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Catering Equipment Servicing and Maintenance

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Location not published
Published value
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Submission deadline Not published
Lots published1
Procurement Executive Summary
AI & Search Synopsis
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Tenderline Synopsis: The Royal Household: "Catering Equipment Servicing and Maintenance". Published status: complete. Published value: Value not published. 1 published lot. Submission deadline not published. See the official notice for participation instructions.
Contracting AuthorityThe Royal HouseholdScope & CategoriesNot publishedSubmission Window
complete
No deadline published
Submission GatewayDirect notice routeLegal Basis & RegimeStandard procurementEstimated Value (exc. VAT)Not published
Bidder Intelligence · Authority Profile: The Royal Household
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Published history for The Royal Household. These figures describe retained records, not a forecast of bids or a measure of buyer bias.
Published-to-award variance
Not availableInsufficient comparable data
Requires at least 5 comparable procedures
Competition Density
10.6Bids / Report
0% of reports have one bid
Supplier ConcentrationHigh Concentration
Ian Williams LtdTop vendor: 100% of attributable value
Payment Terms
Check noticePublished terms
Payment obligations depend on the applicable regime and contract. Consult the official documents.
Coverage: 10 active published awards; 8 bid reports (which may be per lot). Supplier values exclude multi-supplier awards, frameworks and DPS, and use GBP only. They are published award values, not payments. Published-to-award variance compares single-lot, single-award, single-supplier GBP procedures with explicitly non-framework/non-DPS status; increases remain in the average. Unpublished data stays unknown. Awarded suppliers are winners, not all bidders.
Historical Awarded Suppliers With This Authority:
Supplier NameHistoric AwardsAttributable GBP Value
Ian Williams Ltd1 win£1,200,000
Procedure terms
Contracting AuthorityThe Royal Household
Procedure methodNot published
Procurement categoryNot published
Statuscomplete
Framework / DPSNot published
CompetitionNot published
Above thresholdNot published
Legal basisNot published
Tender period startsNot published
Clarification deadlineNot published
Electronic submissionNot published
Submission languagesNot published
Published29 Apr 2026, 11:05 BST
Last source update29 Apr 2026, 11:05 BST
Recurring procurementNot published
ClassificationNot published
Delivery areaLocation not published
OCIDocds-h6vhtk-054dd3
What is being bought
The Royal Household is seeking a supplier to service and maintain all catering equipment across the London and Windsor estates: Buckingham Palace, St James’s Palace, Clarence House, Kensington Palace and Windsor Castle. The scope of this contract includes: a. Planned testing and maintenance of catering equipment across all sites detailed above. b. Reactive maintenance of catering equipment across all sites detailed above. c. Standby support at all major planned events on site, and ability to attend a call-out from the Royal Household Property Section (RHPS) to an in-scope site within 2 hours and make safe within 4 hours – 24 hours a day, all year round. d. Providing quotes on request for replacement catering equipment, including electric equivalent appliances where the current appliance is gas fired. e. Performance of all maintenance services in accordance with regulatory requirements and recommendations (e.g. O&M manuals and manufacturer’s recommendations). f. Undertaking full functional and safety checks on all in-scope plant, assets, equipment and associated parts and replacement consumables to ensure full compliance with European and British Standards, Building and Fire Safety Regulations, and other statutory and legislative minimum standards (including F-Gas REFCOM, or an equivalent, and Gas Safe). g. Updating and maintaining asset schedules for plant and equipment covered by this contract through the RHPS’ CAFM system (INVIDA). This tender notice is for the award of a public contract through a competitive flexible procedure in accordance with section 20(1) and (2)(b) of the Procurement Act 2023. The procedure in this instance will consist of completion of a Procurement-Specific Questionnaire (PSQ) (stage 1) and an Invitation to Tender (stage 2). Tenderers will need to email the Royal Household Procurement team (procurement@royal.uk) to request access to the PSQ. Tenderers will need to sign up to the Royal Household’s e-Sourcing platform, Delta, in order to access and return the PSQ in stage 1 and the ITT in stage 2, as well as submit clarification questions. Sign up link: https://www.delta-esourcing.com/delta/signup.html?userType=supplier. Note that only up to the five highest-scoring responses in stage 1 will be invited to participate in stage 2. This tender will not be split into lots.
What changed
From the official release history
  1. Official notice release published
    29 Apr 2026, 11:05 BST
  2. tender value changed
    6 Jan 2026, 19:05 GMT
  3. Status changed to complete
    6 Jan 2026, 19:05 GMT
  4. Official notice release published
    6 Jan 2026, 19:05 GMT
  5. Published value updated to £650,000
    16 Jun 2025, 19:05 BST
  6. Status changed to active
    16 Jun 2025, 19:05 BST
  7. Official notice release published
    16 Jun 2025, 19:05 BST
  8. Buyer information updated
    16 Jun 2025, 19:05 BST
Lots and requirements (1)
Published by the contracting authority
  • Lot 1 · #1
    Individual lot title not published
    complete
    Published valueNot published
    The source published no individual title or description for this lot.
    Contract periodNot published
    EligibilityNot published
    Options / renewalNot published
Timeline
  1. Procedure published
    29 Apr 2026, 11:05 BST
  2. Award active
    Not published · Not published
  3. Contract active
    Signed 18 Jan 2026, 00:00 GMT · £795,000
Commercial outcome and competition
Awards
McFarlane Telfer Ltd
Not published · Not published · active
Contracts
Contract
£795,000 · signed 18 Jan 2026, 00:00 GMT · active
Contract period: 19 Jan 2026, 00:00 GMT17 Jan 2029, 23:59 GMT
Bid statisticsNo aggregate bid statistics published
Buyer and organisations in this procedure

The Royal Household

Contracting authority GB-PPON-PGLT-2499-PJTM
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  • Buckingham Palace
    buyer

    GB-PPON: PGLT-2499-PJTM
    Buckingham Palace, London, UKI32, SW1A 1AA, GB
  • McFarlane Telfer Ltd
    supplier

    GB-COH: 03646063
    Unit B5 Westacott Business Centre, Westacott Way, Littlewick Green, Maidenhead, UKJ11, SL6 3RT, GB
Documents (1)
Official links; attachments are not copied
  • Not published

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