Official UK procurement notice
Godalming College ~ Cleaning Tender
Authority: Godalming College (Education)
Godalming College Academy Trust is an outstanding sixth form college and single academy trust serving South West Surrey and the surrounding area. The College was judged Outstanding in all areas by Ofsted in November 2024, reflecting the high standards expected across all aspects of College life, services and facilities. The campus is readily accessible by road and rail, being located approximately two miles from the A3 and less than one mile from Godalming railway station. The campus buildings currently extend to approximately 25,285 square metres across nine principal buildings.
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionGodalming College Academy Trust is an outstanding sixth form college and single academy trust serving South West Surrey and the surrounding area. The College was judged Outstanding in all areas by Ofsted in November 2024, reflecting the high standards expected across all aspects of College life, services and facilities.
Godalming College currently educates approximately 2,500 students aged 16-19 and employs around 250 staff. The College offers a broad curriculum of A Level and vocational qualifications and has a strong reputation for academic achievement, progression to higher education, apprenticeships and employment, and student support.
The College's Strategic Plan 2026-2030 is built around three core themes:
•Empower - enabling students and staff to achieve their full potential in a supportive and inclusive environment.
•Inspire - creating engaging learning experiences supported by high-quality facilities and services.
•Shape Futures - investing in sustainable, future-ready infrastructure that supports long-term success and responsible stewardship of resources.
The successful contractor will be expected to support these ambitions by helping to provide a safe, welcoming and inclusive environment in which students and staff can thrive, whilst contributing to the College's sustainability objectives and commitment to continuous improvement.
The site
The College occupies a single campus of approximately 25 acres to the south of Godalming town centre. The campus is readily accessible by road and rail, being located approximately two miles from the A3 and less than one mile from Godalming railway station.
The campus buildings currently extend to approximately 25,285 square metres across nine principal buildings. A proposed extension to the 200s Building will create a further 259 square metres and is anticipated to complete in August 2027, increasing the total estate to approximately 25,544 square metres.
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CPV: School cleaning services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · value publishedLot #1RenewalPublished value£1,163,250
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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).
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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)
- Criterion 1: 70%
- Criterion 2: 30%
Published award criteria (2)
- Criterion 1
- Criterion 2
No conditions of participation were published on the notice; check the tender documents.
- Price carries 30 of 100 points: a 10% discount moves about 3 points. The method statement decides this lot, not the discount.
- Turnover usually expected at this size: about £774,792 (twice the annual value).
Price arithmetic assumes straight proportional scoring; the tender pack may use another formula. Turnover is an indicative market norm (≈2× annual value), not a published condition.
Competition analysis · published record, not a forecast of who will bid
How Godalming College buys Cleaning services (CPV 9091), and who usually turns up
Godalming College has little published record in this market. Frameworks and DPS are left out: they draw different bid counts. Whole-market view: Cleaning services (CPV 9091) →
How the contest usually goes
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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.
Across this market, small firms won 80% of awards with a known supplier size.
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How often local firms win similar work.
Winners with a registered address in the delivery region, out of awards with a known address.
Local means the winner is registered in the region where that award was delivered. The market figure counts awards delivered in South East England.
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Across this market, 51% of winners were registered in the delivery region.
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How long buyers here take to decide after bids close.
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Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.
Half of these awards have an award date within 63 days of the bid deadline.
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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.
Across this market, at least 14% of awarded procurements had no recorded rival.
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.
1 bid7%
2–39%
4–644%
7+40%
How did awards compare with estimates?
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Where winning prices landed against estimates.
Awards below, close to or above the estimate, per lot. The buyer side adds below-threshold contracts with a pre-award estimate; an award inside a published range counts as close.
Past prices are a guide, not a bid price.
Below estimate27%
Within ±2%29%
Above estimate44%
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See the forecast, this buyer’s earlier suppliers and firms with relevant wins.
No supplier is confirmed as a bidder.
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Open a lot for its forecast, this buyer’s previous supplier and possible competitors, from published award history, not a bid list
Lot #1CPV 9091Published estimate£1.2m
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How many bids this lot may attract.
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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 130 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid7%
2–39%
4–644%
7+40%
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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.
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A past supplier may not bid again.
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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.
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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.
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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 and Contracts Finder), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0. New notices arrive through the day; the figures are rebuilt nightly. Contracts Finder appears in live search, the Retender Radar, contract pages, organisation counts, the earlier contracts and past suppliers on a tender's competition panel, the buyer's decision figure and its award against estimate; the other analytical figures are built from Find a Tender notices.
- 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- Procedure method
- Competitive flexible procedure
- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Open for tender
- Procurement threshold
- Above threshold (FTS publication)
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Yes (GPA)
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 12 Nov 2026, 15:22 GMT
- Last source update
- 12 Nov 2026, 15:22 GMT
- Award evaluation window
- Submission end – 31 May 2027
- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-107666- Latest notice
- Tender notice (UK4)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
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- How it runs
Please see PSQ Document for more information.
How to participate & submission route
Official notice Submit via Litmus TMS- Requests to participate (first stage)
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- Tender submission deadline
- 2 Apr 2027, 12:00 BST
- Clarification deadline
- 8 Jan 2027, 12:00 GMT
- Submission channel
- Official e-sourcing portal
- Electronic submission
- Allowed
- Accepted languages
- en
Timeline
12 Nov 2026 → 1 Aug 2027 · 5 dates- Tender notice published1h ago12 Nov 2026, 15:22 GMT
- Today12 Nov 2026
- Clarification questions byin 56 days8 Jan 2027, 12:00 GMT
- Submission deadlinein 140 days2 Apr 2027, 12:00 BST
- Award decision expected byin 200 days31 May 2027, 23:59 BST
- Contract startsin 261 days1 Aug 2027, 00:00 BST
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Tender notice published12 Nov 2026, 15:22 GMTUK4
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
Official documents & specifications (1)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Tender notice Tender notice on Find a Tender