Official UK procurement notice
Temporary Traffic Management Services
Authority: Falkirk Council (Local council)·Consortium: 3 public authorities
Provision of Temporary Traffic Management Services at various sites within the Clackmannanshire, Falkirk and Stirling Council areas of operations. The service is to be delivered in line with the principles set out in the Traffic Signs Manual Chapter 8 (parts 1 & 2), and in accordance with the Safety at Street Works and Road Works– A Code of Practice. The Framework Agreement shall cover service delivery requirements across the administrative areas of Clackmannanshire Council, Falkirk Council, and Stirling Council. The Authority, on behalf of the Participating Authorities, seeks to appoint suitably experienced and competent contractors who demonstrate the capability and capacity to deliver the Services in accordance with the requirements of this procurement.
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionProvision of Temporary Traffic Management Services at various sites within the Clackmannanshire, Falkirk and Stirling Council areas of operations. The service is to be delivered in line with the principles set out in the Traffic Signs Manual Chapter 8 (parts 1 & 2), and in accordance with the Safety at Street Works and Road Works– A Code of Practice.
- Recurrence: November 2030
CPV: Installation of traffic lights · Traffic control services · Traffic lights
How this framework works
From the published notice- Places
- up to 5 suppliers
- Framework period
- 4 yrs from 1 Apr 2027
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · value publishedLot #1Falkirk Council, acting as the Lead Authority, wish to conduct a procurement exercise…Published value£3,100,000
Falkirk Council, acting as the Lead Authority, wish to conduct a procurement exercise with a view to establishing a Framework Agreement for the provision of Temporary Traffic Management Services. The Framework Agreement shall cover service delivery requirements across the administrative areas of Clackmannanshire Council, Falkirk Council, and Stirling Council.
The Authority, on behalf of the Participating Authorities, seeks to appoint suitably experienced and competent contractors who demonstrate the capability and capacity to deliver the Services in accordance with the requirements of this procurement.
The appointed Contractors shall be required to work collaboratively with the Participating Authorities to ensure the provision of a service that is cost-effective, responsive, safety-focused, and of a consistently high quality, in accordance with all applicable legislation, industry standards, and best practice. Additional information: Economic operators may be excluded from this competition if they are in any of the situations referred to in regulation 58 of the Public Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2015.
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).
Published sub-criteria (2)
- Qualitative: 30%
- price: 70%
Published award criteria (2)
- Qualitative: 30
- Price: 70
- Suitability
It is a requirement of this tender that the bidder must hold a valid registration with Companies House. Where the bidder is not registered at Companies House they must be able to verify to the Council’s satisfaction that they are trading from the address provided in the tender and under the Company name given.
- Economic & financial standing
A Credit safe credit scoring check will be ran on registered Company Name and Company Number provided by the bidder. Where the resulting Credit Rating score is less than 30/100 the bidder may be excluded from the tender process unless suitable financial information is
provided that gives satisfactory assurances to the Council regarding financial risk in appointing the bidder to the contract.
Minimum: Employer’s (Compulsory) Liability Insurance = 10 Million GBP Public Liability Insurance = 5 Million GBP Product Liability Insurance = 5 Million GBP Motor Insurance = 5 Million GBP
- Staff
- Names and qualifications of delivery staff must be submitted
- Price carries 70 of 100 points: a 10% discount moves about 7 points. This one is won on the number: sharpen the price before polishing the prose.
- “Temporary Traffic Management Services” is a framework: the contest is a place on its panel, up to 5 suppliers, not a single contract.
Price arithmetic assumes straight proportional scoring; the tender pack may use another formula.
Competition analysis · published record, not a forecast of who will bid
How Falkirk Council buys Support services for land transport (CPV 6371), and who usually turns up
Falkirk Council’s published record next to the market for the same work. Compared with other frameworks and DPS only. Whole-market view: Support services for land transport (CPV 6371) →
How the contest usually goes
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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.
Local means the winner is registered in the region where that award was delivered.
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners were registered in the region where that award was delivered.
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How long buyers here take to decide after bids close.
Middle value in days from the bid deadline to the award date, on competitions that published both.
Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.
Half of these awards have an award date within 67 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.
Missing bid counts may hide more single-bid awards. This share is a minimum.
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 bid10% / 0%
2–323% / 0%
4–642% / 18%
7+25% / 82%
How did awards compare with estimates?
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Where winning prices landed against estimates.
Awards below, close to or above the estimate, per lot. The buyer side adds below-threshold contracts with a pre-award estimate; an award inside a published range counts as close.
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 price is set later, on each call-off.
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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.
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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
Our matching links this notice to “Framework Agreement for Temporary Traffic Management Services” of this authority, but none of the 5 panel members sit in a category matching this notice.
Lot #1Falkirk Council, acting as the Lead Authority, wish to conduct a procurement exercise…CPV 6371Published estimate£3.1m
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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 11 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid0%
2–30%
4–618%
7+82%
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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 and Contracts Finder), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0. New notices arrive through the day; the figures are rebuilt nightly. Contracts Finder appears in live search, the Retender Radar, contract pages, organisation counts, the earlier contracts and past suppliers on a tender's competition panel, the buyer's decision figure and its award against estimate; the other analytical figures are built from Find a Tender notices.
- 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.
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Who has done similar work for this buyer.
Past contracts are matched by buyer, title and type of work.
66% title match.
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.
66% title match.
A past supplier may not bid again.
The prior contract this notice most likely re-tenders · matched by title and category (66% title match), the holder is not guaranteed to re-bid
Framework Agreement for Temporary Traffic Management Services, winner not published; the published contract ends 31 Mar 2027.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record · publisher note attached- Procedure method
- Open procedure
- Legal basis
- CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Open for tender
- Procurement threshold
- Unspecified in notice
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Framework agreement
- Who may use this agreement
- Not stated in the notice; call-off rights may be limited to the establishing authority
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Yes (GPA)
- Recurring procurement
- Yes · November 2030
- First published
- 6 Nov 2026, 09:23 GMT
- Last source update
- 6 Nov 2026, 09:23 GMT
- Award evaluation window
- 7 Dec 2026 – …
- Authority reference
PS 026 27- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-105516- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-07b603Find a Tender
- Electronic trading
- e-invoicing allowed · electronic ordering · electronic payment
- Performance terms
As listed within the tender documentation.
Publisher note: 1. Bidders will be required to provide 2 examples from the past 3 years that demonstrate that they have the relevant experience to deliver the services/ supplies as described in part II.2.4 of the Find a Tender Service Contract Notice or the relevant section of the Site Notice. 2. Bidders will be required to confirm whether they intend to subcontract and, if so, for what proportion of the contract. 3. The bidder must hold a UKAS (or equivalent) accredited independent third party certificate of compliance in accordance with BS EN ISO 9001 (or equivalent), or provide additional supportive information as detailed within Section D, Document 4 "PS 026 27 SPD (Scotland) Standardised Statements". 4. The bidder must hold a UKAS (or equivalent) accredited independent third party certificate of compliance in accordance with ISO 45001:2018 (or equivalent) or provide additional supportive information as detailed within Section D, Document 4 "PS 026 27 SPD (Scotland) Standardised Statements". 5. The Bidder must hold a UKAS (or equivalent) accredited independent third party certificate of compliance with BS EN ISO 14001 (or equivalent) or a valid EMAS (or equivalent) certificate or provide additional supportive information as detailed within Section D, Document 4 "PS 026 27 SPD (Scotland) Standardised Statements". 6. The bidder must demonstrate the extent to which they meet the Authority’s minimum requirements in respect of Cyber Security for this framework by completing the relevant Supplier Assessments using the Supply25 system. Click on the following link to access and register for the Supply25 system: https://app.supply25.com/applications/zhOOCXxM0QSWDrM7icfsH 7. Bidders are advised to allow adequate time for uploading documents and to dispatch the electronic response in advance of the submission deadline to avoid any last minute issues. NOTE: To register your interest in this notice and obtain any additional information please visit the Public Contracts Scotland Web Site at https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/Search/Search_Switch.aspx?ID=847670. The buyer has indicated that it will accept electronic responses to this notice via the Postbox facility. A user guide is available at https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/sitehelp/help_guides.aspx. Suppliers are advised to allow adequate time for uploading documents and to dispatch the electronic response well in advance of the closing time to avoid any last minute problems. A sub-contract clause has been included in this contract. For more information see: http://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/info/InfoCentre.aspx?ID=2363 Community benefits are included in this requirement. For more information see: https://www.gov.scot/policies/public-sector-procurement/community-benefits-in-procurement/ A summary of the expected community benefits has been provided as follows: We use a point’s-based system to ensure each Contract or Framework Agreement has appropriate community benefits as an essential component. Each action is worth a varying number of points based on how well it contributes to our priorities. Full details can be found within "PS 026 27 ITT Document Schedule 6 (SC Ref:847670) Download the ESPD document here: https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/ESPD/ESPD_Download.aspx?id=847670
How to participate & submission route
Official notice Submit via Public Contracts ScotlandTender documents are also served through a separate tool: http://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk ↗
- Requests to participate (first stage)
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- Appointment period ends
- 7 Dec 2026, 11:00 GMT
- Clarification deadline
- —
- Submission channel
- {"electronicSubmission"}
- Accepted languages
- en
- Bid validity
- 180 days from the deadline
- Bids opened
- 7 Dec 2026, 11:00 GMT
Timeline
6 Nov 2026 → 1 Apr 2027 · 4 dates- Notice published4 days ago6 Nov 2026, 09:23 GMT
- Today10 Nov 2026
- Admission / appointment period endsin 26 days · period end, not a bid countdown7 Dec 2026, 11:00 GMT
- Bids openedin 26 days7 Dec 2026, 11:00 GMT
- Contract startsin 141 days1 Apr 2027, 00:00 BST
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
3 public bodies on the noticeConsortium members and other public bodies
- Clackmannanshire CouncilContracting authority
- Stirling CouncilContracting authority
Dispute resolution & review bodies
- Falkirk Sheriff Court and Justice of the PeaceReview body
Official documents & specifications (1)
Official links; attachments are not copiedTender pack and attachments
- Technical selection criteria