Official UK procurement notice
HE1076 Wiltshire Council Machine Surfacing Term Contract
Authority: Wiltshire Council (Local council)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThe provision of a term machine surfacing works including associated civils works, road markings, cats’ eyes, loop cutting and also including any necessary traffic management associated with these works, on the highway or other council land in Wiltshire.
- The authority expects to re-tender this requirement around 1 May 2036, 23:59 BST.
CPV: Construction, foundation and surface works for highways, roads
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · value publishedLot #1RenewalPublished value£200,000,000
What it takes to wini
How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
Evaluation split and conditions of participation as published; the tender pack may add morei
How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
Published sub-criteria (4)
- Quality: 30%
- Financial: 45%
- Social Value: 10%
- Sustainability: 15%
Published award criteria (4)
- Quality
- Sustainability
- Social Value
- Financial
No conditions of participation were published on the notice; check the tender documents.
- Price carries 45 of 100 points: a 10% discount moves about 4.5 points. Quality carries 30 of 100: the paper moves it further than the discount.
- Turnover usually expected at this size: about £66,605,840 (twice the annual value).
Price arithmetic assumes straight proportional scoring; the tender pack may use another formula. Turnover is an indicative market norm (≈2× annual value), not a published condition.
Competition analysis · published record, not a forecast of who will bid
How Wiltshire Council buys Construction work for pipelines, communication and power lines, for highways, roads, airfields and railways; flatwork (CPV 4523), and who usually turns up
Wiltshire 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: Construction work for pipelines, communication and power lines, for highways, roads, airfields and railways; flatwork (CPV 4523) →
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 South 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 140 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 bid0% / 17%
2–340% / 38%
4–640% / 25%
7+20% / 21%
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 estimate45% / 30%
Within ±2%45% / 39%
Above estimate9% / 30%
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 4523Published estimate£200m
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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.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid2%
2–369%
4–619%
7+10%
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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.
Based on 16 comparable awards. Each lot reflects its own category; forecasts for different lots of the same notice are not comparative.
A statistical guide from past awards, not a price to bid.
Middle 50%£200m
Estimate£200m
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| KIELY BROS LTDEarlier contract | HE1075 Surface Dressing and Micro Asphalt Term Contractnotice published Jul 2025 | — | £80m | Matched as the earlier contract |
| Colas LimitedWorked for this buyer | HE1020 Specialist Surfacing and Associated Highway Works Framework - June 2020notice published Sept 2021 | Lot 11 Loop Cutting | — | Similar wording and category |
| Milestone Infrastructure limitedWorked for this buyer | HE0134 Wiltshire Council Term Highways Maintenance Contract April 2023notice published Nov 2022 | — | — | Similar wording and category |
| MJ Church (Plant) LimitedWorked for this buyer | HE0915 M4 Junction 17 Improvement Worksnotice published Jul 2026 | — | — | Similar wording and category |
| Miles Macadam Construction and SurfacingWorked for this buyer | HE1020 Specialist Surfacing and Associated Highway Works Framework - June 2020notice published Sept 2021 | Lot 2 Grouted Macadam – Asphaltic and Cementitious | — | Similar wording and category |
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.
| Supplier | Won in this category | Live contracts | Award vs estimate |
|---|---|---|---|
Colas LimitedLarge | £23m26 awards in 36m · last 2 months ago | 11 live · £40m iPublic contracts this supplier still holds. Its awards whose published end date is still in the future, with their values. Many contracts publish no end date, so this is a floor, not the whole book. Unexpired says nothing about spare capacity. | 15% below n=4 |
KIELY BROS LTDLarge | £178m18 awards in 36m · last 6 months ago | 4 live · £45m iPublic contracts this supplier still holds. Its awards whose published end date is still in the future, with their values. Many contracts publish no end date, so this is a floor, not the whole book. Unexpired says nothing about spare capacity. | at estimate n=3 |
| 2 awards in 36m · last 18 months ago | None on file | no comparable pairs | |
| £1.7bn8 awards in 36m · last 8 months ago | 1 live · £160m iPublic contracts this supplier still holds. Its awards whose published end date is still in the future, with their values. Many contracts publish no end date, so this is a floor, not the whole book. Unexpired says nothing about spare capacity. | at estimate n=3 | |
| £28m2 awards in 36m · last 28 months ago | 1 live · £5.0m iPublic contracts this supplier still holds. Its awards whose published end date is still in the future, with their values. Many contracts publish no end date, so this is a floor, not the whole book. Unexpired says nothing about spare capacity. | no comparable pairs |
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
- Works
- Notice status
- Open for tender
- Procurement threshold
- Above threshold (FTS publication)
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Yes (GPA)
- Recurring procurement
- Yes · next expected 1 May 2036
- First published
- 1 Sept 2026, 10:29 BST
- Last source update
- 8 Oct 2026, 09:32 BST
- Award evaluation window
- Submission end – 10 Feb 2027
- Authority reference
HE1076- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-095017- Latest notice
- Tender notice (UK4)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06ef3dFind a Tender
How to participate & submission route
Official notice- Requests to participate (first stage)
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- Tender submission deadline
- 19 Nov 2026, 12:00 GMT
- Clarification deadline
- 5 Nov 2026, 12:00 GMT
- Electronic submission
- Allowed
- Accepted languages
- en
Timeline
1 Sept 2026 → 1 Jun 2027 · 8 dates- Planning notice published56 days ago1 Sept 2026, 10:29 BST
- Market engagement45 days ago11 Sept 2026, 23:59 BST
Wiltshire Council are holding an online contractor's engagement event on the 16th of September
2026 at 15:00 till 16:00.
The market engagement event will held on the 16th of September 2026 at 15:00 via Microsoft Teams.
Please contact Steve Cross at steve.cross@wiltshire.gov.uk by no later than 12:00 11th September 2026 if you wish to attend.
- Next notice expected26 days ago30 Sept 2026, 23:59 BST
- Tender notice published19 days ago8 Oct 2026, 09:32 BST
- Today27 Oct 2026
- Clarification questions byin 8 days5 Nov 2026, 12:00 GMT
- Submission deadlinein 22 days19 Nov 2026, 12:00 GMT
- Award decision expected byin 106 days10 Feb 2027, 23:59 GMT
- Contract startsin 216 days1 Jun 2027, 00:00 BST
Notice history
5 events · 2 releases on Find a Tender · since 1 Sept 2026- Preliminary market engagement notice published1 Sept 2026, 10:29 BSTUK2
- Tender notice published8 Oct 2026, 09:32 BSTUK4
- Status changed to active8 Oct 2026, 09:32 BST
- Procurement method changed8 Oct 2026, 09:32 BST
- Deadline published: 19 Nov 2026, 12:00 GMT8 Oct 2026, 09:32 BST
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Nothing awarded yet- 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 (4)
Official links; attachments are not copiedTender pack and attachments
- Bidding documents and specificationsThe Procurement documents are available to access via the Supplying the South West portal on the website above.
- Technical specificationsThe technical specifications are contained within the tender documents. These can be accessed via the Supplying the South West portal using the link above.
Notices published for this procedure
- Tender notice Tender notice on Find a Tender
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender