Official UK procurement notice
Cotham School ~ Cleaning Tender
Authority: Cotham School (Education)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThe successful Supplier will be required to provide cleaning services for Cotham School.
Two sites listed below of the school are included in the tender, and we are seeking tender submissions for the whole contract.
Cotham School has an excellent reputation in Bristol built upon its results and student performance ranked one of the best. The successful contractor will be required to deliver a service and meet the requirements of the specification at each site from the contract commencement.
1 - Secondary Schools 1 – Sixth form centre
The process is to be inclusive of the requirements for the following locations:
•Cotham School, Cotham Lawn Road, Cotham, Bristol, BS6 6DT
•Cotham Learning Community, Charnwood House, 30 Cotham Park, Bristol, BS6 6BU
•Stoke Lodge Playing Fields, Stoke Lodge, West Dene, Bristol, BS9 2BH
The contract being tendered is for 3 years in duration from 1st August 2027 until 31st July 2030, with the option to extend for further terms of 1 +1 years on the same terms and conditions excluding the right to further extend. The contract will be fixed price in nature, with the Contractor invoicing the Client for one-twelfth of the annual cost monthly.
Whilst the monthly charge will represent one-twelfth of the contract cost, a reconciliation will take place monthly to reconcile the actual hours worked within the contract. If the hours worked are less than those budgeted a credit will be required by the schools. This credit will be calculated by dividing the annual contract cost (fixed cost) by the number of annual input hours to arrive at a contractual cost per hour, this will then be multiplied by the number of hours due to arrive at the fiscal credit.
The Trust requires that the tendered number of hours are always worked, and the successful contractor is expected to have a system in place to cover for both planned and unplanned leave.
The basis and rationale that the Client requires is for the successful contractor to operate to always being able to provide a clean school that is fit for purpose and that the Contractor is proactive in the management of the contract, thus ensuring that all output specifications are achieved and that the required frequency of cleans is delivered.
Please see PSQ Document for more information.
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CPV: School cleaning services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · value publishedLot #1RenewalPublished value£1,500,000
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How this buyer will score bids.
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How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
Published sub-criteria (2)
- Criterion 1: 70%
- Criterion 2: 30%
Published award criteria (2)
- Criterion 1
- Criterion 2
No conditions of participation were published on the notice; check the tender documents.
- Price carries 30 of 100 points: a 10% discount moves about 3 points. The method statement decides this lot, not the discount.
- Turnover usually expected at this size: about £999,088 (twice the annual value).
Price arithmetic assumes straight proportional scoring; the tender pack may use another formula. Turnover is an indicative market norm (≈2× annual value), not a published condition.
Competition analysis · published record, not a forecast of who will bid
Cleaning services (CPV 9091) in South West England, and who usually turns up
Cotham School has too little published record in this market to describe on its own. Published market evidence for the same work stands beside whatever it has. Frameworks and DPS are kept out: they attract a different number of bids. Whole-market view: Cleaning services (CPV 9091) →
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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 outside South West England.
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Half of these awards were announced within 49 days of the bid deadline.
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Past bids do not predict this tender.
1 bid5%
2–314%
4–638%
7+43%
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Below estimate35%
Within ±2%29%
Above estimate35%
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Lot #1CPV 9091Published estimate£1.5m
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1 bid5%
2–314%
4–638%
7+43%
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Where the award price may land.
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No comparable awards for this lot yet.
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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.
No supplier with a record in this category fits this lot yet.
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 match score 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- Procedure method
- Competitive flexible procedure
- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Open for tender
- Procurement threshold
- Above threshold (FTS publication)
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Yes (GPA)
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 15 Oct 2026, 15:40 BST
- Last source update
- 15 Oct 2026, 15:40 BST
- Award evaluation window
- Submission end – 19 Apr 2027
- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-097598- Latest notice
- Tender notice (UK4)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-0788c7Find a Tender
- How it runs
Please see PSQ Document for more information.
How to participate & submission route
Official notice Submit via Litmus TMS- Requests to participate (first stage)
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- Tender submission deadline
- 26 Feb 2027, 12:00 GMT
- Clarification deadline
- 11 Dec 2026, 12:00 GMT
- Submission channel
- Official e-sourcing portal
- Electronic submission
- Allowed
- Accepted languages
- en
Timeline
15 Oct 2026 → 1 Aug 2027 · 5 dates- Tender notice publishedearlier today15 Oct 2026, 15:40 BST
- Today16 Oct 2026
- Clarification questions byin 56 days11 Dec 2026, 12:00 GMT
- Submission deadlinein 133 days26 Feb 2027, 12:00 GMT
- Award decision expected byin 186 days19 Apr 2027, 23:59 BST
- Contract startsin 289 days1 Aug 2027, 00:00 BST
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Tender notice published15 Oct 2026, 15:40 BSTUK4
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Nothing awarded yet- 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
- Tender notice Tender notice on Find a Tender