Official UK procurement notice
Civils Delivery Partnership. · UK public procurement notice
Authority: Via East Midlands LTD (Public body)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionVia East Midlands Ltd (VIA) is undertaking preliminary market engagement in advance of a proposed Highways Maintenance and Civil Engineering Framework, which is anticipated to be advertised in November 2026.
The purpose of this engagement is to inform the development of the procurement strategy, scope of services, lot structure, contract requirements, and delivery model, while providing suppliers with early visibility of the Authority's future requirements.
The proposed framework is anticipated to be divided into two lots, with VIA intending to appoint up to three contractors to each lot. The current proposed lot structure is:
- Lot 1: Projects valued between £0 and £250,000
- Lot 2: Projects valued between £250,000 and £5,000,000
The framework is expected to have an initial term of three years, with the option to extend for up to two further periods of 12 months, subject to ongoing requirements and satisfactory performance.
The framework is anticipated to cover a broad range of highways maintenance and civil engineering activities. These may include:
- Early contractor involvement
- Attendance at progress, programme and financial review meetings
- Stakeholder engagement and liaison activities
- Excavation and earthworks
- Ground stabilisation
- Drainage installation and maintenance
- Kerbing and edging works
- Footway and carriageway resurfacing
- Temporary works
- Construction, maintenance and repair of structures, including bridges and retaining walls
- Traffic management services, or working alongside traffic management arrangements provided by VIA
Contractors may also be expected to propose innovative construction methods, materials and plant, and fulfil the role of Principal Contractor in accordance with the Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2015.
Examples of works that may be commissioned under the framework include:
- Highway Improvements: Section 278 works, junction improvements, kerbing and edging works
- Drainage and Flood Alleviation: Surface water drainage installation, occasional foul drainage works, ditch clearance, local land drainage improvements and drainage relining
- Footways and Cycleways: Footway improvement schemes, construction of dedicated active travel routes and dropped kerb installations
- Signals and Street Lighting: Installation of ducting, NAL sockets and associated civil engineering works
- Ground Stabilisation Works
- New Infrastructure: Car parks, carriageways and footways
- Bridge Works: New bridge construction, refurbishment and repair works
- Retaining Walls: Construction, maintenance and repair works
CPV: Works for complete or part construction and civil engineering work
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedPipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How Via East Midlands LTD buys Works for complete or part construction and civil engineering work (CPV 4520), and who usually turns up
Via East Midlands LTD’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: Works for complete or part construction and civil engineering work (CPV 4520) →
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 East Midlands.
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 31 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%
2–320% / 35%
4–640% / 35%
7+40% / 18%
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 estimate22% / 38%
Within ±2%44% / 50%
Above estimate33% / 13%
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 4520Estimate 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 245 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid10%
2–322%
4–629%
7+39%
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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.
| Supplier | This buyer’s earlier contract | Lot | Award value | Why listed |
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| Robinsons Paver Hire LtdEarlier contract | Surfacing Delivery Partnershipstarted Mar 2026 | — | — | Matched as the earlier contract |
| Tarmac Trading LimitedEarlier contract | Surfacing Delivery Partnershipstarted Mar 2026 | — | — | Matched 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.
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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.
What this replaces i
Who has done similar work for this buyer.
Past contracts are matched by buyer, title and type of work.
55% title match.
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.
55% title match.
A past supplier may not bid again.
The prior contract this notice most likely re-tenders · matched by title and category (55% title match), the holder is not guaranteed to re-bid
Surfacing Delivery Partnership, winner not published; the published contract ends 31 Mar 2029.
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
- 22 Sept 2026, 12:12 BST
- Last source update
- 22 Sept 2026, 12:12 BST
- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-089577- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-077767Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
22 Sept 2026 → 1 Apr 2027 · 3 dates- Planning notice published35 days ago22 Sept 2026, 12:12 BST
- Today27 Oct 2026
- Market engagementin 4 days31 Oct 2026, 23:59 GMT
At this stage, no formal market engagement questionnaire or supporting documentation have been issued. VIA welcomes expressions of interest and requests for further information from interested suppliers. Suppliers are invited to contact the procurement team at procurement@viaem.co.uk to discuss the proposed opportunity and provide initial feedback regarding market capacity, capability and appetite.
In addition, VIA may engage directly with suppliers operating within the relevant market sectors to obtain feedback that will help inform the development of the procurement and resulting framework arrangement.
Participation in this preliminary market engagement exercise will not provide any supplier with an advantage in any subsequent procurement process and does not commit VIA to commence or proceed with any future procurement opportunity. Any future procurement will be conducted in accordance with the requirements of the Procurement Act 2023.
- Contract startsin 155 days1 Apr 2027
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Preliminary market engagement notice published22 Sept 2026, 12:12 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