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Published 4 Nov 2026, 15:24 GMT

Official UK procurement notice

Tender 23/2026 - SUPPLY AND DELIVERY OF WORKSHOP TOOLBOXES COMPLETE WITH TOOLS

Authority: Newry, Mourne and Down District Council (NMD) (Local council)

GoodsBelow threshold - open competitionBelow thresholdSME suitableVCSE suitable
Budget not disclosedValue not published
Submission deadline 2 Dec 202612:00 GMT · 27 days left
Clarification cut-off 26 Nov 202612:00 GMT · questions to the authority
Contract term 2 moends 26 Feb 2027 · starts 4 Jan 2027

What is being bought

Published requirement description

Newry, Mourne and Down District Council invite suppliers to tender for the provision of a total of 10 toolboxes complete with tools. This is to equip the workshop personnel with the appropriate tooling to maintain Council vehicles, plant, and equipment to a high standard in line with industry guidelines and statutory regulations.

CPV: Boxes · Drill bits, screwdriver bits and other accessories · Hand tools · Tool carriers · Tool holders · Tool kits · Tools

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · value published
Lot #1 2 moSMEVCSEPublished value£0

What it takes to win
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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 more
How bids are scored
Quality: 20%Price: 80%
Published sub-criteria (2)
  • As per Tender Documentation: 20%
  • As per Tender Documentation: 80%
Published award criteria (2)
  • As per Tender Documentation
  • As per Tender Documentation

No conditions of participation were published on the notice; check the tender documents.

What this means for your bid
  • Price carries 80 of 100 points: a 10% discount moves about 8 points. This one is won on the number: sharpen the price before polishing the prose.

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 Newry, Mourne and Down District Council (NMD) buys Tools (CPV 4451), and who usually turns up

Newry, Mourne and Down District Council (NMD)’s published record next to the market for the same work. Frameworks and DPS are left out: they draw different bid counts. Whole-market view: Tools (CPV 4451) →

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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
The marketTools (CPV 4451) · UK-wide
What to do with it
How often do SMEs win?
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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.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 17 of 28 known-size awards · market: CPV 4451 · UK-wide, n=12
61%67%

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

How often do local suppliers win?
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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.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 3 of 4 known-location awards · market: CPV 4451 · UK-wide, n=12
3 of 442%

Most of this buyer’s recorded winners were registered in the region where that award was delivered.

How long to a decision?
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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.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 3 decided notices · market: CPV 4451 · UK-wide, n=6
26 days67 days

Half of these awards have an award date within 26 days of the bid deadline.

How often single-bid or direct?
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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.

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 5 of 35 procurements with awards had no recorded rival · market: CPV 4451 · UK-wide, n=15
14%47%

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.

Last 36 months.

This buyer22 lots with bid counts · all categories
45% had one bid
The market10 lots with bid counts · CPV 4451 · UK-wide
10% had one bid
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
1 bid45% / 10%
Buyer: 10 of 22 lots with published bid counts. Market: 1 of 10 lots with published bid counts.
2–336% / 20%
Buyer: 8 of 22 lots with published bid counts. Market: 2 of 10 lots with published bid counts.
4–618% / 40%
Buyer: 4 of 22 lots with published bid counts. Market: 4 of 10 lots with published bid counts.
7+0% / 30%
Buyer: 0 of 22 lots with published bid counts. Market: 3 of 10 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 buyer32 lots with estimate and award · all categories
16% below estimate
The market11 lots with estimate and award · CPV 4451 · UK-wide
27% below estimate
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
Below estimate16% / 27%
Buyer: 5 of 32 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 3 of 11 lots with an estimate and award.
Within ±2%31% / 55%
Buyer: 10 of 32 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 6 of 11 lots with an estimate and award.
Above estimate53% / 18%
Buyer: 17 of 32 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 2 of 11 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 44512 monthsSME suitableNo real estimate
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.

A forecast, not a list of bidders.

4expected bids17% chance of a single bid
similar past contests in this category: 3
Forecast chances for this lot
1 bid17%
Chance this lot gets 1 bid: 17%. This is a forecast.
2–315%
Chance this lot gets 2–3: 15%. This is a forecast.
4–657%
Chance this lot gets 4–6: 57%. This is a forecast.
7+10%
Chance this lot gets 7+: 10%. This is a forecast.
Commercial price forecast
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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.

—No real estimate
The buyer published £0 as the estimate (a placeholder, not the contract’s value), so there is nothing to forecast against.

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
SLIEVE GULLION STONE LTDWorked for this buyerTender 68/2023 Warrenpoint Front Shore Car Parks Public Realm - Supply of Natural Stone Materialsnotice published Jan 2024——Similar wording and category

Who could compete for this lot?
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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.

SupplierWon in this categoryLive contractsAward vs estimate
7 panel places
£1.7m10 awards in 36m · last 5 months ago4 live · £733k
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Public 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=5
11 panel places
£7.0m18 awards in 36m · last 1 month agoNone on fileat estimate n=5
2 panel places
£539k1 award in 36m · last 3 months agoNone on file17% below n=1
2 panel places
£1.1m4 awards in 36m · last 5 months agoNone on file40% below n=1
£38k1 award in 36m · last 3 months agoNone on file17% below n=1
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. Contracts Finder contracts appear on the Retender Radar, not yet in these figures.
  • 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
Below threshold - open competition
Legal basis
UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
Procurement category
Goods
Notice status
Open for tender
Procurement threshold
Below threshold
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
4 Nov 2026, 15:24 GMT
Last source update
4 Nov 2026, 15:24 GMT
Authority reference
CA18639
FTS notice number
2026/S 000-104799
Latest notice
Tender notice (UK4)
Classification (CPV)
BoxesDrill bits, screwdriver bits and other accessoriesHand toolsTool carriersTool holdersTool kitsTools
Delivery area
UK
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-07b327 Find a Tender

How to participate & submission route

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Requests to participate (first stage)
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Tender submission deadline
2 Dec 2026, 12:00 GMT
Clarification deadline
26 Nov 2026, 12:00 GMT
Submission channel
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Electronic submission
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Timeline

4 Nov 2026 → 4 Jan 2027 · 4 dates
  1. Tender notice published12h ago
    4 Nov 2026, 15:24 GMT
  2. Today
    5 Nov 2026
  3. Clarification questions byin 21 days
    26 Nov 2026, 12:00 GMT
  4. Submission deadlinein 27 days
    2 Dec 2026, 12:00 GMT
  5. Contract startsin 59 days
    4 Jan 2027

Notice history

1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender
  1. Tender notice published
    4 Nov 2026, 15:24 GMT
    UK4

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

Newry, Mourne and Down District Council (NMD)

Contracting authorityPublic undertaking GB-PPON: PJMQ-5831-RNZM Unit 19 Rampart Road, Greenbank Industrial Estate, Newry, Northern Ireland, BT34 2QUContact name, email, phone

Official documents & specifications (1)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure

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