Find a TenderPlanned procurementPipeline notice
Published 22 May 2026, 15:40 BST

Official UK procurement notice

CPU 8072 Fire Door Maintenance

Authority: Nottingham City Council (Local council)

ServicesOpen procedureAbove thresholdLight touch regimeSME suitableVCSE suitable
Planned pipeline value£2,200,000pipeline notice, not a live tender · 1 value update
Tender notice expected 1 Sept 2026from the planned procurement notice
Contract term 4 yrsends 30 Sept 2030 · up to 30 Sept 2032 with extensions · starts 1 Oct 2026

What is being bought

Published requirement description

The Council is responsible for delivering effective and efficient construction, maintenance and infrastructure programmes across the City. This contract is to secure a reliable supplier to support the maintenance and repairs of Fire Doors throughout the City's buildings.

This is a Pipeline Notice published in accordance with the Procurement Act 2023 to forewarn the market of a future tender opportunity, and does not require any action from potential bidders at this time. When the tender goes live a further notice will be published giving details. The tender will be published on the Councils e-tendering platform which can be found at www.eastmidstenders.org ↗. We advise registering on the portal to be notified directly of tenders published by the Council.

CPV: Fire doors · Repair and maintenance services

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published
Lot #1PlannedRenewal 4 yrsSMEVCSE
Contract period: 1 Oct 2026 – 30 Sept 2030 (4 yrs) · up to 30 Sept 2032 with extensions
Delivery: East MidlandsEligibility: SME eligibleVCSE 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 Nottingham City Council buys Builders' joinery (CPV 4422), and who usually turns up

Nottingham City Council’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: Builders' joinery (CPV 4422) →

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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 buyerNottingham City Council · division 44
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 6 known-size awards · market: CPV 4422 · East Midlands, n=9
50%89%

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.

Here, local means registered in East Midlands.

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

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 4 of 6 known-location awards · market: CPV 4422 · East Midlands, n=13
67%46%

Most of this buyer’s recorded winners are registered in East Midlands.

How long to a decision?
i

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.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 56 decided notices · market: CPV 4422 · East Midlands, n=5
53 days21 days

Half of these awards were announced within 53 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.

The market share is a minimum: some awards have no bid count.

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

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 6 procurements with awards; rival share unknown · market: CPV 4422 · East Midlands, n=14
—43%

Awards are recorded, but published direct routes and bid counts do not establish this buyer’s share.

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 buyer54 lots with bid counts · all categories
15% had one bid
The market35 lots with bid counts · CPV 4422 · UK-wide
9% had one bid
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
1 bid15% / 9%
Buyer: 8 of 54 lots with published bid counts. Market: 3 of 35 lots with published bid counts.
2–333% / 11%
Buyer: 18 of 54 lots with published bid counts. Market: 4 of 35 lots with published bid counts.
4–617% / 37%
Buyer: 9 of 54 lots with published bid counts. Market: 13 of 35 lots with published bid counts.
7+35% / 43%
Buyer: 19 of 54 lots with published bid counts. Market: 15 of 35 lots with published bid counts.

How did awards compare with estimates?

i

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 buyer44 lots with estimate and award · all categories
16% below estimate
The market22 lots with estimate and award · CPV 4422 · UK-wide
45% below estimate
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
Below estimate16% / 45%
Buyer: 7 of 44 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 10 of 22 lots with an estimate and award.
Within ±2%75% / 41%
Buyer: 33 of 44 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 9 of 22 lots with an estimate and award.
Above estimate9% / 14%
Buyer: 4 of 44 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 3 of 22 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 442248 monthsSME suitablePublished estimate£2.2m
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 38 past lots.

A forecast, not a list of bidders.

—No model forecast yet3% chance of a single bid
Past bids on 38 similar lots
1 bid3%
1 of 38 similar past lots received 1 bid (3%).
2–350%
19 of 38 similar past lots received 2–3 (50%).
4–637%
14 of 38 similar past lots received 4–6 (37%).
7+11%
4 of 38 similar past lots received 7+ (11%).
Comparable past lots usually drew 3 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 £2.2m, 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
Procedure method
Open procedure
Legal basis
UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
Procurement category
Services
Notice status
Planned procurement
Procurement threshold
Above threshold (FTS publication)
Regulatory regime
Light touch regime
Commercial structure
Stand-alone contract (no framework)
Competition type
Competitive procedure
GPA / WTO covered
Unspecified in notice
Recurring procurement
Unspecified in notice
First published
22 May 2026, 15:40 BST
Last source update
17 Aug 2026, 16:58 BST
Authority reference
CPU 8072
FTS notice number
2026/S 000-078290
Latest notice
Pipeline notice (UK1)
Classification (CPV)
Fire doorsRepair and maintenance services
Delivery area
East Midlands (UKF14)
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06a1ea Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice
Submission deadline
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Timeline

22 May 2026 → 1 Oct 2026 · 4 dates
  1. Planning notice published153 days ago
    22 May 2026, 15:40 BST
  2. Latest notice published66 days ago
    17 Aug 2026, 16:58 BST
  3. Tender notice expected51 days ago
    1 Sept 2026, 23:59 BST
  4. Contract starts22 days ago
    1 Oct 2026, 00:00 BST

Notice history

3 events · 2 releases on Find a Tender · since 22 May 2026
  1. Pipeline notice published
    22 May 2026, 15:40 BST
    UK1
  2. Pipeline notice published
    17 Aug 2026, 16:58 BST
    UK1
  3. Published value updated to £2,200,000
    17 Aug 2026, 16:58 BST
    was £1,833,333
Published amendments (1)

The value of the notice has been updated as the VAT had been miscalculated.

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

Nottingham City Council

Contracting authorityPublic authority - sub-central government GB-PPON: PZGG-1891-TDCX Loxley House, Station Street, Nottingham, East Midlands, NG2 3NGContact email

Official documents & specifications (2)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure

  • Pipeline notice planningPipeline noticeUK1Pipeline notice on Find a Tender
  • Pipeline notice planningPipeline noticeUK1Pipeline notice on Find a Tender