Official UK procurement notice
Transport for Wales (TfW) Professional Services Market Engagement
Authority: Transport for Wales (TFW) (Public body)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionTransport for Wales (TfW) is seeking to engage with the market ahead of a new professional services procurement opportunity covering a broad range of transport sector consultancy services. This opportunity is intended for both multidisciplinary consultants and SMEs with relevant experience in early development, technical, design and advisory services across the transport and infrastructure environment.
The scope of services is expected to include, but is not limited to:
Business case development.
Transport data collection and surveys.
Monitoring and evaluation.
Fleet decarbonisation technical support.
Stakeholder engagement and consultation.
Architecture and placemaking services.
Feasibility studies.
Outline and detailed design.
Specifications and cost estimates.
Buildability and value engineering advice.
Specialist technical support for infrastructure and asset management.
Bus and train timetable and service analysis.
Environmental management and assessment.
TfW is engaging with the market to better understand supplier capability, delivery models and market appetite, and to help shape the most effective route to market for future requirements. The event is constructed in a co-design model, to support early market engagement, encourage meaningful dialogue with suppliers, and inform the development of a procurement approach that is practical, proportionate and attractive to the market.
TfW welcomes input from organisations with the relevant expertise, capacity and experience to support the delivery of high-quality professional services across its programmes and projects.
CPV: Architectural, construction, engineering and inspection services · Business and management consultancy and related services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedPipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How Transport for Wales (TFW) buys Business and management consultancy and related services (CPV 7940), and who usually turns up
Transport for Wales (TFW)’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: Business and management consultancy and related services (CPV 7940) →
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.
Here, local means registered in Wales (Cymru) (authority’s region).
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners are registered in Wales (Cymru).
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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.
Half of these awards were announced within 40 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 bid0% / 27%
2–350% / 27%
4–642% / 36%
7+8% / 9%
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 estimate60% / 36%
Within ±2%10% / 64%
Above estimate30% / 0%
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 7940Published estimate£120m
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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 bid27%
2–327%
4–636%
7+9%
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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
- 8 Jun 2026, 16:28 BST
- Last source update
- 24 Jun 2026, 09:10 BST
- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-059201- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06b029Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
8 Jun 2026 → 1 Jan 2028 · 5 dates- Planning notice published134 days ago8 Jun 2026, 16:28 BST
- Latest notice published118 days ago24 Jun 2026, 09:10 BST
- Market engagement112 days ago29 Jun 2026, 23:59 BST
Transport for Wales (TfW) is seeking to engage with suitably experienced professional services suppliers ahead of the development of an upcoming professional services opportunity. The purpose of the engagement is to support early market shaping and to better understand supplier capability, delivery models, commercial considerations, and the most effective way to structure the future opportunity.
The engagement will be carried out through a co-design approach, tailored to a professional services market audience. TfW is particularly interested in hearing from professional suppliers who can contribute to shaping a future procurement approach that is practical, proportionate, and attractive to the market. The engagement will help TfW test assumptions, identify any market constraints or opportunities, and develop a route to market that supports effective competition and good-quality outcomes.
The session is intended for professional services organisations with relevant expertise and experience. It is not a procurement event, but a market engagement exercise designed to inform TfW’s future strategy and commercial approach.
**The dates and locations of the events for the North or South Wales events are below, due to capacity please only select one venue for your attendance by completing this Microsoft Form Market Engagement questionnaire. Please complete this form by 5pm, Monday 22nd June 2026 - forms.cloud.microsoft/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx ↗ (please copy and paste into your web browser to complete)
Any issues with registering please contact [email protected]
13/07/2026 (09:30 - 14:00) - South Wales - Floor 3, 3 Llys Cadwyn, Pontypridd, CF37 4TH
01/07/2026 (10:00-15:00) - North Wales, Ellice House (Unit H), Wrexham Business Village, Ellice Way, Wrexham, LL13 7YL
- Today20 Oct 2026
- Tender notice expectedin 74 days1 Jan 2027, 23:59 GMT
- Contract starts1 Jan 2028
Notice history
2 events · 2 releases on Find a Tender · since 8 Jun 2026- Preliminary market engagement notice published8 Jun 2026, 16:28 BSTUK2
- Preliminary market engagement notice published24 Jun 2026, 09:10 BSTUK2
Published amendments (1)
South Wales Meet the Buyer Event Date Change and Update!
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 (2)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender