Find a TenderPlanned procurementPipeline notice
Published 15 May 2025, 17:06 BST

Official UK procurement notice

Machine Lay Carriageway Patching Contract_2028

Authority: Leicestershire County Council (Local council)

Works
Planned pipeline valueValue not publishedpipeline notice, not a live tender
Tender notice expected 1 Oct 2027from the planned procurement notice
Contract term 1 yrends 31 Mar 2029 · up to 31 Mar 2033 with extensions · starts 1 Apr 2028

What is being bought

Published requirement description

Suitably experienced contractor(s) to provide carriageway patching repairs and ancillary works within Leicestershire.

CPV: Construction, foundation and surface works for highways, roads

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published
Lot #1PlannedRenewal 1 yr
Contract period: 1 Apr 2028 – 31 Mar 2029 (1 yr) · up to 31 Mar 2033 with extensions
Delivery: East Midlands
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 Leicestershire County Council buys Construction work for pipelines, communication and power lines, for highways, roads, airfields and railways; flatwork (CPV 4523), and who usually turns up

Leicestershire 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: Construction work for pipelines, communication and power lines, for highways, roads, airfields and railways; flatwork (CPV 4523) →

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How the contest usually goes

Winner shares use published awards; bid and price charts use contested lots.

How often do SMEs win?
i

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: 13 of 18 known-size awards · market: CPV 4523 · East Midlands, n=61
72%74%

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 East Midlands.

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

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 15 of 21 known-location awards · market: CPV 4523 · East Midlands, n=97
71%28%

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: no decision dates published · market: CPV 4523 · East Midlands, n=20
—29 days

Half of these awards have an award date within 29 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 4 of 13 procurements with awards had no recorded rival · market: CPV 4523 · East Midlands, n=96
31%27%

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 buyer44 lots with bid counts · all categories
14% had one bid
The market20 lots with bid counts · CPV 4523 · East Midlands
5% had one bid
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
1 bid14% / 5%
Buyer: 6 of 44 lots with published bid counts. Market: 1 of 20 lots with published bid counts.
2–320% / 45%
Buyer: 9 of 44 lots with published bid counts. Market: 9 of 20 lots with published bid counts.
4–652% / 20%
Buyer: 23 of 44 lots with published bid counts. Market: 4 of 20 lots with published bid counts.
7+14% / 30%
Buyer: 6 of 44 lots with published bid counts. Market: 6 of 20 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 buyer48 lots with estimate and award · all categories
8% below estimate
The market22 lots with estimate and award · CPV 4523 · East Midlands
41% below estimate
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
Below estimate8% / 41%
Buyer: 4 of 48 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 9 of 22 lots with an estimate and award.
Within ±2%81% / 32%
Buyer: 39 of 48 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 7 of 22 lots with an estimate and award.
Above estimate10% / 27%
Buyer: 5 of 48 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 6 of 22 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 452312 monthsEstimate not published
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 20 past lots.

A forecast, not a list of bidders.

—No model forecast yet5% chance of a single bid
Past bids on 20 similar lots
1 bid5%
1 of 20 similar past lots received 1 bid (5%).
2–345%
9 of 20 similar past lots received 2–3 (45%).
4–620%
4 of 20 similar past lots received 4–6 (20%).
7+30%
6 of 20 similar past lots received 7+ (30%).
Comparable past lots usually drew 3.5 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.

—Estimate not published
The buyer published no estimate for this lot, so there is nothing to forecast against. A price prediction here would be a number about a number we do not have.

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
Aggregate Industries UK LtdEarlier contractMachine Lay Carriageway Patching Contract_2023notice published May 2023—£38mMatched 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.

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.

91% title match.

A past supplier may not bid again.

The prior contract this notice most likely re-tenders · matched by title and category (91% title match), the holder is not guaranteed to re-bid

Machine Lay Carriageway Patching Contract_2023 — held by Aggregate Industries UK Ltd and Aggregate Industries UK Ltd; no contract end date published.

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
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
15 May 2025, 17:06 BST
Last source update
15 May 2025, 17:06 BST
FTS notice number
2025/S 000-021952
Latest notice
Pipeline notice (UK1)
Classification (CPV)
Construction, foundation and surface works for highways, roads
Delivery area
East Midlands (UKF22)
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-051505 Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice
Submission deadline
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Timeline

15 May 2025 → 1 Apr 2028 · 3 dates
  1. Planning notice published
    15 May 2025, 17:06 BST
  2. Today
    27 Oct 2026
  3. Tender notice expectedin 339 days
    1 Oct 2027, 23:59 BST
  4. Contract starts
    1 Apr 2028, 00:00 BST

Notice history

1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender
  1. Pipeline notice published
    15 May 2025, 17:06 BST
    UK1

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

Leicestershire County Council

Contracting authorityPublic authority - sub-central government GB-PPON: PNHT-9235-VXDV County Hall, Leicester, East Midlands, LE3 8RAContact email

Official documents & specifications (1)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure

  • Pipeline notice planningPipeline noticeUK1Pipeline notice on Find a Tender