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Operating concessions tenders from UK public buyers

Operating concessions tenders open now: 1. In the 12 months to 22 October 2026, UK public buyers published 33 matching notices. The newest recorded award went to Qwello (UK) Ltd on 25 Jun 2026.

Checked against primary sources3 sources linked below

Operating concessions tenders published each month, October 2025 to October 2026: bar chart of 33 UK notices
Notices per month, UK time. All matched by text.

Which buyers publish the most operating concessions notices?

Milton Keynes City Council, with 5 notices of 33 in the 12 months to 22 October 2026.

  1. Milton Keynes City Council5
  2. ANIMAL AND PLANT HEALTH AGENCY1
  3. BIP SOLUTIONS LIMITED1
  4. Blackburn With Darwen Borough Council1
  5. Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council1
  6. Bracknell Forest Borough Council1
  7. Bristol City Council1
  8. COUNTESS OF CHESTER HOSPITAL NHS FOUNDATION TRUST1

Count of notices by the buyer name as published, 33 notices in the window, read 22 October 2026.

How many operating concessions notices are published each month?

About 3 a month over the last eleven full months; the busiest month was April 2026, with 6.

0 of the 10 operating concessions notices that stated a GBP value in the last 12 months fell in this band (0%). 0 of the open notices listed above are in it.

Counts come from this page’s data. A stated estimate is not the contract value, and frameworks are excluded.

StageNotices
Award14
Planning9
Contract4
Tender4
implementation1
Tender cancellation1
Stage as the source records it, of 33 notices in the 12 months to 22 October 2026.
Stated valueNotices
Under £25,0000
£25,000 to £100,0000
£100,000 to £500,0002
£500,000 to £2 million0
£2 million or more8
Only the 10 notices that state a GBP value, excluding frameworks, placeholders of £1,000 or less and ceilings of £100 million or more. An estimate in a notice is not a contract value.

Who has won operating concessions contracts recently?

Connected Kerb won 2 of the award notices read for this hub, the most of any supplier.

The newest award

On 25 Jun 2026, Milton Keynes City Council recorded an award to Qwello (UK) Ltd for “Residential EV Chargers Concession Contract - 2”, at a recorded value of £37,570,932.

Read the award notice. Legacy award record; supplier allocation and signed-contract status unverified

SupplierAward notices won
Connected Kerb2
All-Aboard! Watersports and Water Recreational Activity (Bristol1
Believ Limited1
CCGA GROUP LIMITED1
Food Division Ltd1
Heritage Portfolio1
LILY & CO LIMITED1
MARKETING FORCE LIMITED1
Distinct notices per supplier, from the newest 18 of 18 award and contract notices in the window. From the legacy award table, which ends on 23 July 2026. A count of awards, never a sum of spend.

What counts as operating concessions tenders here?

The body grants a supplier the right to operate one of its sites, such as a port, harbour, marina, market, park, venue, workspace, community hub or event space, as operator or lead tenant, with the operator taking the trading or letting income and paying the body or bearing the operating cost. Running a venue on the body's behalf for a management fee is cultural-heritage-and-visitor-venue-operation or leisure-and-venue-management; a lease to develop land is development-partnerships; individual pitches and trading licences are trading-licences-and-pitches.

Classified

The notice’s recorded classification (proposed by a model, each label checked by Jev) accepted this catalogue subject: site and facility operating concessions. Classified notices are not yet published to public pages, so none appear here yet.

Matched by text

The title contains one of: operating concessions, concession contract, operating concession. A word match is not a judgment of what is bought, so these are labelled as matches.

  1. Open the official notice

    Every notice above links to its page here and to its record on Find a Tender or Contracts Finder. The documents there are the tender; this page is not.
  2. Check the dates

    Note the deadline and any clarification or expression-of-interest date. Forecast and planning notices have no bid deadline yet.
  3. Check the route to market

    A framework or dynamic purchasing system call-off needs a place on that agreement first; an open procedure does not.
  4. Look at who won before

    The winners above show who has delivered this kind of contract recently and for which buyers.

Read the buyer’s own notice before you spend a day on any of these.

Track operating concessions tenders in one workspace

  1. 1 notice open now

    Listed above, closing soonest first, each linked to its page and the official record.
  2. Milton Keynes City Council published 5 notices

    The most of any buyer here, out of 33 in the last 12 months.
  3. Connected Kerb won 2 awards

    The most of any supplier in the 18 award and contract notices read for this hub.
  4. About 3 notices a month

    Published on average over the last 11 full months, from 33 in the 12-month window.

Questions about this page

Short answers, with the figures read for this page.

How many operating concessions tenders are open now?
1 notice with a stated deadline still ahead on 22 October 2026, all matched by text. The list is read again every day.
Where are these notices published?
On Find a Tender and Contracts Finder, the UK government's two public notice services. Each notice on this site links to its official record there; read that record and its documents before deciding to bid.
How does a notice get into this hub?
By its title, buyer or stated region matching the hub's rule. Classified notices will be added here when they are published to public pages; a text match is never presented as a classification.
Are EU, Scottish and Welsh portals included?
No. Only Find a Tender and Contracts Finder are read. EU (TED) notices are never added to these UK counts, and notices that appear only on Public Contracts Scotland, Sell2Wales or eTendersNI are not here.

Hubs that share buyers or suppliers with this one, and the full tender index.

Sources and method

Read at
22 October 2026, regenerated daily
Window
22 October 2025 to 22 October 2026, by publication date
Classification
Not yet published to public pages
  • Classified notices are not yet published to public pages, so every notice here is matched by text.
  • A text match means the notice's title, buyer or stated region fits this hub's rule. It is not a judgment of what is bought.
  • Open means a stated deadline still in the future. Tender notices with no stated deadline are listed separately, and only when published in the last 60 days; planning and forecast notices are not counted as open.
  • Award records come from the legacy award table, whose newest record is 23 July 2026.
  • UK notices from Find a Tender and Contracts Finder only. EU (TED) notices are not counted.

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source data © Crown copyright.

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