Official UK procurement notice
C457291 Laundry Chemicals & Maintenance Services
Authority: 2Gether Support Solutions Limited (Central government)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionTitle: Provision of Laundry Chemicals, Dosing Equipment, and Maintenance Services
East Kent Laundry Services (EKLS)Estimated Value: £1,360,000.00 (inclusive of extension options)Contract Duration: 5 Years + 5 Years extension option (5+
Purpose of Market Engagement This notice aims to gauge market interest and capability.
- Background and Context East Kent Laundry Services (EKLS) processes over 6 million items annually. This operation directly supports the region's vital healthcare infrastructure. The organization serves: The organisation serves Five East Kent NHS hospitals Private medical facilities University establishments across the South East Delivering reliable, high-quality laundry solutions is critical. These services maintain infection control and ensure an exceptional patient experience.
- Scope of Requirements EKLS is seeking market feedback for the following requirements: Chemical Supply: Provision of high-quality laundry consumables. Equipment Supply: Provision of automated dosing equipment. Maintenance & Repairs: Full lifecycle maintenance and repair services. Validation Checks: Regular validation checks to ensure precise dosing and compliance.
- Contract Key Details Initial Term: Five (5) years. Extension Option: Up to a further five (5) years. Total EST Value: £1,360,000.00 if extended to its full 10-year potential.
To register your interest please email: [email protected]
CPV: Detergents · Laundry supplies · Repair and maintenance services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedPipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
Competition for Miscellaneous furnishing (CPV 3929), and who usually turns up
2Gether Support Solutions Limited has too little published record in this market to describe on its own. Published market evidence for the same work stands beside whatever it has. Frameworks and DPS are kept out: they attract a different number of bids. Whole-market view: Miscellaneous furnishing (CPV 3929) →
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.
Here, local means the winner is registered in the region where that contract was delivered.
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners are registered outside South East England.
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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.
Half of these awards were announced within 30 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.
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.
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 bid38%
2–325%
4–638%
7+0%
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 estimate0%
Within ±2%71%
Above estimate29%
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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.
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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 3929Published estimate£1.1m
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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 11 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid0%
2–327%
4–636%
7+36%
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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.
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.
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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
- 15 Jul 2026, 13:41 BST
- Last source update
- 15 Jul 2026, 13:41 BST
- Authority reference
C457291- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-066785- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Not published
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06cbf8Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
15 Jul 2026 → 31 Mar 2027 · 3 dates- Planning notice published98 days ago15 Jul 2026, 13:41 BST
- Market engagement50 days ago31 Aug 2026, 23:59 BST
East Kent Laundry Services (EKLS) is initiating a market engagement exercise. We invite experienced suppliers to review our upcoming procurement requirements for laundry chemicals, dosing equipment, and lifecycle maintenance services. EKLS is a critical piece of regional healthcare infrastructure. We process over 6 million items annually. Our operations directly support five East Kent NHS hospitals, private medical facilities, and university establishments across the South East. Because we operate in high-consequence environments, the reliability of our supply chain and the precision of our equipment are vital to maintaining strict infection control and ensuring an exceptional patient experience. Objectives of This Engagement The primary goals of this pre-tender market engagement are to: Assess Market Capability: Gauge market interest and understand the capacity of suppliers to meet our volume and compliance standards.
- Today21 Oct 2026
- Contract startsin 161 days31 Mar 2027, 00:00 BST
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Preliminary market engagement notice published15 Jul 2026, 13:41 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