Find a TenderPlanned procurementPreliminary market engagement notice
Published 14 Oct 2026, 16:03 BST

Official UK procurement notice

Supply and installation of replacement flooring for Housing Assets

Authority: The North Yorkshire Council (Local council)

WorksAbove thresholdSME suitableVCSE suitable
Planned pipeline value£1,650,000pipeline notice, not a live tender
Tender notice expected 13 May 2027from the planned procurement notice
Contract term 3 yrsends 31 May 2030 · up to 31 May 2033 with extensions · starts 1 Jun 2027

What is being bought

Published requirement description

North Yorkshire Council ("the Authority") is exploring the procurement of a contract for the supply and installation of replacement flooring across its housing and community assets located throughout North Yorkshire. The portfolio currently comprises approximately 15 Sheltered Housing Schemes, 8 Temporary Accommodation Sites, and 11 Community Centres. Properties may be added to or removed from the portfolio during the contract term as a result of redevelopment, acquisition, disposal or other operational requirements. Please refer to the Request for Information document for full details.

CPV: Building fittings · Building internal fittings · Carpets · Floor coverings · Floor laying and covering work · Floor-laying work · Laying work of flexible floor coverings

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published
Lot #1PlannedRenewal 3 yrsSMEVCSE
Contract period: 1 Jun 2027 – 31 May 2030 (3 yrs) · up to 31 May 2033 with extensions
Delivery: Yorkshire & HumberEligibility: SME eligibleVCSE eligible
Extensions: Extension options published

Who is likely to bid for this lot ↓

Pipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published

How The North Yorkshire Council buys Floor and wall covering work (CPV 4543), and who usually turns up

The North Yorkshire 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: Floor and wall covering work (CPV 4543) →

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How the contest usually goes

Winner shares use published awards; bid and price charts use contested lots.

Question for the bid
This buyerThe North Yorkshire Council · division 45
What to do with it
How often do SMEs win?
i

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.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 34 of 41 known-size awards · market: CPV 4543 · UK-wide, n=44
83%82%

Small firms have won here. Neither number says whether you qualify; it describes who has been winning.

How often do local suppliers win?
i

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 the winner is registered in the region where that contract was delivered.

A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 37 of 57 known-location awards · market: CPV 4543 · UK-wide, n=45
65%49%

Most of this buyer’s recorded winners are registered in Yorkshire and the Humber.

How long to a decision?
i

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.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 10 decided notices · market: CPV 4543 · UK-wide, n=8
25 days33 days

Half of these awards were announced within 25 days of the bid deadline.

How often single-bid or direct?
i

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.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: at least 29 of 68 procurements with awards had no recorded rival · market: CPV 4543 · UK-wide, n=68
43%41%

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.

Last 36 months.

This buyer14 lots with bid counts · broad CPV 45
21% had one bid
The market9 lots with bid counts · CPV 4543 · UK-wide
33% had one bid
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
1 bid21% / 33%
Buyer: 3 of 14 lots with published bid counts. Market: 3 of 9 lots with published bid counts.
2–336% / 11%
Buyer: 5 of 14 lots with published bid counts. Market: 1 of 9 lots with published bid counts.
4–629% / 22%
Buyer: 4 of 14 lots with published bid counts. Market: 2 of 9 lots with published bid counts.
7+14% / 33%
Buyer: 2 of 14 lots with published bid counts. Market: 3 of 9 lots with published bid counts.

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.

Last 36 months.

This buyer14 lots with estimate and award · broad CPV 45
64% below estimate
The market13 lots with estimate and award · CPV 4543 · UK-wide
38% below estimate
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
Below estimate64% / 38%
Buyer: 9 of 14 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 5 of 13 lots with an estimate and award.
Within ±2%29% / 38%
Buyer: 4 of 14 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 5 of 13 lots with an estimate and award.
Above estimate7% / 23%
Buyer: 1 of 14 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 3 of 13 lots with an estimate and award.
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Assess each lot
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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 #1CPV 454336 monthsSME suitablePublished estimate£1.6m
Expected competition
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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 223 past lots.

A forecast, not a list of bidders.

—No model forecast yet33% single-bid risk
Past bids on 223 similar lots
1 bid33%
73 of 223 similar past lots received 1 bid (33%).
2–323%
51 of 223 similar past lots received 2–3 (23%).
4–619%
43 of 223 similar past lots received 4–6 (19%).
7+25%
56 of 223 similar past lots received 7+ (25%).
Comparable past lots usually drew 3 bids.
Commercial price forecast
i

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.

—No model forecast yet
No comparable awards on record for this lot’s category yet. The published estimate is £1.6m, and the forecast stays empty until the market has a record to read.

Who has supplied this buyer on similar work?
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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.

SupplierThis buyer’s earlier contractLotAward valueWhy listed
Hudspeth FlooringEarlier contractReplacement Flooringended Apr 2025—£29kMatched as the earlier contract

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.

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
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
14 Oct 2026, 16:03 BST
Last source update
14 Oct 2026, 16:03 BST
Authority reference
911-NYC-CD
FTS notice number
2026/S 000-097166
Latest notice
Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
Classification (CPV)
Building fittingsBuilding internal fittingsCarpetsFloor coveringsFloor laying and covering workFloor-laying workLaying work of flexible floor coverings
Delivery area
Yorkshire & Humber (UKE2)
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-0787e2 Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice
Submission deadline
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Timeline

14 Oct 2026 → 1 Jun 2027 · 4 dates
  1. Planning notice published7 days ago
    14 Oct 2026, 16:03 BST
  2. Today
    21 Oct 2026
  3. Market engagementin 8 days
    29 Oct 2026, 23:59 GMT
  4. Tender notice expectedin 204 days
    13 May 2027, 23:59 BST
  5. Contract startsin 222 days
    1 Jun 2027

Notice history

1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender
  1. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    14 Oct 2026, 16:03 BST
    UK2

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

The North Yorkshire Council

Contracting authorityPublic authority - sub-central government GB-PPON: PNXY-8263-XCNL County Hall, Racecourse Lane,, Northallerton, Yorkshire & Humber, DL7 8ADContact name, email, phone

Official documents & specifications (1)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure