Official UK procurement notice
Younger Children's Play Area refurbishment opportunity
Authority: Hagley Parish Council (Local council)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionContract to design, supply & deliver on all aspects of a complete refurbishment of the HPC owned play area for ages 2 to 14 years.
Guideline budget - £150,000.
Hagley Parish Council has an exciting opportunity to refurbish an existing NEAP at Hagley Recreation Ground in North Worcestershire. The council is seeking to appoint a suitable contractor to deliver a high-quality refurbishment scheme within the guideline budget for a NEAP classified play area.
A survey has been conducted to establish local demand and need and the headlines of the survey are set out in HPC's Invitation to Tender document. All equipment and safety surfacing must be fully compliant with the requirements of BS EN 1176 and BS EN 1177 and accessibility and inclusivity will be a key design feature.
Interest should be registered through Hagley Parish Council offices by emailing the Deputy Clerk by email at [email protected]
Site visits are mandatory prior to submission.
CPV: Flatwork for children's play area · Park and playground equipment · Playground equipment
The lotProcurement structure
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How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
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How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
Lot awarding rule: An evaluation panel appointed by the council will use a 100-point evaluation system comprising: Max score of 60 on Technical & Quality Max score of 40 on Price The evaluation will be undertaken in three stages:- Stage 1 - Compliance & minimum criteria - Pass/Fail Stage 2 - Technical & Quality Evaluation - 60 points Stage 3 - Commercial & Price Evaluation - 40 points Only tenders which pass Stage 1 will proceed to the scored evaluation. Once the evaluation has taken place, an appointment of a contractor will be made by the council, planned for 9th February, 2027. The awarded contractor will be notified during that week. The appointment will be subject to grant funding being secured by the council and no works or manufacturing should begin until a formal order is received by the contractor.
No conditions of participation were published on the notice; check the tender documents.
- Turnover usually expected at this size: about £300,000 (twice the annual value).
Turnover is an indicative market norm (≈2× annual value), not a published condition.
Competition analysis · published record, not a forecast of who will bid
Playground equipment (CPV 3753) in North East England, and who usually turns up
Hagley Parish Council 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: Playground equipment (CPV 3753) →
How the contest usually goes
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How often local firms win similar work.
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A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Across this market, 0% of winners were registered in the delivery region.
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How long buyers here take to decide after bids close.
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Half of these awards were announced within 28 days of the bid deadline.
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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.
Across this market, at least 10% of awarded procurements had no recorded rival.
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Past bids do not predict this tender.
1 bid8%
2–338%
4–646%
7+8%
How did awards compare with estimates?
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Below estimate40%
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Above estimate20%
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Lot #1CPV 3753Published estimate£150k
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1 bid6%
2–333%
4–654%
7+7%
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Where the award price may land.
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Based on 8 comparable awards. Each lot reflects its own category; forecasts for different lots of the same notice are not comparative.
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Middle 50%£142k–£150k
Estimate£150k
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None is confirmed as a bidder.
| Supplier | Won in this category | Live contracts | Award vs estimate |
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KOMPAN LimitedLarge | £5.9m71 awards in 36m · last this month | 13 live · £3.0m iPublic contracts this supplier still holds. Its awards whose published end date is still in the future, with their values. Many contracts publish no end date, so this is a floor, not the whole book. Unexpired says nothing about spare capacity. | at estimate n=16 |
HAGS SMP LtdSME | £4.4m44 awards in 36m · last this month | 5 live · £446k iPublic contracts this supplier still holds. Its awards whose published end date is still in the future, with their values. Many contracts publish no end date, so this is a floor, not the whole book. Unexpired says nothing about spare capacity. | at estimate n=11 |
| £3.0m37 awards in 36m · last 1 months ago | 9 live · £1.2m iPublic contracts this supplier still holds. Its awards whose published end date is still in the future, with their values. Many contracts publish no end date, so this is a floor, not the whole book. Unexpired says nothing about spare capacity. | 2% below n=9 | |
| £1.4m8 awards in 36m · last 1 months ago | 2 live · £184k iPublic contracts this supplier still holds. Its awards whose published end date is still in the future, with their values. Many contracts publish no end date, so this is a floor, not the whole book. Unexpired says nothing about spare capacity. | at estimate n=4 | |
Groundwork LondonLarge | £680k10 awards in 36m · last 1 months ago | 1 live · £60k iPublic contracts this supplier still holds. Its awards whose published end date is still in the future, with their values. Many contracts publish no end date, so this is a floor, not the whole book. Unexpired says nothing about spare capacity. | 2% below n=3 |
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 match score are our estimates from past awards: not published facts, not win chances and not price advice. Official notices do not say who is bidding.
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Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Procedure method
- Below threshold - open competition
- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Works
- Notice status
- Open for tender
- Procurement threshold
- Below threshold
- 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
- 16 Oct 2026, 13:46 BST
- Last source update
- 16 Oct 2026, 13:46 BST
- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-097972- Latest notice
- Tender notice (UK4)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-078992Find a Tender
- Reserved participation area
- K02000001
How to participate & submission route
Official notice- Requests to participate (first stage)
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- Tender submission deadline
- 11 Dec 2026, 16:30 GMT
- Clarification deadline
- 6 Nov 2026, 23:59 GMT
- Electronic submission
- Not allowed
Submit electronically to [email protected]
AND
use recorded delivery to send A1 drawings to arrive by 11th December 2026, at:
Deputy Clerk
Hagley Parish Council
Hagley Pavilion
Hagley Playing Fields
Victoria Passage
Hagley
DY9 0DA
No tenders will be accepted after this date.
All tenders will remain sealed & unopened until the 8th January 2027. All sealed & unopened tenders will be opened at the same time on the 8th January 2027 by the clerk in the presence of at least one member of the council.
Timeline
16 Oct 2026 → 1 Apr 2027 · 4 dates- Tender notice published1 day ago16 Oct 2026, 13:46 BST
- Today17 Oct 2026
- Clarification questions byin 21 days6 Nov 2026, 23:59 GMT
- Submission deadlinein 55 days11 Dec 2026, 16:30 GMT
- Contract startsin 166 days1 Apr 2027, 00:00 BST
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Tender notice published16 Oct 2026, 13:46 BSTUK4
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Nothing awarded yet- 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 copiedTender pack and attachments
- Bidding documents and specifications
Notices published for this procedure
- Tender notice Tender notice on Find a Tender