Official UK procurement notice
Community Gateway Association - Provision of Hand Held Power Tools - Pre Market Engagement
Authority: COMMUNITY GATEWAY ASSOCIATION LIMITED (Public body)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionGateway Property Care (GPC), is CGA’s 24/7 inhouse repairs and maintenance service, delivering over 20,000 repairs per year, across multiple trades. The power tools and equipment, provided to our operatives are sourced from a variety of suppliers and manufacturers, and the service faces challenges with maintenance, asset management and compliance.
GPC has 88 operatives working across joinery, gas, electrical, external works, plastering and painting, supported by a fleet of approximately 800 power tools, including batteries and chargers. The range of tools includes:
•Cordless Impact Driver
•Cordless Combi & SDS Drills
•Cordless Jigsaw
•Cordless Multi Tool
•Cordless Circular Saw
•Cordless Planner
•Cordless Drywall Screwdriver
•Cordless Finish Nailer
•Cordless Angle Grinder 4”
•M-Class Vacuum
•LED Task Light
GPC require a new solution for the provision, maintenance and management hand-held power tools.
Each trade will need a core provision of tools, relevant to the work they undertake. As well as a selection of pooled tools, shared across the teams. The solution must include:
•Cordless tools of appropriate specification
•Replacement consumables
•Health and Safety Compliance (HAVS, noise, dust control and PAT testing)
•Asset management software with integration capability
•Service and maintenance plans with loan tools
•Training and ongoing support
The procurement process for the new solution is expected to commence in June 2026. A Pre Market Engagement exercise will be undertaken beforehand to help GPC understand:
•Market appetite & capacity
•Solution & technology options
•Specification refinement
•Delivery models (leasing, hire, purchase)
•Cost indicators
•Procurement routes
•Implementation timescales
•Social value options
•Sustainability
•Key risks & barriers
Further details can be found in the Pre Market Engagement Brief. To request a copy of the
Pre Market Engagement Brief, please contact our appointed Procurement Advisors, Clarity
Procurement Solutions:
CPV: Hand-held electromechanical tools · Power tools
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedPipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How COMMUNITY GATEWAY ASSOCIATION LIMITED buys Pneumatic or motorised hand tools (CPV 4265), and who usually turns up
COMMUNITY GATEWAY ASSOCIATION 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: Pneumatic or motorised hand tools (CPV 4265) →
How the contest usually goes
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How often small and medium firms win.
Share of awards where the winner’s size is known.
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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.
Here, local means registered in North West England.
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners are registered outside North West England.
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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 39 days of the bid deadline.
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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.
Both shares are minimums: some awards have no bid count.
Thin markets produce this too; it is not proof of a tailored specification.
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.
1 bid0% / 8%
2–343% / 54%
4–657% / 23%
7+0% / 15%
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 estimate55%
Within ±2%27%
Above estimate18%
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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.
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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 #1Published estimate£385k
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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 13 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid8%
2–354%
4–623%
7+15%
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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.
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.
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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.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Goods
- 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
- 17 Apr 2026, 05:02 BST
- Last source update
- 17 Apr 2026, 05:02 BST
- Authority reference
CGAPR026- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-034924- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-0684a6Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
17 Apr 2026 → 1 Dec 2026 · 3 dates- Planning notice published186 days ago17 Apr 2026, 05:02 BST
- Market engagement165 days ago8 May 2026, 23:59 BST
The PME will be conducted via a 1-hour Teams meeting with each Participant.
Meetings will take place across the following days:
•19/05/2026
•20/05/2026
•21/05/2026
•26/05/2026
•27/05/2026
Places are limited and allocated on a first come, first served basis.
Interested Parties should register their interest by 08/05/2026 to our appointed Procurement Advisors, Clarity Procurement Solutions:
Please include:
•Organisation name
•Names, e-mail addresses and roles of attendees
Meeting allocations will be confirmed week commencing 11/05/2026.
- Today20 Oct 2026
- Contract startsin 41 days1 Dec 2026
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Preliminary market engagement notice published17 Apr 2026, 05:02 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