Official UK procurement notice
Contract for the provision of Corporate Building Cleaning
Authority: London Borough of Barking and Dagenham (Local council)
The London Borough of Barking and Dagenham (LBBD) will be procuring for a Corporate Cleaning Contract, to cater for a diverse range of accommodation environments to include corporate buildings, office accommodation, hostels and Temporary Residential Accommodation. This service is provided as part of the Authority’s legal and statutory obligation to provide the necessary support to internal and external customers and also support its vulnerable residents and tenants of varying age groups as prescribed by legislations. There is a broad scope of cleaning services required, for example, daily, weekly, monthly, cyclical, whilst having the ability to cater for specialist and reactive cleaning services when required. These services are required across a diverse property portfolio that demands a standard output specification while delivering services tailored to individual stakeholder needs that produces a good compliant cleaning service.
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThe London Borough of Barking and Dagenham (LBBD) will be procuring for a Corporate Cleaning Contract, to cater for a diverse range of accommodation environments to include corporate buildings, office accommodation, hostels and Temporary Residential Accommodation. This service is provided as part of the Authority’s legal and statutory obligation to provide the necessary support to internal and external customers and also support its vulnerable residents and tenants of varying age groups as prescribed by legislations.
The provision of this Contract is to ensure that the Authority and its ancillary arms (such as arm’s length bodies and/or wholly or partly owned subsidiaries and partner organisations) to provide a value for money cleaning services. There is a broad scope of cleaning services required, for example, daily, weekly, monthly, cyclical, whilst having the ability to cater for specialist and reactive cleaning services when required. These services are required across a diverse property portfolio that demands a standard output specification while delivering services tailored to individual stakeholder needs that produces a good compliant cleaning service.
This is advance notice that LBBD will be tendering for cleaning services in December 2026. The cleaning tender will cover the following four areas:
- Cleaning Service
- Window Cleaning
- Consumables (e.g. toilet paper, soap etc)
- Washrooms (to include provision of Sanitary bins etc)
The Council invites suitably qualified service providers to register their details on the Council’s e-tendering portal lbbd.bravosolution.co.uk/web/login.shtml ↗ and central digital platform Suppliers: How to register your organisation and first administrator on Find a Tender in three easy steps (HTML) - GOV.UK.
CPV: Accommodation cleaning services · Accommodation, building and window cleaning services · Building-cleaning services · Cleaning and sanitation services · Cleaning products · Cleaning services · Janitorial services · Window-cleaning services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · value publishedLot #1PlannedRenewalPublished value£5,000,000
Pipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How London Borough of Barking and Dagenham buys Cleaning services (CPV 9091), and who usually turns up
London Borough of Barking and Dagenham’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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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. The market figure counts awards delivered in Greater London (authority’s region).
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners were registered in the region where that award was delivered.
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Half of these awards have an award date within 77 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 bid18% / 4%
2–321% / 18%
4–648% / 44%
7+12% / 34%
How did awards compare with estimates?
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Below estimate43% / 35%
Within ±2%29% / 28%
Above estimate29% / 38%
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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 9834Published estimate£5.0m
This lot is listed as CPV 9834. The table above uses the notice category.
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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 60 past lots.
1 bid15%
2–347%
4–632%
7+7%
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No comparable awards for this lot yet.
Who has supplied this buyer on similar work? i
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| Supplier | This buyer’s earlier contract | Lot | Award value | Why listed |
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| Independent Living AgencyEarlier contract | Provision of Deep and Blitz Cleaningstarted Sept 2026 | — | £600k | Matched as the earlier contract |
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- Procedure method
- Competitive flexible procedure
- 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
- 10 Nov 2026, 17:28 GMT
- Last source update
- 10 Nov 2026, 17:28 GMT
- Award evaluation window
- Submission end – 19 Feb 2027
- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-106883- Accelerated
- Qualifying planned procurement notice
- Latest notice
- Planned procurement notice (UK3)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Not published
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-07b905Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
- 29 Jan 2027, 12:00 GMT
- Clarification deadline
- 22 Jan 2027, 12:00 GMT
- Electronic submission
- Allowed
- Accepted languages
- en
Timeline
10 Nov 2026 → 1 Apr 2027 · 6 dates- Planning notice published2 days ago10 Nov 2026, 17:28 GMT
- Today13 Nov 2026
- Tender notice expectedin 41 days24 Dec 2026, 23:59 GMT
- Clarification questions byin 70 days22 Jan 2027, 12:00 GMT
- Submission deadlinein 77 days29 Jan 2027, 12:00 GMT
- Award decision expected byin 98 days19 Feb 2027, 23:59 GMT
- Contract startsin 138 days1 Apr 2027, 00:00 BST
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Planned procurement notice published10 Nov 2026, 17:28 GMTUK3
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 (2)
Official links; attachments are not copiedTender pack and attachments
- Bidding documents and specificationsAccess: Tender documents will be provided via the Council e-tendering portal
Notices published for this procedure
- Planned procurement notice Planned procurement notice on Find a Tender