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Published 26 Oct 2026, 16:52 GMT

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Housing Sensors · UK public procurement notice

Authority: Renfrewshire Council (Local council)

GoodsOpen procedure
Budget not disclosedValue not published
Submission deadline 26 Nov 202612:00 GMT · 30 days left

What is being bought

Published requirement description
  1. Renfrewshire Council requires a single Contractor to supply an end-to-end service to monitor the internal environmental conditions (including Temperature, Relative Humidity and CO2 Levels) of their housing stock, through the use of Environmental Sensors, for the next 8 years. This will include providing the Council with data, reports and analysis of the collected data, and subsequent recommendations on a per property and property type basis.

CPV: Installation services of measuring equipment · Measuring and control equipment

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published
Lot #1Renewal
Delivery: UK · Renfrewshire area.
Extensions: Up to 12 months on 5 separate occasionsVariant bids: not allowed

Who is likely to bid for this lot ↓

What it takes to win
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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).

Evaluation split and conditions of participation as published; the tender pack may add more
How bids are scored
Quality: 65%Price: 35%
Published sub-criteria (5)
  • Technical Questions: 45%
  • Cyber Security: 10%
  • Fair Work First: 5%
  • Community Benefits: 5%
  • price: 35%
Published award criteria (5)
  • Technical Questions: 45
  • Cyber Security: 10
  • Fair Work First: 5
  • Community Benefits: 5
  • Price: 35
Conditions of participation2
  • Economic & financial standing

    It is a requirement of this contract that bidders hold, or can commit to obtain prior to the commencement of any subsequently awarded contract, the types and levels of insurance indicated below

    Employer’s (Compulsory) Liability Insurance – 5,000,000 (GBP) each and every claim.

    Public and Products Liability Insurance – 10,000,000 (GBP) each and every claim.

    Professional Indemnity – 10,000,000 (GBP) in the aggregate.

    Contractors All Risk – annual value of the works +15%

    Third Party Motor Vehicle Insurance – Please provide a valid MV certificate in the COMPANY name, OR where there is no company fleet and employees use their own vehicles instead, a letter signed by a person of appropriate authority confirming that the provider has ongoing arrangements in place to ensure that employees’ vehicles are appropriately insured and maintained for business purposes.

    The Council will utilise Dun & Bradstreet (D&B) Failure Score of 20 or above. Tenderers (including all participants in a group) are required to have a Failure Score of 20 or above in order to demonstrate its financial strength and stability.

    Please refer to the Invitation to Tender document for full requirement.

  • Technical & professional ability

    For public supply and public service contracts only, please provide relevant examples of supplies and/or services carried out during the last three years as specified in the Contract Notice:

    Tenderers should specifically evidence of successfully delivering Environmental Sensors and monitoring at scale within Social Housing, with reference to at least one project over the last 3 years where:

    Environmental Sensors have been installed in over 3000 houses

    Operating a LoRaWAN network

    Installation of Environmental Sensors at scale

    Carrying out data analysis and reporting

    Minimum: Bidders will be required to provide examples that demonstrate that they have the relevant experience to deliver the services/supplies.
What this means for your bid
  • Price carries 35 of 100 points: a 10% discount moves about 3.5 points. The method statement decides this lot, not the discount.

Price arithmetic assumes straight proportional scoring; the tender pack may use another formula.

Competition analysis · published record, not a forecast of who will bid

How Renfrewshire Council buys Instruments for measuring flow, level and pressure of liquids and gases (CPV 3842), and who usually turns up

Renfrewshire Council’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: Instruments for measuring flow, level and pressure of liquids and gases (CPV 3842) →

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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 buyerRenfrewshire Council · all categories
What to do with it
How often do SMEs win?
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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.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 38 of 43 known-size awards · market: CPV 3842 · UK-wide, n=20
88%35%

Small firms have won here. Neither number says whether you qualify; it describes who has been winning.

How often do local suppliers win?
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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.

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

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 28 of 30 known-location awards · market: CPV 3842 · UK-wide, n=16
93%19%

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

How long to a decision?
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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: division 38 · UK-wide, n=102
—36 days

Half of these awards have an award date within 36 days of the bid deadline.

How often single-bid or direct?
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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.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: exactly 19 of 49 procurements with awards had no recorded rival · market: CPV 3842 · UK-wide, n=28
39%71%

Direct awards or one recorded bid are common here. Check the route before spending time on a bid.

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.

Last 36 months.

This buyer30 lots with bid counts · all categories
13% had one bid
The market260 lots with bid counts · division 38 · UK-wide
26% had one bid
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
1 bid13% / 26%
Buyer: 4 of 30 lots with published bid counts. Market: 68 of 260 lots with published bid counts.
2–340% / 47%
Buyer: 12 of 30 lots with published bid counts. Market: 123 of 260 lots with published bid counts.
4–627% / 16%
Buyer: 8 of 30 lots with published bid counts. Market: 41 of 260 lots with published bid counts.
7+20% / 11%
Buyer: 6 of 30 lots with published bid counts. Market: 28 of 260 lots with published bid counts.

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.

Last 36 months.

This buyer7 lots with estimate and award · all categories
29% below estimate
The market159 lots with estimate and award · division 38 · UK-wide
49% below estimate
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
Below estimate29% / 49%
Buyer: 2 of 7 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 78 of 159 lots with an estimate and award.
Within ±2%71% / 26%
Buyer: 5 of 7 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 41 of 159 lots with an estimate and award.
Above estimate0% / 25%
Buyer: 0 of 7 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 40 of 159 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 384235 monthsEstimate not published
Expected competition
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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.

A forecast, not a list of bidders.

2expected bids23% chance of a single bid
similar past contests in this category: 224
Forecast chances for this lot
1 bid23%
Chance this lot gets 1 bid: 23%. This is a forecast.
2–358%
Chance this lot gets 2–3: 58%. This is a forecast.
4–616%
Chance this lot gets 4–6: 16%. This is a forecast.
7+2%
Chance this lot gets 7+: 2%. This is a forecast.
Commercial price forecast
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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.

—Estimate not published
The buyer published no estimate for this lot, so there is nothing to forecast against. A price prediction here would be a number about a number we do not have.

Who has supplied this buyer on similar work?
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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?
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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.

SupplierWon in this categoryLive contractsAward vs estimate
4 panel places
£37m51 awards in 36m · last 1 month ago21 live · £29m
i

Public contracts this supplier still holds.

Its awards whose published end date is still in the future, with their values. Many contracts publish no end date, so this is a floor, not the whole book.

Unexpired says nothing about spare capacity.

at estimate n=12
4 panel places
£7.3m24 awards in 36m · last this month9 live · £4.1m
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Public contracts this supplier still holds.

Its awards whose published end date is still in the future, with their values. Many contracts publish no end date, so this is a floor, not the whole book.

Unexpired says nothing about spare capacity.

13% below n=5
7 panel places
£6.2m24 awards in 36m · last this month11 live · £1.9m
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Public contracts this supplier still holds.

Its awards whose published end date is still in the future, with their values. Many contracts publish no end date, so this is a floor, not the whole book.

Unexpired says nothing about spare capacity.

at estimate n=5
2 panel places
£1.1m20 awards in 36m · last 1 month ago13 live · £1.7m
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Public contracts this supplier still holds.

Its awards whose published end date is still in the future, with their values. Many contracts publish no end date, so this is a floor, not the whole book.

Unexpired says nothing about spare capacity.

16% below n=3
1 panel places
£1.8m9 awards in 36m · last 2 months ago2 live · £675k
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Public contracts this supplier still holds.

Its awards whose published end date is still in the future, with their values. Many contracts publish no end date, so this is a floor, not the whole book.

Unexpired says nothing about spare capacity.

30% above n=1
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
Procedure method
Open procedure
Legal basis
CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
Procurement category
Goods
Notice status
Open for tender
Procurement threshold
Unspecified in notice
Regulatory regime
Standard
Commercial structure
Stand-alone contract (no framework)
Competition type
Competitive procedure
GPA / WTO covered
Yes (GPA)
Recurring procurement
No (one-off requirement)
First published
26 Oct 2026, 16:52 GMT
Last source update
26 Oct 2026, 16:52 GMT
Award evaluation window
26 Nov 2026 – …
Authority reference
RC-CPU-25-242
FTS notice number
2026/S 000-101239
Classification (CPV)
Installation services of measuring equipmentMeasuring and control equipment
Delivery area
UK
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-079096 Find a Tender
Contract terms
Electronic trading
e-invoicing allowed · electronic payment
Review and risk notes
Review procedure

An economic operator that suffers, or risks suffering, loss or damage attributable to a breach of duty under the Public Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2015 (SSI 2015/446) (as amended) may bring proceedings in the Sheriff Court or Court of Session.

Publisher note: The buyer is using PCS-Tender to conduct this procurement exercise. The Project code is 33021. For more information see: http://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk A sub-contract clause has been included in this contract. For more information see: http://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk Community benefits are included in this requirement. For more information see: https://www.gov.scot/policies/public-sector-procurement/community-benefits-in-procurement/ A summary of the expected community benefits has been provided as follows: Community Benefits will be evaluated. The buyer is using PCS-Tender to conduct this ITT exercise. The Project code is 33021. For more information see: http://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/info/InfoCentre.aspx?ID=2343 A sub-contract clause has been included in this contract. For more information see: http://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/info/InfoCentre.aspx?ID=2363 Community benefits are included in this requirement. For more information see: https://www.gov.scot/policies/public-sector-procurement/community-benefits-in-procurement/ A summary of the expected community benefits has been provided as follows: The Council’s expectation is that 90 Community Benefit Points will be delivered under this contract. Describe the contract specific methodology and approach that will be implemented to ensure the successful delivery of the Community Benefits proposed within your Community Benefit (CB) Outcome Menu submission. (SC Ref:846661)

How to participate & submission route

Official notice Submit via Public Contracts Scotland
Submission portal named on this notice: Public Contracts Scotland · Who buys & how to bid on PCS
Supplier login requiredLanguage: EN
Access & registration note: Free single registration for Scotland; PCS-Tender (Jaggaer) for full bidding
Requests to participate (first stage)
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Tender submission deadline
26 Nov 2026, 12:00 GMT
Clarification deadline
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Submission channel
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Accepted languages
en
Bids opened
26 Nov 2026, 12:00 GMT
Detailed submission instructions & authority contactsFrom official release

Timeline

26 Oct 2026 → 26 Apr 2027 · 4 dates
  1. Notice published17h ago
    26 Oct 2026, 16:52 GMT
  2. Today
    27 Oct 2026
  3. Submission deadlinein 30 days
    26 Nov 2026, 12:00 GMT
  4. Bids openedin 30 days
    26 Nov 2026, 12:00 GMT
  5. Bids must remain valid untilin 181 days
    26 Apr 2027, 23:59 BST

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

Renfrewshire Council

Contracting authorityLocal CouncilRegional or local authorityGeneral public services Renfrewshire House, Cotton Street, Paisley, Scotland, PA1 1JBContact name, email, phone Published organisation website ↗

Dispute resolution & review bodies

  • Court of SessionReview contact point Edinburgh
  • VI.4.3Mediation body UK

Official documents & specifications

Official links; attachments are not copied

No document links were published on the notice; the tender pack is on the portal.