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Published 28 Sept 2026, 12:30 BST

Official UK procurement notice

Building Surveying Services Framework

Authority: The Crown Estate (Public body)

Framework agreementServices
Sectors: Architecture & Engineering (71) Delivery: Delivery location not published
Planned pipeline value£84,000,000pipeline notice, not a live tender
Tender notice expected 7 Dec 2026from the planned procurement notice
Framework period 3 yrsends 31 Jul 2030 · starts 1 Aug 2027
Notice summaryFrom the published notice

The Crown Estate intends to establish a single-lot framework agreement for the provision of multidisciplinary building surveying consultancy services across its Urban portfolio, including Central London and regional commercial, residential and retail assets. The scope is expected to comprise approximately 19 service lines, including core building surveying, façade and building-envelope advice, dilapidations, party wall services, fire-safety support, principal designer and CDM advisory services, project management and cost management.

What is being bought

Published requirement description

The Crown Estate intends to establish a single-lot framework agreement for the provision of multidisciplinary building surveying consultancy services across its Urban portfolio, including Central London and regional commercial, residential and retail assets. The scope is expected to comprise approximately 19 service lines, including core building surveying, façade and building-envelope advice, dilapidations, party wall services, fire-safety support, principal designer and CDM advisory services, project management and cost management. The framework will support capital works, property operations, statutory and health and safety obligations, estate stewardship and other business-as-usual requirements.

The Crown Estate intends to appoint approximately four to six suppliers. Call-off contracts may be awarded in accordance with the objective selection and award mechanisms set out in the framework documents, including competitive selection processes for requirements with an estimated value above £100,000.

The procurement will be conducted using the competitive flexible procedure under section 20(2)(b) of the Procurement Act 2023. The detailed procedure, conditions of participation, award criteria, assessment methodology and applicable time limits will be set out in the Tender Notice and associated procurement documents.

CPV: Building surveying services

How this framework works

From the published notice
Framework period
3 yrs from 1 Aug 2027

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published
Lot #1Planned 3 yrs
Contract period: 1 Aug 2027 – 31 Jul 2030 (3 yrs)

Who is likely to bid for this lot ↓

What it takes to win
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Evaluation split and conditions of participation as published; the tender pack may add more
What this means for your bid
  • “Building Surveying Services Framework” is a framework: the contest is a place on its panel, not a single contract.

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

How The Crown Estate buys Consultative engineering and construction services (CPV 7131), and who usually turns up

The Crown Estate’s published record next to the market for the same work. Compared with other frameworks and DPS only. Whole-market view: Consultative engineering and construction services (CPV 7131) →

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How the contest usually goes

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

Question for the bid
This buyerThe Crown Estate · division 71
The marketConsultative engineering and construction services (CPV 7131) · Greater London (authority’s region)
What to do with it
How often do SMEs win?
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The counts under this question show how many awards have a known supplier size.

Buyer: 2 of 3 known-size awards · market: CPV 7131 · Greater London (authority’s region), n=43
2 of 344%

Small firms have won here. Neither number says whether you qualify; it describes who has been winning.

How often do local suppliers win?
i

Local means the winner is registered in the region where that award was delivered. The market figure counts awards delivered in Greater London (authority’s region).

Buyer: 5 of 7 known-location awards · market: CPV 7131 · Greater London (authority’s region), n=63
71%51%

Most of this buyer’s recorded winners were registered in the region where that award was delivered.

How long to a decision?
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Buyer: 5 decided notices · market: CPV 7131 · Greater London (authority’s region), n=18
92 days113 days

Half of these awards have an award date within 92 days of the bid deadline.

How often single-bid or direct?
i

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

Buyer: exactly 0 of 2 procurements with awards had no recorded rival · market: CPV 7131 · Greater London (authority’s region), n=15
0 of 220%

Missing bid counts may hide more single-bid awards. This share is a minimum.

How many bids did past lots attract?

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This buyer8 lots with bid counts · broad CPV 71
0% had one bid
The market57 lots with bid counts · CPV 7131 · Greater London (authority’s region)
2% had one bid
% of lots with a published bid count: this buyer (8) / the market (57) · select a colour for counts
1 bid0% / 2%
Buyer: 0 of 8 lots with published bid counts. Market: 1 of 57 lots with published bid counts.
2–313% / 14%
Buyer: 1 of 8 lots with published bid counts. Market: 8 of 57 lots with published bid counts.
4–613% / 30%
Buyer: 1 of 8 lots with published bid counts. Market: 17 of 57 lots with published bid counts.
7+75% / 54%
Buyer: 6 of 8 lots with published bid counts. Market: 31 of 57 lots with published bid counts.

How did awards compare with estimates?

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On a framework or DPS, prices are agreed when work is called off.

Not comparable on a framework or DPS: the price is set later, on each call-off.

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Assess each lot
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Open a lot for its forecast, this buyer’s previous supplier and possible competitors, from published award history, not a bid list

Lot #1CPV 713136 monthsPublished estimate£84m
Expected competition
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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 57 past lots.

—No model forecast yet2% chance of a single bid
Past bids on 57 similar lots
1 bid2%
1 of 57 similar past lots received 1 bid (2%).
2–314%
8 of 57 similar past lots received 2–3 (14%).
4–630%
17 of 57 similar past lots received 4–6 (30%).
7+54%
31 of 57 similar past lots received 7+ (54%).
Comparable past lots usually drew 7 bids.
Commercial price forecast
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No comparable awards for this lot yet.

—Priced at call-off
On a framework or DPS the price is agreed on each call-off, so there is no award price to forecast here: the published figure is a ceiling.

Who has supplied this buyer on similar work?
i

No earlier contract of this buyer matches this lot on the published record.

Who could compete for this lot?
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Candidate suppliers for this notice have not been worked out yet, so this is not a verdict that nobody fits.

About this data
  • Estimates, labelled. The price range, possible competitors and earlier-work matches are our estimates from past awards, not published facts, win chances or price advice. The buyer’s own record and the wider market are shown apart, never mixed.
  • Source. Official UK public procurement notices (Find a Tender and Contracts Finder), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0, updated through the day and rebuilt nightly. Not every figure uses both feeds, and each one shows how many records it rests on: see 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
Unspecified in notice
Regulatory regime
Standard
Commercial structure
Framework agreement
Who may use this agreement
Not stated in the notice; call-off rights may be limited to the establishing authority
Competition type
Competitive procedure
GPA / WTO covered
Unspecified in notice
Recurring procurement
Unspecified in notice
First published
28 Sept 2026, 12:30 BST
Last source update
28 Sept 2026, 12:30 BST
FTS notice number
2026/S 000-091395
Latest notice
Pipeline notice (UK1)
Classification (CPV)
Building surveying services
Delivery area
Not published
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-077b76 Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice
Appointment period ends
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Timeline

28 Sept 2026 → 1 Aug 2027 · 3 dates
  1. Planning notice published46 days ago
    28 Sept 2026, 12:30 BST
  2. Today
    13 Nov 2026
  3. Tender notice expectedin 24 days
    7 Dec 2026, 23:59 GMT
  4. Contract startsin 260 days
    1 Aug 2027

Notice history

1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender
  1. Pipeline notice published
    28 Sept 2026, 12:30 BST
    UK1

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

The Crown Estate

Contracting authorityPublic authority - central government GB-PPON: PYYN-4743-GYVQ 1 St James Market, London, London, SW1Y 4AHContact email

Official documents & specifications (1)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure

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