Find a TenderPlanned procurementPreliminary market engagement notice
Published 9 Mar 2026, 15:55 GMT

Official UK procurement notice

Communal and Window Cleaning - Trent and Dove Housing: ID730

Authority: Trent and Dove Housing (Public body)

ServicesAbove thresholdSME suitable
Planned pipeline value£1,320,000pipeline notice, not a live tender
Tender notice expected Date not publishedfrom the planned procurement notice
Contract term 3 yrsends 30 Sept 2029 · up to 30 Sept 2031 with extensions · starts 1 Oct 2026

What is being bought

Published requirement description

Trent & Dove Housing seeks to engage with experienced and accredited providers capable of delivering professional Communal Area cleaning and Window cleaning services across our housing stock.

The contract will focus on three main areas:

  1. Communal area cleaning of internal communal areas at Leasehold, Shared Ownership, Over 55’s schemes and General Needs Housing – (65% of total contract value)
  2. Corporate office cleaning of Trent & Dove Head office (Trinity Square) – (20% of total contract value)
  3. Window cleaning services at 5x Over 55s Schemes, T&D Head office, and the communal blocks on many of our Housing Estates – (15% of total contract value)

The required services will include:

  • Comprehensive cleaning of communal internal areas, including hallways, communal toilets, communal bathrooms, scheme kitchen areas, bin stores, stairwells, lobbies, and shared utility spaces.
  • Scheduled window cleaning of external glazing, to include all windows or only communal windows dependant on tenure type and accessible internal communal windows, utilizing reach-and-wash systems or traditional methods where appropriate.
  • Periodic deep cleaning and floor treatments, including carpet cleaning, hard floor buffing, and the removal of ingrained dirt or staining.
  • Provision of minor environmental services, such as the removal of localized bulk waste/fly-tipping and the sanitization of bin store areas.
  • Adherence to Health and Safety regulations, including the provision of site-specific Risk Assessments and Method Statements (RAMS), particularly for working at height and around wet floors.
  • Proactive site reporting, including the identification and notification of communal repairs, lighting failures, or health and safety hazards to the Association.
  • Effective communication and resident engagement to ensure minimal disruption and high levels of customer satisfaction.
  • Provision of digital service logs and photographic evidence of completed works compatible with T&D’s compliance and monitoring systems.

CPV: Cleaning services

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published
Lot #1PlannedRenewal 3 yrsSME
Contract period: 1 Oct 2026 – 30 Sept 2029 (3 yrs) · up to 30 Sept 2031 with extensions
Delivery: West MidlandsEligibility: SME eligible
Extensions: Extension options published

Who is likely to bid for this lot ↓

Pipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published

How Trent and Dove Housing buys Cleaning services (CPV 9091), and who usually turns up

Trent and Dove Housing’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) →

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How the contest usually goes

Winner shares use published awards; bid and price charts use contested lots.

Question for the bid
This buyerTrent and Dove Housing · all categories
The marketCleaning services (CPV 9091) · West Midlands
What to do with it
How often do SMEs win?
i

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.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 3 of 9 known-size awards · market: CPV 9091 · West Midlands, n=68
33%69%

Small firms have won here. Neither number says whether you qualify; it describes who has been winning.

How often do local suppliers win?
i

How often local firms win similar work.

Winners with a registered address in the delivery region, out of awards with a known address.

Local means the winner is registered in the region where that award was delivered. The market figure counts awards delivered in West Midlands.

A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 2 of 6 known-location awards · market: CPV 9091 · West Midlands, n=92
33%15%

Most of this buyer’s recorded winners were registered outside the region where that award was delivered.

How long to a decision?
i

How long buyers here take to decide after bids close.

Middle value in days from the bid deadline to the award date, on competitions that published both.

Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 6 decided notices · market: CPV 9091 · West Midlands, n=44
108 days62 days

Half of these awards have an award date within 108 days of the bid deadline.

How often single-bid or direct?
i

How often work is awarded with no recorded rival.

Direct awards and tenders where every published lot count shows one bid.

Both shares are minimums: some awards have no bid count.

Thin markets produce this too; it is not proof of a tailored specification.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: at least 1 of 7 procurements with awards had no recorded rival · market: CPV 9091 · West Midlands, n=88
14%17%

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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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.

Last 36 months.

This buyer11 lots with bid counts · all categories
18% had one bid
The market75 lots with bid counts · CPV 9091 · West Midlands
3% had one bid
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
1 bid18% / 3%
Buyer: 2 of 11 lots with published bid counts. Market: 2 of 75 lots with published bid counts.
2–345% / 8%
Buyer: 5 of 11 lots with published bid counts. Market: 6 of 75 lots with published bid counts.
4–627% / 49%
Buyer: 3 of 11 lots with published bid counts. Market: 37 of 75 lots with published bid counts.
7+9% / 40%
Buyer: 1 of 11 lots with published bid counts. Market: 30 of 75 lots with published bid counts.

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.

Last 36 months.

This buyerToo few to chart: 1 lot with estimate and award, 5 needed · broad CPV 90
The market43 lots with estimate and award · CPV 9091 · West Midlands
16% below estimate
Market · select a colour for counts
Below estimate16%
Market: 7 of 43 lots with an estimate and award.
Within ±2%44%
Market: 19 of 43 lots with an estimate and award.
Above estimate40%
Market: 17 of 43 lots with an estimate and award.
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Assess each lot
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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 909136 monthsSME suitablePublished estimate£1.3m
Expected competition
i

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 75 past lots.

A forecast, not a list of bidders.

—No model forecast yet3% chance of a single bid
Past bids on 75 similar lots
1 bid3%
2 of 75 similar past lots received 1 bid (3%).
2–38%
6 of 75 similar past lots received 2–3 (8%).
4–649%
37 of 75 similar past lots received 4–6 (49%).
7+40%
30 of 75 similar past lots received 7+ (40%).
Comparable past lots usually drew 6 bids.
Commercial price forecast
i

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.

—No model forecast yet
No comparable awards on record for this lot’s category yet. The published estimate is £1.3m, and the forecast stays empty until the market has a record to read.

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.

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.

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
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
9 Mar 2026, 15:55 GMT
Last source update
9 Mar 2026, 15:55 GMT
Authority reference
ID730
FTS notice number
2026/S 000-021015
Latest notice
Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
Classification (CPV)
Cleaning services
Delivery area
West Midlands (UKG2)
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06659a Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice
Submission deadline
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Timeline

9 Mar 2026 → 1 Oct 2026 · 3 dates
  1. Planning notice published233 days ago
    9 Mar 2026, 15:55 GMT
  2. Market engagement215 days ago
    27 Mar 2026, 23:59 GMT

    Interested suppliers are invited to participate in this Pre-Market Engagement (PME) exercise by reviewing and completing the PME Questionnaire provided with this notice.

    The purpose of this engagement is to gather supplier insight, innovation, and feedback to help Trent & Dove Housing shape the upcoming Communal and Window Cleaning Procurement.

    This exercise aims to understand market capacity, delivery challenges, and innovative approaches to ensure that the future procurement reflects best practice, promotes competition, and delivers high-quality compliance outcomes for residents.

    Suppliers should:

    Download and complete the PME Questionnaire attached to this notice.

    Submit their completed response by email to [email protected], clearly marked “PME Response – Communal and Window Cleaning - ID730”.

    Ensure responses are submitted by the stated closing date.

    All information gathered will be used solely to inform the future procurement approach, specification, and performance measures.

    Participation in this PME is for market research purposes only and does not constitute a formal tender or pre-qualification process. Trent & Dove Housing may use the feedback received to refine its requirements, evaluation approach, and performance expectations.

    Suppliers who engage in this PME will not be advantaged or disadvantaged in any subsequent tender process.

  3. Contract starts28 days ago
    1 Oct 2026, 00:00 BST

Notice history

1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender
  1. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    9 Mar 2026, 15:55 GMT
    UK2

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

Trent and Dove Housing

Contracting authorityPublic undertaking GB-PPON: PHWV-4176-MRBJ Trinity Square, Burton-on-Trent, West Midlands, DE14 1BLContact name, email

Official documents & specifications (1)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure