Find a TenderPlanned procurementPreliminary market engagement notice
Published 9 Feb 2026, 16:05 GMT

Official UK procurement notice

1053-CFW-T24 Maintenance and Compliance contracts

Authority: University of Bradford (Education)

ServicesAbove threshold
Planned pipeline value£27,729,544pipeline notice, not a live tender
Tender notice expected 9 Mar 2026from the planned procurement notice
Contract term 3 yrsends 1 Aug 2029 · up to 1 Aug 2031 with extensions · starts 1 Aug 2026

What is being bought

Published requirement description

The University of Bradford UoB is currently preparing a scope of requirements for the delivery of services relating to:

1.Electrical Planned Preventative Maintenance (PPM), electrical reactive works and electrical small works projects.

2.Mechanical PPM, mechanical reactive works and mechanical small works projects.

3.Building Fabric PPM, building fabric reactive works and building fabric small works projects.

Prior to initiating any procurement, the UoB wishes to involve the Facilities Management market in discussing a number of topics including criteria key to the success of any future procurement.

The scope of the services include:

•PPM maintenance of electrical, mechanical and building fabric assets in line with industry best practice (based on or incorporating SFG20 standards).

•Reactive maintenance provision of electrical, mechanical and fabric assets in line with agreed response and rectification times established by the UoB.

•Provision of small electrical, mechanical and fabric work projects as defined and required by the UoB.

UoB are currently considering letting these requirements in separate contracts and procurement exercises via:

Contract 1 – Electrical

Contract 2 – Mechanical

Contract 3 – Building Fabric

Total Value (estimated)

Contract 1 – Electrical – Estimated annual cost £ 1,527,100.00 – Estimated cost over 5 years £ 8,500,800.64

Contract 2 – Mechanical – Estimated annual cost £ 2,152,900.00 – Estimated cost over 5 years £ 11,984,397.68.

Contract 3 – Building Fabric – Estimated annual cost £ 1,301,388.00 – Estimated cost over 5 years £ 7,244,345.45

Contract Dates (estimated)

1st August 2026 to 31st July 2031, based on a 3+1+1 contract structure with extensions to the initial 3 year period awarded subject to Supplier Performance.

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CPV: Building and facilities management services · Repair and maintenance services of building installations · Repair and maintenance services of electrical building installations · Repair and maintenance services of mechanical building installations

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published

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

How University of Bradford buys Miscellaneous business-related services (CPV 7999), and who usually turns up

University of Bradford’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: Miscellaneous business-related services (CPV 7999) →

1

How the contest usually goes

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

Question for the bid
This buyerUniversity of Bradford · all categories
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: 2 of 4 known-size awards · market: CPV 7999 · Yorkshire and the Humber, n=21
2 of 438%

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 Yorkshire and the Humber.

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

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 5 of 7 known-location awards · market: CPV 7999 · Yorkshire and the Humber, n=24
71%8%

Most of this buyer’s recorded winners were registered in 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: no decision dates published · market: CPV 7999 · Yorkshire and the Humber, n=5
—96 days

Half of these awards have an award date within 96 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 4 of 8 procurements with awards had no recorded rival · market: CPV 7999 · Yorkshire and the Humber, n=32
50%66%

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 buyerToo few to chart: 1 lot with bid counts, 5 needed · all categories
The market6 lots with bid counts · CPV 7999 · Yorkshire and the Humber
17% had one bid
Market · select a colour for counts
1 bid17%
Market: 1 of 6 lots with published bid counts.
2–317%
Market: 1 of 6 lots with published bid counts.
4–667%
Market: 4 of 6 lots with published bid counts.
7+0%
Market: 0 of 6 lots with published bid counts.

How did awards compare with estimates?

i

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 market85 lots with estimate and award · CPV 7999 · UK-wide
42% below estimate
Market · select a colour for counts
Below estimate42%
Market: 36 of 85 lots with an estimate and award.
Within ±2%35%
Market: 30 of 85 lots with an estimate and award.
Above estimate22%
Market: 19 of 85 lots with an estimate and award.
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Assess each lot
i

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 507136 monthsPublished estimate£28m

This lot is listed as CPV 5071. The table above uses the notice category.

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 12 past lots.

A forecast, not a list of bidders.

—No model forecast yet0% chance of a single bid
Past bids on 12 similar lots
1 bid0%
0 of 12 similar past lots received 1 bid (0%).
2–317%
2 of 12 similar past lots received 2–3 (17%).
4–650%
6 of 12 similar past lots received 4–6 (50%).
7+33%
4 of 12 similar past lots received 7+ (33%).
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.

—No model forecast yet
No comparable awards on record for this lot’s category yet. The published estimate is £28m, and the forecast stays empty until the market has a record to read.

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
Above threshold (FTS publication)
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
9 Feb 2026, 16:05 GMT
Last source update
9 Feb 2026, 16:05 GMT
Authority reference
1053-CFW-T24
FTS notice number
2026/S 000-011512
Latest notice
Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
Classification (CPV)
Building and facilities management servicesRepair and maintenance services of building installationsRepair and maintenance services of electrical building installationsRepair and maintenance services of mechanical building installations
Delivery area
Yorkshire & Humber (UKE41)
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-064b87 Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice
Submission deadline
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Timeline

9 Feb 2026 → 1 Aug 2026 · 4 dates
  1. Planning notice published256 days ago
    9 Feb 2026, 16:05 GMT
  2. Market engagement241 days ago
    23 Feb 2026, 23:59 GMT

    The UoB would like Suppliers to express their interest in pre-market engagement before 3 pm on the 23rd February 2026 by sending a confirmation message via our Delta software platform

    Please include the following detail in your message:

    -Quoting reference

    -Full Name

    -Company/Organisation

    -Contact Details (e-mail and phone number)

    In return we may contact you and arrange a one-to one phone call to ask a standard set of questions and receive your feedback on the proposed process and current proposals to procure the services stated within. (Dependant on volumes the UoB may not contact each individual supplier that expresses interest).

  3. Tender notice expected227 days ago
    9 Mar 2026, 23:59 GMT
  4. Contract starts83 days ago
    1 Aug 2026, 00:00 BST

Notice history

1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender
  1. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    9 Feb 2026, 16:05 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

University of Bradford

Contracting authorityPublic authority - sub-central government GB-PPON: PDPP-8991-PNRN Richmond Building, University of Bradford, Bradford, West Yorkshire, UK, Bradford, Yorkshire & Humber, BD7 1DPContact name, email, phone

Official documents & specifications (1)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure