Official UK procurement notice
Supply and Installation of Bus Stop Infrastructure DPS
Authority: Milton Keynes Council (Local council)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionMiton Keynes City Council (The Council) wishes to invite applications for admission to the Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS) for supply and installation of Bus Stop Infrastructure. The Bus Stop Infrastructure DPS is required so that the delivery of the Council's capital programme of bus stop upgrade projects is supported by suitably qualified, experienced suppliers. Any contracts that are to be awarded via this DPS will be done so via the terms of this DPS. Tenders are expected to be run throughout the term of the DPS. The resultant contracts will run for the period stated within the specification/requirement. Invitations to Tender/further competition will be conducted. Invitations to tender may be issued at any time during the term of the DPS . The DPS is for a period 27 January 2025 - 23 February 2029.
- Recurrence: 2028
CPV: Bus shelters · Bus-stop posts · Bus-stop shelter construction work · Docking installations · Solar panel roof-covering work · Solar panels
How this dynamic market works
From the published notice- Type
- Dynamic market
- Market period
- 4 yrs 1 mo from 27 Jan 2025
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · value publishedLot #1Milton Keynes City Council (The Council) wishes to invite applications for admission…Published value£3,300,000
Milton Keynes City Council (The Council) wishes to invite applications for admission to the Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS) for supply and installation of Bus Stop Infrastructure. The Bus Stop Infrastructure DPS is required so that the delivery of the Authority’s capital programme of bus stop upgrade projects is supported by suitably qualified, experienced suppliers. Any contracts that are to be awarded via this DPS will be done so via the terms of this DPS. Tenders are expected to be run throughout the term of the DPS. The resultant contracts will run for the period stated within the specification/requirement. The total value of DPS will not be greater than £3.3 million There will be no guarantee of work or volume of work to be given under this DPS. The services are procured under a multiple-provider Dynamic Purchasing System. There will be no limit to the number of Providers accepted onto the Dynamic Purchasing System, providing they meet the selection criteria. The Council is therefore able to add Suppliers throughout its term. New Suppliers will be able to apply to be accepted onto the Dynamic Purchasing system at any point during the term of the DPS. Suppliers are responsible for ensuring that they inform the Council of any material changes to the information supplied in any application at any time during the term of the DPS. The Council will consider material changes and decide if they impact upon the Supplier's ability to comply with the requirements of the service specification.
What it takes to wini
How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
Evaluation split and conditions of participation as published; the tender pack may add morei
How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
- Suitability
As stated in procurement documents
- “Supply and Installation of Bus Stop Infrastructure DPS” is a dynamic market: the contest is a place on its panel, not a single contract.
Competition analysis · published record, not a forecast of who will bid
How Milton Keynes Council buys Structures and parts of structures (CPV 4421), and who usually turns up
Milton Keynes Council’s own published record, next to the published market for the same work. This notice is a framework or DPS, so only frameworks and DPS are compared. Whole-market view: Structures and parts of structures (CPV 4421) →
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.
No supplier sizes published for this authority.
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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 South East England.
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
No winner locations published for this authority. Local means a registered address in South East England.
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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 80 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.
The market share is a minimum: some awards have no bid count.
Thin markets produce this too; it is not proof of a tailored specification.
No awards recorded for this authority in this market.
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 bid0% / 25%
2–338% / 0%
4–613% / 13%
7+50% / 63%
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.
On a framework or DPS, prices are agreed when work is called off.
Past prices are a guide, not a bid price.
Not comparable on a framework or DPS. The notice sets up a supplier panel and a ceiling value; what the work actually costs is agreed later, on each call-off or mini-competition, and those publish as contract notices of their own. The award-vs-estimate record of this market therefore sits on the call-offs; this page shows it on the contracts, not on the panel that frames them.
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 #1Milton Keynes City Council (The Council) wishes to invite applications for admission…CPV 4421Published estimate£3.3m
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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.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid2%
2–342%
4–639%
7+17%
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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.
| Supplier | Won in this category | Live contracts | Award vs estimate |
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| £79m108 awards in 36m · last 1 months ago | 11 live · £28m iPublic contracts this supplier still holds. Its awards whose published end date is still in the future, with their values. Many contracts publish no end date, so this is a floor, not the whole book. Unexpired says nothing about spare capacity. | at estimate n=30 | |
Huws Gray LimitedLarge | £109m24 awards in 36m · last 2 months ago | 3 live · £1.1m iPublic contracts this supplier still holds. Its awards whose published end date is still in the future, with their values. Many contracts publish no end date, so this is a floor, not the whole book. Unexpired says nothing about spare capacity. | 5% above n=4 |
| £2.1m6 awards in 36m · last 2 months ago | 1 live · £100k iPublic contracts this supplier still holds. Its awards whose published end date is still in the future, with their values. Many contracts publish no end date, so this is a floor, not the whole book. Unexpired says nothing about spare capacity. | 48% above n=1 | |
| £2.9m2 awards in 36m · last 7 months ago | 1 live · £893k iPublic contracts this supplier still holds. Its awards whose published end date is still in the future, with their values. Many contracts publish no end date, so this is a floor, not the whole book. Unexpired says nothing about spare capacity. | 21% above n=2 | |
| 2 awards in 36m · last 7 months ago | 1 live · £156k iPublic contracts this supplier still holds. Its awards whose published end date is still in the future, with their values. Many contracts publish no end date, so this is a floor, not the whole book. Unexpired says nothing about spare capacity. | no comparable pairs |
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
- Restricted procedure
- Legal basis
- CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
- Procurement category
- Goods
- Notice status
- Open admission
- Procurement threshold
- Unspecified in notice
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Dynamic market
- Who may use this agreement
- Any qualifying supplier may apply while the market is open
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Yes (GPA)
- Recurring procurement
- Yes · 2028
- First published
- 29 Nov 2024, 15:09 GMT
- Last source update
- 29 Nov 2024, 15:09 GMT
- Authority reference
2021-019- FTS notice number
2024/S 000-038635- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-04c139Find a Tender
- Electronic trading
- electronic payment
- Performance terms
As stated in procurement documents
- Review procedure
The Council will incorporate a minimum 10 calendar day standstill period at the point information on the award of the Contract is communicated to tenderers. Applicants who are unsuccessful shall be informed by the Contracting Authority as soon as possible after the decision has been made as to the reasons why the Applicant was unsuccessful. Applicants may seek further clarification from the Contracting Authority following receipt of this information and the Contracting Authority will provide further clarification as appropriate. If any clarification regarding the award of the Contract has not been successfully resolved, an Applicant can consider its option under the Public Contracts Regulations 2015. Applicants would need to obtain their own legal advice.
How to participate & submission route
Official notice- Requests to participate (first stage)
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- Admission period ends
- 23 Feb 2029, 12:00 GMT
- Clarification deadline
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- Submission channel
- {"written"}
- Accepted languages
- en
Timeline
29 Nov 2024 → 23 Feb 2029 · 3 dates- Notice published29 Nov 2024, 15:09 GMT
- Contract starts27 Jan 2025
- Today22 Oct 2026
- Admission / appointment period endsperiod end, not a bid countdown23 Feb 2029, 12:00 GMT
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Nothing awarded yet- Awards (0)
- No award published
- Contracts (0)
- No contract published
- Bid statistics
- No aggregate bid statistics published
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Dispute resolution & review bodies
- High Court Royal Court of JusticeReview body
Official documents & specifications (2)
Official links; attachments are not copiedTender pack and attachments
- Economic and financial selection criteria
- Technical selection criteria