Official UK procurement notice
Street Lighting Term Maintenance Contract
Authority: Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Council (Local council)
BCP Council is seeking to procure a maintenance contract for the ongoing management and upkeep of its street lighting assets. The scope of the contract includes routine maintenance, cleaning, fault repairs, electrical and structural testing, and the painting of public lighting infrastructure.
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionBCP Council is seeking to procure a maintenance contract for the ongoing management and upkeep of its street lighting assets. The scope of the contract includes routine maintenance, cleaning, fault repairs, electrical and structural testing, and the painting of public lighting infrastructure. This infrastructure comprises street lighting columns, illuminated traffic signs, illuminated traffic bollards, subway lighting, and amenity lighting.
CPV: Street-lighting maintenance services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedPipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Council buys Repair, maintenance and associated services related to roads and other equipment (CPV 5023), and who usually turns up
Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole 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: Repair, maintenance and associated services related to roads and other equipment (CPV 5023) →
How the contest usually goes
Winner shares use published awards; bid and price charts use contested lots.
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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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Local means the winner is registered in the region where that award was delivered. The market figure counts awards delivered in South West England.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners were registered in the region where that award was delivered.
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Half of these awards have an award date within 50 days of the bid deadline.
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Both shares are minimums: some awards have no bid count.
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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1 bid17% / 0%
2–337% / 17%
4–625% / 67%
7+20% / 17%
How did awards compare with estimates?
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Below estimate27% / 40%
Within ±2%65% / 40%
Above estimate8% / 20%
Assess each lot i
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Open a lot for its forecast, this buyer’s previous supplier and possible competitors, from published award history, not a bid list
Lot #1CPV 5023Published estimate£25m
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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 133 past lots.
1 bid13%
2–330%
4–633%
7+24%
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No comparable awards for this lot yet.
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No earlier contract of this buyer matches this lot on the published record.
Who could compete for this lot? i
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Candidate suppliers for this notice have not been worked out yet, so this is not a verdict that nobody fits.
About this data
- Estimates, labelled. The price range, possible competitors and earlier-work matches are our estimates from past awards, not published facts, win chances or price advice. The buyer’s own record and the wider market are shown apart, never mixed.
- Source. Official UK public procurement notices (Find a Tender and Contracts Finder), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0, updated through the day and rebuilt nightly. Not every figure uses both feeds, and each one shows how many records it rests on: see the methodology. Spotted something wrong? Tell us.
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Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- 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
- 11 Nov 2026, 13:47 GMT
- Last source update
- 11 Nov 2026, 13:47 GMT
- Authority reference
DN834263- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-107144- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-07b9aeFind a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
11 Nov 2026 → 1 Apr 2028 · 4 dates- Planning notice published4 days ago11 Nov 2026, 13:47 GMT
- Today15 Nov 2026
- Market engagementin 29 days14 Dec 2026, 23:59 GMT
Pre Market engagement for a forthcoming tender for Street Lighting Maintenance.
A Pre Market Engagement questionnaire is available from BCP procurement portal www.supplyingthesouthwest.org.uk ↗. Potential suppliers, especially local SMEs, are encouraged to complete the questionnaire.
Participation or non-participation in this market engagement event shall not prejudice organisations participating in any future procurement process nor is it intended that any information supplied shall place any organisation at an advantage in any forthcoming procurement process.
- Tender notice expectedin 351 days1 Nov 2027, 23:59 GMT
- Contract starts1 Apr 2028, 00:00 BST
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Preliminary market engagement notice published11 Nov 2026, 13:47 GMTUK2
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
Official documents & specifications (1)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender