Find a TenderPlanned procurementPreliminary market engagement notice
Published 18 Jun 2026, 15:08 BST

Official UK procurement notice

Building Controls Maintenance Contract

Authority: Midlands Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (Central government)

ServicesAbove thresholdSME suitable
Planned pipeline value£300,000pipeline notice, not a live tender
Tender notice expected 31 Jul 2026from the planned procurement notice
Contract term 3 yrsends 31 Dec 2029 · up to 31 Dec 2031 with extensions · starts 4 Jan 2027

What is being bought

Published requirement description

the control of the heating and Building Management Systems throughout the Trust premises are maintained in a good and safe working order by means of regular maintenance and repair together with 24 hour breakdown coverage, 7 days a week, 365/6 days a year

CPV: Repair and maintenance services of building installations · Repair and maintenance services of electrical and mechanical building installations · System maintenance services

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published
Lot #1PlannedRenewal 3 yrsSME

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

How Midlands Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust buys Repair and maintenance services of personal computers (CPV 5032), and who usually turns up

Midlands Partnership University 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: Repair and maintenance services of personal computers (CPV 5032) →

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How the contest usually goes

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

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: 3 of 12 known-size awards · market: CPV 5032 · West Midlands, n=5
25%40%

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.

Here, local means registered in West Midlands.

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

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 5 of 6 known-location awards · market: CPV 5032 · West Midlands, n=7
83%0%

Most of this buyer’s recorded winners are registered in West Midlands.

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: CPV 5032 · UK-wide, n=10
—53 days

Half of these awards were announced within 53 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.

The market share is a minimum: some awards have no bid count.

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

Last 36 months.

Buyer: exactly 3 of 5 procurements with awards had no recorded rival · market: CPV 5032 · West Midlands, n=8
60%88%

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 buyer1 lot with bid counts · broad CPV 50 · too few to chart
The market29 lots with bid counts · CPV 5032 · UK-wide
38% had one bid
Market · select a colour for counts
1 bid38%
Market: 11 of 29 lots with published bid counts.
2–321%
Market: 6 of 29 lots with published bid counts.
4–631%
Market: 9 of 29 lots with published bid counts.
7+10%
Market: 3 of 29 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 buyer1 lot with estimate and award · broad CPV 50 · too few to chart
The market10 lots with estimate and award · CPV 5032 · UK-wide
60% below estimate
Market · select a colour for counts
Below estimate60%
Market: 6 of 10 lots with an estimate and award.
Within ±2%20%
Market: 2 of 10 lots with an estimate and award.
Above estimate20%
Market: 2 of 10 lots with an estimate and award.
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Assess each lot
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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 503236 monthsSME suitablePublished estimate£300k
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 124 past lots.

A forecast, not a list of bidders.

—No model forecast yet15% single-bid risk
Past bids on 124 similar lots
1 bid15%
18 of 124 similar past lots received 1 bid (15%).
2–334%
42 of 124 similar past lots received 2–3 (34%).
4–623%
29 of 124 similar past lots received 4–6 (23%).
7+28%
35 of 124 similar past lots received 7+ (28%).
Comparable past lots usually drew 4 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 £300k, 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
18 Jun 2026, 15:08 BST
Last source update
18 Jun 2026, 15:08 BST
Authority reference
RRE-00370
FTS notice number
2026/S 000-057668
Latest notice
Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
Classification (CPV)
Repair and maintenance services of building installationsRepair and maintenance services of electrical and mechanical building installationsSystem maintenance services
Delivery area
West Midlands (UKG2)
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06b852 Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice
Submission deadline
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Timeline

18 Jun 2026 → 4 Jan 2027 · 4 dates
  1. Planning notice published124 days ago
    18 Jun 2026, 15:08 BST
  2. Market engagement103 days ago
    9 Jul 2026, 23:59 BST
  3. Tender notice expected81 days ago
    31 Jul 2026, 23:59 BST
  4. Today
    20 Oct 2026
  5. Contract startsin 75 days
    4 Jan 2027

Notice history

1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender
  1. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    18 Jun 2026, 15:08 BST
    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

Midlands Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust

Contracting authorityPublic authority - central government GB-PPON: PXZL-3531-QQZP Trust HQ, Corporation Street,, Stafford, West Midlands, ST16 3AGContact name, email, phone

Official documents & specifications (1)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure