Official UK procurement notice
Sunderland City Council Skate Park Refurbishment Programme
Authority: Sunderland City Council (Local council)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionSunderland City Council are seeking to procure an appropriately qualified and experienced Supplier to undertake refurbishment and construction work on 2. skateparks within the City of Sunderland as follows.
a. Houghton Skatepark, Brinkburn Crescent, Houghton Le Spring, Tyne and Wear, DH4 5EQ.
b. Fulwell Skate Park (AKA as Seaburn Skate Park), Fulwell, Tyne and Wear, SR6 8BP
The Council are seeking an experienced skateboard specialist supplier to develop a design and build scheme for two skateboard sites within the City; one site has been closed due to its condition and the other remains operational.
The Council consider the project to be a specialist skatepark project rather than a public realm or civil engineering project, and that skateparks are highly specialised sporting environments that require a combination of skate-specific design knowledge, construction expertise, and an understanding of user behaviour and long-term operational performance.
Within the procurement documentation, the Council will be requesting that bidders are able to demonstrate skatepark (or closely comparable wheeled sports) delivery experience including a requirement to demonstrate experience in the design of the scheme.
The Council will provide an Employer's Requirements / Project Brief and will rely on the suppliers' skills, experience and knowledge to develop an appropriate design; the supply will then undertake the construction of the works.
CPV: Construction work
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedPipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How Sunderland City Council buys Construction work (CPV 45), and who usually turns up
Sunderland City Council’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: Construction work (CPV 45) →
How the contest usually goes
Winner shares use published awards; bid and price charts use contested lots.
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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.
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.
Here, local means registered in North East England.
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners are registered in North East England. More of this buyer’s work stays local than in this market: 69% against 26%, n=26.
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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.
Half of these awards were announced within 30 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 bid9% / 11%
2–327% / 19%
4–641% / 28%
7+23% / 42%
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 estimate50% / 39%
Within ±2%36% / 30%
Above estimate14% / 31%
Assess each lot i
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 #1Estimate not published
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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 180 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid11%
2–319%
4–628%
7+42%
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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.
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.
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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.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Works
- Notice status
- Planned procurement
- 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
- 12 Mar 2026, 12:38 GMT
- Last source update
- 12 Mar 2026, 12:38 GMT
- Authority reference
OPEN2026353- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-022282- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-066847Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
12 Mar 2026 → 15 Jul 2026 · 4 dates- Planning notice published224 days ago12 Mar 2026, 12:38 GMT
- Market engagement205 days ago31 Mar 2026, 23:59 BST
The Market Engagement process and the subsequent procurement process will be published on Sunderland City Councils E Tender system Open and access is via the web address
open-uk.org/projects/overview/15… ↗
The Open project reference number is OPEN2026353.
Suppliers must be registered on the Open e tender portal to participate in the procurement process.
You can register your Organisation on the Open e Tender Portal via the web address open-uk.org ↗.
The engagement process consists of
- An overview of the project.
- Overview of the fundamental mandatory requirements of participation such as Health and Safety CDM roles.
- A selection of basic questions to collect information on the Suppliers intent with regards participation in the tender.
NOTE
This Market Engagement is not a formal Expression of interest for any subsequent tender processes, Suppliers that do not respond to this Market Engagement, or who respond indicating they do not intend participating in an advertised tender opportunity are not precluded from participation in the advertised tender should their preferences change.
Any information provided in response to this Market Engagement will be used entirely for the purposes as set out in the Market Engagement.
Suppliers are not bound by any information provided in this Market Engagement.
- Tender notice expected190 days ago15 Apr 2026, 23:59 BST
- Contract starts100 days ago15 Jul 2026, 00:00 BST
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Preliminary market engagement notice published12 Mar 2026, 12:38 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