Official UK procurement notice
Play Equipment Repairs and Remedial Works
Authority: Bromford Flagship LiveWest Limited (Public body)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionBromford Flagship LiveWest are seeking to appoint a suitably qualified and experienced contractor to undertake the servicing, maintenance and remedial repair of play area equipment and associated assets across its housing portfolio.
The successful contractors will provide a comprehensive service to ensure that play areas remain safe, compliant, operational and fit for use in accordance with relevant legislation, British Standards and industry best practice.
The contract may include, but is not limited to:
Routine servicing and maintenance of play equipment
Emergency make-safe works
Reactive and planned remedial repairs
Replacement of equipment components
Safety surfacing repairs and maintenance
Fencing and gate repairs
Signage replacement
Asset condition reporting
Compliance reporting and recommendations
Play equipment may include:
Swings
Slides
Multi-play units
Climbing frames
Springers
Roundabouts
Seesaws
Inclusive play equipment
Outdoor fitness equipment
Associated assets may include:
Wet-pour surfaces
Rubber mulch
Grass matting
Loose-fill surfacing
Fencing and gates
Seating
Bollards
Play area signage
CPV: Flatwork for children's play area · Playground equipment · Repair and maintenance services of playground equipment · Swings
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedPipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How Bromford Flagship LiveWest Limited buys Repair and maintenance services of playground equipment (CPV 5087), and who usually turns up
Bromford Flagship LiveWest Limited’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: Repair and maintenance services of playground equipment (CPV 5087) →
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.
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 51 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.
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.
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% / 25%
2–317% / 50%
4–667% / 25%
7+17% / 0%
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 estimate68% / 27%
Within ±2%5% / 53%
Above estimate26% / 20%
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£100k
This lot is listed as CPV 4523. The table above uses the notice category.
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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 185 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid12%
2–337%
4–630%
7+21%
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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.
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.
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.
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
- Works
- Notice status
- Planned procurement
- Procurement threshold
- Below threshold
- 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
- 11 Sept 2026, 14:42 BST
- Last source update
- 11 Sept 2026, 14:42 BST
- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-086492- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06f840Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
11 Sept 2026 → 1 Mar 2027 · 4 dates- Planning notice published47 days ago11 Sept 2026, 14:42 BST
- Market engagement19 days ago10 Oct 2026, 00:59 BST
This is currently an initial market enquiry to determine whether there are organisations capable of providing a comprehensive play equipment repair and remedial works service. The scope is expected to include the inspection, repair, replacement, refurbishment, and maintenance of indoor and outdoor play equipment and associated safety surfacing, ensuring compliance with relevant health and safety standards and regulations.
Should multiple suppliers demonstrate the capability to deliver the required service, a formal tender process will be undertaken.
We would be grateful if interested parties could respond to this notice to express an interest by e-mailing:
damien.viegas@livewest.co.uk and jenny.marles@livewest.co.uk with any supporting documentation.
If a decision is made to continue with a tender we will respond to confirm this after the 9th October 2026
- Today29 Oct 2026
- Tender notice expectedin 4 days2 Nov 2026, 23:59 GMT
- Contract startsin 122 days1 Mar 2027
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Preliminary market engagement notice published11 Sept 2026, 14:42 BSTUK2
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 (1)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender