Official UK procurement notice
Electrical Safety Compliance Services
Authority: Eastlight Community Homes (Public body)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionElectrical Safety Compliance Services
Eastlight Housing invites electrical contractors and specialist compliance providers to participate in a Preliminary Market Engagement (PME) exercise for an upcoming procurement opportunity.
Eastlight is seeking feedback from the market to help shape the future delivery of its Electrical Safety Compliance Services across its housing portfolio.
Services in Scope
The proposed contract is expected to include:
•Electrical Installation Condition Reports (EICRs)
•Portable Appliance Testing (PAT)
•Lightning Protection Testing and Certification
•Associated remedial works/Voids/Mutual Exchanges
•Emergency and out-of-hours response
•Resident liaison and access management
•Compliance reporting and certification
Portfolio
The contract will support electrical compliance across approximately:
•13,100 domestic properties
•600 communal areas
•5 commercial/non-domestic properties
•26 supported and specialist housing schemes
Invitation to Participate
Eastlight is inviting interested suppliers to complete a Market Engagement Survey to provide feedback on:
•Market capacity and capability
•Contract delivery models
•Service standards and KPIs
•Mobilisation expectations
•Digital reporting requirements
•Social value opportunities
•Innovation and best practice
•Risks and challenges affecting service delivery
Your feedback will help inform the future procurement strategy and service requirements. Participation in this exercise will not provide any supplier with an advantage in any future procurement process.
Who Should Participate?
We welcome responses from organisations with experience in:
•Social housing electrical compliance
•EICR programmes
•PAT testing services
•Lightning protection testing
•Electrical remedial works
•Compliance management and reporting
How to Participate
Interested suppliers are requested to complete the Market Engagement Survey by 6th August 2026 using the Microsoft Forms link below:
MS Forms Survey Link:
Electrical Safety Compliance Services | Project Reference: EAST1034 – Fill out form
Following evaluation of the responses received through this Market Engagement Survey, Eastlight reserves the right to determine the most suitable procurement route to market. Information gathered will be used to help shape the procurement strategy and future service delivery requirements.
Eastlight may also use the feedback received to inform the final specification, contract structure, service standards, performance measures, social value requirements and overall procurement approach.
We look forward to engaging with the market and working collaboratively to develop a high-quality, compliant, customer-focused electrical safety service.
CPV: Electrical services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1PlannedRenewal
Pipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How Eastlight Community Homes buys Consultative engineering and construction services (CPV 7131), and who usually turns up
Eastlight Community Homes’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: Consultative engineering and construction services (CPV 7131) →
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.
Here, local means registered in East of England.
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners are registered outside East of England.
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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.
Half of these awards were announced within 107 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 bid36% / 19%
2–30% / 10%
4–655% / 33%
7+9% / 38%
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 estimate42%
Within ±2%47%
Above estimate11%
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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 7131Published estimate£3.4m
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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 21 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid19%
2–310%
4–633%
7+38%
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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- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Planned procurement
- 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
- 27 Jul 2026, 17:29 BST
- Last source update
- 27 Jul 2026, 17:29 BST
- Authority reference
EAST1034- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-070959- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06d4a5Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
27 Jul 2026 → 1 Apr 2027 · 3 dates- Planning notice published86 days ago27 Jul 2026, 17:29 BST
- Market engagement75 days ago6 Aug 2026, 23:59 BST
Invitation to Participate
Eastlight is inviting interested suppliers to complete a Market Engagement Survey to provide feedback on:
•Market capacity and capability
•Contract delivery models
•Service standards and KPIs
•Mobilisation expectations
•Digital reporting requirements
•Social value opportunities
•Innovation and best practice
•Risks and challenges affecting service delivery
Your feedback will help inform the future procurement strategy and service requirements. Participation in this exercise will not provide any supplier with an advantage in any future procurement process.
Who Should Participate?
We welcome responses from organisations with experience in:
•Social housing electrical compliance
•EICR programmes
•PAT testing services
•Lightning protection testing
•Electrical remedial works
•Compliance management and reporting
How to Participate
Interested suppliers are requested to complete the Market Engagement Survey by 6th August 2026 using the Microsoft Forms link below:
MS Forms Survey Link:
Electrical Safety Compliance Services | Project Reference: EAST1034 – Fill out form
Following evaluation of the responses received through this Market Engagement Survey, Eastlight reserves the right to determine the most suitable procurement route to market. Information gathered will be used to help shape the procurement strategy and future service delivery requirements.
Eastlight may also use the feedback received to inform the final specification, contract structure, service standards, performance measures, social value requirements and overall procurement approach.
- Today21 Oct 2026
- Contract startsin 162 days1 Apr 2027, 00:00 BST
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Preliminary market engagement notice published27 Jul 2026, 17:29 BSTUK2
Commercial outcome & contract awards
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- 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
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender