Official UK procurement notice
CN250479 Citizenship Ceremony Photography
Authority: Kent County Council (Local council)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionUnder the Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002, all applicants aged 18 years or over who are accepted for naturalisation or registration as a British citizen must take a citizenship oath and pledge at a citizenship ceremony. The heart of the citizenship ceremony will involve prospective citizens making an oath or affirmation to His Majesty the King and a pledge of loyalty to the United Kingdom after which a certificate will be presented.
In the county of Kent citizenship ceremonies are provided by Kent County Council.
www.kent.gov.uk/births-ceremonies-an… ↗
Kent County Council is providing an opportunity for the successful photographer to take photographs of citizenship ceremony guests, for sale. All guests would have the option to purchase photographs at each event. In exchange for access to the ceremonies and the ability to sell photographs to the guests, Kent County Council seeks a percentage of any sales revenue.
Before commencing the procurement process, KCC have issued a Market Engagement Questionnaire related to the procurement. The deadline for submission of the questionnaire is 12pm on Friday 21st November 2025.
Please note that the "Total Value" publicised notice in this notice is an estimation of the revenue that this contract will generate for KCC. The Revenue generated for a supplier of the service may exceed this figure and is subject to the outcome of the evaluation process. Further information on the evaluation process will be provided within the Invitation to Tender documents.
To submit a questionnaire response for the opportunity, please register your interest here:
CPV: Photographic services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1PlannedRenewal
Pipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How Kent County Council buys Photographic and ancillary services (CPV 7996), and who usually turns up
Kent County 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: Photographic and ancillary services (CPV 7996) →
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.
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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.
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners were registered outside 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 51 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 bid29% / 9%
2–341% / 26%
4–622% / 28%
7+7% / 38%
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 estimate33% / 42%
Within ±2%47% / 40%
Above estimate20% / 18%
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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 7996Published estimate£30k
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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 192 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid9%
2–326%
4–628%
7+38%
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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
- 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
- 4 Nov 2025, 16:26 GMT
- Last source update
- 18 Nov 2025, 15:33 GMT
- Authority reference
CN250479- FTS notice number
2025/S 000-074871- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-05da4bFind a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
4 Nov 2025 → 1 Apr 2026 · 4 dates- Planning notice published358 days ago4 Nov 2025, 16:26 GMT
- Latest notice published344 days ago18 Nov 2025, 15:33 GMT
- Market engagement340 days ago21 Nov 2025, 23:59 GMT
Kent County Council have issued a Market Engagement Questionnaire for CN250479 Citizenship Ceremony Photography. Further details regarding the procurement, and this Market Engagement Exercise, has been provided within the Market Engagement Questionnaire.
The deadline for response is 12pm on Friday 21st November 2025.
- Contract starts211 days ago1 Apr 2026, 00:00 BST
Notice history
3 events · 3 releases on Find a Tender · since 4 Nov 2025- Preliminary market engagement notice published4 Nov 2025, 16:26 GMTUK2
- Preliminary market engagement notice published7 Nov 2025, 10:05 GMTUK2
- Preliminary market engagement notice published18 Nov 2025, 15:33 GMTUK2
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 (3)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender