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Find a Tender Service (UK Cabinet Office / Crown Commercial Service) verified 2 hours ago Contract notice

PAN3566 - Request for a Priced Proposal to Operate Funfairs at Abbey Park, Leicester

Open United Kingdom Culture, sport & recreation

Buyer Leicester City Council

31 days left

Key facts

Closes
Estimated value
€471,904
converted from GBP
Procedure
Open procedure
  1. Published
  2. Today
  3. Deadline open for 30 days
  4. Awarded pending

Bidding window

30 days from publication to deadline

Usual length

Notices of this kind (United Kingdom, open procedure, below the EU threshold) give a median of 26 days, half of them between 19 and 31 days, based on 2,218 notices of the last two years.

This buyer usually gives 27 days (median of its last 16 calls for tender). It extended the deadline on 1 of the 13 calls we followed from publication (8%).

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Description

Leicester City Council invites proposals from suitably qualified Funfair operators for a funfair at Abbey Park, Leicester for its Tourism, Culture & Inward Investment Team. A site visit is being held to the site at 10am on 20 October 2026. Suppliers shall confirm attendance via the ProContract portal. The proposed contract will be for one year with options to extend for a period or periods totalling no more than up to a further one year. Further information about the opportunity can be found in the tender documentation. Submissions must be received by 12:00 noon on 12 November 2026 at the very latest via the EastMidsTenders portal: https://www.eastmidstenders.org/index.html. Any queries/questions regarding this opportunity must be received via the ProContract portal only. To assist potential Suppliers, the link, https://supplierhelp.due-north.com/ provides helpful user guides on using the ProContract portal. Furthermore, Suppliers will be required to register on the Central Digital Platform (a Find a Tender service). To assist prospective Suppliers, Cabinet Office have published video guides with accompanying PDF user manuals which will help Suppliers understand and navigate the platform, including how to register, upload organisational information and search and bid for opportunities. Please click on the following link: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/information-and-guidance-for-suppliers.

Bid or no-bid?

Six questions before you commit a team. Under each one, what the register holds on it. The answers are yours.

  1. In your favour:

    Do we meet every eligibility criterion?

    Open procedure: any interested supplier may submit a bid.

  2. Your call:

    Can we deliver this with the team we have?

    Estimated at €471,904.

  3. Your call:

    Do we have two comparable references?

    Comparable work is in Culture, sport & recreation.

  4. In your favour:

    Is the deadline realistic for a proper offer?

    31 days left, 23 of them working days.

  5. Your call:

    Is there a margin at the likely winning price?

    In this country this kind of contract is usually awarded for between €30,571 and €181,327.

  6. Your call:

    Do we know this buyer?

    The buyer has 353 notices in the register and no pattern of winners yet.

Can I bid?

  • Open procedure: any interested supplier may submit a bid.
  • Documents in English.

Official source

Source: Find a Tender Service (UK Cabinet Office / Crown Commercial Service)

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Last verified against Find a Tender Service (UK Cabinet Office / Crown Commercial Service) 2 hours ago

Documents on Find a Tender Service (UK Cabinet Office / Crown Commercial Service) (English)

What this market pays

The buyer has too few awards of its own in this sector, so this is the range of the last 26 awards for Culture, sport & recreation in United Kingdom.

This notice
€471,904
Median award
€87,512
Middle half of past awards
€30,571 to €181,327

The estimate is larger than three in four past awards.

Award values as published by the official sources. Use them as a guide, not a rule: scope, lots and duration differ between contracts.

Leicester City Council

United Kingdom

notices in the register
353
awards
309
awarded in total
€24.0M

Who wins its contracts

Moderately concentrated
different companies won its awards
76
of the awards went to the three most frequent winners
39%
of its calls state an estimated value
99%

Based on 298 awards with a named winner over the last 3 years. Counted by award, not by value, because lot and framework amounts are not comparable. Concentrated means the three most frequent winners took 65% or more of the awards; many suppliers, under 35% with at least ten different winners.

One dot per award, on the day it was signed, sized by its value. A ring is an award with no published value.

Who usually wins this buyer's contracts in this sector

Company Wins Total awarded Last win
Support in Sport (UK) Ltd 2 €620,313 Sep 2026

Based on 2 awards with a linked company profile over the last 5 years.

5 open tenders right now

Market context

Larger than 67% of the open notices in Culture, sport & recreation across Europe.

open now in Culture, sport & recreation
795
median open notice
€162,190

Who wins in this market

Many suppliers

United Kingdom · Culture, sport & recreation

different companies won awards here
37
of the awards went to the three most frequent winners
13%
buyers awarded contracts here
25

Based on 39 awards with a named winner over the last 3 years. Counted by award, not by value, because lot and framework amounts are not comparable. Concentrated means the three most frequent winners took 65% or more of the awards; many suppliers, under 35% with at least ten different winners.

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