Find a TenderPlanned procurementPreliminary market engagement notice
Published 9 Dec 2025, 14:24 GMT

Official UK procurement notice

Fire Engineering Consultancy Services

Authority: ClwydAlyn Housing (Public body)

ServicesBelow thresholdSME suitable
Planned pipeline value£1pipeline notice, not a live tender
Tender notice expected 5 Jan 2026from the planned procurement notice
Contract term 1 yrends 11 Jan 2027 · up to 10 Jan 2028 with extensions · starts 12 Jan 2026

What is being bought

Published requirement description

ClwydAlyn are looking to appoint a suitably qualified fire engineering consultant who can:

Produce clear, professional reports on specific fire safety issues identified within our Fire Risk Assessments.

Provide technical specifications for any recommended remedial works.

Undertake site visits to inspect works during and after completion, confirming compliance with the agreed specification and providing evidence-based reports.

Offer advice and guidance on ad hoc fire-related issues as required during the contract term.

ClwydAlyn intends to establish a rolling 12-month contract, with no guaranteed or predefined level of spend. This PIN is issued for early market engagement only. Suppliers who register interest may be invited to participate in a subsequent request for quotation.

CPV: Architectural, construction, engineering and inspection services

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published
Lot #1PlannedRenewal 1 yrSME
Contract period: 12 Jan 2026 – 11 Jan 2027 (1 yr) · up to 10 Jan 2028 with extensions
Delivery: WalesEligibility: SME eligible
Extensions: Extension options published

Who is likely to bid for this lot ↓

Pipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published

How ClwydAlyn Housing buys Architectural, construction, engineering (CPV 71), and who usually turns up

ClwydAlyn Housing’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: Architectural, construction, engineering (CPV 71) →

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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
This buyerClwydAlyn Housing · all categories
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: 9 of 9 known-size awards · market: division 71 · Wales (Cymru), n=133
100%65%

Small firms have won here. Neither number says whether you qualify; it describes who has been winning.

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.

Here, local means registered in Wales (Cymru).

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

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 6 of 9 known-location awards · market: division 71 · Wales (Cymru), n=191
67%54%

Most of this buyer’s recorded winners are registered in Wales (Cymru).

How long to a decision?
i

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.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 4 decided notices · market: division 71 · Wales (Cymru), n=58
30 days47 days

Half of these awards were announced within 30 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.

The market share is a minimum: some awards have no bid count.

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

Last 36 months.

Buyer: exactly 0 of 8 procurements with awards had no recorded rival · market: division 71 · Wales (Cymru), n=199
0%35%

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 buyer10 lots with bid counts · all categories
0% had one bid
The market105 lots with bid counts · division 71 · Wales (Cymru)
13% had one bid
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
1 bid0% / 13%
Buyer: 0 of 10 lots with published bid counts. Market: 14 of 105 lots with published bid counts.
2–340% / 24%
Buyer: 4 of 10 lots with published bid counts. Market: 25 of 105 lots with published bid counts.
4–640% / 30%
Buyer: 4 of 10 lots with published bid counts. Market: 31 of 105 lots with published bid counts.
7+20% / 33%
Buyer: 2 of 10 lots with published bid counts. Market: 35 of 105 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 buyer5 lots with estimate and award · all categories
0% below estimate
The market66 lots with estimate and award · division 71 · Wales (Cymru)
59% below estimate
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
Below estimate0% / 59%
Buyer: 0 of 5 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 39 of 66 lots with an estimate and award.
Within ±2%100% / 20%
Buyer: 5 of 5 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 13 of 66 lots with an estimate and award.
Above estimate0% / 21%
Buyer: 0 of 5 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 14 of 66 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 #112 monthsSME suitableNo real estimate
Expected competition
i

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 105 past lots.

A forecast, not a list of bidders.

—No model forecast yet13% single-bid risk
Past bids on 105 similar lots
1 bid13%
14 of 105 similar past lots received 1 bid (13%).
2–324%
25 of 105 similar past lots received 2–3 (24%).
4–630%
31 of 105 similar past lots received 4–6 (30%).
7+33%
35 of 105 similar past lots received 7+ (33%).
Comparable past lots usually drew 4 bids.
Commercial price forecast
i

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.

—No real estimate
The buyer published £1 as the estimate (a placeholder, not the contract’s value), so there is nothing to forecast against.

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.

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
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
9 Dec 2025, 14:24 GMT
Last source update
9 Dec 2025, 14:24 GMT
FTS notice number
2025/S 000-081074
Latest notice
Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
Classification (CPV)
Architectural, construction, engineering and inspection services
Delivery area
Wales (UKL11)
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-05f1d0 Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice
Submission deadline
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Timeline

9 Dec 2025 → 12 Jan 2026 · 4 dates
  1. Planning notice published316 days ago
    9 Dec 2025, 14:24 GMT
  2. Market engagement303 days ago
    22 Dec 2025, 23:59 GMT

    This PIN is issued for early market engagement only. Suppliers who register interest may be invited to participate in a subsequent request for quotation.

  3. Tender notice expected289 days ago
    5 Jan 2026, 23:59 GMT
  4. Contract starts283 days ago
    12 Jan 2026

Notice history

1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender
  1. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    9 Dec 2025, 14:24 GMT
    UK2

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

ClwydAlyn Housing

Contracting authorityPublic authority - sub-central government GB-PPON: PDCW-9799-LDMH 72 Ffordd William Morgan, St Asaph, Wales, LL17 0JDContact name, email

Official documents & specifications (1)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure