Official UK procurement notice
DE- 6814308 - St Malachys College Sep2 64 - C001444EEY
Authority: Department of Education (Central government)·On behalf of: Department of Finance (Northern Ireland)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThe contract is for the provision of extending the existing school, improving existing facilities and enabling structural and mechanical and electrical services changes needed across the school estate, including works to listed buildings located at St. Malachy’s College, Belfast. The project will be delivered under the School Enhancement Programme (SEP2) across 5 Nr workstreams encompassing: Workstream A - Refurbishment and replacement existing windows (includes listed building works) Workstream B - Refurbishment of heating system Workstream C - Partial rewire of college Workstream D - Extension and refurbishment of existing sports hall office accommodation (includes listed building works) Workstream F - Removal and replacement of the existing kitchen roof The works also include for: -NIW sewer connections to Kinnard Street -Upgrading of mechanical service ducts. A full description of the works is available from the contract documents which can be accessed and downloaded from a Data Room, a publicly accessible folder in CIMS, which may be accessed at the link included in Document: 1. CPD-PA23-Competitive Flexible-Works-PS Template-ItP-Part A Version 3_Ver1 C001444EEY St Malachys College Belfast SEP2 64_Ver1 (2), located in the Cft Documents Area of this Call For Tender.
- How the procedure runs: Refer to Contract Documents
- No preliminary market engagement: Not Applicable
CPV: Building construction work · Building installation work · Construction work for buildings relating to education and research · Electrical installation work · Electrical installation work of heating and other electrical building-equipment · Mechanical engineering installation works · Mechanical installations · Plumbing and sanitary works
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · value publishedLot #1RenewalPublished value£4,950,000
What it takes to wini
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).
Evaluation split and conditions of participation as published; the tender pack may add morei
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 award criteria (3)
- Quality
- Social Value
- Price
No conditions of participation were published on the notice; check the tender documents.
- Price carries 70 of 100 points: a 10% discount moves about 7 points. This one is won on the number: sharpen the price before polishing the prose.
- Turnover usually expected at this size: about £4,936,475 (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
How Department of Education buys Building construction work (CPV 4521), and who usually turns up
Department of Education’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: Building construction work (CPV 4521) →
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.
Local means the winner is registered in the region where that award was delivered. The market figure counts awards delivered in Northern Ireland.
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners were registered outside the region where that award was delivered.
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How long buyers here take to decide after bids close.
Middle value in days from the bid deadline to the award date, on competitions that published both.
Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.
Half of these awards have an award date within 33 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.
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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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 bid31%
2–317%
4–619%
7+33%
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 estimate31%
Within ±2%14%
Above estimate55%
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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 #1CPV 45Published estimate£5.0m
This lot lists more than one class in CPV 45. The comparison uses that group.
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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 96 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid23%
2–326%
4–625%
7+26%
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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- Procedure method
- Competitive flexible procedure
- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Works
- Notice status
- Requests to participate open
- 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
- 28 Oct 2026, 15:27 GMT
- Last source update
- 28 Oct 2026, 15:27 GMT
- Award evaluation window
- Submission end – 28 Jan 2027
- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-102200- Latest notice
- Tender notice (UK4)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-0792acFind a Tender
- How it runs
Refer to Contract Documents
How to participate & submission route
Official notice Submit via eTendersNI- Requests to participate (first stage)
- 24 Nov 2026, 15:00 GMT
- Tender submission deadline
- 24 Nov 2026, 15:00 GMT
- Clarification deadline
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- Submission channel
- Official e-sourcing portal
- Electronic submission
- Allowed
- Accepted languages
- en
Tenders must be submitted electronically through eTendersNI: etendersni.gov.uk/epps/home.do ↗. Suppliers must obtain all procurement documents and submit their tender response through the eTendersNI portal by the stated deadline.
Timeline
28 Oct 2026 → 1 Apr 2027 · 4 dates- Tender notice published7h ago28 Oct 2026, 15:27 GMT
- Today28 Oct 2026
- Submission deadlinein 26 days24 Nov 2026, 15:00 GMT
- Award decision expected byin 92 days28 Jan 2027, 23:59 GMT
- Contract startsin 153 days1 Apr 2027, 00:00 BST
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Tender notice published28 Oct 2026, 15:27 GMTUK4
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
3 public bodies on the noticeOther public bodies
- Department of Finance (Northern Ireland)Beneficiary authority
- CPD - Construction DivisionProcess contact pointProcuring entitySummary of their role in this procurement: CPD Construction Division is carrying out the procurement process on behalf of the Department for Education, including procurement support, checks and publication through eTendersNI / Find a Tender as applicable.
Official documents & specifications (1)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Tender notice Tender notice on Find a Tender