Official UK procurement notice
Cleaning Services · District Council of Tandridge (Mar 2026)
Authority: District Council of Tandridge (Local council)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionTHIS NOTICE IS FOR PRIOR INFORMATION PURPOSES ONLY. IT IS ISSUED TO INFORM THE MARKET OF THE COUNCIL'S INTENTION TO PROCURE CLEANING SERVICES THIS NOTICE DOES NOT CONSTITUTE A CALL FOR COMPETITION OR A FORMAL INVITATION TO TENDER.
Tandridge District Council intends to procure a contract for the provision of cleaning services across its corporate estate and housing portfolio within the District.
The corporate estate includes the Council Head Office at Station Road East, Oxted, Surrey, RH8 0BT.
The housing portfolio comprises approximately 80 council housing estates distributed across the District. These include low-rise general needs residential blocks and sheltered housing schemes. The scope also includes sheltered scheme coordinator offices, communal internal areas, and communal facilities located at one mobile home park. Cleaning will include internal communal areas and associated external walkways where applicable. The total housing estate area is currently being validated through an ongoing stock condition survey and may be refined prior to publication of the Tender Notice.
The Council anticipates that TUPE will apply. Confirmation of the number of transferring staff will be provided at the tender stage.
The Council is currently minded to utilise a Competitive Flexible Procedure in accordance with the Procurement Act 2023, which may include Conditions of Participation, Invitation to Tender, Site Visits and Interviews.
The Council intends to publish the Tender Notice in April 2026. The anticipated contract commencement date is October 2026 (at the earliest), with an anticipated mobilisation period of approximately eight to twelve weeks prior to service commencement.
Site visits to selected properties will form a mandatory part of the procurement process. Further details will be provided within the tender documentation. The Council may also include requirements relating to safeguarding, DBS where appropriate and social value delivery.
The Council may undertake pre-market engagement activity prior to issuing the Tender Notice. This may include publication of a market engagement questionnaire and/or supplier engagement sessions. Details of any such activity will be published via the Council's e-procurement portal to ensure transparency and equal access to information.
THIS NOTICE IS FOR PRIOR INFORMATION PURPOSES ONLY.
Further information will be published via Tandridge District Council eProcurement Portal: in-tendhost.co.uk/sesharedservices/asp… ↗
- How the procedure runs: To be decided but anticipate multistage with Conditions of Participation, ITT, Site Visits and Interviews
CPV: Cleaning services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · value publishedLot #1PlannedRenewalPublished value£1,200,000
Pipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
Cleaning services (CPV 9091) in South East England, and who usually turns up
District Council of Tandridge 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: Cleaning services (CPV 9091) →
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.
No small-firm winners recorded among this authority’s published awards in this sample.
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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 registered in South East England.
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners are registered in 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 59 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 bid7%
2–310%
4–646%
7+38%
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 estimate28%
Within ±2%28%
Above estimate45%
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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 9091Published estimate£1.2m
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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 122 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid7%
2–310%
4–646%
7+38%
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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- Procedure method
- Competitive flexible procedure
- 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
- 3 Mar 2026, 15:11 GMT
- Last source update
- 3 Mar 2026, 15:33 GMT
- Award evaluation window
- Submission end – 29 Jun 2026
- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-019106- Latest notice
- Planned procurement notice (UK3)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-066135Find a Tender
- How it runs
To be decided but anticipate multistage with Conditions of Participation, ITT, Site Visits and Interviews
How it was run
Official notice- Requests to participate (first stage)
- 11 May 2026, 23:59 BST
- Submission deadline
- 11 May 2026, 23:59 BST
- Submission channel
- Official e-sourcing portal
- Electronic submission
- Not allowed
- Accepted languages
- en
Timeline
3 Mar 2026 → 5 Oct 2026 · 5 dates- Planning notice published233 days ago3 Mar 2026, 15:11 GMT
- Tender notice expected192 days ago13 Apr 2026, 23:59 BST
- Submission deadline164 days ago11 May 2026, 23:59 BST
- Award decision expected by115 days ago29 Jun 2026, 23:59 BST
- Contract starts18 days ago5 Oct 2026, 00:00 BST
Notice history
3 events · 2 releases on Find a Tender · since 3 Mar 2026- Planned procurement notice published3 Mar 2026, 15:11 GMTUK3
- Planned procurement notice published3 Mar 2026, 15:33 GMTUK3
- Published value published: £1,200,0003 Mar 2026, 15:33 GMT
Published amendments (1)
The estimated value for the full contract term including potential extensions is between £900,000 (excl VAT) and £1,200,000 (excl VAT).
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 (2)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Planned procurement notice Planned procurement notice on Find a Tender
- Planned procurement notice Planned procurement notice on Find a Tender