Official UK procurement notice
GL RFCA Kensington 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, 1A Iverna Gardens, Kensington, London W8 6TN. Kensington Army Reserve Centre is a drill hall and associated amenities currently used by Battalion Headquarters of the 7th Battalion The Rifles, and 217 Hospital Squadron in Iverna Gardens, Kensington.
The building was designed and completed in 1903 as the headquarters for the 4th (Kensington) Middlesex Volunteer Rifle Corps. 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 Kensington 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 2 No. Ideal Commercial Concord CXA 70 gas fired boilers, 2 No gas fired hot water storage heaters, 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 win
Evaluation split and conditions of participation as published — the tender pack may add morePublished sub-criteria (2)
- Quallity - Please see tender documents in tenderbox for further information. — 60%
- Cost - Please see tender documents in tenderbox for further information. — 40%
Published award criteria (2)
- Quallity - Please see tender documents in tenderbox for further information. — Quality
- Cost - Please see tender documents in tenderbox for further information. — Cost
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: 3 in CPV 4533 · 11 in division 45 · 14 in all categories
Greater London · Plumbing and sanitary works (CPV 4533)
contract notices delivered in Greater London in 36 months: 95 in CPV 4533 (90 contested) · 1,809 in division 45 (1,660 contested)
robust · n=19 Awards in Greater London (CPV 4533, n=19 pairs) land a median at estimate: on this notice’s £170,000 that is about £170,000, middle half £165,410–£215,900 (quartiles from Greater London · CPV 4533). Context for a bid, not a recommended price.
Method and what to read with care
- Two columns, no blending. The authority column walks its own record only: notices in the 4-digit class, then the 2-digit division, then all categories (36 months, per lot, contested only), and as a last resort its 24-month row across all categories (per lot, contested contract notices). The market column is the notice’s primary delivery ITL1 × the same class, then division (36 months). Nothing is filled from the UK-wide class; an empty tile means the source published nothing usable.
- Per lot, contested only. Find a Tender publishes bid counts per lot; a seven-lot tender is seven contests. Procedures awarded without competition (limited / direct) are excluded from bids, price pairs and decision days — they report one bid by definition. Frameworks and DPS are a separate population from contracts (6–7 bids per lot against 2–4) and only the notice’s own kind is shown.
- 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). Award-vs-estimate pairs need a lot estimate, one active award on the lot, one canonical supplier and a gap under 60 %; about 30 % of pairs are exact matches (the buyer published the award at the estimate). n is on every figure; below 3 the tile is muted, never hidden.
- Pounds. The expected award applies the authority’s median movement (or the region’s, when the authority has fewer than 3 pairs) to this notice’s estimate; the middle half uses the region’s quartiles. A multi-lot notice publishes an envelope, so the movement is applied per lot, never to the total. A benchmark, not a recommended price.
- “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
- 21 Sept 2026, 14:20 BST
- Last source update
- 21 Sept 2026, 14:20 BST
- Latest notice
- Tender notice (UK4)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-077690Find a Tender
How to participate & submission route
Official notice Submit via Delta eSourcing- Expression of interest (EOI)
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- Tender submission deadline
- 7 Oct 2026, 14:00 BST
- Clarification deadline
- 29 Sept 2026, 16:00 BST
- Submission channel
- Official e-sourcing portal
- Electronic submission
- Allowed
Timeline
4 published dates · Europe/London- Tender notice publishedearlier today21 Sept 2026, 14:20 BST
- Clarification questions byin 8 days29 Sept 2026, 16:00 BST
- Submission deadlinein 16 days7 Oct 2026, 14:00 BST
- Contract startsin 41 days2 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 published21 Sept 2026, 14:20 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