Official UK procurement notice
FIF027-26 Laundry Dosing System
Authority: NHS Fife (NHS & healthcare)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionNHS Fife is seeking to procure the supply, installation, commissioning, maintenance and ongoing support of a fully inclusive liquid chemical dosing system lease, together with all required detergents and associated chemicals.
CPV: Dosing pumps
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1NHS Fife is seeking to procure the supply, installation, commissioning, maintenance and ongoing support of a fully inclusive liquid chemical dosing system lease, together with...Renewal
- Extensions
- The Contract shall be for an initial period of seven years, commencing on 01/04/2027, with the option for NHS Fife to extend for up to three further periods of twelve months each.
- Variant bids
- not allowed
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 sub-criteria (4)
- Service Delivery — 60
- Maintenance, Servicing and Support — 32.5
- price — 60
- Sustainable Procurement — 7.5
Published award criteria (4)
- Service Delivery — 60
- Maintenance, Servicing and Support — 32.5
- Sustainable Procurement — 7.5
- price — 60
No conditions of participation were published on the notice; check the tender documents.
Competition analysis · published record, not a forecast of who will bid
How NHS Fife runs Pumps and compressors (CPV 4212) tenders for its clients — and who usually turns up
NHS Fife procures on behalf of other bodies; its record below covers every client it has tendered for, next to the Scotland market for the same work. Frameworks and DPS are kept out: they attract a different number of bids. Whole-market view: Pumps and compressors (CPV 4212) →
How the contest usually goes
Left: the procurement agent running this notice. Right: the market where the work is delivered. Bids and award-vs-estimate pairs are per lot, from contested contracts only — direct awards (including PA 2023 transparency notices) report one bid by definition and are left out. On Procurement Act 2023 notices the count is the tenders assessed at the final stage, not every submission received; pairs compare like with like (VAT-exclusive, or VAT-inclusive on both sides). Empty means nothing was published, not filled in from elsewhere.
NHS Fife
Runs tenders for other bodies; the client is named in the notice, not in this record. contract notices in 36 months: 10 in all categories
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How many companies usually bid for work like this.
Middle value of published bid counts, one per lot, for this buyer or this region in the same sector.
Based on this buyer’s tenders in all categories, last 36 months: 5 lots. All 5 lots are from older notices, which count bids received.
Nothing is filled in from UK-wide numbers. An empty tile means nothing usable was published.
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How often only one company bid.
Share of lots that received exactly one bid, on the same competitions as the bids figure.
Based on this buyer’s tenders in all categories, last 36 months: 5 lots.
High means a thin market or an incumbent that is hard to beat.
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Do awards for work like this land above or below the estimate.
Estimate against award per lot, for this buyer or this region in the same sector.
Based on this buyer’s tenders in all categories, last 36 months: 3 pairs.
A past pattern, not a price to bid.
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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.
Nothing published for this buyer in this sector: no award dates published.
Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.
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How often this buyer changes a notice after publishing it.
Middle number of amendments per notice. Deadline extensions and corrections both count.
Based on this buyer’s tenders in all categories, last 24 months: 8 notices.
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How often this buyer awards without a competition.
Direct or limited awards as a share of its notices that say which procedure was used. These routes are legal in defined cases. This is just the record.
Based on this buyer’s tenders in all categories, last 36 months: 10 notices.
Scotland · Pumps and compressors (CPV 4212)
contract notices delivered in Scotland in 36 months: 6 in CPV 4212 (4 competed, 1 route not published) · 157 in division 42 (105 competed, 29 route not published)
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How many companies usually bid for work like this.
Middle value of published bid counts, one per lot, for this buyer or this region in the same sector.
Based on this region’s tenders in this sector (CPV 4212), last 36 months: 4 lots. All 4 lots are from older notices, which count bids received.
Nothing is filled in from UK-wide numbers. An empty tile means nothing usable was published.
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How often only one company bid.
Share of lots that received exactly one bid, on the same competitions as the bids figure.
Based on this region’s tenders in this sector (CPV 4212), last 36 months: 4 lots.
High means a thin market or an incumbent that is hard to beat.
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Do awards for work like this land above or below the estimate.
Estimate against award per lot, for this buyer or this region in the same sector.
Based on this region’s tenders in this industry (CPV 42), last 36 months: 26 pairs.
A past pattern, not a price to bid.
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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.
Based on this region’s tenders in this industry (CPV 42), last 36 months: 4 notices.
Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.
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How much of this market goes to small and medium firms.
SME bidders where buyers published the split, otherwise SME winners.
Based on this region’s tenders in this sector (CPV 4212), last 36 months: 4 lots.
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How much work like this goes to companies based in the delivery region.
Awards in this category delivered here where the winner’s registered address is in the region.
Based on this region’s tenders in this sector (CPV 4212), last 36 months: 4 awards.
Registered address, so a national firm with a local branch counts as outside.
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Where this tender’s estimate would land if the usual pattern repeats.
We apply the buyer’s usual movement between estimate and award (or the region’s) to the estimate on this notice.
Based on 3 lots, so only the direction is shown, not a pound figure.
A benchmark, not a price to bid.
Coverage and what to read with care
- Each tile explains itself. The on a figure says what it is, how it is counted and which scope this notice’s own record came from (class, division, all categories, or the authority’s 24-month row). The two columns are never blended and nothing is filled from a UK-wide figure; an empty tile means the source published nothing usable. Long form: Methodology.
- Coverage. Roughly 40 % of notices publish a bid count; about half publish an ITL1 delivery location, so the market column reads the authority’s registered region when the notice has none (labelled). About 30 % of award-vs-estimate pairs are exact matches — the buyer published the award at the estimate. n is on every figure; a thin sample is muted, never hidden.
- “Match” and “relevance” are model scores from the nightly matcher, not published facts. Find a Tender does not publish who is bidding. Never shown: contact details, payment behaviour, or a recommended price.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record · publisher note attached- Procedure method
- Open procedure
- Legal basis
- CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
- Procurement category
- Goods
- Notice status
- Open for tender
- 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
- No (one-off requirement)
- First published
- 1 Oct 2026, 11:49 BST
- Last source update
- 1 Oct 2026, 11:49 BST
- Award evaluation window
- 2 Nov 2026, 12:00 GMT — …
- Authority reference
FIF027-26- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-077e7d
- Electronic trading
- e-invoicing allowed · electronic ordering · electronic payment
Publisher note: The buyer is using PCS-Tender to conduct this ITT exercise. The Project code is 32678. To view, click here: https://www.publictendersscotland.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/ The buyer is using PCS-Tender to conduct this ITT exercise. The Project code is 32678. For more information see: http://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/info/InfoCentre.aspx?ID=2343 (SC Ref:844473)
How to participate & submission route
Submit via Public Contracts ScotlandTender documents are also served through a separate tool: https://www.publictendersscotland.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/ ↗
- Expression of interest (EOI)
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- Tender submission deadline
- 2 Nov 2026, 12:00 GMT
- Clarification deadline
- —
- Submission channel
- {"electronicSubmission"}
- Accepted languages
- en
- Bids opened
- 2 Nov 2026, 12:00 GMT
Timeline
5 published dates · Europe/London- Notice publishedearlier today1 Oct 2026, 11:49 BST
- Submission deadlinein 32 days2 Nov 2026, 12:00 GMT
- Bids openedin 32 days2 Nov 2026, 12:00 GMT
- Bids must remain valid untilin 124 days1 Feb 2027, 23:59 GMT
- Contract startsin 181 days1 Apr 2027, 00:00 BST
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
Dispute resolution & review bodies
- Sheriff Court HouseReview body
Official documents & specifications
Official links; attachments are not copiedNo document links were published on the notice; the tender pack is on the portal.