Find a TenderPlanned procurementPreliminary market engagement notice
Published 27 Sept 2026, 20:43 BST

Official UK procurement notice

2026-2029 Season Weekend Football Attendant Staffing

Authority: Liverpool City Council (Local council)

ServicesSME suitableVCSE suitable
Planned pipeline valueValue not publishedpipeline notice, not a live tender
Tender notice expected Date not publishedfrom the planned procurement notice
Contract term 2 yrs 9 moends 16 Sept 2029 · up to 16 Sept 2030 with extensions · starts 21 Dec 2026

What is being bought

Published requirement description

Liverpool City Council are looking for a supplier to provide flexible staffing provision to accommodate the opening and closing of football sites including associated changing facilities.

The service will be required for weekend and midweek football fixtures.

CPV: Sports facilities operation services · Sports-event organisation services

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published
Lot #1PlannedRenewal 2 yrs 9 moSMEVCSE
Contract period: 21 Dec 2026 – 16 Sept 2029 (2 yrs 9 mo) · up to 16 Sept 2030 with extensions
Delivery: North WestEligibility: SME eligibleVCSE eligible
Extensions: Extension options published

Who is likely to bid for this lot ↓

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

How Liverpool City Council buys Sports facilities operation services (CPV 9261), and who usually turns up

Liverpool City Council’s published record next to the market for the same work. Frameworks and DPS are left out: they draw different bid counts. Whole-market view: Sports facilities operation services (CPV 9261) →

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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 buyerLiverpool City Council · all categories
What to do with it
How often do SMEs win?
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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.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 42 of 98 known-size awards · market: CPV 9261 · UK-wide, n=30
43%23%

Small firms have won here. Neither number says whether you qualify; it describes who has been winning.

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.

Local means the winner is registered in the region where that award was delivered. The market figure counts awards delivered in North West England.

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

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 97 of 152 known-location awards · market: CPV 9261 · North West England, n=6
64%50%

Most of this buyer’s recorded winners were registered in the region where that award was delivered.

How long to a decision?
i

How long buyers here take to decide after bids close.

Middle value in days from the bid deadline to the award date, on competitions that published both.

Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 23 decided notices · market: CPV 9261 · UK-wide, n=8
57 days164 days

Half of these awards have an award date within 57 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 buyer’s 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: at least 43 of 127 procurements with awards had no recorded rival · market: CPV 9261 · North West England, n=6
34%17%

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.

Last 36 months.

This buyer66 lots with bid counts · all categories
20% had one bid
The market5 lots with bid counts · CPV 9261 · North West England
0% had one bid
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
1 bid20% / 0%
Buyer: 13 of 66 lots with published bid counts. Market: 0 of 5 lots with published bid counts.
2–339% / 80%
Buyer: 26 of 66 lots with published bid counts. Market: 4 of 5 lots with published bid counts.
4–626% / 0%
Buyer: 17 of 66 lots with published bid counts. Market: 0 of 5 lots with published bid counts.
7+15% / 20%
Buyer: 10 of 66 lots with published bid counts. Market: 1 of 5 lots with published bid counts.

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.

Last 36 months.

This buyer27 lots with estimate and award · all categories
41% below estimate
The market9 lots with estimate and award · CPV 9261 · UK-wide
22% below estimate
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
Below estimate41% / 22%
Buyer: 11 of 27 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 2 of 9 lots with an estimate and award.
Within ±2%52% / 56%
Buyer: 14 of 27 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 5 of 9 lots with an estimate and award.
Above estimate7% / 22%
Buyer: 2 of 27 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 2 of 9 lots with an estimate and award.
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Assess each lot
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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 9233 monthsSME suitableEstimate not published

This lot lists more than one class in CPV 92. The comparison uses that group.

Expected competition
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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 23 past lots.

A forecast, not a list of bidders.

—No model forecast yet9% chance of a single bid
Past bids on 23 similar lots
1 bid9%
2 of 23 similar past lots received 1 bid (9%).
2–343%
10 of 23 similar past lots received 2–3 (43%).
4–639%
9 of 23 similar past lots received 4–6 (39%).
7+9%
2 of 23 similar past lots received 7+ (9%).
Comparable past lots usually drew 3 bids.
Commercial price forecast
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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.

—Estimate not published
The buyer published no estimate for this lot, so there is nothing to forecast against. A price prediction here would be a number about a number we do not have.

Who has supplied this buyer on similar work?
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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.

SupplierThis buyer’s earlier contractLotAward valueWhy listed
Paramount Stewarding & Security LimitedEarlier contract2023-26 Season Weekend Football Attendant Staffingnotice published Sept 2023—£219kMatched as the earlier contract

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.

What this replaces
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Who has done similar work for this buyer.

Past contracts are matched by buyer, title and type of work.

88% title match.

A past supplier may not bid again.

The prior contract this notice most likely re-tenders · matched by title and category (88% title match), the holder is not guaranteed to re-bid

2023-26 Season Weekend Football Attendant Staffing — held by Paramount Stewarding & Security Limited; no contract end date published.

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
Unspecified in notice
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
27 Sept 2026, 20:43 BST
Last source update
2 Oct 2026, 17:11 BST
FTS notice number
2026/S 000-093556
Latest notice
Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
Classification (CPV)
Sports facilities operation servicesSports-event organisation services
Delivery area
North West (UKD72)
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-077b0c Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice
Submission deadline
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Timeline

27 Sept 2026 → 21 Dec 2026 · 4 dates
  1. Planning notice published31 days ago
    27 Sept 2026, 20:43 BST
  2. Latest notice published26 days ago
    2 Oct 2026, 17:11 BST
  3. Market engagement18 days ago
    10 Oct 2026, 23:59 BST

    Liverpool City Council are looking for a supplier to provide flexible staffing provision to accommodate the opening and closing of football sites and associated changing facilities. The service will be required for weekend and midweek football fixtures, for the duration of the 2026-29 grassroots football season. Link to PME on pro contract can be found here procontract.due-north.com/Advert ↗

  4. Today
    29 Oct 2026
  5. Contract startsin 52 days
    21 Dec 2026

Notice history

2 events · 2 releases on Find a Tender · since 27 Sept 2026
  1. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    27 Sept 2026, 20:43 BST
    UK2
  2. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    2 Oct 2026, 17:11 BST
    UK2
Published amendments (1)

Link to Pro contract PME now on engagement section

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

Liverpool City Council

Contracting authorityPublic authority - sub-central government GB-PPON: PRVY-7813-WLPG Cunard Building, Liverpool, North West, L3 1DSContact email

Official documents & specifications (2)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure