record for this lot’s category yet. The published estimate is £255m, and the forecast stays empty until the market has a record to read.

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.

No earlier contract of this buyer matches this lot on the published record.

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.

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.

Procedure terms & legal framework

From the official record
Procedure method
Competitive flexible procedure
Legal basis
UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
Procurement category
Services
Notice status
Planned procurement
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
28 Jul 2026, 10:33 BST
Last source update
29 Jul 2026, 14:55 BST
Authority reference
PRA000609
FTS notice number
2026/S 000-071790
Latest notice
Pipeline notice (UK1)
Classification (CPV)
Advertising and marketing servicesBus sheltersTransport equipment and auxiliary products to transportation
Delivery area
North West (UKD7)
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06d4f2 Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice
Submission deadline
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Timeline

28 Jul 2026 → 17 Jan 2028 · 5 dates
  1. Planning notice published84 days ago
    28 Jul 2026, 10:33 BST
  2. Latest notice published83 days ago
    29 Jul 2026, 14:55 BST
  3. Market engagement59 days ago
    21 Aug 2026, 23:59 BST

    This PME is formed of three parts:

    1. Expression of Interest Form
    • Submission Deadline: 21st August 2026, 17:00
    1. Request for Information
    • Submission Deadline: 21st August 2026, 17:00
    1. Supplier 1-1's (via Microsoft Teams)
    • These will take place between: 5th August - 14th August 2026
    • Deadline to request 1-1: 7th August 2026, 17:00

    Further instructions are provided in the Chest tendering portal. To access this, please log in or register here:

    procontract.due-north.com/Register ↗

    Once you have accessed the project in the Chest, please review the document attached titled "PME - Supplier Information Pack".

    This document contains the following:

    1. Full PME instructions
    2. Link to EOI form
    3. RFI questions
  4. Today
    20 Oct 2026
  5. Tender notice expectedin 13 days
    1 Nov 2026, 23:59 GMT
  6. Contract starts
    17 Jan 2028

Notice history

3 events · 2 releases on Find a Tender · since 28 Jul 2026
  1. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    28 Jul 2026, 10:33 BST
    UK2
  2. Pipeline notice published
    29 Jul 2026, 14:55 BST
    UK1
  3. Status changed to planned
    29 Jul 2026, 14:55 BST

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

Merseytravel

Contracting authorityPublic authority - sub-central government GB-PPON: PJQR-8469-DXQD 1 Mann Island, Liverpool, North West, L3 1BPContact email

Official documents & specifications (2)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure