Official UK procurement notice
Communal Cleaning Service for blocks and sheltered sites
Authority: ACIS GROUP LIMITED (Public body)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionCommunal Cleaning Service for blocks and sheltered sites split into 3 Lots
CPV: Accommodation, building and window cleaning services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedPipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How ACIS GROUP LIMITED buys Cleaning services (CPV 9091), and who usually turns up
ACIS GROUP LIMITED’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: 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.
Small firms have won here. Neither number says whether you qualify; it describes who has been winning.
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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.
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners are registered outside the delivery region.
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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.
No decision dates published to compare.
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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 buyer’s 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.
Assess each lot i
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£1.0m
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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 565 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid8%
2–314%
4–648%
7+30%
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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.
| Supplier | This buyer’s earlier contract | Lot | Award value | Why listed |
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| Hi-spec Facilities Services LtdEarlier contract | Communal Cleaning of Sheltered Propertiesnotice published Oct 2022 | — | £139k | Matched as the earlier contract |
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.
What this replaces i
Who has done similar work for this buyer.
Past contracts are matched by buyer, title and type of work.
42% title match.
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.
42% title match.
A past supplier may not bid again.
The prior contract this notice most likely re-tenders · matched by title and category (42% title match), the holder is not guaranteed to re-bid
Communal Cleaning of Sheltered Properties — held by Hi-spec Facilities Services Ltd; no contract end date published.
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
- 19 Aug 2026, 15:35 BST
- Last source update
- 19 Aug 2026, 15:35 BST
- Authority reference
PR.26.001- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-079118- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06e7e0Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
19 Aug 2026 → 1 Apr 2027 · 4 dates- Planning notice published64 days ago19 Aug 2026, 15:35 BST
- Market engagement45 days ago7 Sept 2026, 23:59 BST
Acis is re-tendering its communal cleaning contracts, so we are undertaking a preliminary market engagement exercise to understand the market, to gather feedback on the draft ITT (which includes draft specification) and onanything else that may be relevant.
The engagement process will be managed entirely via the electronic tendering portal (the Bip Delta Tenderbox). Interested suppliers are invited to register with BiP to download the MS Word draft Invitation to Tender (ITT) document and comment.
Submission Period: The portal will be open for responses from Wednesday 19th August 2026 at 15:30 until Monday 7th September 2026 at 17:00.
Clarification: Any questions regarding this exercise must be submitted through the tenderbox portal messaging function.
Clarification responses; all clarification questions (may be edited) and their responses shall be shared with interested suppliers.
Submission; Interested suppliers may submit their response in two ways; 1) attaching the ITT to the portals messaging function and or 2) leaving a response in the tenderbox.
Responses will be used to refine the procurement and will not form part of any future tender evaluation."
You must enter this specific access code [Access Code: 8VW6SAREBZ ] during registration on the BiP Delta eSourcing Portal to view and respond to this preliminary market engagement exercise
www.delta-esourcing.com/delta/signup.html ↗
Access Code: 8VW6SAREBZ
- Tender notice expected37 days ago15 Sept 2026, 23:59 BST
- Today22 Oct 2026
- Contract startsin 160 days1 Apr 2027, 00:00 BST
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Preliminary market engagement notice published19 Aug 2026, 15:35 BSTUK2
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