Find a TenderPlanned procurementPreliminary market engagement notice
Published 10 Jul 2026, 13:02 BST

Official UK procurement notice

Exhibition Event Traffic Management HCC

Authority: The North Yorkshire Council (Local council)

ServicesAbove threshold
Planned pipeline value£800,000pipeline notice, not a live tender
Tender notice expected 30 Nov 2026from the planned procurement notice
Contract term 2 yrsends 31 Mar 2029 · up to 31 Mar 2030 with extensions · starts 1 Apr 2027

What is being bought

Published requirement description

Harrogate Convention Centre (HCC) is seeking a suitably qualified contractor to provide exhibition traffic management services to support the safe, efficient and coordinated movement of vehicles associated with exhibitions, conferences and other events at the venue. The contract will encompass pre-event planning, development of event-specific traffic management plans, implementation of traffic management measures, management of vehicle holding areas and traffic zones, traffic regulation order administration where required, and the provision of trained traffic management operatives to manage vehicle movements during event build-up and breakdown periods. The successful contractor will work closely with the HCC Traffic & Logistics Manager to plan, coordinate and deliver traffic operations across designated areas of the venue, including the Dragon Road Holding Area and vehicle access routes serving the exhibition halls. Services will include supervision of traffic management personnel, stakeholder liaison, daily briefings, operation of the venue traffic booking system, implementation of temporary traffic management arrangements where required, and post-event reporting. The contractor will be required to provide competent and appropriately qualified supervisory and stewarding personnel capable of managing complex exhibition traffic environments, ensuring compliance with relevant health and safety requirements, traffic management standards and event operational procedures while delivering a professional and customer-focused service to exhibitors, contractors and visitors.

CPV: Event services · Traffic control services

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published
Lot #1PlannedRenewal 2 yrs
Contract period: 1 Apr 2027 – 31 Mar 2029 (2 yrs) · up to 31 Mar 2030 with extensions
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 The North Yorkshire Council buys Support services for land transport (CPV 6371), and who usually turns up

The North Yorkshire 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: Support services for land transport (CPV 6371) →

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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 buyerThe North Yorkshire 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: 436 of 545 known-size awards · market: CPV 6371 · Yorkshire and the Humber, n=16
80%44%

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 Yorkshire and the Humber.

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

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 532 of 719 known-location awards · market: CPV 6371 · Yorkshire and the Humber, n=20
74%30%

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: 24 decided notices · market: CPV 6371 · UK-wide, n=17
53 days55 days

Half of these awards have an award date within 53 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.

Both shares are minimums: 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 160 of 534 procurements with awards had no recorded rival · market: CPV 6371 · Yorkshire and the Humber, n=22
30%50%

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 buyer49 lots with bid counts · all categories
31% had one bid
The market33 lots with bid counts · CPV 6371 · UK-wide
21% had one bid
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
1 bid31% / 21%
Buyer: 15 of 49 lots with published bid counts. Market: 7 of 33 lots with published bid counts.
2–333% / 45%
Buyer: 16 of 49 lots with published bid counts. Market: 15 of 33 lots with published bid counts.
4–618% / 15%
Buyer: 9 of 49 lots with published bid counts. Market: 5 of 33 lots with published bid counts.
7+18% / 18%
Buyer: 9 of 49 lots with published bid counts. Market: 6 of 33 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 buyer43 lots with estimate and award · all categories
44% below estimate
The market20 lots with estimate and award · CPV 6371 · UK-wide
40% below estimate
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
Below estimate44% / 40%
Buyer: 19 of 43 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 8 of 20 lots with an estimate and award.
Within ±2%44% / 55%
Buyer: 19 of 43 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 11 of 20 lots with an estimate and award.
Above estimate12% / 5%
Buyer: 5 of 43 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 1 of 20 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 637124 monthsPublished estimate£800k
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 33 past lots.

A forecast, not a list of bidders.

—No model forecast yet21% chance of a single bid
Past bids on 33 similar lots
1 bid21%
7 of 33 similar past lots received 1 bid (21%).
2–345%
15 of 33 similar past lots received 2–3 (45%).
4–615%
5 of 33 similar past lots received 4–6 (15%).
7+18%
6 of 33 similar past lots received 7+ (18%).
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.

—No model forecast yet
No comparable awards on record for this lot’s category yet. The published estimate is £800k, and the forecast stays empty until the market has a record to read.

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
Crusade Event Traffic LimitedEarlier contractHCC Event Traffic Managementended Sept 2025—£75kMatched as the earlier contract

Who could compete for this lot?
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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
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Who has done similar work for this buyer.

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

73% title match.

A past supplier may not bid again.

The prior contract this notice most likely re-tenders · matched by title and category (73% title match), the holder is not guaranteed to re-bid

HCC Event Traffic Management — held by Crusade Event Traffic Limited; the published contract ends 24 Sept 2025.

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
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
10 Jul 2026, 13:02 BST
Last source update
10 Jul 2026, 13:02 BST
Authority reference
808-NYC-CD
FTS notice number
2026/S 000-065143
Latest notice
Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
Classification (CPV)
Event servicesTraffic control services
Delivery area
Yorkshire & Humber (UKE2)
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06c87e Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice
Submission deadline
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Timeline

10 Jul 2026 → 1 Apr 2027 · 4 dates
  1. Planning notice published109 days ago
    10 Jul 2026, 13:02 BST
  2. Market engagement94 days ago
    24 Jul 2026, 23:59 BST
  3. Today
    27 Oct 2026
  4. Tender notice expectedin 34 days
    30 Nov 2026, 23:59 GMT
  5. Contract startsin 155 days
    1 Apr 2027

Notice history

1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender
  1. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    10 Jul 2026, 13:02 BST
    UK2

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

The North Yorkshire Council

Contracting authorityPublic authority - central government GB-PPON: PNXY-8263-XCNL County Hall, Racecourse Lane,, Northallerton, Yorkshire & Humber, DL7 8ADContact email, phone

Official documents & specifications (1)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure