Find a TenderPlanned procurementPreliminary market engagement notice
Published 13 Jul 2026, 16:43 BST

Official UK procurement notice

HAR6063 - Electrical Measured Term Contract

Authority: Tower Hamlets

WorksAbove thresholdSME suitable
Planned pipeline value£2,250,000pipeline notice, not a live tender
Tender notice expected 31 Jul 2026from the planned procurement notice
Contract term 2 yrsends 29 Aug 2028 · up to 29 Aug 2030 with extensions · starts 31 Aug 2026

What is being bought

Published requirement description

London Borough of Tower Hamlets (LBTH) is undertaking a Pre-Market Engagement exercise in advance of a forthcoming procurement for the delivery of comprehensive electrical works and associated services. The Council is seeking early input from the market to help inform the structure, scope, and approach of the proposed contract. The scope of services may include, but is not limited to, electrical repairs and maintenance, servicing and testing of electrical systems, installation of electric hot water and electric heating systems, other electrical-related works to Council buildings. The proposed contract will run for an initial 2-year term, with the option to extend for up to 2 additional years (1 year + 1 year). This service is essential to ensure that the Council’s buildings remain safe, compliant, and operational, supporting both frontline services to residents and the effective use of workspaces for staff. Further details on how to participate in the Pre-Market Engagement exercise, including timelines and format, can be found in the attached documentation.

CPV: Electrical installation work · Electrical services · Electrical-system repair services · Emergency lighting equipment · Installation services (except software) · Repair and maintenance services of building installations · Repair and maintenance services of electrical distribution equipment · Technical testing, analysis and consultancy services

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published

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

How Tower Hamlets buys Consultative engineering and construction services (CPV 7131), and who usually turns up

Tower Hamlets’s published record next to the market for the same work. Frameworks and DPS are left out: they draw different bid counts. Whole-market view: Consultative engineering and construction services (CPV 7131) →

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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 buyerTower Hamlets · division 71
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: 3 of 3 known-size awards · market: CPV 7131 · Greater London, n=274
3 of 353%

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.

Local means the winner is registered in the region where that award was delivered. The market figure counts awards delivered in Greater London.

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

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 7 of 8 known-location awards · market: CPV 7131 · Greater London, n=278
88%40%

Most of this buyer’s recorded winners were registered in the region where that award was delivered.

How long to a decision?
i

How long buyers here take to decide after bids close.

Middle value in days from the bid deadline to the award date, on competitions that published both.

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

Last 36 months.

Buyer: no decision dates published · market: CPV 7131 · Greater London, n=49
—44 days

Half of these awards have an award date within 44 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 5 procurements with awards had no recorded rival · market: CPV 7131 · Greater London, n=396
0%47%

Missing bid counts may hide more single-bid awards. This share is a minimum.

How many bids did past lots attract?

i

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 buyer7 lots with bid counts · broad CPV 71
0% had one bid
The market65 lots with bid counts · CPV 7131 · Greater London
11% had one bid
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
1 bid0% / 11%
Buyer: 0 of 7 lots with published bid counts. Market: 7 of 65 lots with published bid counts.
2–329% / 23%
Buyer: 2 of 7 lots with published bid counts. Market: 15 of 65 lots with published bid counts.
4–657% / 37%
Buyer: 4 of 7 lots with published bid counts. Market: 24 of 65 lots with published bid counts.
7+14% / 29%
Buyer: 1 of 7 lots with published bid counts. Market: 19 of 65 lots with published bid counts.

How did awards compare with estimates?

i

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 buyer54 lots with estimate and award · all categories
24% below estimate
The market48 lots with estimate and award · CPV 7131 · Greater London
52% below estimate
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
Below estimate24% / 52%
Buyer: 13 of 54 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 25 of 48 lots with an estimate and award.
Within ±2%69% / 25%
Buyer: 37 of 54 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 12 of 48 lots with an estimate and award.
Above estimate7% / 23%
Buyer: 4 of 54 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 11 of 48 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 #1CPV 315124 monthsSME suitablePublished estimate£2.3m

This lot is listed as CPV 3151. The table above uses the notice category.

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 20 past lots.

A forecast, not a list of bidders.

—No model forecast yet5% chance of a single bid
Past bids on 20 similar lots
1 bid5%
1 of 20 similar past lots received 1 bid (5%).
2–345%
9 of 20 similar past lots received 2–3 (45%).
4–635%
7 of 20 similar past lots received 4–6 (35%).
7+15%
3 of 20 similar past lots received 7+ (15%).
Comparable past lots usually drew 3.5 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 model forecast yet
No comparable awards on record for this lot’s category yet. The published estimate is £2.3m, and the forecast stays empty until the market has a record to read.

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
Works
Notice status
Planned procurement
Procurement threshold
Above threshold (FTS publication)
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
13 Jul 2026, 16:43 BST
Last source update
13 Jul 2026, 16:43 BST
FTS notice number
2026/S 000-065790
Latest notice
Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
Classification (CPV)
Electrical installation workElectrical servicesElectrical-system repair servicesEmergency lighting equipmentInstallation services (except software)Repair and maintenance services of building installationsRepair and maintenance services of electrical distribution equipmentTechnical testing, analysis and consultancy services
Delivery area
London (UKI)
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06c9ee Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice
Submission deadline
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Timeline

13 Jul 2026 → 31 Aug 2026 · 4 dates
  1. Planning notice published104 days ago
    13 Jul 2026, 16:43 BST
  2. Market engagement99 days ago
    18 Jul 2026, 23:59 BST

    All bidders need to be registered on Proactis/Due North in order to access this opportunity through the London Tenders portal and express your interest on the project board (DN781083) by no later than 17:00 hours on 24th July 2026.

    www.londontenders.org ↗

    You will then be issued with an MS Teams invite with your timeslot.

  3. Tender notice expected86 days ago
    31 Jul 2026, 23:59 BST
  4. Contract starts56 days ago
    31 Aug 2026, 00:00 BST

Notice history

1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender
  1. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    13 Jul 2026, 16:43 BST
    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

Tower Hamlets

Contracting authorityPublic authority - sub-central government GB-PPON: PQBL-2673-MVYG New Town Hall, London, London, E1 1BJContact email, phone

Official documents & specifications (1)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure