Official UK procurement notice
1495 Laundry Contract · UK public procurement notice
Authority: Devon and Cornwall Police (Police & fire)·Consortium: 5 public authorities
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThe requirement includes linen rental and collections and deliveries of laundry such as blankets, clothing and bath towels from all Forces Custody Units and other locations across the Force areas on a regular basis.
CPV: Laundry-collection services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedPipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How Devon and Cornwall Police buys Washing and dry-cleaning services (CPV 9831), and who usually turns up
Devon and Cornwall Police’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: Washing and dry-cleaning services (CPV 9831) →
How the contest usually goes
Winner shares use published awards; bid and price charts use contested lots.
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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.
Small firms have won here. Neither number says whether you qualify; it describes who has been winning.
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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.
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners were registered outside the region where that award was delivered.
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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.
Half of these awards have an award date within 32 days of the bid deadline.
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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.
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?
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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.
1 bid25% / 26%
2–313% / 39%
4–663% / 35%
7+0% / 0%
How did awards compare with estimates?
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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.
Below estimate0% / 20%
Within ±2%100% / 47%
Above estimate0% / 33%
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.
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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 9831Estimate not published
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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 50 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid26%
2–338%
4–620%
7+16%
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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.
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.
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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.
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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. Contracts Finder contracts appear on the Retender Radar, not yet in these figures.
- 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
- 5 Nov 2026, 12:41 GMT
- Last source update
- 5 Nov 2026, 12:41 GMT
- Authority reference
1495- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-105163- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Not published
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-07b3f8Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
5 Nov 2026 → 1 Feb 2028 · 3 dates- Planning notice published2 days ago5 Nov 2026, 12:41 GMT
- Today7 Nov 2026
- Market engagementin 26 days3 Dec 2026, 23:59 GMT
1495 – LAUNDRY SERVICE
THIS NOTICE IS FOR PRIOR INFORMATION ONLY FOR THE PURPOSES OF IDENTIFYING SUPPLIERS TO TAKE PART IN EARLY MARKET ENGAGEMENT AND IS NOT A CALL FOR COMPETITION.
Avon & Somerset, Devon & Cornwall, Dorset, Gloucestershire and Wiltshire Police Forces have a regional Laundry Contract which is due to expire in January 2028. The South West Police Procurement Service (SWPPS), on behalf these Forces, are currently undertaking early market engagement and considering various route to market options in order to run a successful procurement process for their future Laundry Service requirements.
The requirement includes linen rental and collections and deliveries of laundry such as blankets, clothing and bath towels from all Forces Custody Units and other locations across the Force areas on a regular basis. The purpose of the Market Engagement Notice is for early engagement with the market prior to undertaking a formal tender process which is anticipated to commence in the Spring/Summer of 2027. The market engagement is to openly consult with the wider market place to share our requirements and gather information whilst also providing information on our current position. We will be seeking input from the supply market to inform our requirements, to help formulate our specification for the services and help identify routes to market.
If you are interested in supporting SWPPS with this engagement, please respond to this notice to [email protected], and you will be emailed a pre-market engagement questionnaire, which includes some customer background information. The closing date for pre-market engagement questionnaire returns will be midday on Thursday 3 December 2026.
SWPPS are committed to ensuring fairness, openness and transparency, and to follow the Procurement Act 2023. This notice is issued solely for the purpose of conducting pre-procurement market testing and engagement. Interested parties will not be prejudiced or advantaged by any response or lack thereof to this notice. This notice does not constitute a call for competition to procure any services, supplies or works for SWPPS. SWPPS are not liable for any costs, fees, or expenses incurred by any party in replying to the notice.
- Contract starts1 Feb 2028
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Preliminary market engagement notice published5 Nov 2026, 12:41 GMTUK2
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
5 public bodies on the noticeConsortium members and other public bodies
- Avon and Somerset ConstabularyContracting authorityPublic authority - sub-central government
- Dorset PoliceContracting authorityPublic authority - sub-central government
- Gloucestershire ConstabularyContracting authorityPublic authority - sub-central government
- Wiltshire PoliceContracting authorityPublic authority - sub-central government
Official documents & specifications (1)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender