Official UK procurement notice
Cleaning Services Tender- Northern Star Academies Trust
Authority: NORTHERN STAR ACADEMIES TRUST (Education)·Procurement run by: RED BOX CONSULTANCY SERVICES LIMITED
Northern Star Academies Trust are tendering for cleaning services across their estate of 15 schools in Harrogate, Bradford, Keighley & Skipton. The contract will be split into 3 geographical lots:
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionNorthern Star Academies Trust are tendering for cleaning services across their estate of 15 schools in Harrogate, Bradford, Keighley & Skipton.
The contract will be split into 3 geographical lots:
Lot 1- City Hub
- Byron Primary School
- Lapage Primary School and Nursery
- Meadow Bank Community School
Lot 2- Keighley & Skipton Hub
- Denholme Primary School
- Eastwood Community School
- Greatwood Community Primary and Nursery School
- Holycroft Primary School
- Parkwood Primary School
- Skipton Girls High School
- Victoria Primary School
Lot 3-Harrogate Hub
- Harrogate High School
- Hookstone Chase Primary School
- New Park Primary Academy
- Starbeck Primary School
- Willow Tree Community Primary Academy
Contractors may bid for one or multiple lots in any combination.
Key Dates
ITT Release- W/C 23rd Nov 26
Site visits W/C 23rd Nov & W/C 30th Nov 26 (all after school hours).
Online Q&A session with client- Early Dec 26
Bid deadline- 4th Jan 2027
Presentations- W/C 11th Jan
Award date- 19th Jan 2027
Contract start date- 1st April 2027
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CPV: School cleaning services
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How this framework works
From the published notice- Framework period
- 3 yrs · up to 5 yrs from 1 Apr 2027
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1PlannedRenewal
What it takes to wini
Evaluation split and conditions of participation as published; the tender pack may add morei
- “Cleaning Services Tender- Northern Star Academies Trust” 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 NORTHERN STAR ACADEMIES TRUST buys Cleaning services (CPV 9091), and who usually turns up
NORTHERN STAR ACADEMIES TRUST has little published record in this market. Compared with other frameworks and DPS only. 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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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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Local means the winner is registered in the region where that award was delivered. The market figure counts awards delivered in Yorkshire and the Humber.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners were registered in the region where that award was delivered.
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Half of these awards have an award date within 44 days of the bid deadline.
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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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1 bid7%
2–326%
4–621%
7+45%
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.
Assess each lot i
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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 9091Estimate not published
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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 42 past lots.
1 bid7%
2–326%
4–621%
7+45%
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No comparable awards for this lot yet.
Who has supplied this buyer on similar work? i
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No earlier contract of this buyer matches this lot on the published record.
Who could compete for this lot? i
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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
- 13 Nov 2026, 00:21 GMT
- Last source update
- 13 Nov 2026, 00:21 GMT
- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-107789- Latest notice
- Pipeline notice (UK1)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-07bb1eFind a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Appointment period ends
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Timeline
13 Nov 2026 → 1 Apr 2027 · 3 dates- Planning notice published9h ago13 Nov 2026, 00:21 GMT
- Today13 Nov 2026
- Tender notice expectedin 10 days23 Nov 2026, 23:59 GMT
- Contract startsin 138 days1 Apr 2027, 00:00 BST
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Pipeline notice published13 Nov 2026, 00:21 GMTUK1
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
2 public bodies on the noticeOther public bodies
- RED BOX CONSULTANCY SERVICES LIMITEDProcess contact pointProcuring entitySupplier engagement, ITT, eval criteria & weighting, evaluation of bids
Official documents & specifications (1)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Pipeline notice Pipeline notice on Find a Tender