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

Talking Trail Sculpture

Open United Kingdom Culture, sport & recreation

Buyer Natural England

10 days left

Key facts

Closes
23:59 (UTC+1)
Estimated value
€23,607
converted from GBP
Procedure
Open procedure
  1. Published
  2. Today
  3. Deadline open for 9 days
  4. Deadline was
  5. Awarded pending

Bidding window

9 days from publication to deadline

Shorter than usual

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 2,132 notices of the last two years. Fewer days than three in four comparable notices. Check the documents early and ask questions before the clarification deadline.

This buyer usually gives 18 days (median of its last 41 calls for tender). It extended none of the 24 deadlines we followed from publication.

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Summary

Machine-generated summary

The buyer requires the creation, delivery and installation of six hardwood sculptures as part of the Talking Trail project. The works cover designing and producing the sculptures, transporting them to site and installing them there. Delivery and installation must be completed by 15 March 2027.

Description

To create, deliver and install six hardwood sculptures To be delivered by 15 March 2027

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 €23,607.

  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?

    10 days left, 8 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 103 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
€23,607
Median award
€87,512
Middle half of past awards
€30,571 to €181,327

The estimate is smaller 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.

Natural England

United Kingdom

notices in the register
103
awards
58
awarded in total
€2.1M

Who wins its contracts

Many suppliers
different companies won its awards
47
of the awards went to the three most frequent winners
16%
of its calls state an estimated value
100%

Based on 57 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.

This buyer has no award history in this sector yet. Usual winners, Culture, sport & recreation - United Kingdom

Company Wins Total awarded Last win
Willmott Dixon Construction Ltd 2 €3.9M Jun 2026
Support in Sport (UK) Ltd 2 €620,313 Sep 2026
Bolinda Digital Ltd 1 €350,038 Mar 2026
icecream architecture ice cream 1 €247,901 Feb 2026
Harrow Green Limited 1 €209,937 Apr 2026

Based on 39 awards with a linked company profile over the last 2 years.

16 open tenders right now

Market context

Larger than 19% of the open notices in Culture, sport & recreation across Europe.

open now in Culture, sport & recreation
1,158
median open notice
€200,000

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.

Change history

Every time an official source republished this notice with different content. We watch every source we index, including regional copies of the same notice.

  1. Read before bidding
    Status
    Was: Closed
    Now: Open
    Submission deadline
    Was: October 15, 2026, 22:59
    Now: October 15, 2026, 22:59 1 day later

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