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Published 10 Apr 2026, 12:40 BST

Official UK procurement notice

BBCS Linen & Laundry Facility Joint Venture Opportunity

Official notice Competition analysis

Authority: Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust (Central government)·On behalf of: University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust

ServicesAbove threshold
Sectors: Furniture (incl. office furniture), furnishings, domestic appliances (excl. lighting) and cleaning products (39)Business Services & Consultancy (79)Community & Cultural Services (98) Delivery: UK
Planned pipeline value£0pipeline notice, not a live tender
Tender notice expected 2 Oct 2026from the planned procurement notice
Contract term 10 yrsends 31 Mar 2038 · starts 1 Apr 2028

What is being bought

Published requirement description

The Birmingham, Black Country and Solihull Procurement Collaborative (BBCS PC) is acting on behalf of the Trusts to explore a system-wide solution for an in house Linen and Laundry facility.

CPV: Building and facilities management services · Business and management consultancy and related services · Hospital linen · Laundry-operation services

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published
Lot #1Planned 10 yrs
Contract period: 1 Apr 2028 – 31 Mar 2038 (10 yrs)
Delivery: UK
39518000 Hospital linen79400000 Business and management consultancy and related services79993000 Building and facilities management services98311200 Laundry-operation services

Who is likely to bid for this lot ↓

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

How Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust buys Washing and dry-cleaning services (CPV 9831), and who usually turns up

Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust’s own published record, next to the published market for the same work. Frameworks and DPS are kept out: they attract a different number of bids. Whole-market view: Washing and dry-cleaning services (CPV 9831) →

1

How the contest usually goes

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

Question for the bid
This buyerBirmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust · division 98
The marketWashing and dry-cleaning services (CPV 9831)
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: 1 of 3 known-size awards · market: no supplier sizes published
1 of 3—

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.

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

Last 36 months.

Buyer: no winner locations published · market: no winner locations published
——

No winner locations published for this authority. Local means a registered address in the delivery region.

How long to a decision?
i

How long buyers here take to decide after bids close.

Middle value in days from the deadline to the first award notice, on competitions that published both dates.

Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: no decision dates published · market: no decision dates published
——

No decision dates published to compare.

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.

Thin markets produce this too; it is not proof of a tailored specification.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: exactly 6 of 6 procurements with awards had no recorded rival · market: no bid counts or routes published
100%—

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 buyer11 lots with bid counts · all categories
18% had one bid
The marketNo bid counts published
Buyer · select a colour for counts
1 bid18%
Buyer: 2 of 11 lots with published bid counts.
2–336%
Buyer: 4 of 11 lots with published bid counts.
4–627%
Buyer: 3 of 11 lots with published bid counts.
7+18%
Buyer: 2 of 11 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 buyer7 lots with estimate and award · all categories
14% below estimate
The marketNo estimate-and-award pairs published
Buyer · select a colour for counts
Below estimate14%
Buyer: 1 of 7 lots with an estimate and award.
Within ±2%14%
Buyer: 1 of 7 lots with an estimate and award.
Above estimate71%
Buyer: 5 of 7 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 9831120 monthsNo real estimate
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 26 past lots.

A forecast, not a list of bidders.

—No model forecast yet27% chance of a single bid
Past bids on 26 similar lots
1 bid27%
7 of 26 similar past lots received 1 bid (27%).
2–342%
11 of 26 similar past lots received 2–3 (42%).
4–631%
8 of 26 similar past lots received 4–6 (31%).
7+0%
0 of 26 similar past lots received 7+ (0%).
Comparable past lots usually drew 3 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 real estimate
The buyer published £0 as the estimate (a placeholder, not the contract’s value), so there is nothing to forecast against.

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
10 Apr 2026, 12:40 BST
Last source update
19 Jun 2026, 15:48 BST
FTS notice number
2026/S 000-058223
Latest notice
Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
Classification (CPV)
Building and facilities management servicesBusiness and management consultancy and related servicesHospital linenLaundry-operation services
Delivery area
UK
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-067ff0 Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice
Submission deadline
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Timeline

10 Apr 2026 → 1 Apr 2028 · 5 dates
  1. Planning notice published195 days ago
    10 Apr 2026, 12:40 BST
  2. Latest notice published125 days ago
    19 Jun 2026, 15:48 BST
  3. Market engagement112 days ago
    1 Jul 2026, 23:59 BST

    Potential suppliers are requested to respond to the requirements, as detailed in the Briefing Document.

    Procurement Process

    The procurement process will be subject to further approvals and this Pre-Market Engagement Exercise will help form the tender process so currently, the route to market is unknown.

    Suppliers wishing to participate in this market engagement exercise and express an interest in this requirement should respond to the questionnaire via the online form on the Health Family Single eCommercial System Portal (Atamis).

    health-family.force.com/s/Welcome ↗

    Please search for C437695

    To View documents please register interest and then navigate "My Proposals and quotes"

  4. Tender notice expected19 days ago
    2 Oct 2026, 23:59 BST
  5. Today
    22 Oct 2026
  6. Contract starts
    1 Apr 2028, 00:00 BST

Notice history

2 events · 2 releases on Find a Tender · since 10 Apr 2026
  1. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    10 Apr 2026, 12:40 BST
    UK2
  2. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    19 Jun 2026, 15:48 BST
    UK2
Published amendments (1)

Deadline extension

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

7 public bodies on the notice

Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust

Contracting authorityPublic authority - central government GB-PPON: PNXM-2771-CPCW Steelhouse Lane, Birmingham, West Midlands, B4 6NHContact email

Consortium members and other public bodies

Official documents & specifications (2)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure