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Supplier Engagement - Christmas Event at Tonbridge Castle

Recreational
cultural and sporting services
Location not published
Published value
Not published
Submission deadline Not published
Lots published1
Procurement Executive Summary
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Tenderline Synopsis: Tonbridge and Malling Borough Council: "Supplier Engagement - Christmas Event at Tonbridge Castle". Published status: planning. Published value: Value not published. 1 published lot. Submission deadline not published. See the official notice for participation instructions.
Contracting AuthorityTonbridge and Malling Borough CouncilScope & CategoriesNot publishedSubmission Window
planning
No deadline published
Submission GatewayDirect notice routeLegal Basis & RegimeStandard procurementEstimated Value (exc. VAT)Not published
Bidder Intelligence · Authority Profile: Tonbridge and Malling Borough Council
Market Analytics
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Derived from OCDS awards & bid statistics
Published history for Tonbridge and Malling Borough Council. These figures describe retained records, not a forecast of bids or a measure of buyer bias.
Published-to-award variance
Not availableInsufficient comparable data
Requires at least 5 comparable procedures
Competition Density
12.6Bids / Report
0% of reports have one bid
Supplier ConcentrationHigh Concentration
ZED PODS LTDTop vendor: 87.1% of attributable value
Payment Terms
Check noticePublished terms
Payment obligations depend on the applicable regime and contract. Consult the official documents.
Coverage: 10 active published awards; 8 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. Published-to-award variance 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 Unpublished data stays unknown.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
ZED PODS LTD1 win£3,853,227
ENSIGNA CONSTRUCTION LIMITED1 win£229,870
AUDITEL RENTAL AND SERVICE LIMITED1 win£142,505
HENDERSON & TAYLOR PUBLIC WORKS LIMITED1 win£98,251
CAE TECHNOLOGY SERVICES LIMITED1 win£47,696
Procedure terms
Contracting AuthorityTonbridge and Malling Borough 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
Published10 Mar 2025, 13:45 GMT
Last source update10 Mar 2025, 13:45 GMT
Recurring procurementNot published
ClassificationRecreational, cultural and sporting services
Delivery areaLocation not published
OCIDocds-h6vhtk-04eb04
What is being bought
Tonbridge & Malling Borough Councill (TMBC) is looking for event companies/organisations to run a Christmas attraction at Tonbridge Castle (the grounds, centring on the Bailey Lawn). The Bailey Lawn has a capacity of 1,800 people, at any one time. At this stage the Council is undecided about how best to deliver this contract and is engaging with the market to explore options and gauge the current market interest. Site visits can be arranged on Thursday 20th and Friday 21st March 2025 for organisers to review the site should they wish to. Please use the messaging system on Kent Business Portal to request a site visit. All submissions must be made via the ‘Messaging’ section of the Kent Business Portal. Submissions must be submitted by Friday 4th March 2025.
What changed
From the official release history
  1. Status changed to planning
    10 Mar 2025, 13:45 GMT
  2. Official notice release published
    10 Mar 2025, 13:45 GMT
  3. Buyer information updated
    10 Mar 2025, 13:45 GMT
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
    10 Mar 2025, 13:45 GMT
  2. Procedure published
    10 Mar 2025, 13:45 GMT
  3. engagement
    5 Apr 2025, 00:59 BST · scheduled
    Tonbridge & Malling Borough Councill (TMBC) is looking for event companies/organisations to run a Christmas attraction at Tonbridge Castle (the grounds, centring on the Bailey Lawn). The Bailey Lawn has a capacity of 1,800 people, at any one time. Tonbridge Castle is looking to hold an attraction on the bailey lawn that will have the key elements of Food, Drink, some shopping and a key attraction to entice people to visit. At this stage the Council is undecided about how best to deliver this contract and is engaging with the market to explore options and gauge the current market interest. All submissions must be made via the ‘Messaging’ section of the Kent Business Portal. Submissions must be submitted by Friday 4th March 2025.
Commercial outcome and competition
AwardsNo award published
ContractsNo contract published
Bid statisticsNo aggregate bid statistics published
Buyer and organisations in this procedure

Tonbridge and Malling Borough Council

Contracting authority GB-PPON-PBNB-2692-VQCJ
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  • Tonbridge & Malling Borough Council
    buyer

    GB-PPON: PBNB-2692-VQCJ
    Kings Hill (Head Office), Gibson Building, Gibson Drive, West Malling, UKJ46, ME19 4LZ, GB
    jack.cuthbertson@tunbridgewells.gov.uk
    +44 1892554070
Documents (1)
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Related procedures (0)
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No related procedures published
Planning and rationale
Planning budgetNot published
No-engagement rationaleNot published
Procedure rationaleNot published