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Published 2 Nov 2026, 14:57 GMT

Official UK procurement notice

Electrical reactive and emergency lighting maintenance and repairs and for the Police and Crime Commissioner for Hertfordshire

Authority: The Police and Crime Commissioner for Hertfordshire (Police & fire)

WorksBelow threshold - open competitionBelow threshold
Sectors: Construction & Civil Engineering (45) Delivery: Delivery location not published
Published estimate£1,134,106≈ £324k / year · £1,360,927 inc. VAT
Submission deadline 2 Dec 202614:00 GMT · 29 days left
Clarification cut-off 25 Nov 202617:00 GMT · questions to the authority
Contract term 3 yrs 6 moends 1 Aug 2030 · up to 1 Aug 2033 with extensions · starts 1 Feb 2027

What is being bought

Published requirement description

Electrical reactive and emergency lighting maintenance, planned preventative maintenance and repairs and for the Police and Crime Commissioner for Hertfordshire

CPV: Other electrical installation work

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · value published
Lot #1Renewal 3 yrs 6 moPublished value£1,134,106
Contract period: 1 Feb 2027 – 1 Aug 2030 (3 yrs 6 mo) · up to 1 Aug 2033 with extensionsValue: £1,134,106 exc. VAT · £1,360,927 inc. VAT
Turnover guideline: ~£647,828/yr≈ 2× annual value
Extensions: On +1 year +1 year +1 year basis

Who is likely to bid for this lot ↓

What it takes to win
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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).

Evaluation split and conditions of participation as published; the tender pack may add more
How bids are scored
Quality: 60%Price: 40%
Published award criteria (2)
  • Quality: Quality questions
  • Price: Complete price schedule

No conditions of participation were published on the notice; check the tender documents.

What this means for your bid
  • Price carries 40 of 100 points: a 10% discount moves about 4 points. The method statement decides this lot, not the discount.
  • Turnover usually expected at this size: about £647,828 (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 The Police and Crime Commissioner for Hertfordshire buys Electrical installation work (CPV 4531), and who usually turns up

The Police and Crime Commissioner for Hertfordshire’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: Electrical installation work (CPV 4531) →

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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
The marketElectrical installation work (CPV 4531) · East of England (authority’s region)
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: 0 of 14 known-size awards · market: CPV 4531 · East of England (authority’s region), n=38
0%74%

No small-firm winners recorded among this authority’s published awards in this sample.

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.

Local means the winner is registered in the region where that award was delivered. The market figure counts awards delivered in East of England (authority’s region).

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

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 1 of 4 known-location awards · market: CPV 4531 · East of England (authority’s region), n=62
1 of 429%

Most of this buyer’s recorded winners were registered outside the region where that award was delivered.

How long to a decision?
i

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.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: no decision dates published · market: CPV 4531 · East of England (authority’s region), n=14
—52 days

Half of these awards have an award date within 52 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.

Both shares are minimums: some awards have no bid count.

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

Last 36 months.

Buyer: at least 4 of 25 procurements with awards had no recorded rival · market: CPV 4531 · East of England (authority’s region), n=76
16%30%

Missing bid counts may hide more single-bid awards. This share is a minimum.

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 buyerToo few to chart: 2 lots with bid counts, 5 needed · all categories
The market20 lots with bid counts · CPV 4531 · East of England (authority’s region)
0% had one bid
Market · select a colour for counts
1 bid0%
Market: 0 of 20 lots with published bid counts.
2–320%
Market: 4 of 20 lots with published bid counts.
4–625%
Market: 5 of 20 lots with published bid counts.
7+55%
Market: 11 of 20 lots with published bid counts.

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.

Last 36 months.

This buyerToo few to chart: 1 lot with estimate and award, 5 needed · all categories
The market10 lots with estimate and award · CPV 4531 · East of England (authority’s region)
30% below estimate
Market · select a colour for counts
Below estimate30%
Market: 3 of 10 lots with an estimate and award.
Within ±2%30%
Market: 3 of 10 lots with an estimate and award.
Above estimate40%
Market: 4 of 10 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 453142 monthsPublished estimate£1.1m
Expected competition
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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.

A forecast, not a list of bidders.

4expected bids6% chance of a single bid
similar past contests in this category: 13
Forecast chances for this lot
1 bid6%
Chance this lot gets 1 bid: 6%. This is a forecast.
2–332%
Chance this lot gets 2–3: 32%. This is a forecast.
4–644%
Chance this lot gets 4–6: 44%. This is a forecast.
7+18%
Chance this lot gets 7+: 18%. This is a forecast.
Commercial price forecast
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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.

Based on 8 comparable awards. Each lot reflects its own category; forecasts for different lots of the same notice are not comparative.

A statistical guide from past awards, not a price to bid.

£1.1mMatches estimate (44% chance)
8 comparable awards
Forecast compared with the buyer’s estimate
Middle 50%£1.1m
The middle half of likely prices meets at £1,134,106.
Estimate£1.1m
The buyer published an estimate of £1,134,106 for this lot.

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.

SupplierWon in this categoryLive contractsAward vs estimate
11 panel places
£8.3m20 awards in 36m · last 3 months ago5 live · £2.0m
i

Public contracts this supplier still holds.

Its awards whose published end date is still in the future, with their values. Many contracts publish no end date, so this is a floor, not the whole book.

Unexpired says nothing about spare capacity.

28% below n=7
£6.7m14 awards in 36m · last 4 months ago3 live · £180k
i

Public contracts this supplier still holds.

Its awards whose published end date is still in the future, with their values. Many contracts publish no end date, so this is a floor, not the whole book.

Unexpired says nothing about spare capacity.

9% below n=1
£1.9m3 awards in 36m · last 4 months ago2 live · £1.7m
i

Public contracts this supplier still holds.

Its awards whose published end date is still in the future, with their values. Many contracts publish no end date, so this is a floor, not the whole book.

Unexpired says nothing about spare capacity.

19% above n=2
2 panel places
£139k2 awards in 36m · last 4 months ago2 live · £139k
i

Public contracts this supplier still holds.

Its awards whose published end date is still in the future, with their values. Many contracts publish no end date, so this is a floor, not the whole book.

Unexpired says nothing about spare capacity.

34% below n=1
—None on fileat estimate n=1
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
Below threshold - open competition
Legal basis
UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
Procurement category
Works
Notice status
Open for tender
Procurement threshold
Below threshold
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
2 Nov 2026, 14:57 GMT
Last source update
2 Nov 2026, 14:57 GMT
Authority reference
7F-2026-P051
FTS notice number
2026/S 000-103815
Latest notice
Tender notice (UK4)
Classification (CPV)
Other electrical installation work
Delivery area
Not published
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-0795c4 Find a Tender

How to participate & submission route

Official notice Submit via portal
Submission portal named on this notice: portal not identified
Electronic submission allowed
Requests to participate (first stage)
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Tender submission deadline
2 Dec 2026, 14:00 GMT
Clarification deadline
25 Nov 2026, 17:00 GMT
Submission channel
Official e-sourcing portal
Electronic submission
Allowed
Detailed submission instructions & authority contactsFrom official release
Published estimate £1,134,106 excludes VAT (£1,360,927 including VAT).

Timeline

2 Nov 2026 → 1 Feb 2027 · 4 dates
  1. Tender notice published11h ago
    2 Nov 2026, 14:57 GMT
  2. Today
    3 Nov 2026
  3. Clarification questions byin 22 days
    25 Nov 2026, 17:00 GMT
  4. Submission deadlinein 29 days
    2 Dec 2026, 14:00 GMT
  5. Contract startsin 89 days
    1 Feb 2027

Notice history

1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender
  1. Tender notice published
    2 Nov 2026, 14:57 GMT
    UK4

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

The Police and Crime Commissioner for Hertfordshire

Contracting authorityPublic authority - sub-central government GB-PPON: PPMD-2748-DXXY Harpenden Police Station, 13 Vaughan Road, Harpenden, East of England, AL5 4GZContact name, email

Official documents & specifications (1)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure

  • Tender notice tenderTender noticeUK4Tender notice on Find a Tender