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Published 31 Oct 2025, 11:59 GMT

Official UK procurement notice

Westborough & Park Barn - Architect Services

Official notice Competition analysis

Authority: Guildford Borough Council (Local council)

ServicesBelow thresholdSME suitable
Sectors: Architecture & Engineering (71)Community & Cultural Services (98) Delivery: South West (UKK)
Planned pipeline valueValue not publishedpipeline notice, not a live tender
Tender notice expected Date not publishedfrom the planned procurement notice
Contract term 1 yrends 31 Mar 2027 · up to 31 Mar 2028 with extensions · starts 1 Apr 2026

What is being bought

Published requirement description

Guildford Borough Council is seeking an Architect and Lead Consultant to support the Westborough & Park Barn Better Homes Programme - a council-led initiative to develop a long-term strategy for improving housing quality, sustainability, and community facilities across two adjacent estates. The strategy will be shaped through meaningful community engagement to establish a shared vision and delivery approach, potentially leading to future regeneration phases including home upgrades, redevelopment, and public realm improvements.

The appointed consultant will lead design and technical inputs through RIBA Stages 0-2, working in close collaboration with the Council, the appointed Engagement Consultant, and other specialists. Stage 0 will focus on high-level feasibility testing and translating community input into design objectives and a clear brief for later stages. Stages 1-2 will develop these options into an outline masterplan or equivalent strategic framework, supported by inputs from subconsultants (e.g. engineering, cost, sustainability) and ongoing community engagement. As Lead Consultant, the architect will coordinate the wider design team, ensure technical integration across disciplines, and embed engagement outcomes into a coherent, holistic, high-quality and deliverable design strategy

CPV: Construction consultancy services · Other community, social and personal services

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published
Lot #1PlannedRenewal 1 yrSME
Contract period: 1 Apr 2026 – 31 Mar 2027 (1 yr) · up to 31 Mar 2028 with extensions
Delivery: South WestEligibility: SME eligible
Extensions: Extension options published
71530000 Construction consultancy services98000000 Other community, social and personal services

Who is likely to bid for this lot ↓

Pipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published

How Guildford Borough Council buys Construction consultancy services (CPV 7153), and who usually turns up

Guildford Borough 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 consultancy services (CPV 7153) →

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How the contest usually goes

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

Question for the bid
This buyerGuildford Borough Council · all categories
The marketConstruction consultancy services (CPV 7153)
What to do with it
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: 5 of 7 known-size awards · market: CPV 7153 · South West England, n=26
71%50%

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 South West England.

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

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 5 of 11 known-location awards · market: CPV 7153 · South West England, n=30
45%37%

Most of this buyer’s recorded winners were registered outside 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: 10 decided notices · market: CPV 7153 · UK-wide, n=23
81 days52 days

Half of these awards have an award date within 81 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 6 of 13 procurements with awards had no recorded rival · market: CPV 7153 · South West England, n=32
46%72%

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?

i

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 buyer9 lots with bid counts · all categories
22% had one bid
The market37 lots with bid counts · CPV 7153 · UK-wide
11% had one bid
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
1 bid22% / 11%
Buyer: 2 of 9 lots with published bid counts. Market: 4 of 37 lots with published bid counts.
2–322% / 27%
Buyer: 2 of 9 lots with published bid counts. Market: 10 of 37 lots with published bid counts.
4–611% / 22%
Buyer: 1 of 9 lots with published bid counts. Market: 8 of 37 lots with published bid counts.
7+44% / 41%
Buyer: 4 of 9 lots with published bid counts. Market: 15 of 37 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 buyerToo few to chart: 1 lot with estimate and award, 5 needed · all categories
The market23 lots with estimate and award · CPV 7153 · UK-wide
65% below estimate
Market · select a colour for counts
Below estimate65%
Market: 15 of 23 lots with an estimate and award.
Within ±2%17%
Market: 4 of 23 lots with an estimate and award.
Above estimate17%
Market: 4 of 23 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 715312 monthsSME suitableEstimate not published
Expected competition
i

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 102 past lots.

A forecast, not a list of bidders.

—No model forecast yet12% chance of a single bid
Past bids on 102 similar lots
1 bid12%
12 of 102 similar past lots received 1 bid (12%).
2–316%
16 of 102 similar past lots received 2–3 (16%).
4–625%
26 of 102 similar past lots received 4–6 (25%).
7+47%
48 of 102 similar past lots received 7+ (47%).
Comparable past lots usually drew 6 bids.
Commercial price forecast
i

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?
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.

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.

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
Services
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
31 Oct 2025, 11:59 GMT
Last source update
31 Oct 2025, 11:59 GMT
FTS notice number
2025/S 000-070045
Latest notice
Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
Classification (CPV)
Construction consultancy servicesOther community, social and personal services
Delivery area
South West (UKK)
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-05d7de Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice
Submission deadline
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Timeline

31 Oct 2025 → 1 Apr 2026 · 3 dates
  1. Planning notice published361 days ago
    31 Oct 2025, 11:59 GMT
  2. Market engagement347 days ago
    13 Nov 2025, 23:59 GMT

    Engagement Session Details:

    Format: In-person session with an option to attend online

    Date: To be confirmed

    Location: Guildford Borough Council Offices or alternative location TBC if required.

    Briefing Pack: A briefing pack will be issued to all registered attendees prior to the session

    Suppliers interested in attending are invited to submit an expression of interest by emailing procurement@guildford.gov.uk

  3. Contract starts209 days ago
    1 Apr 2026, 00:00 BST

Notice history

1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender
  1. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    31 Oct 2025, 11:59 GMT
    UK2

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

Guildford Borough Council

Contracting authorityPublic authority - sub-central government GB-PPON: PRYN-3355-CPMV Millmead House, Millmead, Guildford, South East, GU2 4BBContact name, email

Official documents & specifications (1)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure