Official UK procurement notice
TfWM Customer Website Replacement
Authority: West Midlands Combined Authority (Local council)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionTransport for West Midlands is undertaking preliminary market engagement to inform the development of its requirements and procurement strategy for the replacement of its customer-facing website. The Authority is seeking market insight on potential technical solutions, delivery approaches, indicative costs and timescales, commercial models, key risks, dependencies and opportunities. This engagement is for information-gathering purposes only and does not constitute a call for competition or commitment to undertake a future procurement.
This preliminary market engagement exercise seeks to understand market interest in working with TfWM on this project, gather insights into possible market solutions, help support TfWM develop its requirements, and support the design of a suitable procurement approach.
Please note, any information provided as part of this market engagement exercise is for information only and will not be evaluated or form part of any tender process. Participation is voluntary and will not be used to limit competition in any way.
Reference: project_1279 - TfWM Customer Website Replacement (wmca.ukp.app.jaggaer.com/go/8576440301A187B5916C ↗)
CPV: Internet and intranet software development services · Internet browsing software development services · World wide web (www) site design services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedPipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How West Midlands Combined Authority buys Programming services of packaged software products (CPV 7221), and who usually turns up
West Midlands Combined Authority’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: Programming services of packaged software products (CPV 7221) →
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.
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 outside 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 68 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.
Both shares are minimums: some awards have no bid count.
Thin markets produce this too; it is not proof of a tailored specification.
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.
1 bid17% / 4%
2–325% / 33%
4–650% / 33%
7+8% / 30%
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.
Below estimate33% / 47%
Within ±2%47% / 33%
Above estimate20% / 19%
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 #1CPV 72Published estimate£400k
This lot lists more than one class in CPV 72. The comparison uses that group.
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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 789 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid12%
2–328%
4–628%
7+32%
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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.
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
- Services
- 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
- 30 Oct 2026, 09:37 GMT
- Last source update
- 30 Oct 2026, 09:37 GMT
- Authority reference
PRT-DIGDAT-ESG-2026-0008- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-102977- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-07943fFind a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
30 Oct 2026 → 31 Mar 2027 · 4 dates- Planning notice published1h ago30 Oct 2026, 09:37 GMT
- Today30 Oct 2026
- Market engagementin 19 days18 Nov 2026, 23:59 GMT
Transport for West Midlands (TfWM), part of the West Midlands Combined Authority (WMCA), is undertaking preliminary market engagement to inform the requirements and procurement strategy for the proposed replacement of its customer-facing website.
This preliminary market engagement exercise seeks to understand market interest in working with TfWM on this project, gather insights into possible market solutions, help support TfWM develop its requirements, and support the design of a suitable procurement approach.
Please note, any information provided as part of this market engagement exercise is for information only and will not be evaluated or form part of any tender process. Participation is voluntary and will not be used to limit competition in any way.
Interested suppliers are invited to review the PME documentation and submit a written response through the e-tendering portal by 12:00 noon on 18 November 2026. Responses should address the supplier questions and include a completed Appendix C: Indicative Cost Estimate. Any pricing provided must be indicative and non-binding. It will be used to support market analysis, budget planning and the development of the future procurement strategy.
The Authority will review the written responses and may use the information to shape the project scope, technical requirements, delivery approach, procurement route, contract structure and commercial model for any future procurement.
This exercise is for information-gathering purposes only. It is not a call for competition, pre-qualification exercise or invitation to tender. Participation will not provide any advantage or disadvantage in any future procurement and does not commit WMCA to proceeding with a procurement or awarding a contract.
If you are interested in this engagement exercise, then please register on wmca.ukp.app.jaggaer.com/go/8576440301A187B5916C ↗ and access project_1279 - TfWM Customer Website Replacement.
Please note, responses will not be accepted following the deadline date of 18 November 2026.
- Tender notice expectedin 73 days11 Jan 2027, 23:59 GMT
- Contract startsin 151 days31 Mar 2027, 00:00 BST
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Preliminary market engagement notice published30 Oct 2026, 09:37 GMTUK2
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
Official documents & specifications (1)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender