Official UK procurement notice
Doing business with Renfrewshire Council - Online webinars in collaboration with the Supplier Development Programme
Authority: Renfrewshire Council (Local council)
In collaboration with the Supplier Development Programme, Renfrewshire Council is delivering a series of webinars to help suppliers build the knowledge and confidence needed to bid successfully for council contracts. Across four sessions, attendees will gain an understanding of the supplier journey, learn what buyers are looking for, and receive practical guidance on preparing stronger more competitive tender submissions. Event focus: This session will focus on the cyber security requirements that businesses need to meet when working with Renfrewshire Council and other public sector organisations.
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionIn collaboration with the Supplier Development Programme, Renfrewshire Council is delivering a series of webinars to help suppliers build the knowledge and confidence needed to bid successfully for council contracts. Across four sessions, attendees will gain an understanding of the supplier journey, learn what buyers are looking for, and receive practical guidance on preparing stronger more competitive tender submissions.
CPV: Accommodation cleaning services · Cleaning services · Construction work · Corporate clothing · Corporate finance and venture capital services · District heating · Educational equipment · Educational software package · Environmental engineering consultancy services · Environmental improvement works · Grounds-maintenance equipment · Installation services of laundry washing, dry-cleaning and drying machines · +12 more
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1Event: How to do Business with Renfrewshire Council: Cyber RequirementsPlanned
Event: How to do Business with Renfrewshire Council: Cyber Requirements
Location: Online webinar
Date: Thursday 3 December 2026
Time: 10:30am-12:00pm
Further details can be found here - www.sdpscotland.co.uk/events/how-to-do-bus… ↗
Event focus: This session will focus on the cyber security requirements that businesses need to meet when working with Renfrewshire Council and other public sector organisations. Whether you’re an existing supplier or looking to bid for future opportunities, you’ll gain valuable insight into procurement processes, buyer expectations, and how tenders are assessed. By increasing awareness of procurement processes and cyber security standards, this session will help businesses build confidence, improve market readiness, and position themselves more effectively for public sector opportunities in Renfrewshire and beyond.
Event: How to do Business with Renfrewshire Council: Community Benefits
Location: Online webinar
Date: Tuesday 8 December 2026
Time: 2:00-3:30pm
Further details can be found here - www.sdpscotland.co.uk/events/how-to-do-bus… ↗
Event focus: This session will focus on the community benefit requirements that businesses may be expected to deliver when working with Renfrewshire Council. Whether you’re an existing supplier or looking to bid for future opportunities, you’ll gain valuable insight into procurement requirements, buyer expectations, and how community benefits are considered as part of the tender evaluation process. By increasing awareness of community benefit requirements and broader procurement processes, this session will help businesses strengthen their tendering capability, improve market readiness, and build confidence when bidding for public sector opportunities in Renfrewshire and beyond.
Event: How to do Business with Renfrewshire Council: Preparing a Strong Tender Response
Location: Online webinar
Date: Tuesday 19 January 2027
Time: 2:00-3:30pm
Further details can be found here - www.sdpscotland.co.uk/events/how-to-do-bus… ↗
Event focus: Using an example Renfrewshire Council tender, participants will gain practical insight into how to respond effectively to tender opportunities, with a step-by-step demonstration of the tendering process. The session aims to support businesses in developing their tendering capability and increasing participation in Council procurement opportunities. Attendees will gain a greater understanding of procurement requirements, buyer expectations, and tender evaluation processes, helping to improve market readiness and build confidence when bidding for opportunities with Renfrewshire Council and other public sector organisations.
Event: How to do Business with Renfrewshire Council: Quick Quote Guide
Location: Online webinar
Date: Tuesday 9 February 2027
Time: 10:30am-12:00pm
Further details can be found here - www.sdpscotland.co.uk/events/how-to-do-bus… ↗
Event focus: Using a Renfrewshire Council example Quick Quote, participants will gain practical insight into how to prepare and submit responses, with a live demonstration showcasing each stage of the process. The session aims to help businesses develop their tendering capability and increase participation in Council procurement opportunities. Attendees will gain a greater understanding of procurement requirements, buyer expectations, and evaluation processes, helping to improve market readiness and build confidence when bidding for Quick Quotes and other public sector opportunities with Renfrewshire Council and beyond. Additional information: Please follow the links in II.2.4 to register for each webinar.
Pipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How Renfrewshire Council buys Training services (CPV 8050), and who usually turns up
Renfrewshire Council’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: Training services (CPV 8050) →
How the contest usually goes
Winner shares use published awards; bid and price charts use contested lots.
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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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Local means the winner is registered in the region where that award was delivered. The market figure counts awards delivered in Scotland.
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 35 days of the bid deadline.
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The market share is a minimum: 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 bid14% / 19%
2–339% / 31%
4–625% / 38%
7+21% / 13%
How did awards compare with estimates?
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Below estimate33% / 38%
Within ±2%67% / 50%
Above estimate0% / 12%
Assess each lot i
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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 #1Event: How to do Business with Renfrewshire Council: Cyber RequirementsCPV 8050Estimate not published
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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 16 past lots.
1 bid19%
2–331%
4–638%
7+13%
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No earlier contract of this buyer matches this lot on the published record.
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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 · publisher note attached- Legal basis
- CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Planned procurement
- Procurement threshold
- Unspecified in notice
- 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
- 6 Nov 2026, 16:50 GMT
- Last source update
- 6 Nov 2026, 16:50 GMT
- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-105928- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-07b6f9Find a Tender
Publisher note: This is a Prior Information Notice to invite organisations interested in bidding for Renfrewshire tenders to attend a series of online webinars. In collaboration with the Supplier Development Programme, Renfrewshire Council is delivering a series of webinars to help suppliers build the knowledge and confidence needed to bid successfully for council contracts. Across four sessions, attendees will gain an understanding of the supplier journey, learn what buyers are looking for, and receive practical guidance on preparing stronger, more competitive tender submissions. NOTE: To register your interest in this notice and obtain any additional information please visit the Public Contracts Scotland Web Site at https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/Search/Search_Switch.aspx?ID=847822. (SC Ref:847822)
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
6 Nov 2026 → 3 Dec 2026 · 2 dates- Notice published6 days ago6 Nov 2026, 16:50 GMT
- Today13 Nov 2026
- Tender notice expectedin 19 days3 Dec 2026
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
Official links; attachments are not copiedNo document links were published on the notice.