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Sunspot Solar Panels Soft Market Test

Building installation work
East of England (UKH3)
Published value
£150,000
Submission deadline Not published
Lots published1
Procurement Executive Summary
AI & Search Synopsis
Generated from official OCDS record
Tenderline Synopsis: Tendring District Council: "Sunspot Solar Panels Soft Market Test". Published status: planning. Published value: £150,000. 1 published lot. Submission deadline not published. See the official notice for participation instructions.
Contracting AuthorityTendring District CouncilScope & CategoriesNot publishedSubmission Window
planning
No deadline published
Submission GatewayDirect notice routeLegal Basis & RegimeStandard procurementEstimated Value (exc. VAT)£150,000
Bidder Intelligence · Authority Profile: Tendring District Council
Market Analytics
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Derived from OCDS awards & bid statistics
Published history for Tendring District Council. These figures describe retained records, not a forecast of bids or a measure of buyer bias.
Average Price Reduction
Not availableInsufficient comparable data
Requires at least 5 comparable procedures
Competition Density
9Bids / Report
0% of reports have one bid
Supplier ConcentrationHigh Concentration
OLYMPUS MECHANICAL SERVICES LTDTop vendor: 100% of attributable value
Payment Terms
Check noticePublished terms
Payment obligations depend on the applicable regime and contract. Consult the official documents.
Coverage: 11 active published awards; 2 bid reports (which may be per lot). Supplier values exclude multi-supplier awards, frameworks and DPS, and use GBP only. They are published award values, not payments. Price reduction compares single-lot, single-award, single-supplier GBP procedures with explicitly non-framework/non-DPS status; increases remain in the average. Unpublished data stays unknown. Awarded suppliers are winners, not all bidders.
Historical Awarded Suppliers With This Authority:
Supplier NameHistoric AwardsAttributable GBP Value
OLYMPUS MECHANICAL SERVICES LTD1 win£269,799
Procedure terms
Contracting AuthorityTendring District Council
Procedure methodNot published
Procurement categoryNot published
Statusplanning
Framework / DPSNot published
CompetitionNot published
Above thresholdNot published
Legal basisNot published
Tender period startsNot published
Clarification deadlineNot published
Electronic submissionNot published
Submission languagesNot published
Published15 Oct 2025, 16:18 BST
Last source update15 Oct 2025, 16:18 BST
Recurring procurementNot published
ClassificationBuilding installation work
Delivery area
East of England (UKH3)
OCIDocds-h6vhtk-05cd84
What is being bought
This is not a tender Description of the scope of works: Supply and install new solar panels to the roof of the existing Sunspot building, inclusive of new associated inverters and battery storage, and building work in connection with including fire stopping. Split of works vs services: 95% works and 5% services
What changed
From the official release history
  1. Published value updated to £150,000
    15 Oct 2025, 16:18 BST
  2. Status changed to planning
    15 Oct 2025, 16:18 BST
  3. Official notice release published
    15 Oct 2025, 16:18 BST
  4. Buyer information updated
    15 Oct 2025, 16:18 BST
Lots and requirements (1)
Published by the contracting authority
  • Lot 1 · #1
    Individual lot title not published
    planning
    Published valueNot published
    The source published no individual title or description for this lot.
    Contract periodNot published
    EligibilityNot published
    Options / renewalNot published
Timeline
  1. Pipeline notice
    15 Oct 2025, 16:18 BST
  2. Procedure published
    15 Oct 2025, 16:18 BST
  3. engagement
    31 Oct 2025, 23:59 GMT · scheduled
    This is not a tender, this is a soft market test to gauge interest in this opportunity Please email joshua.carter@essex.gov.uk with the subject "Sunspot Solar Panels" to confirm whether your organisation would be interested in bidding for this opportunity should we progress it to tender stage. Please respond prior to midnight on 31st October 2025.
Commercial outcome and competition
AwardsNo award published
ContractsNo contract published
Bid statisticsNo aggregate bid statistics published
Buyer and organisations in this procedure

Tendring District Council

Contracting authority GB-PPON-PPWL-8775-PCGW
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  • Essex County Council
    processContactPoint
    procuringEntity

    GB-PPON: PWVM-4844-NRQH
    County Hall, Market Road, Chelmsford, UKH36, CM1 1QH, GB
    joshua.carter@Essex.gov.uk

  • Tendring District Council
    buyer

    GB-PPON: PPWL-8775-PCGW
    Town Hall, Clacton-on-Sea, UKH34, CO15 1SE, GB
    procurement@tendringdc.gov.uk
Documents (1)
Official links; attachments are not copied
Related procedures (0)
No data
No related procedures published
Planning and rationale
Planning budgetNot published
No-engagement rationaleNot published
Procedure rationaleNot published