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Leicester City Council

Market Stalls

Furniture & FurnishingsCPV 39000000
Value£145k
Deadline29 Sept 2026
Published27 Aug 2026
RegionNationwide
Timeline
Published 27 Aug 202633 days leftCloses 29 Sept 2026
Who to contact
Sean Harris
sean.harris@leicester.gov.uk
+44 1164541000

The procurement contact named on the official notice.

How to submit
Open the submissions portal

The submission route named on the official notice.

Contract value in context
£145ktotal contract value
median £101k
this tender£0£3.5m

This sits in the upper-middle of the Furniture & Furnishings band — a substantial contract for the sector. Based on 5,729 valued Furniture & Furnishings tenders in our corpus.

When this comes round again

Leicester City Council publishes Furniture & Furnishings work continuously — 32 notices, roughly one every 33 days. This is a stream to watch, not a cycle to wait for.

67% of Leicester City Council’s awards go to a supplier it has used before.

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The brief

Leicester City Council invites Tenders for the provision of Market Stalls.

The proposed Contract will be for 12 months with no option to extend.

Further information about the opportunity can be found in the tender documentation.

Submissions must be received by 12:00 noon on 29 September 2026 at the very latest via the EastMidsTenders portal: https://www.eastmidstenders.org/index.html.

Late submissions and those received by any other means will not be accepted.

Any queries/questions regarding this opportunity must be received via the ProContract portal only, otherwise they will not be responded to.

Requirements

What the notice asks for

01

Submissions must be received by 12:00 noon

Submissions must be received by 12:00 noon on 29 September 2026 at the very latest via the EastMidsTenders portal: https://www.eastmidstenders.org/index.html.

02

Any queries/questions regarding this opportunity must

Any queries/questions regarding this opportunity must be received via the ProContract portal only, otherwise they will not be responded to.

Sentences from the notice that state an obligation, surfaced automatically and shown in the order they appear. Not an exhaustive list — always confirm against the tender documents.

What it takes to bid this

1220 daysof bid-team effort
£8.2k£13.7kat typical UK bid-team rates

Typical UK bid effort for the £100k–£1m band — an estimate, not a quote.

Qualify & bid/no-bid ~10% · SQ / PQQ ~20% · Written response ~55% · Review & presentation ~15%

Typical for this category — confirm against the ITT pack

  • Show at bidComparable references / case studies
  • Hold at bidFinancial standing (accounts, often ~2× contract value turnover)
  • Hold at bidInsurance cover (PL / EL, often PI)
  • Show at bidSocial value commitments

Hold at bid = pass/fail conditions of participation. Show at bid = scored in the quality response. Plan for delivery = contract obligations from day one.

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Source & provenance
OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06ed99
Stage
tender · Open
Source
Find a Tender
Buyer ref
081765-2026
View the original notice on Find a Tender

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

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