Official UK procurement notice
Integrated Facilities Maintenance Services (Cleaning, Gardening, Pest Control, MEP) for British Embassy Muscat
Authority: Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (Central government)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThe Authority is seeking to engage the market ahead of a forthcoming procurement for the provision of facilities maintenance services for the British Embassy Muscat covering cleaning services, gardening services, pest control services, and mechanical, electrical and plumbing services.
The initial contract is two (2) years from 1 January 2027 to 31 December 2028, with one option to extend for an additional year, subject to the satisfactory performance. The estimated amount for this provision is £640,000 (excluding VAT) for the overall period of performance (including option year).
This EME exercise aims to assess market capability and interest in advance of the formal procurement process.
CPV: Building and facilities management services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedPipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office buys Miscellaneous business-related services (CPV 7999): the notice lists a non-UK location
No market comparison: the notice lists a non-UK delivery location. Frameworks and DPS are left out: they draw different bid counts. Whole-market view: Miscellaneous business-related services (CPV 7999) →
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.
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.
The notice lists delivery in Oman, so this procedure has no confirmed single UK region; the buyer’s figure reads its other awards, each against its own delivery region.
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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.
Half of these awards have an award date within 97 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 buyer’s 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 bid13%
2–362%
4–621%
7+5%
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 estimate23%
Within ±2%31%
Above estimate46%
Assess each lot i
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 #1Published estimate£640k
This lot lists only non-UK delivery addresses. Supplier examples below come from UK award history and are not checked for this delivery area.
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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.
This lot has only non-UK delivery countries in its published addresses, so the UK model forecast is withheld.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
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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.
| Supplier | This buyer’s earlier contract | Lot | Award value | Why listed |
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| Oman International Group SAOCEarlier contract | Cleaning, Gardening, and Pest Control Services for British Embassy Muscatended Mar 2024 | — | £115k | Matched as the earlier contract |
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.
What this replaces i
Who has done similar work for this buyer.
Past contracts are matched by buyer, title and type of work.
65% title match.
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.
65% title match.
A past supplier may not bid again.
The prior contract this notice most likely re-tenders · matched by title and category (65% title match), the holder is not guaranteed to re-bid
Cleaning, Gardening, and Pest Control Services for British Embassy Muscat — held by Oman International Group SAOC; the published contract ends 14 Mar 2024.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Services
- 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
- 5 Aug 2026, 08:12 BST
- Last source update
- 5 Aug 2026, 08:12 BST
- Authority reference
CPH/13763/2027- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-073933- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area in notice
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06dbd2Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
5 Aug 2026 → 1 Jan 2027 · 4 dates- Planning notice published82 days ago5 Aug 2026, 08:12 BST
- Tender notice expected82 days ago5 Aug 2026, 23:59 BST
- Market engagement82 days ago5 Aug 2026, 23:59 BST
The British Embassy in Muscat is initiating an Early Market Engagement (EME) for its upcoming tender for the Integrated Facilities Maintenance Services. In light of this we would like to extend an invitation to your organization to join our virtual session and be part of this important conversation.
Our agenda includes:
(a) Discuss the service requirements
(b) Procurement process, including criteria and evaluation
(c) timelines
(d) question and answers/clarifications
Please see details below for the virtual EME session schedule:
Date: 18 August 2026
Time: 10:00AM Muscat time
Location via MS Teams
If your organization is interested in participating, please send an email to [email protected] indicating your expression of interest with the subject "OMM Integrated Facilities Maintenance Services" no later than 14 August 2026. Once we receive your expression of interest, we will send you an MS Teams invite with the necessary details.
Information gathered through this EME will also assist the Authority in refining the final procurement approach. Participation in this PME does not constitute any commitment to tender nor guarantee inclusion in the subsequent procurement stage.
- Today26 Oct 2026
- Contract startsin 66 days1 Jan 2027
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Preliminary market engagement notice published5 Aug 2026, 08:12 BSTUK2
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 (1)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender