Official UK procurement notice
Bollard Maintenance Contract · UK public procurement notice
Authority: Liverpool City Council (Local council)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionLiverpool City Council is looking for a supplier to undertake the maintenance, repair, inspection and support of its Hydraulic Bollard infrastructure.
The Council currently operates a network of 26 hydraulic bollard systems and 3 manual bollard systems at key locations across the city to protect pedestrians, manage vehicular access and support the safe operation of the highway network. These assets are critical to maintaining public safety and ensuring the continued resilience of city centre transport and event management arrangements.
CPV: Bollards · Repair and maintenance services of security equipment · Road traffic-control equipment
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedPipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How Liverpool City Council buys Road equipment (CPV 3492), 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: Road equipment (CPV 3492) →
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.
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.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners were registered in the region where that award was delivered.
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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.
Half of these awards have an award date within 42 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 bid13% / 22%
2–338% / 11%
4–650% / 22%
7+0% / 44%
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 estimate41% / 33%
Within ±2%52% / 17%
Above estimate7% / 50%
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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.
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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 3492Published estimate£1.2m
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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 39 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid28%
2–331%
4–626%
7+15%
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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- Procedure method
- Open procedure
- 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
- 14 Sept 2026, 15:15 BST
- Last source update
- 19 Oct 2026, 15:16 BST
- Authority reference
DN828207- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-098595- Latest notice
- Pipeline notice (UK1)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06f963Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
14 Sept 2026 → 29 Jun 2027 · 5 dates- Planning notice published42 days ago14 Sept 2026, 15:15 BST
- Market engagement25 days ago1 Oct 2026, 23:59 BST
The purpose of this engagement is to gain a better understanding of the current marketplace, supplier capabilities, available technologies and best practice approaches for the management and maintenance of hydraulic bollard systems. The Council is particularly interested in understanding the market's ability to support both existing infrastructure and future asset requirements, including fault management, remote monitoring, planned preventative maintenance, reactive repairs, electrical inspections and performance reporting.
Information gathered through this engagement will assist the Council in developing an informed procurement strategy, defining service requirements, establishing appropriate performance standards and determining the optimum contract duration for future service delivery. This exercise does not form part of any formal procurement process and does not constitute an invitation to tender. Participation is voluntary, and responses will be used solely to support the Council's market analysis and contract planning activities.
Liverpool City Council welcomes responses from organisations with relevant experience in the maintenance, operation and lifecycle management of hydraulic HVM bollard systems and looks forward to engaging with suppliers to better understand the opportunities and challenges within this specialist market.
Suppliers are requested to:
- Review the information in the market engagement document to assess whether they could meet the potential requirements of Liverpool City Council.
- Submit a response to the RFI by completing the questionnaire and submitting via the ProContract online portal by the deadline time and date which is 12 noon on 01/10/2026.
If you have any questions in the interim, please send them via the messaging function on the ProContract portal. If the questions and response are deemed relevant, they may be shared with other suppliers responding to this RFI (anything deemed commercially sensitive will not be shared).
Suppliers interested in participating in this request for information can find the questionnaire and the submission portal on ProContract using the reference DN828207. Link to ProContract: procontract.due-north.com ↗
Questionnaires should all be submitted on the ProContract portal.
- Latest notice published7 days ago19 Oct 2026, 15:16 BST
- Today27 Oct 2026
- Tender notice expectedin 83 days18 Jan 2027, 23:59 GMT
- Contract startsin 244 days29 Jun 2027
Notice history
4 events · 2 releases on Find a Tender · since 14 Sept 2026- Preliminary market engagement notice published14 Sept 2026, 15:15 BSTUK2
- Pipeline notice published19 Oct 2026, 15:16 BSTUK1
- Status changed to planned19 Oct 2026, 15:16 BST
- Procurement method changed19 Oct 2026, 15:16 BST
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
- Pipeline notice Pipeline notice on Find a Tender
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender