Official UK procurement notice
Surfacing Works for Gloucestershire County Council 2027 to 2031(35)
Authority: Gloucestershire County Council- (Local council)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThe Council is advertising a 4 year contract for the provision of Surfacing Works for Gloucestershire County Council from 1 April 2027 to 31 March 2031, with the provision to extend for up to 4 years to 31 March 2035.
The works are part of the structural maintenance programme for Gloucestershire County Council and will be ordered by Task Order for each individual package/scheme. Works to consist of structural repairs to the County Network including planing off existing surfaces and replacement to the various depths and layers required by the design of each scheme. Works will also include minor works reactive schemes from Area Managers budgets Depot schemes tend to be smaller in size than schemes in the structural maintenance programme.
Works will also include a limited number of patching schemes. Works will include temporary traffic management, site clearance, adjustment to ironworks, siding, surfacing, ancillary kerbing, road marks and patching .
The works will be located across the County. The extent of the works will vary and no guarantee of scheme size of annual spend can given. Indicative budgets are as follows, but cannot be guaranteed:
- circa £24M per annum.
We are following a 1 stage process using the Open Procedure. Contract form will be the NEC4 Term Service Contract as amended in accordance with the procurement documents.
CPV: Construction, foundation and surface works for highways, roads
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · value publishedLot #1RenewalPublished value£192,000,000
- Technical & professional ability
see tender documents
- Economic & financial standing
see tender documents
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 award criteria (3)
- Price
- Quality
- Social Value
- Technical & professional ability
see tender documents
- Economic & financial standing
see tender documents
- Price carries 70 of 100 points: a 10% discount moves about 7 points. This one is won on the number: sharpen the price before polishing the prose.
- Turnover usually expected at this size: about £95,934,292 (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 Gloucestershire 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
Gloucestershire 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) →
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 outside 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 37 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.
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 bid29% / 17%
2–340% / 38%
4–621% / 25%
7+10% / 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 estimate31% / 30%
Within ±2%58% / 39%
Above estimate12% / 30%
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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 4523Published estimate£192m
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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 bid5%
2–365%
4–623%
7+6%
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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%£192m
Estimate£192m
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tarmac Trading LimitedEarlier contract | Surfacing Works for Gloucestershire County Council 2022 to 2026 (2026 to 2027)notice published Feb 2026 | Surfacing Works for Gloucestershire County Council 2022 to 2026 (2026 to 2027 ) | £24m | Matched as the earlier contract |
| Tarmac Trading LimitedWorked for this buyer | Surfacing Works for Gloucestershire County Council 2022 to 2024(26)notice published May 2022 | — | — | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| £228m39 awards in 36m · last 1 month ago | 17 live · £1.1bn 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=5 | |
| £102m15 awards in 36m · last 3 months ago | 5 live · £692m 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 | |
| 1 award in 36m · last 31 months ago | 2 live · £14m 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 | |
| £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 |
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 i
Who has done similar work for this buyer.
Past contracts are matched by buyer, title and type of work.
85% title match.
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.
85% title match.
A past supplier may not bid again.
The prior contract this notice most likely re-tenders · matched by title and category (85% title match), the holder is not guaranteed to re-bid
Surfacing Works for Gloucestershire County Council 2022 to 2026 (2026 to 2027) — held by Tarmac Trading Limited; no contract end date published.
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
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 8 Oct 2026, 16:02 BST
- Last source update
- 21 Oct 2026, 13:58 BST
- Award evaluation window
- Submission end – 15 Jan 2027
- Authority reference
PZHT-7473-ZVPN- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-095367- Latest notice
- Tender notice (UK4)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-07841eFind a Tender
How to participate & submission route
Official notice Submit via SAP Ariba- Requests to participate (first stage)
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- Tender submission deadline
- 3 Dec 2026, 12:00 GMT
- Clarification deadline
- 17 Nov 2026, 17:00 GMT
- Submission channel
- Official e-sourcing portal
- Electronic submission
- Allowed
- Accepted languages
- en
Timeline
8 Oct 2026 → 1 Apr 2027 · 6 dates- Tender notice published20 days ago8 Oct 2026, 16:02 BST
- Latest notice published7 days ago21 Oct 2026, 13:58 BST
- Today29 Oct 2026
- Clarification questions byin 19 days17 Nov 2026, 17:00 GMT
- Submission deadlinein 35 days3 Dec 2026, 12:00 GMT
- Award decision expected byin 78 days15 Jan 2027, 23:59 GMT
- Contract startsin 153 days1 Apr 2027
Notice history
4 events · 3 releases on Find a Tender · since 8 Oct 2026- Tender notice published8 Oct 2026, 16:02 BSTUK4
- Tender notice published21 Oct 2026, 13:44 BSTUK4
- Deadline moved to 3 Dec 2026, 12:00 GMT21 Oct 2026, 13:44 BST+14 days · was 19 Nov 2026, 12:00 GMT
- Tender notice published21 Oct 2026, 13:58 BSTUK4
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
Notices published for this procedure
- Tender notice Tender notice on Find a Tender
- Tender notice Tender notice on Find a Tender
- Tender notice Tender notice on Find a Tender