Official UK procurement notice
GL RFCA Barnet ARC Boiler Replacement
Authority: Reserve Forces' and Cadets' Association for Greater London (Public body)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionBelow threshold procurement - by invitation only.
Due to the urgent on-site need for these works, we are only inviting bids from suppliers who are on-boarded to both the Central Digital Platform and our own finance system, Symphony. This is intended to avoid delaying the delivery of the works, as the on-boarding process can take some time. Only those invited suppliers will be asked to attend a site open day, and only submissions from those invited will be evaluated. All others will be disregarded, not opened or evaluated.
This project consists of the replacement of the existing central heating boiler plant and equipment at Army Reserve Centre, St Albans Rd., Barnet EN5 4JX. Barnet Army Reserve Centre is a drill hall and associated amenities currently used by 118 Close Support Company and 240 Transport Squadron in St Albans Rd., Barnet.
The building was designed and completed in 1937. The complex was used continuously by reserve and transport units since World War II. The existing boiler installation was undertaken in the early 2000’s.
There is a main plantroom room in the basement that provides domestic hot water and heating to all the facilities in Barnet Army Reserve Centre. Cold water storage tanks on the roof provide a cold water supply to the bathrooms and to the hot water calorifiers.
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The existing plant consists of 3 No. Ideal Commercial Concord CXA 120 gas fired boilers, 2 No. hot water storage calorifiers fed from the heating system, associated pumps, expansion vessels and controls. The boiler flue routes through an existing chimney to discharge at roof level. New communal boilers and replacement pumps are to be provided in the basement plantroom.
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CPV: Boiler installation work · Boiler installations · Boilers
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · value publishedLot #1Lot 1RenewalPublished value£170,000
- Value
- £170,000 exc. VAT · £204,000 inc. VAT
- Extensions
- In case further locations are identified as critical and the same scope of requirements is being utilised.
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 (2)
- Quality - Please see tender documents in tenderbox for further information. — 60%
- Price - Please see tender documents in tenderbox for further information. — 40%
Published award criteria (2)
- Quality - Please see tender documents in tenderbox for further information. — Quality
- Price - Please see tender documents in tenderbox for further information. — Price
No conditions of participation were published on the notice; check the tender documents.
Competition analysis · published record, not a forecast of who will bid
Plumbing and sanitary works (CPV 4533) in Greater London — and who usually turns up
Reserve Forces' and Cadets' Association for Greater London has too little published record in this market to describe on its own; the Greater London market stands beside whatever it has. Frameworks and DPS are kept out: they attract a different number of bids. Whole-market view: Plumbing and sanitary works (CPV 4533) →
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 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.
Reserve Forces' and Cadets' Association for Greater London
contract notices in 36 months: 4 in CPV 4533 · 12 in division 45 · 15 in all categories (1 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 buyer’s tenders in all categories, last 36 months: 1 lots. All 1 lots are from Procurement Act 2023 notices, which count bids assessed. Small sample.
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: 1 lots. Small sample.
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.
Nothing published for this buyer in this sector: no comparable estimate → award 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 buyer’s tenders in all categories, last 36 months: 1 notices. Small sample.
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: 22 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 this sector (CPV 4533), last 36 months: 4 notices.
Greater London · Plumbing and sanitary works (CPV 4533)
contract notices delivered in Greater London in 36 months: 96 in CPV 4533 (76 competed, 15 route not published) · 1,816 in division 45 (1,348 competed, 319 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 4533), last 36 months: 30 lots. 14 lots are from Procurement Act 2023 notices (bids assessed, middle 9) and 16 from older notices (bids received, middle 5.5).
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 4533), last 36 months: 30 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 sector (CPV 4533), last 36 months: 19 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 sector (CPV 4533), last 36 months: 15 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 4533), last 36 months: 17 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 4533), last 36 months: 68 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 the Greater London market’s usual movement over 19 lots (CPV 4533), applied to the £170,000 estimate on this notice. The range comes from the region’s middle half.
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- Procedure method
- Below threshold - open competition
- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Works
- Notice status
- Open for tender
- 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
- No (one-off requirement)
- First published
- 23 Sept 2026, 07:55 BST
- Last source update
- 23 Sept 2026, 07:55 BST
- Latest notice
- Tender notice (UK4)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-07780aFind a Tender
How to participate & submission route
Official notice Submit via Delta eSourcing- Expression of interest (EOI)
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- Tender submission deadline
- 12 Oct 2026, 14:00 BST
- Clarification deadline
- 1 Oct 2026, 17:00 BST
- Submission channel
- Official e-sourcing portal
- Electronic submission
- Allowed
Timeline
4 published dates · Europe/London- Tender notice publishedearlier today23 Sept 2026, 07:55 BST
- Clarification questions byin 8 days1 Oct 2026, 17:00 BST
- Submission deadlinein 19 days12 Oct 2026, 14:00 BST
- Contract startsin 46 days9 Nov 2026, 00:00 GMT
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Nothing awarded yet- Awards (0)
- No award published
- Contracts (0)
- No contract published
- Bid statistics
- No aggregate bid statistics published
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Tender notice published23 Sept 2026, 07:55 BSTUK4
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Official documents & specifications (1)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Tender notice Tender notice on Find a Tender