Official UK procurement notice
UTC Ducting & Minor Highways Framework
Authority: Transport for Greater Manchester (Public body)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionTfGM's current UTC Ducting & Minor Highways Framework is approaching the end of its current term and in advance of retender TfGM are seeking market input into delivery routes for either a new framework or alternative options that will meet TfGM's requirements over the coming four (or alternative) year period that will successfully meet the on-going demands of renewing and enhancing the Highway Network into future funding cycles.
The expiring framework has been used to deliver the following minor highways schemes:
- The addition of SCOOT / MOVA ducting to existing traffic signal junctions
- Bus stop kerbing and flagging upgrades
- Construction of controlled pedestrian crossings (zebra, puffin, toucan etc)
- Construction of new traffic signal junctions and upgrades to existing junctions.
Please note the values in this notice are based on a single supplier contracting arrangement. In the instance that a framework is established, the values and dates will be as follows:
Start Date: 01/05/2027
End Date: 30/04/2031
Estimated Value: £25,000,000
And in the instance that a single supplier contracting arrangement is established, the values and dates will be as follows:
Start Date: 01/05/2027
End Date: 30/04/2039
Estimated Value: £90,000,000
Following the market engagement phase, TfGM will confirm the contracting arrangement.
CPV: Building fittings · Construction consultancy services · Construction work · Designs
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedPipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How Transport for Greater Manchester buys Construction materials (CPV 4411), and who usually turns up
Transport for Greater Manchester’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: Construction materials (CPV 4411) →
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 North West England.
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners are registered outside North West England.
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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 74 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.
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 bid0% / 13%
2–330% / 44%
4–660% / 37%
7+10% / 7%
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 estimate53% / 0%
Within ±2%20% / 40%
Above estimate27% / 60%
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 4411Published estimate£75m
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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 34 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid0%
2–335%
4–638%
7+26%
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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
- Works
- 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
- 12 Aug 2026, 13:26 BST
- Last source update
- 12 Aug 2026, 13:26 BST
- Authority reference
20260603- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-076776- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06e296Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
12 Aug 2026 → 1 Jul 2027 · 4 dates- Planning notice published69 days ago12 Aug 2026, 13:26 BST
- Market engagement31 days ago18 Sept 2026, 23:59 BST
Market sounding questionnaires should be submitted via the ProContract procurement portal. Suppliers can register for free using the following link: procontract.due-north.com/Register ↗.
Upon registration, Suppliers can access the opportunity via the following project reference: DN825487.
Interested parties will need to express interest via ProContract and request the Market Engagement Documentation. procontract.due-north.com ↗ Project reference DN825487. Please use the messaging function within the project to confirm interest, documentation will be sent via this route.
- Today20 Oct 2026
- Tender notice expectedin 17 days5 Nov 2026, 23:59 GMT
- Contract startsin 254 days1 Jul 2027, 00:00 BST
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Preliminary market engagement notice published12 Aug 2026, 13:26 BSTUK2
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