Official UK procurement notice
Building Cleaning Services · UK public procurement notice
Authority: North Northamptonshire Council (Local council)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionNorth Northamptonshire Council (NNC) intends to procure a comprehensive Building Cleaning Service across its corporate estate.
The appointed Contractor will be responsible for delivering a high-quality, consistent and efficient cleaning service to all internal areas within Council-owned and operated buildings. This includes, but is not limited to, all fixtures, fittings, furniture, surfaces, and finishes.
North Northamptonshire Council (NNC) is undertaking Pre-Procurement Market Engagement (PPME) in advance of an upcoming procurement exercise for the provision of a comprehensive Building Cleaning Service across its corporate estate.
For copies of the documentation relating to this potential cleaning procurement and to express an interest please email:
Sharon Ward
Contracts Manager
North Northamptonshire Council
CPV: Cleaning services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedPipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How North Northamptonshire Council buys Cleaning services (CPV 9091), and who usually turns up
North Northamptonshire Council’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: Cleaning services (CPV 9091) →
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. The market figure counts awards delivered in East Midlands.
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners were registered in 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 37 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 bid17% / 3%
2–30% / 17%
4–650% / 26%
7+33% / 53%
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 estimate20% / 23%
Within ±2%60% / 31%
Above estimate20% / 46%
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 9091Published estimate£650k
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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 58 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid3%
2–317%
4–626%
7+53%
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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.
| Supplier | This buyer’s earlier contract | Lot | Award value | Why listed |
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| Solo Service Group LimitedEarlier contract | Building cleaning for multiple NNC propertiesnotice published Jul 2025 | — | £350k | Matched as the earlier contract |
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.
- 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
- 3 Jun 2026, 13:47 BST
- Last source update
- 3 Jun 2026, 13:47 BST
- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-052357- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06ac75Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
3 Jun 2026 → 2 Feb 2027 · 4 dates- Planning notice published145 days ago3 Jun 2026, 13:47 BST
- Market engagement116 days ago1 Jul 2026, 23:59 BST
The Council invites providers to review the full suite of documentation provided. A questionnaire is included for suppliers to complete, enabling them to share feedback that will help shape the future procurement. Please send all completed questionnaires back to Sharon Ward.
At this stage, there are no planned site visits or supplier meetings to discuss the feedback received; however, the Council reserves the right to arrange such engagement at a later stage if considered beneficial.
The Council will consider all feedback received to inform its options and support further decision-making. For the avoidance of doubt, this stage of the project does not form part of a formal procurement process, and the Council is not committing, at this stage, to undertaking such a process.
Participation or non-participation in the PPME shall not prevent any provider participating in a potential future procurement, nor is it intended that any information supplied as part of the PPME shall place any provider at an advantage in a potential procurement process and participation will be at each organisation's own cost. No expense in responding to this PPME will be reimbursed by the Council.
The Council is undertaking this stage to seek advice and insights from the market to help inform its understanding of the available scope, delivery models, affordability, commercial options, procurement structure, and opportunities for innovation and continuous improvement. Feedback received will be used to support the development of the Council's procurement strategy, service specification, and tender documentation.
This exercise is for information-gathering purposes only, to support a potential future procurement and to assess market interest. The Council is not committing to any course of action or to adopting any information provided at this stage.
Sharon Ward, Contracts Manager, will be responsible for issuing the documentation relating to this Pre-Procurement Market Engagement (PPME). To request copies of the documentation associated with this potential cleaning procurement and to express an interest, please email:
Sharon Ward
Contracts Manager
North Northamptonshire Council
- Tender notice expected81 days ago5 Aug 2026, 23:59 BST
- Today26 Oct 2026
- Contract startsin 99 days2 Feb 2027
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Preliminary market engagement notice published3 Jun 2026, 13:47 BSTUK2
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
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