Official UK procurement notice
Building Compliance - Third Party Audits
Authority: Platform Housing Limited (Public body)
Sectors: Repair & Maintenance (50)Architecture & Engineering (71)Business Services & Consultancy (79) Delivery: North East (UKC)North West (UKD)Yorkshire & Humber (UKE)
Published estimate£815,000≈ £178k / year · £978,000 inc. VAT · 1 value update22.7% above published estimate
Submissions closed 16 Jun 2026awarded 22 Jul 2026
Award (standstill) to Morgan Lambert Ltd
Contract term 4 yrs 7 moends 31 Mar 2031 · up to 31 Mar 2032 with extensions · starts 1 Sept 2026
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionPlatform Housing Group sought to appoint an auditing contractor to provide an independent auditing service.
Auditing activities are required across a range of building safety activities including the following:
- Gas safety inspections
- Electrical safety inspections
- Renewable heating systems
- Solid Fuel & Oil fired heating systems
- Asbestos
- Legionella risk assessments
- Passenger lift maintenance
- Fumes investigations
- DSEARs
CPV: Asbestos removal services · Auditing services · Electrical services · Gas appliance maintenance services · Lift-maintenance services · Technical testing, analysis and consultancy services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · value publishedWhat it takes to wini
How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
Evaluation split and conditions of participation as published; the tender pack may add morei
How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
How bids were scored
Published sub-criteria (2)
- Quality Criteria: 60%
- Cost Criteria: 40%
Published award criteria (2)
- Quality Criteria
- Cost Criteria
What this means for your bid
- Price carries 40 of 100 points: a 10% discount moves about 4 points. The method statement decides this lot, not the discount.
Price arithmetic assumes straight proportional scoring; the tender pack may use another formula.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Procedure method
- Open procedure
- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Awarded
- 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
- 31 Mar 2026, 16:41 BST
- Last source update
- 22 Jul 2026, 14:29 BST
- Award evaluation window
- Submission end – 17 Jul 2026
- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-047690- Latest notice
- Contract award notice (UK6)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-0679f3Find a Tender
How it was run
Official noticeRun through: ProContract (Due North) · Who buys & how to bid on ProContract
Access & registration note: Free · short registration with manual review; public opportunity list
- Submission deadline
- 16 Jun 2026, 14:00 BST
- Clarification deadline
- 9 Jun 2026, 23:59 BST
- Submission channel
- Official e-sourcing portal
- Electronic submission
- Allowed
- Accepted languages
- en
Detailed submission instructions & authority contactsFrom official release
Timeline
31 Mar 2026 → 1 Sept 2026 · 10 dates- Planning notice published209 days ago31 Mar 2026, 16:41 BST
- Market engagement196 days ago13 Apr 2026, 23:59 BST
- All interested suppliers are asked to fill out the linked questionnaire to express their interest in the procurement and formerly log their interest - wkf.ms/47sbkxF ↗
- Further to above, PHL invites interested suppliers to take part in pre-market engagement consisting of a 30-minute 1-2-1 teams call, likely to be Tuesday 7th April and Friday 10th April. As part of this pre-market engagement we would like to understand what the market can offer in relation to the following two options:
a. Option 1: 1 x Contract with a "Consultancy/Facilities Management" company that then manages the required service/works against our specification. The contract and the relationship would be directly between PHL and the Facilities Management company.
b. Option 2: We contract directly with auditing contractors. The contracts and the relationships would be directly between Platform and the auditors.
- These pre-market engagement meetings will inform which option we proceed with.
- We plan on issuing an Invitation to Tender, likely with a Lotting Strategy applied. We do not yet know what these Lots will look like, and will use these pre-market engagement events to inform how the Lots are structured and how many awards we therefore require.
- Tender notice published157 days ago22 May 2026, 11:27 BST
- Clarification questions by139 days ago9 Jun 2026, 23:59 BST
- Submission deadline132 days ago16 Jun 2026, 14:00 BST
- Award decision expected by101 days ago17 Jul 2026, 23:59 BST
- Assessment summaries sent97 days ago22 Jul 2026, 00:00 BST
- Latest notice published96 days ago22 Jul 2026, 14:29 BST
- Standstill ends87 days ago31 Jul 2026, 23:59 BST
- Contract starts56 days ago1 Sept 2026, 00:00 BST
Notice history
9 events · 3 releases on Find a Tender · since 31 Mar 2026- Preliminary market engagement notice published31 Mar 2026, 16:41 BSTUK2
- Tender notice published22 May 2026, 11:27 BSTUK4
- Published value updated to £815,00022 May 2026, 11:27 BSTwas £600,000
- Status changed to active22 May 2026, 11:27 BST
- Procurement method changed22 May 2026, 11:27 BST
- Deadline published: 16 Jun 2026, 14:00 BST22 May 2026, 11:27 BST
- Contract award notice published22 Jul 2026, 14:29 BSTUK6
- Status changed to complete22 Jul 2026, 14:29 BST
- Contract signature expected31 Aug 2026, 23:59 BSTscheduled
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecastAwards 1
Awarded value £1,000,0001 award exc. VAT
Bids received 44 from SMEs
| Awarded to | Value | Date | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Morgan Lambert LtdSME1 Sept 2026 – 31 Mar 2031 · up to 31 Mar 2032Extensions: Extensions to be used subject to performance and success of initial 4 years. | £1,000,000 | 22 Jul 2026standstill to 31 Jul 2026 | Standstill |
Bid statistics published by the authority
| Bids | SME | VCSE | Valid bid range |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4final-stage tenders | 4 | 0 | — |
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Bidders & participating suppliers
1 commercial party on the notice- MORGAN LAMBERT LIMITEDAwarded supplier
Official documents & specifications (3)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Contract award notice Contract award notice on Find a Tender
- Tender notice Tender notice on Find a Tender
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender