Find a TenderPast planning noticePreliminary market engagement notice
Published 20 Aug 2025, 11:43 BST

Official UK procurement notice

Market Engagement - High Street Totems

Official notice

Authority: Borough of Telford & Wrekin (Local council)

ServicesAbove threshold
Planned pipeline valueValue not publishedpipeline notice, not a live tender
Tender notice expected 1 Dec 2025from the planned procurement notice
Contract term 5 yrsends 31 May 2031 · starts 1 Jun 2026

What is being bought

Published requirement description

Telford & Wrekin Council wishes to engage with the market regarding the supply, installation, operation and maintenance of digital advertising Totems in high street locations across the borough. The Council is exploring an advertising-funded model with no capital outlay, where the provider funds and maintains the units and shares advertising revenue with the Council.

The Council seeks to understand:

  • Market capability and innovation in digital Totem technology
  • Commercial models for income generation and revenue sharing
  • Experience and case studies of similar schemes in other areas
  • Potential for Council use of a proportion of advertising slots (e.g. 10 slots per year)

This exercise is non-binding and will inform the Council's future procurement strategy.

CPV: Advertising services

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published
Lot #1Planned 5 yrs
Contract period: 1 Jun 2026 – 31 May 2031 (5 yrs)
Delivery: West Midlands

Procedure terms & legal framework

From the official record
Legal basis
UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
Procurement category
Services
Notice status
Past planning notice
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
20 Aug 2025, 11:43 BST
Last source update
20 Aug 2025, 12:08 BST
Authority reference
TWC001096
FTS notice number
2025/S 000-050140
Latest notice
Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
Classification (CPV)
Advertising services
Delivery area
West Midlands (UKG21)
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-058b25 Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice
Submission deadline
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Timeline

20 Aug 2025 → 1 Jun 2026 · 4 dates
  1. Planning notice published
    20 Aug 2025, 11:43 BST
  2. Market engagement
    11 Sept 2025, 23:59 BST

    This is a pre-market engagement to enable Telford & Wrekin Council to interact with potential providers and suppliers before formally starting a procurement process. It's aim is to help the Council understand the market better to refine its requirements based on supplier feedback, to encourage competition and identify challenges ahead. As this is a fact-finding exercise only there is no advantage or disadvantage to suppliers who may or may not take part.

    If your organisation would like to participate please complete and return the questionnaire which can be found on the Council's e-procurement portal at in-tendhost.co.uk/telford/aspx/Home ↗

    Participants should register as a supplier on the portal (if not already) and completed questionnaires should be returned by 12:00 noon on Friday 11 September 2025.

    Tenders are expected to be published later in the year to allow mobilisation of contract as soon as possible after that. Contract start and end dates given in this Notice are estimated and may change.

    If you express an interest in participating in this Pre Market Engagement exercise it will still be your organisation's responsibility to respond to a Contract Notice advertising the start of any procurement exercise.

  3. Tender notice expected330 days ago
    1 Dec 2025, 23:59 GMT
  4. Contract starts149 days ago
    1 Jun 2026, 00:00 BST

Notice history

3 events · 3 releases on Find a Tender · since 20 Aug 2025
  1. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    20 Aug 2025, 11:43 BST
    UK2
  2. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    20 Aug 2025, 11:53 BST
    UK2
  3. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    20 Aug 2025, 12:08 BST
    UK2
Published amendments (2)

This is the link to the Council's e-procurement portal where the questionnaire can be found: https://in-tendhost.co.uk/telford/aspx/Home

This is the link to the Council's e-procurement portal where the questionnaire can be found: https://in-tendhost.co.uk/telford/aspx/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

Borough of Telford & Wrekin

Contracting authorityPublic authority - sub-central government GB-PPON: PHHD-5776-GZNN Darby House, Telford Town Centre, Lawn Central,, Telford, Shropshire, West Midlands, TF3 4JAContact name, email

Official documents & specifications (3)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure