Official UK procurement notice
Clerk of Work Services · UK public procurement notice
Authority: Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust (Central government)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThe Trust
Guy’s and St Thomas’ is among the UK’s busiest and most successful NHS foundation trusts. The Trust provides a full range of hospital and community services for people in Lambeth, Southwark and Lewisham, as well as specialist care for patients from further afield including cancer, renal, orthopaedic and cardiovascular services. The Trust has the following locations:
- Guy’s Hospital
- St Thomas’ hospital
- Evelina Children’s Hospital
- Royal Brompton Hospital
- Harefield Hospital
- Plus, a number of community-based sites.
- Royal Brompton and Harefield hospitals provide specialist heart and lung services across the country.
- Guy's is home to the largest dental school in Europe and a state-of-the-art cancer centre.
- As part of our commitment to provide care closer to home, we also offer cancer services and kidney treatment at Queen Mary's Hospital in Sidcup.
- St Thomas' has one of the busiest emergency departments in London. It is also home to Evelina London Children's Hospital.
- Evelina London cares for local children in Lambeth and Southwark and provides specialist services across southeast England including cardiac, renal and critical care services.
- Our adult community services teams deliver care at the heart of the local communities we serve, working in partnership with GPs, local authorities and other healthcare and voluntary sector organisations
With over 22,000 staff the Trust is one of the largest local employers, the Trust aims to develop and support all staff, so they are able to deliver high quality, safe and efficient care.
The trust has a reputation for clinical excellence and high-quality teaching and research. The Trust is part of King's Health Partners, one of six accredited UK Academic Health Sciences Centres. In partnership with King's College London the Trust has dedicated clinical research facilities and a National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Biomedical Research Centre.
For more information, please see www.guysandstthomas.nhs.uk ↗
Essentia
Essentia is the Estates arm of Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust. Essentia design, build and maintain healthcare infrastructure vital to the smooth running of services. The Capital Delivery Team are responsible for delivering the Trust medium to long term capital plan. The plan includes a variety of projects ranging from full redevelopment and refurbishment of clinical and non-clinical spaces to new buildings.
The Requirement
The Trust is a looking to establish a contract for the provision of a “Clerk of Works” to support its Project and Programme managers in delivering its capital funded programme. The role will require working over all our campus locations – St Thomas’ Hospital, Guy’s Hospital, Royal Brompton and Harefield Hospitals.
Schemes range in construction values of £0.5m to £75 million. The annual capital budget is in the region of £80,000,000 although this can be subject to fluctuation.
Projects are due to start from spring 2026 with completion dates in December 2026 up to 2028.
Both NEC4 Engineering and Construction Contract and Joint Construction Tribunal (JCT) contracts are used for Main Works contracts in this programme.” It is yet to be decided which form of contract is to be used for this requirement, however we would appreciate feedback on the most suitable option.
The procurement route is yet to be decided, and it is possible that either an open competition or a further competition may be run. Any further competition would be through an NHS England accredited framework www.england.nhs.uk/long-read/system-gui… ↗
We would be looking at awarding a contract for a period of up to 60 months starting April 2026.
We would estimate going out to market in towards the end of January 2026.
Actions
If you would be interested in bidding for this requirement, please email [email protected] with the following information:
- Company name
- Company registration number
- DUNS number
- Contact email address for receipt of tenders
- If you are a member of an NHS England accredited frameworks covering Clerk of Works, please provide details.
- We would also be interested in feedback on the following questions:
- What form of contract would you recommend for this contract and why?
- Pricing, what pricing mechanism would you recommend for the contract given that:
a. Workload / volumes are given in good faith however this is dependent on many factors including the capital allocation the Trust receives.
b. Would you recommend:
i. Day rates
ii. Percentage fee based upon construction value
iii. An implant (what would be the “break even “criteria for this solution.
c. How can additional discounts be applied over the length of the contract as the number of projects / spend aggregates?
- We are keen to embed real social value in this contract, for example apprenticeships. What is realistically feasible?
CPV: Construction management services · Construction supervision services · Construction-related services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedPipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust buys Construction supervision services (CPV 7152), and who usually turns up
Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust’s own published record, next to the published market for the same work. Frameworks and DPS are kept out: they attract a different number of bids. Whole-market view: Construction supervision services (CPV 7152) →
How the contest usually goes
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A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners are registered in Greater London.
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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 69 days of the bid deadline.
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Both shares are minimums: some awards have no bid count.
Thin markets produce this too; it is not proof of a tailored specification.
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Past bids do not predict this tender.
1 bid6% / 10%
2–331% / 19%
4–638% / 33%
7+25% / 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 estimate33% / 55%
Within ±2%44% / 27%
Above estimate22% / 18%
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No supplier is confirmed as a bidder.
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Lot #1CPV 7152Published estimate£2.0m
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A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid10%
2–319%
4–633%
7+38%
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A past supplier may not bid again.
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None is confirmed as a bidder.
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Who could compete for this lot?
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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.
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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
- 22 Dec 2025, 14:43 GMT
- Last source update
- 22 Dec 2025, 14:43 GMT
- Authority reference
6352-27- FTS notice number
2025/S 000-085461- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Not published
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-05fbb2Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
22 Dec 2025 → 1 Apr 2026 · 4 dates- Planning notice published304 days ago22 Dec 2025, 14:43 GMT
- Market engagement279 days ago15 Jan 2026, 23:59 GMT
- We would also be interested in feedback on the following questions:
- What form of contract would you recommend for this contract and why?
- Pricing, what pricing mechanism would you recommend for the contract given that:
a. Workload / volumes are given in good faith however this is dependent on many factors including the capital allocation the Trust receives.
b. Would you recommend:
i. Day rates
ii. Percentage fee based upon construction value
iii. An implant (what would be the “break even “criteria for this solution.
c. How can additional discounts be applied over the length of the contract as the number of projects / spend aggregates?
- We are keen to embed real social value in this contract, for example apprenticeships. What is realistically feasible?
- Tender notice expected261 days ago2 Feb 2026, 23:59 GMT
- Contract starts204 days ago1 Apr 2026, 00:00 BST
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Preliminary market engagement notice published22 Dec 2025, 14:43 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
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