Official UK procurement notice
Facilities Management & Security Services
Authority: South Gloucestershire Council (Local council)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThe Opportunity includes, but is not limited to, the following activities within the Council’s corporate building assets:
- Security services
- Fire alarm drills and alarm testing
- Care-taking duties
- Security patrols
- Key holding
The security service aspect of the tender refers to the supply of suitable soft security services for example, a key holding service, mobile patrols, response to alarm activations, testing of fire and security systems, opening and closing sites, static guarding and reception security duties.
The duration of the contract is expected to be 3 years with the potential to extend for two additional 24-month periods (total contract length up to a total of 7 years).
The Council is looking to procure a managed service, whereby the successful supplier manages the staff supplied. The supplier will hold keys to all sites and will be responsible for responding to all the Council’s out of hours requirements.
The supplier shall provide dedicated facilities operatives to carry out general building duties, which may vary from site to site, including Front of house services; Portering; Reception duties; Ad hoc cleaning; Car park control; External and internal building patrol staff; First aid responders; Waste management activities, and Fire Safety.
The supplier shall manage the supervision and performance monitoring of the Operatives and shall be the one point of contact between the Council and the Facilities Operatives for instructions and escalation purposes other than day to day requests for services.
CPV: Building and facilities management services · Facilities management services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedProcedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Past planning notice
- 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 Mar 2025, 18:47 GMT
- Last source update
- 28 Mar 2025, 18:47 GMT
- Authority reference
DN766857- FTS notice number
2025/S 000-011887- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Not published
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-04fa60Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
28 Mar 2025 → 1 May 2026 · 4 dates- Planning notice published28 Mar 2025, 18:47 GMT
- Market engagement23 Apr 2025, 00:59 BST
South Gloucestershire Council is currently reviewing the provision of Facilities Management & Security Services (“the Opportunity”). As part of developing our plans to meet this requirement we are issuing this Request for Information (RFI). This RFI is one vehicle by which we can systematically identify similarities and differences between suppliers in the market and additionally gain a greater understanding of specific suppliers’ abilities, core business and strategic outlook with respect to the Opportunity.
This RFI is issued in accordance with the principles of the Procurement Act 2023, ensuring same treatment and sharing information for the purposes of allowing suppliers and others to understand the Council’s procurement policies and decisions. Responses to this RFI will help shape our procurement strategy in compliance with public sector procurement obligations.
The Council has a current contract for the services within this Opportunity that comes to and end on 30th April 2026. The Council would welcome feedback on the current specification and service levels (attached as appendices to this document) and any suggestions from suppliers that would increase the attractiveness of the Opportunity.
You are invited to submit a response to this RFI. We look forward to your response by the closing date and time provided on the cover page of our RFI documentation.
- Tender notice expected31 May 2025, 00:59 BST
- Contract starts180 days ago1 May 2026
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Preliminary market engagement notice published28 Mar 2025, 18:47 GMTUK2
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 (1)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender