Find a TenderPlanned procurementPreliminary market engagement notice
Published 12 Feb 2026, 12:07 GMT

Official UK procurement notice

The Royal Parks Half Marathon

Authority: TRP TRADING COMPANY LIMITED (Public body)

ServicesAbove thresholdLight touch regime
Planned pipeline value£11,000,000pipeline notice, not a live tender
Tender notice expected Date not publishedfrom the planned procurement notice
Contract term 5 yrs 9 moends 31 Dec 2032 · starts 31 Mar 2027

What is being bought

Published requirement description

The Royal Parks is seeking to appoint an Event Service Provider to assist with the delivery of The Royal Parks Half Marathon

For more information about this opportunity, please visit the Delta eSourcing portal at:

www.delta-esourcing.com/tenders/UK-UK-London… ↗

To respond to this opportunity, please click here:

www.delta-esourcing.com/respond/84QYNT8H62 ↗

CPV: Event services

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published
Lot #1Planned 5 yrs 9 mo
Contract period: 31 Mar 2027 – 31 Dec 2032 (5 yrs 9 mo)
Delivery: London

Who is likely to bid for this lot ↓

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

Competition for Exhibition, fair and congress organisation services (CPV 7995), and who usually turns up

TRP TRADING COMPANY LIMITED has too little published record in this market to describe on its own. Published market evidence for the same work stands beside whatever it has. Frameworks and DPS are kept out: they attract a different number of bids. Whole-market view: Exhibition, fair and congress organisation services (CPV 7995) →

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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 buyerTRP TRADING COMPANY LIMITED · all categories
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: no supplier sizes published · market: CPV 7995 · Greater London, n=25
—68%

No supplier sizes published for this authority.

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 registered in Greater London.

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

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 1 of 1 known-location awards · market: CPV 7995 · Greater London, n=29
1 of 162%

Most of this buyer’s recorded winners are registered in Greater London.

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: no decision dates published · market: CPV 7995 · UK-wide, n=67
—29 days

Half of these awards were announced within 29 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.

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.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: exactly 1 of 1 procurements with awards had no recorded rival · market: CPV 7995 · Greater London, n=36
1 of 156%

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?

i

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 buyer1 lot with bid counts · all categories · too few to chart
The market7 lots with bid counts · CPV 7995 · Greater London
14% had one bid
Market · select a colour for counts
1 bid14%
Market: 1 of 7 lots with published bid counts.
2–329%
Market: 2 of 7 lots with published bid counts.
4–657%
Market: 4 of 7 lots with published bid counts.
7+0%
Market: 0 of 7 lots with published bid counts.

How did awards compare with estimates?

i

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 buyerNo estimate-and-award pairs published
The market6 lots with estimate and award · CPV 7995 · Greater London
50% below estimate
Market · select a colour for counts
Below estimate50%
Market: 3 of 6 lots with an estimate and award.
Within ±2%50%
Market: 3 of 6 lots with an estimate and award.
Above estimate0%
Market: 0 of 6 lots with an estimate and award.
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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.

Open a lot for its forecast, this buyer’s previous supplier and possible competitors, from published award history, not a bid list

Lot #1CPV 799569 monthsPublished estimate£11m
Expected competition
i

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 225 past lots.

A forecast, not a list of bidders.

—No model forecast yet10% single-bid risk
Past bids on 225 similar lots
1 bid10%
23 of 225 similar past lots received 1 bid (10%).
2–320%
46 of 225 similar past lots received 2–3 (20%).
4–636%
82 of 225 similar past lots received 4–6 (36%).
7+33%
74 of 225 similar past lots received 7+ (33%).
Comparable past lots usually drew 5 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 £11m, and the forecast stays empty until the market has a record to read.

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.

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.

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
Light touch regime
Commercial structure
Stand-alone contract (no framework)
Competition type
Competitive procedure
GPA / WTO covered
Unspecified in notice
Recurring procurement
Unspecified in notice
First published
12 Feb 2026, 12:07 GMT
Last source update
12 Feb 2026, 12:07 GMT
FTS notice number
2026/S 000-012828
Latest notice
Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
Classification (CPV)
Event services
Delivery area
London (UKI)
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-064ee1 Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice
Submission deadline
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Timeline

12 Feb 2026 → 31 Mar 2027 · 3 dates
  1. Planning notice published250 days ago
    12 Feb 2026, 12:07 GMT
  2. Market engagement231 days ago
    2 Mar 2026, 23:59 GMT

    The Royal Parks are looking to engage and would like to invite potential bidders to complete this questionnaire, as per the information provided in the Preliminary Market Engagement.

    In order to maximise the effectiveness of this Market Consultation exercise, please provide as much information as possible.

    Questionnaires must be submitted, via the Delta online portal by: 12:00 hours on Monday, 02.03.2026

  3. Today
    20 Oct 2026
  4. Contract startsin 162 days
    31 Mar 2027, 00:00 BST

Notice history

1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender
  1. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    12 Feb 2026, 12:07 GMT
    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

TRP TRADING COMPANY LIMITED

Contracting authorityPublic authority - sub-central government GB-PPON: PWWT-6798-CMTV The Old Police House, Hyde Park, London, London, W2 2UHContact name, email, phone

Official documents & specifications (1)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure