Official UK procurement notice
Worthing Allotment Management · UK public procurement notice
Authority: Worthing Borough Council (Local council)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionWorthing Borough Council (WBC) is looking to form a concession agreement for the provision of site management for our Worthing allotment sites. Site management will be required across multiple allotment sites in the Worthing Borough area, including but not limited to:
Chesswood Farm Allotments
Dominion Road Allotments
George V Allotments
Haynes Road Allotments
Hillbarn Lane Allotments
St Andrew's Road Allotments
West Tarring Allotments
The successful service provider will be expected to collect all rents and manage day-to-day operations utilising funds from the rent account, when required. WBC will retain ownership and ultimate responsibility of the land, receiving an agreed percentage of the rents annually. Below is an overview of the responsibilities:
To collect all rent and fees on behalf of the Worthing Borough Council (WBC)
Maintain the site to reasonable standard specifically:
Fences and gates are functional and in a good state of repair
Foliage does not infringe neighbouring property
Rubbish/Fly Tipping is cleared
Communal areas/Parking areas are safe and accessible
Complete administrative tasks related to the management of the allotments, specifically:
Managing the Waiting List fairly
Accompanying potential tenants when viewing plots
Issuing and filing Tenancy Agreements
Managing a fair Non Cultivation and Inspection procedure
Issuing Notice to Quit letters or administering Relinquishments
Bookkeeping and accounting
Provide a clear process for Complaints
Inform council Arboriculturalist and/or the Planning Team on any matters relating to the pruning, removal or damage to trees (with or without TPO's) that are on the communal areas of the land
Ensure and evidence on request, compliance with WBC governance procedures, code of conduct and policies
Keep rent rates and rent increases aligned with other Adur & Worthing Council's allotment sites
Pay an annual percentage of the rent income to WBC
In order to be considered for this opportunity please express your interest by email to [email protected], your expression of interest should include the details of your business, your organisation type (including any official registrations such as charity/company), and key contact information.
CPV: Land management services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedPipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How Worthing Borough Council buys Property management services of real estate on a fee or contract basis (CPV 7033), and who usually turns up
Worthing Borough Council’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: Property management services of real estate on a fee or contract basis (CPV 7033) →
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 South East England.
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners are registered in South East 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 59 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.
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.
Awards are recorded, but published direct routes and bid counts do not establish this buyer’s share.
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 bid20%
2–320%
4–650%
7+10%
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 estimate29%
Within ±2%57%
Above estimate14%
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 7033Estimate not published
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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 10 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid20%
2–320%
4–650%
7+10%
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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
- Below threshold
- Regulatory regime
- Concession
- 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 Apr 2026, 15:44 BST
- Last source update
- 30 Apr 2026, 15:44 BST
- Authority reference
P0012-2026- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-040064- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-068f8fFind a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
30 Apr 2026 → 1 Jun 2026 · 3 dates- Planning notice published173 days ago30 Apr 2026, 15:44 BST
- Market engagement158 days ago15 May 2026, 23:59 BST
Worthing Borough Council (WBC) is looking to form a concession agreement for the provision of site management for our Worthing allotment sites. Site management will be required across multiple allotment sites in the Worthing Borough area, including but not limited to:
Chesswood Farm Allotments
Dominion Road Allotments
George V Allotments
Haynes Road Allotments
Hillbarn Lane Allotments
St Andrew's Road Allotments
West Tarring Allotments
The successful service provider will be expected to collect all rents and manage day-to-day operations utilising funds from the rent account, when required. WBC will retain ownership and ultimate responsibility of the land, receiving an agreed percentage of the rents annually. Below is an overview of the responsibilities:
To collect all rent and fees on behalf of the Worthing Borough Council (WBC)
Maintain the site to reasonable standard specifically:
Fences and gates are functional and in a good state of repair
Foliage does not infringe neighbouring property
Rubbish/Fly Tipping is cleared
Communal areas/Parking areas are safe and accessible
Complete administrative tasks related to the management of the allotments, specifically:
Managing the Waiting List fairly
Accompanying potential tenants when viewing plots
Issuing and filing Tenancy Agreements
Managing a fair Non Cultivation and Inspection procedure
Issuing Notice to Quit letters or administering Relinquishments
Bookkeeping and accounting
Provide a clear process for Complaints
Inform council Arboriculturalist and/or the Planning Team on any matters relating to the pruning, removal or damage to trees (with or without TPO's) that are on the communal areas of the land
Ensure and evidence on request, compliance with WBC governance procedures, code of conduct and policies
Keep rent rates and rent increases aligned with other Adur & Worthing Council's allotment sites
Pay an annual percentage of the rent income to WBC
In order to be considered for this opportunity please express your interest by email to [email protected], your expression of interest should include the details of your business, your organisation type (including any official registrations such as charity/company), and key contact information.
- Contract starts142 days ago1 Jun 2026, 00:00 BST
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Preliminary market engagement notice published30 Apr 2026, 15:44 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