Official UK procurement notice
Housing Kitchen Replacement Programme
Authority: North Lanarkshire Council (Local council)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionNorth Lanarkshire Council is undertaking preliminary market engagement in relation to a proposed Supply and Install Kitchen Replacement Programme across its Council housing stock.
The Council is planning a significant programme of investment for the supply, delivery and installation of replacement domestic kitchens within occupied Council properties. The current indicative investment profile is forecast to be approximately 65 million GBP over the period 2027/28 to 2030/31.
Through this Prior Information Notice (PIN) and accompanying Request for Information (RFI), the Council wishes to engage with contractors, to gain a better understanding of current market capacity, supply chain capability, contract structures, mobilisation requirements, and innovation opportunities associated with the delivery of large-scale housing kitchen replacement programmes.
The Council is aware of a number of national framework arrangements currently operating within the marketplace and of the various procurement routes available under the Public Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2015. At this stage, no decision has been made regarding the preferred procurement strategy or route to market. The Council may consider a range of options including existing frameworks or a future open market procurement.
The purpose of this exercise is to gather information that will help inform the Council's future procurement strategy and delivery approach. The Council is particularly interested in obtaining feedback on market capacity.
This PIN is issued solely as a market engagement and information gathering exercise.
It does not constitute a call for competition, a commitment to procure, or a commitment to award any contract.
CPV: Building internal fittings · Fitted kitchens · Installation of fitted kitchens · Joinery work · Kitchen furniture and equipment · Refurbishment work · Repair and maintenance services of building installations
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1North Lanarkshire Council is seeking input from suitably experienced contractors…Planned
North Lanarkshire Council is seeking input from suitably experienced contractors operating within the social housing and planned maintenance sector to support the development of its future Kitchen Replacement Programme.
The Council is inviting interested organisations to participate in this market engagement exercise by reviewing the information provided and completing the accompanying Microsoft Forms questionnaire. Responses will assist the Council in assessing current market conditions, contractor capacity, delivery capability, programme risks, mobilisation requirements and potential approaches to delivering a large-scale kitchen replacement programme across occupied Council housing stock.
The Council welcomes feedback from organisations of all sizes and is particularly interested in understanding market appetite, resource availability, supply chain considerations, innovation opportunities and recommendations that may assist in shaping the future procurement strategy.
Interested organisations are requested to complete the Microsoft Forms questionnaire and submit their responses by the date stated. The information gathered through this market engagement exercise will be treated as commercial intelligence and used solely to inform the Council's future procurement and investment planning activities.
Completion of the attached Microsoft Forms questionnaire is voluntary. Any information provided will not be evaluated as part of any future procurement exercise and will not provide participating organisations with any advantage or disadvantage in any subsequent tender process.
The Council may use the information received to inform decisions regarding procurement routes, delivery models, contract structures, packaging of works, lotting arrangements and programme requirements. Additional information: Interested organisations should complete the Microsoft Forms questionnaire attached to this notice and submit their response through the method identified within the questionnaire guidance. The Council reserves the right to seek clarification on any responses received and may undertake further market engagement activities following review of the information submitted.
Pipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How North Lanarkshire Council buys Joinery and carpentry installation work (CPV 4542), and who usually turns up
North Lanarkshire Council’s own published record, next to the published market for the same work. Frameworks and DPS are kept out: they attract a different number of bids. Whole-market view: Joinery and carpentry installation work (CPV 4542) →
How the contest usually goes
Winner shares use published awards; bid and price charts use contested lots.
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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.
Small firms have won here. Neither number says whether you qualify; it describes who has been winning.
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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.
Here, local means registered in Scotland.
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners are registered in Scotland.
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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.
Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.
Half of these awards were announced within 59 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.
Missing bid counts may hide more single-bid awards. This share is a minimum.
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 bid0% / 0%
2–317% / 11%
4–633% / 22%
7+50% / 67%
How did awards compare with estimates?
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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.
Below estimate13% / 44%
Within ±2%88% / 32%
Above estimate0% / 24%
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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.
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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 #1North Lanarkshire Council is seeking input from suitably experienced contractors…CPV 4542Published estimate£65m
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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 151 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid10%
2–328%
4–638%
7+24%
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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.
A statistical guide from past awards, not a price to bid.
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.
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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.
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.
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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), 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 · publisher note attached- Legal basis
- CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
- Procurement category
- Works
- Notice status
- Planned procurement
- Procurement threshold
- Unspecified in notice
- 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
- 28 Aug 2026, 08:41 BST
- Last source update
- 28 Aug 2026, 08:41 BST
- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-082015- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06ee2cFind a Tender
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=841004. (SC Ref:841004)
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
28 Aug 2026 → 5 Oct 2026 · 2 dates- Notice published55 days ago28 Aug 2026, 08:41 BST
- Tender notice expected17 days ago5 Oct 2026, 00:00 BST
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
Official documents & specifications
Official links; attachments are not copiedNo document links were published on the notice.