Official UK procurement notice
Cleaning Services – University of South Wales, Merthyr Tydfil College and Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama
Authority: University of South Wales (Education)·Consortium: 3 public authorities
Preliminary market engagement for the provision of cleaning services to the University of South Wales, Merthyr Tydfil College and the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, ahead of a competitive procurement. A supplier engagement day will be held on 23 November 2026 at USW Treforest Campus.
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionPreliminary market engagement for the provision of cleaning services to the University of South Wales, Merthyr Tydfil College and the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, ahead of a competitive procurement. A supplier engagement day will be held on 23 November 2026 at USW Treforest Campus. All interested suppliers are welcome.
Lots are not yet fully determined however it is anticipated the tender will be split into lots by Party and not by service.
CPV: Cleaning and sanitation services · Cleaning services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedPipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How University of South Wales buys Cleaning services (CPV 9091), and who usually turns up
University of South Wales’s published record next to the market for the same work. Frameworks and DPS are left out: they draw different bid counts. 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.
Small firms have won here. Neither number says whether you qualify; it describes who has been winning.
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Local means the winner is registered in the region where that award was delivered.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners were registered outside the region where that award was delivered.
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Half of these awards have an award date within 54 days of the bid deadline.
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Both shares are minimums: some awards have no bid count.
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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1 bid20% / 8%
2–340% / 14%
4–640% / 49%
7+0% / 29%
How did awards compare with estimates?
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Below estimate60% / 27%
Within ±2%16% / 40%
Above estimate24% / 34%
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 90Published estimate£25m
This lot lists more than one class in CPV 90. The comparison uses that group.
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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 1,579 past lots.
1 bid16%
2–328%
4–634%
7+22%
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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
- 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
- 6 Nov 2026, 14:52 GMT
- Last source update
- 6 Nov 2026, 14:52 GMT
- Authority reference
2138- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-105811- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-07b6bcFind a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
6 Nov 2026 → 1 Nov 2027 · 3 dates- Planning notice published6 days ago6 Nov 2026, 14:52 GMT
- Today13 Nov 2026
- Market engagementin 14 days27 Nov 2026, 23:59 GMT
We would like to invite cleaning services providers to join us for a supplier engagement day before we go out to tender. It’s a chance to meet the three parties, the University of South Wales, Merthyr Tydfil College and the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, see what we’re looking for, and give us your views and feedback.
It will take place on Monday 23 November 2026, 10:00–12:30, at the Conference Centre, USW Treforest Campus, Llantwit Road, Pontypridd CF37 1DL. From 10:30 each party will give a short presentation on its estate. From 11:15 the floor is open: each party will have a table where you can meet the people who will be managing the contract and ask about their sites, and our Procurement team will be on hand to talk through the intended process. It’s a good opportunity to meet the buyers and do some networking.
We’re keen to hear whether you’d be interested in bidding, what might get in the way, and what you’d like us to consider.
To register, please email [email protected] by 18 November 2026 with your organisation name and who will be attending. If you can’t make it, you’re welcome to send written questions to the same address until 27 November 2026.
Everyone is welcome, and you don’t need to attend to bid later. Anything shared on the day will be made available to all suppliers with the tender documents.
- Contract startsin 352 days1 Nov 2027
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Preliminary market engagement notice published6 Nov 2026, 14:52 GMTUK2
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
3 public bodies on the noticeConsortium members and other public bodies
- Merthyr Tydfil College LimitedContracting authorityPublic authority - sub-central governmentWelsh devolved regulations apply
- Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama LimitedContracting authorityPublic authority - sub-central governmentWelsh devolved regulations apply
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