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Published 21 Sept 2026, 16:29 BST

Official UK procurement notice

Framework Agreement for Design, Supply & Installation of Kitchens (Lot 1) and Bathrooms (Lot 2) & Associated Works 2026 to 2030

Authority: Loreburn Housing Association (Housing)

Framework agreement2 lotsWorksOpen procedure
Framework ceiling (notional)Value not publishedframework ceiling, not attributable revenue
Admission open until 21 Oct 202612:00 BST · period end, not a bid countdown
Lots 2see the lot list below
Bids per lot · this authority 22all categories · n=8 · competition analysis ↓

What is being bought2 lots · detail below

Published requirement description

The kitchen upgrades comprise the replacement of existing kitchens, the supply and installation of wall cabinets and base units, laminate worktops with mitred joints, sinks with single level mixer taps and relevant waste fittings.

The works will also comprise wall boarding above worktops and to the underside of wall cabinets, all as detailed within the Employers Requirements.

The bathroom upgrades comprise the replacement of existing bathroom /wet floor room installations, the supply and installation of new

shower screens, electrical showers, extractor fans, IP rated LED light fitting and all associated multi-trades works.

The works will also comprise wet wall board finishes all as detailed within the Employers Requirements.

CPV: Bathrooms construction work · Installation of fitted kitchens

Lots and requirements (2)Procurement structure

2 lots · no lot values published · same evaluation weights on every lot
Lot #1Kitchen Upgrades and Associated Works
The kitchen upgrades comprise the replacement of existing kitchens, the supply and installation of wall cabinets and base units, laminate worktops with mitred joints, sinks with single level mixer taps and relevant waste fittings. Additional information: Economic operators may be excluded from this competition if they are in any of the situations referred to in Regulation 58 of the Public Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2015.
Delivery: Scotland · Dumfries and Galloway
Variant bids
not allowed
45421151 Installation of fitted kitchens

Who is likely to bid for this lot ↓

Lot #2Bathroom Upgrades & Associated Works
The bathroom upgrading works will comprise the replacement of existing bathroom/wet floor room installations, the supply and installation of new electric showers, shower screens/enclosures, extractor fans, IP rated LED light fittings, installation of laminate wall boarding and all other associated multi-trades and finishing works as detailed with the Employer's Requirements.
Delivery: Scotland · Various addresses throughout the region.
Variant bids
not allowed
45211310 Bathrooms construction work

Who is likely to bid for this lot ↓

What it takes to win
i

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 · same split on all 2 lots
Quality: 60%Price: 40%
Published award criteria (2)
  • Quality60%
  • price40%
Conditions of participation1
  • Suitability
    The relevant requirement is set out in the SPD, Part IV Selection Criteria [4A1]Enrolment in a relevant professional register. The following statement clarifies the requirement: If required by the member state, bidders are required to be enrolled in the more…relevant professional or trade registers within the country in which they are established. The relevant trade register in the UK is the Companies House Register - ://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/companies-house or equivalent in other countries.
Staff
Names and qualifications of delivery staff must be submitted

Competition analysis · published record, not a forecast of who will bid

How Loreburn Housing Association buys Joinery and carpentry installation work (CPV 4542) — and who usually turns up

Loreburn Housing Association’s own published record, next to the Scotland market for the same work. This notice is a framework or DPS, so only frameworks and DPS are compared. Whole-market view: Joinery and carpentry installation work (CPV 4542)

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How the contest usually goes

Left: this authority. Right: the market where the work is delivered. Bids and award-vs-estimate pairs are per lot, from contested frameworks and DPS 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.

This authority

Loreburn Housing Association

framework/DPS notices in 36 months: 1 in CPV 4542 · 2 in division 45 · 3 in all categories

Bids per lot
i

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: 8 lots. All 8 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.

22all categories · 36m · n=8 lots
Single-bid lots
i

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: 8 lots.

High means a thin market or an incumbent that is hard to beat.

0%all categories · 36m · n=8 lots
Award vs estimate
i

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.

Nothing published for this buyer in this sector: not measured on frameworks — a panel award is a ceiling, not a price.

A past pattern, not a price to bid.

not measured on frameworks — a panel award is a ceiling, not a price
Deadline → award date
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.

Nothing published for this buyer in this sector: no award dates published.

Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.

Last 36 months.

no award dates published
Notice updates
i

How often this buyer changes a notice after publishing it.

Middle number of amendments per notice. Deadline extensions and corrections both count.

Nothing published for this buyer in this sector: no amendment history.

Last 24 months.

no amendment history
Awarded without competition
i

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: 3 notices.

Last 36 months.

0%all categories · 36m · n=3 notices
Bids per lot · history, not this notice’s lots robust · n=8
i

How the number of bidders is spread across lots.

Each lot with a published bid count is put in a band: one bid, two to three, four to six, seven or more. Real competitions only.

Based on 8 lots on 2 contested notices · all categories, last 36 months.

  • 1 bid 0%
  • 2–3 13%
  • 4–6 0%
  • 7+ 88%

Median 22 · 8 lots on 2 contested notices · all categories.

How procedures are run moderate · n=3
i

Which procedures buyers here use.

Notices by the procedure they declare: open, selective, limited or direct. Open and selective are competitions; limited and direct are not.

Based on 3 notices · all categories, last 36 months.

  • Open 67%
  • Selective 33%
  • Limited 0%
  • Direct 0%

3 notices · all categories. Open and selective are competed (they feed the bid and price figures above); limited and direct are not; notices publishing no route are outside all four.

The market · delivery region

Scotland · Joinery and carpentry installation work (CPV 4542)

framework/DPS notices delivered in Scotland in 36 months: 74 in CPV 4542 (65 competed, 8 route not published) · 363 in division 45 (326 competed, 27 route not published)

Bids per lot
i

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 4542), last 36 months: 73 lots. 2 lots are from Procurement Act 2023 notices (bids assessed, middle 47) and 71 from older notices (bids received, middle 7).

Nothing is filled in from UK-wide numbers. An empty tile means nothing usable was published.

7CPV 4542 · 36m · n=73 lots
Single-bid lots
i

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 4542), last 36 months: 73 lots.

High means a thin market or an incumbent that is hard to beat.

1%CPV 4542 · 36m · n=73 lots
Award vs estimate
i

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.

Nothing published for this region in this sector: not measured on frameworks — a panel award is a ceiling, not a price.

A past pattern, not a price to bid.

not measured on frameworks — a panel award is a ceiling, not a price
Deadline → award date
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.

Based on this region’s tenders in this industry (CPV 45), last 36 months: 8 notices.

Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.

Last 36 months.

110ddivision 45 · 36m · n=8 notices
SME bidders
i

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 4542), last 36 months: 71 lots.

Last 36 months.

74%CPV 4542 · 36m · n=71 lots
Winners based in the region
i

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 4542), last 36 months: 38 awards.

Registered address, so a national firm with a local branch counts as outside.

Last 36 months.

79%CPV 4542 · 36m · n=38 awards
Bids per lot · history, not this notice’s lots robust · n=73
i

How the number of bidders is spread across lots.

Each lot with a published bid count is put in a band: one bid, two to three, four to six, seven or more. Real competitions only.

Based on 73 lots on 33 contested notices · CPV 4542, last 36 months.

  • 1 bid 1%
  • 2–3 12%
  • 4–6 29%
  • 7+ 58%

Median 7 · 73 lots on 33 contested notices · CPV 4542.

How procedures are run robust · n=66
i

Which procedures buyers here use.

Notices by the procedure they declare: open, selective, limited or direct. Open and selective are competitions; limited and direct are not.

Based on 74 notices · CPV 4542, last 36 months.

  • Open 76%
  • Selective 23%
  • Limited 2%
  • Direct 0%

74 notices · CPV 4542. Open and selective are competed (they feed the bid and price figures above); limited and direct are not; notices publishing no route are outside all four.

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Who you are likely to meet
i

Who you may be up against.

Suppliers on this buyer’s earlier similar contracts, and suppliers whose record fits this tender.

A guess from the record. Buyers do not publish who is bidding.

Suppliers on this authority’s earlier similar contracts, then suppliers with a matching track record — from published award history, not a bid list

By lot · 2 lots
i

Likely bidders for each lot.

For each lot: the previous winner, suppliers with history on this lot, and suppliers strong in this category.

A guess from the record, not a bidder list.

LotAwarded / admittedLikely suppliers
CPV market ranking when lot-specific history is thin.
CPV market ranking when lot-specific history is thin.

Ranked by CPV market fit, scale and buyer history — historical public-sector wins, not the published bidder list or a predicted field. Lots with the same shortlist are grouped.

Suppliers with a similar track record — and how they price
i

Suppliers with a similar track record, and how they price.

Suppliers matched on wins in this category, history with this buyer, location and size. Their award vs estimate is from their own past wins.

A guess from the record, not a bidder list.

SupplierEvidenceLast awardTheir award vs estimateRelevance
CR Smith Manufacturing Large6 class wins5 months agono comparable pairs55%
Anglian Building Products Large11 class wins5 months ago20% above n=153%
Walker Profiles Ltd Large8 class wins13 months agono comparable pairs53%
CCG (SCOTLAND) LIMITED Large16 class wins2 months ago53% below n=151%
James Frew Ltd Large8 class winsthis month3% above n=451%

Matched by the nightly worker on class wins, buyer history, delivery geography, scale and notice text; relevance is a 0–100% heuristic score, not a probability of bidding. “Their award vs estimate” is that supplier’s median on its own comparable single-supplier wins, CPV 4542 first. Nobody here is known to be bidding.

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
Works
Notice status
Open admission
Procurement threshold
Unspecified in notice
Regulatory regime
Standard
Commercial structure
Framework agreement
Competition type
Competitive procedure
GPA / WTO covered
Yes (GPA)
Recurring procurement
No (one-off requirement)
First published
21 Sept 2026, 16:29 BST
Last source update
21 Sept 2026, 16:29 BST
Award evaluation window
21 Oct 2026, 12:00 BST — …
Authority reference
ESP 5036
Classification (CPV)
Bathrooms construction workInstallation of fitted kitchens
Delivery area
Scotland (UKM92)
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-0776ce
Contract terms
Electronic trading
e-invoicing allowed · electronic ordering · electronic payment

Publisher note: NOTE: To register your interest in this notice and obtain any additional information please visit the Public Contracts Scotland Web Site at https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/Search/Search_Switch.aspx?ID=843101. The buyer has indicated that it will accept electronic responses to this notice via the Postbox facility. A user guide is available at https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/sitehelp/help_guides.aspx. Suppliers are advised to allow adequate time for uploading documents and to dispatch the electronic response well in advance of the closing time to avoid any last minute problems. The Contracting Authority does not intend to include a sub-contract clause as part of community benefits (as per Section 25 of the Procurement Reform (Scotland) Act 2014) in this contract for the following reason: The Employer requires the majority of the works be delivered by the Contractor/s utilising the directly employed workforce. Limited subcontracting opportunities are anticipated. As such, a subcontract advertising clause has not been included as it is not considered proportionate to the nature of the contract. Community benefits are included in this requirement. For more information see: https://www.gov.scot/policies/public-sector-procurement/community-benefits-in-procurement/ A summary of the expected community benefits has been provided as follows: Refer to Appendix C contained within the Contract Documentation. (SC Ref:843101) Download the ESPD document here: https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/ESPD/ESPD_Download.aspx?id=843101

How to participate & submission route

Apply via Public Contracts Scotland
Submission portal named on this notice: Public Contracts Scotland · Who buys & how to bid on PCS
Supplier login requiredLanguage: EN
Access & registration note: Free single registration for Scotland; PCS-Tender (Jaggaer) for full bidding
Expression of interest (EOI)
Appointment period ends
21 Oct 2026, 12:00 BST
Clarification deadline
Submission channel
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Accepted languages
en
Bid validity
180 days from the deadline
Bids opened
21 Oct 2026, 12:00 BST
Detailed submission instructions & authority contactsFrom official release

Timeline

3 published dates · Europe/London
  1. Notice published1 day ago
    21 Sept 2026, 16:29 BST
  2. Admission / appointment period endsin 28 days · period end, not a bid countdown
    21 Oct 2026, 12:00 BST
  3. Bids openedin 28 days
    21 Oct 2026, 12:00 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

Loreburn Housing Association

Contracting authorityHousingBody governed by public lawHousing and community amenities 7 Gifhorn House, Shakespeare Street, DUMFRIES, Scotland, DG1 2JB +44 1387321300 Published organisation website ↗

Dispute resolution & review bodies

  • Dumfries Sheriff CourtReview body Dumfries
Process and specification contact points (1)
  • Ewing Somerville Partnership (Scotland) Ltd.Process contact point Glasgow, Scotland [email protected]

Official documents & specifications (2)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Tender pack and attachments

  • Economic and financial selection criteriatenderEconomic and financial selection criteria
  • Technical selection criteriatenderTechnical selection criteria