Official UK procurement notice
Queslett Landfill Solar Farm Development
Authority: Birmingham City Council (Local council)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionBirmingham City Council (the "Council") is seeking to understand potential interest and solutions for the provision of solar energy for Waste sites managed by the Council. It is expected that the potential supplier would install, maintain and manage a solar energy solution on Council owned land at Queslett Landfill Site.
The anticipated solution envisages a potential supplier designing, installing, and managing a Solar array on the Queslett Landfill Site, including all grid connections. It is envisaged this would potentially include battery storage if considered appropriate and advantageous. The Council is open to proposals on potential end users of the electricity created. The Council is also open to considering alternative models in respect of both length of term and the end users, and this would include funded and non-funded options.
The Queslett landfill site extends to approximately 45 acres, but not all of this may be developable, due to Nature Conservation requirements and the topography of the site. It is thought that up to one third of the site may be capable of being developed, subject to survey. A survey of the site and potential grid connections is being undertaken by the Council's technical advisers and will be made available to potential suppliers at tender stage.
CPV: Solar energy
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1Planned
Pipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How Birmingham City Council buys Solar energy (CPV 0933), and who usually turns up
Birmingham City 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: Solar energy (CPV 0933) →
How the contest usually goes
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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.
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Local means the winner is registered in the region where that award was delivered. The market figure counts awards delivered in West Midlands.
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 62 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.
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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 bid28% / 4%
2–335% / 21%
4–621% / 14%
7+16% / 61%
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 estimate48% / 52%
Within ±2%48% / 24%
Above estimate5% / 24%
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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.
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 0933Estimate not published
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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 28 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid4%
2–321%
4–614%
7+61%
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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.
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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.
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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
- Goods
- Notice status
- Planned procurement
- 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
- 7 Nov 2025, 15:35 GMT
- Last source update
- 7 Nov 2025, 15:35 GMT
- Authority reference
P3440- FTS notice number
2025/S 000-072138- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-05dd09Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
7 Nov 2025 → 1 Jan 2027 · 3 dates- Planning notice published353 days ago7 Nov 2025, 15:35 GMT
- Market engagement341 days ago19 Nov 2025, 23:59 GMT
The Council wishes to hold an early market engagement session to understand the interest in the market and to develop potential solutions in order to inform an Outline Business Case for the proposed project. In this initial market engagement, the Council wishes to understand the following from the market:
- Appetite for undertaking the project, either with BCC funding or with supplier funding
- Capacity to provide the installation and management of the project
- Potential infrastructure solutions for this type of site
- Issues which may affect optimum output from the site
- The type of alternative financial models which could be utilised
- Implications of Private Wire v To the Grid
- The potential term of the Contract
- What incentives may be available in the market for this type of project
The early market engagement will take place between November and December 2025. From this early market engagement, the Council will decide whether to continue with the procurement and if so, there may be further market engagement, with a tendering process expected to be undertaken in mid-2026, however this is dependent on funding options.
The Council has formed a questionnaire asking for high level information from interested suppliers. The Council may contact individual companies that respond to this Market Engagement Questionnaire to have further in-depth discussions via Microsoft Teams.
The Council will only invite suppliers for further individual market engagement if they have indicated in the questionnaire below that they would be able to deliver a full solution that meets the Council's overarching requirements. The reason for this is that at this stage, the Council's aim is to understand the viability of a supplier delivering a solution that meets the Council's full requirements, in order to inform the options appraisal in the Outline Business Case.
Following the market engagement activity, the Council will publish responses to questions and notes from any individual market engagement meetings via Intend for access by the suppliers who expressed an interest.
If you are interested in participating in this pre-market engagement, please register online against the project via the Council's In-tend e-tendering portal in-tendhost.co.uk/birminghamcc ↗
A questionnaire is attached to those parties who express an interest in response to the UK2 Preliminary Market Engagement Notice (reference: P3340 - Solar Farm Development).
Registration and access to the In-tend electronic tendering tool is free and all correspondence for this pre-market engagement must be made via this on-line process.
Interested parties must download a market testing questionnaire from the e-portal and submit completed questionnaires by 5pm on 19th November 2025.
Report any problems in accessing or using the In-tend e-portal to the Corporate Procurement Team via email at cps@birmingham.gov.uk
PLEASE NOTE: This pre-market engagement exercise and the phases outlined above should not be treated as a formal call for competition. The intention of this pre-market engagement is purely used to gather information from the market assess and consider responses to this questionnaire in order to assist the council in developing the most viable and efficient future delivery service for this area.
- Today27 Oct 2026
- Contract startsin 65 days1 Jan 2027
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Preliminary market engagement notice published7 Nov 2025, 15:35 GMTUK2
Commercial outcome & contract awards
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- Contracts (0)
- No contract published
- Bid statistics
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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