Official UK procurement notice
Fully Managed Redeployable Average Speed Road Safety Intelligence Service - Expression of Interest
Authority: Milton Keynes Council (Local council)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionMilton Keynes City Council (“the Council”) is seeking Expressions of Interest from suitably experienced organisations able to provide a fully managed, turnkey and redeployable Average Speed Road Safety Intelligence Service. The proposed solution shall be capable of monitoring vehicle movement between defined points and calculating across the monitored section of road. The supplier shall provide access to an experienced team able to interpret the information and turn it into clear, useful and actionable road safety intelligence. The service shall be collaborative and capable of adapting to changing Council requirements.
The Expression of Interest (EOI) is being conducted for market assessment purposes only and does not constitute a call for competition, invitation to tender, commitment to procure or promise of any future contract award.
CPV: Traffic monitoring services · Traffic-monitoring equipment
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedPipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How Milton Keynes Council buys Support services for land transport (CPV 6371), and who usually turns up
Milton Keynes 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) →
How the contest usually goes
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How often small and medium firms win.
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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. The market figure counts awards delivered in South East England (authority’s region).
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 80 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.
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Past bids do not predict this tender.
1 bid7% / 21%
2–39% / 44%
4–69% / 18%
7+74% / 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 estimate41% / 40%
Within ±2%33% / 55%
Above estimate26% / 5%
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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.
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Lot #1CPV 6371Published estimate£80k
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How many bids this lot may attract.
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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 16 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid6%
2–350%
4–631%
7+13%
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Where the award price may land.
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No comparable awards for this lot yet.
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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.
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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.
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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
- 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
- 25 Sept 2026, 15:08 BST
- Last source update
- 28 Sept 2026, 08:35 BST
- Authority reference
2026-271- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-091229- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Not published
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-077ac6Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
25 Sept 2026 → 1 Dec 2026 · 5 dates- Planning notice published32 days ago25 Sept 2026, 15:08 BST
- Latest notice published29 days ago28 Sept 2026, 08:35 BST
- Market engagement11 days ago16 Oct 2026, 23:59 BST
Expression of Interest document can be accessed on the Council's e-tendering portal, InTend, supplier.in-tend.co.uk/milton-keynes/home ↗
Completed EOI submissions shall be submitted electronically through the InTend portal by the stated deadline.
As part of EOI exercise interested suppliers are invited to provide a response describing their arrangements for mobilisation; contract management; dedicated service-team support; operational contacts; deployment management; technical methodology used, system accuracy and validation processes; technical support and maintenance; fault escalation; reporting; regular service reviews; compliance; redeployment planning; and continuous improvement. Any response received after the stated deadline will not be consdiered as part of the Council’s assessment of market capability and may be excluded from this exercise.
Interested suppliers are requested to also demonstrate relevant experience in areas such as managed roadside monitoring and technology; highways services; redeployable camera systems; point-to-point vehicle monitoring; traffic and speed studies, data and intelligence analysis; equipment maintenance; evidence and information gathering.
The Council will base its assessment and any subsequent procurement decisions on the information received by the stated deadline. Suppliers are responsible for ensuring that their response is submitted in sufficient time to be received before the given deadline.
The Council will review the information received to assess market capability; determine the number of suppliers capable of meeting the requirement; inform the Council’s procurement strategy.
Where the information received demonstrates that only one supplier is capable of meeting the Council’s requirements, the Council reserves the right to consider a direct award, subject to internal governance and procurement obligations.
Where multiple suppliers are identified capable of delivering the requirement, the Council may undertake a competitive procurement process.
The Council reserves the right not to proceed with any procurement following this exercise.
This Expression of Interest is a market engagement exercise only. Participation in this exercise will not create any contractual rights or obligations, nor will it guarantee invitation to any future procurement process or award of any contract.
- Today28 Oct 2026
- Tender notice expectedin 5 days2 Nov 2026, 23:59 GMT
- Contract startsin 33 days1 Dec 2026
Notice history
2 events · 2 releases on Find a Tender · since 25 Sept 2026- Preliminary market engagement notice published25 Sept 2026, 15:08 BSTUK2
- Preliminary market engagement notice published28 Sept 2026, 08:35 BSTUK2
Published amendments (1)
Addition of address of e-tendering portal. https://supplier.in-tend.co.uk/milton-keynes/home
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
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender