Official UK procurement notice
ITT for Works to Install Dignity Rooms at Five Fire Stations
Authority: West Midlands Fire and Rescue Authority (Police & fire)
What is being bought5 lots · detail below
Published requirement descriptionThe installation of Dignity Rooms, which comprise small sleeping accommodation rooms for a single occupant, to be installed at the following Authority locations. The Contract(s) to be awarded as 5 Lots (“Lots”), as follows:
Lot 1 – Binley Fire Station, Hipswell Highway, CV2 5FQ (6 Dignity Rooms)
Lot 2 - Hay Mills Fire Station, Speedwell Road, B25 8HH (8 Dignity Rooms)
Lot 3 – Highgate Fire Station, Moseley Road, B12 0DP (9 Dignity Rooms)
Lot 4 – Walsall Fire Station, Blue Lane West, WS2 8NU (9 Dignity Rooms)
Lot 5 – Wolverhampton Fire Station, Merridale Street, WV3 0RE (8 Dignity Rooms
CPV: Works for complete or part construction and civil engineering work
Lots and requirements (5)Procurement structure
5 lots · all with a published value · same conditions of participation on every lotLot #1Lot 1 - BinleyPublished value£0
- Value
- £0 exc. VAT · £140,000 inc. VAT
Award criteria
Price 70%, Quality 25%, Social Value 5%
Lot #2Hay MillsPublished value£0
- Value
- £0 exc. VAT · £120,000 inc. VAT
Award criteria
Price 70%, Quality 25%, Social Value 5%
Lot #3HighgatePublished value£0
- Value
- £0 exc. VAT · £156,000 inc. VAT
Award criteria
Price 70%, Quality 25%, Social Value 5%
Lot #4WalsallPublished value£0
- Value
- £0 exc. VAT · £120,000 inc. VAT
Award criteria
Price 70%, Quality 25%, Social Value 5%
Lot #5WolverhamptonPublished value£0
- Value
- £0 exc. VAT · £100,000 inc. VAT
Award criteria
Price 70%, Quality 25%, Social Value 5%
What it takes to wini
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 morei
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).
- Condition of participationAnnual turnover exceeding 2x the estimated value for each Lot.
Competition analysis · published record, not a forecast of who will bid
How West Midlands Fire and Rescue Authority buys Works for complete or part construction and civil engineering work (CPV 4520) — and who usually turns up
West Midlands Fire and Rescue Authority’s own published record, next to the West Midlands market for the same work. Frameworks and DPS are kept out: they attract a different number of bids. Whole-market view: Works for complete or part construction and civil engineering work (CPV 4520) →
How the contest usually goes
Left: this authority. Right: the market where the work is delivered. Bids and award-vs-estimate pairs are per lot, from contested contracts only — direct awards (including PA 2023 transparency notices) report one bid by definition and are left out. On Procurement Act 2023 notices the count is the tenders assessed at the final stage, not every submission received; pairs compare like with like (VAT-exclusive, or VAT-inclusive on both sides). Empty means nothing was published, not filled in from elsewhere.
West Midlands Fire and Rescue Authority
contract notices in 36 months: 1 in CPV 4520 · 8 in division 45 · 23 in all categories (7 without competition · 3 route not published)
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How many companies usually bid for work like this.
Middle value of published bid counts, one per lot, for this buyer or this region in the same sector.
Based on this buyer’s tenders in this industry (CPV 45), last 36 months: 9 lots. 8 lots are from Procurement Act 2023 notices (bids assessed, middle 10) and 1 from older notices (bids received, middle 12).
Nothing is filled in from UK-wide numbers. An empty tile means nothing usable was published.
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How often only one company bid.
Share of lots that received exactly one bid, on the same competitions as the bids figure.
Based on this buyer’s tenders in this industry (CPV 45), last 36 months: 9 lots.
High means a thin market or an incumbent that is hard to beat.
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Do awards for work like this land above or below the estimate.
Estimate against award per lot, for this buyer or this region in the same sector.
Based on this buyer’s tenders in all categories, last 36 months: 2 pairs. Small sample.
A past pattern, not a price to bid.
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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.
Based on this buyer’s tenders in this industry (CPV 45), last 36 months: 3 notices.
Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.
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How often this buyer changes a notice after publishing it.
Middle number of amendments per notice. Deadline extensions and corrections both count.
Based on this buyer’s tenders in all categories, last 24 months: 75 notices.
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How often this buyer awards without a competition.
Direct or limited awards as a share of its notices that say which procedure was used. These routes are legal in defined cases. This is just the record.
Based on this buyer’s tenders in this industry (CPV 45), last 36 months: 8 notices.
West Midlands · Works for complete or part construction and civil engineering work (CPV 4520)
contract notices delivered in West Midlands in 36 months: 32 in CPV 4520 (24 competed, 6 route not published) · 1,228 in division 45 (879 competed, 222 route not published)
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How many companies usually bid for work like this.
Middle value of published bid counts, one per lot, for this buyer or this region in the same sector.
Based on this region’s tenders in this sector (CPV 4520), last 36 months: 10 lots. 8 lots are from Procurement Act 2023 notices (bids assessed, middle 3.5) and 2 from older notices (bids received, middle 2).
Nothing is filled in from UK-wide numbers. An empty tile means nothing usable was published.
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How often only one company bid.
Share of lots that received exactly one bid, on the same competitions as the bids figure.
Based on this region’s tenders in this sector (CPV 4520), last 36 months: 10 lots.
High means a thin market or an incumbent that is hard to beat.
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Do awards for work like this land above or below the estimate.
Estimate against award per lot, for this buyer or this region in the same sector.
Based on this region’s tenders in this sector (CPV 4520), last 36 months: 5 pairs.
A past pattern, not a price to bid.
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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.
Based on this region’s tenders in this sector (CPV 4520), last 36 months: 6 notices.
Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.
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How much of this market goes to small and medium firms.
SME bidders where buyers published the split, otherwise SME winners.
Based on this region’s tenders in this sector (CPV 4520), last 36 months: 9 lots.
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How much work like this goes to companies based in the delivery region.
Awards in this category delivered here where the winner’s registered address is in the region.
Based on this region’s tenders in this sector (CPV 4520), last 36 months: 13 awards.
Registered address, so a national firm with a local branch counts as outside.
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Where this tender’s estimate would land if the usual pattern repeats.
We apply the buyer’s usual movement between estimate and award (or the region’s) to the estimate on this notice.
This notice gives one total for several lots, so we show the percentage but do not turn it into pounds.
A benchmark, not a price to bid.
Who you are likely to meet i
Who you may be up against.
Suppliers on this buyer’s earlier similar contracts, and suppliers whose record fits this tender.
A guess from the record. Buyers do not publish who is bidding.
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Who you may be up against.
Suppliers on this buyer’s earlier similar contracts, and suppliers whose record fits this tender.
A guess from the record. Buyers do not publish who is bidding.
Suppliers on this authority’s earlier similar contracts, then suppliers with a matching track record — from published award history, not a bid list
By lot · 5 lots i
Likely bidders for each lot.
For each lot: the previous winner, suppliers with history on this lot, and suppliers strong in this category.
A guess from the record, not a bidder list.
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Likely bidders for each lot.
For each lot: the previous winner, suppliers with history on this lot, and suppliers strong in this category.
A guess from the record, not a bidder list.
| Lot | Awarded / admitted | Likely suppliers |
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| All 5 lotsCPV market ranking when lot-specific history is thin. | — |
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Ranked by CPV market fit, scale and buyer history — historical public-sector wins, not the published bidder list or a predicted field. Lots with the same shortlist are grouped.
Suppliers with a similar track record — and how they price i
Suppliers with a similar track record, and how they price.
Suppliers matched on wins in this category, history with this buyer, location and size. Their award vs estimate is from their own past wins.
A guess from the record, not a bidder list.
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Suppliers with a similar track record, and how they price.
Suppliers matched on wins in this category, history with this buyer, location and size. Their award vs estimate is from their own past wins.
A guess from the record, not a bidder list.
| Supplier | Evidence | Last award | Their award vs estimate | Relevance |
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| Clixby SME | 4 class wins | 2 months ago | no comparable pairs | 51% |
| Erris Builders Ltd SME | 2 class wins | 24 months ago | no comparable pairs | 48% |
| THE SPECIALIST ELECTRICAL GROUP LIMITED SME | 3 class wins | 1 months ago | no comparable pairs | 45% |
| BEDROCK CIVIL ENGINEERING LTD SME | 2 class wins | 12 months ago | no comparable pairs | 45% |
| Colas Limited Large | 3 class wins | this month | 33% below n=2 | 43% |
Matched by the nightly worker on class wins, buyer history, delivery geography, scale and notice text; relevance is a 0–100% heuristic score, not a probability of bidding. “Their award vs estimate” is that supplier’s middle value on its own comparable single-supplier wins, CPV 4520 first. Nobody here is known to be bidding.
Coverage and what to read with care
- Each tile explains itself. The on a figure says what it is, how it is counted and which scope this notice’s own record came from (class, division, all categories, or the authority’s 24-month row). The two columns are never blended and nothing is filled from a UK-wide figure; an empty tile means the source published nothing usable. Long form: Methodology.
- Coverage. Roughly 40 % of notices publish a bid count; about half publish an ITL1 delivery location, so the market column reads the authority’s registered region when the notice has none (labelled). About 30 % of award-vs-estimate pairs are exact matches — the buyer published the award at the estimate. n is on every figure; a thin sample is muted, never hidden.
- “Match” and “relevance” are model scores from the nightly matcher, not published facts. Find a Tender does not publish who is bidding. Never shown: contact details, payment behaviour, or a recommended price.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Procedure method
- Below threshold - open competition
- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Works
- Notice status
- Open for tender
- Procurement threshold
- Below threshold
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- No (one-off requirement)
- First published
- 24 Sept 2026, 14:51 BST
- Last source update
- 24 Sept 2026, 14:51 BST
- Authority reference
C6086- Latest notice
- Tender notice (UK4)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-0779adFind a Tender
How to participate & submission route
Official notice Submit via In-tend- Expression of interest (EOI)
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- Tender submission deadline
- 3 Nov 2026, 12:00 GMT
- Clarification deadline
- 16 Oct 2026, 23:59 BST
- Submission channel
- Official e-sourcing portal
- Electronic submission
- Allowed
Timeline
4 published dates · Europe/London- Tender notice published2 days ago24 Sept 2026, 14:51 BST
- Clarification questions byin 21 days16 Oct 2026, 23:59 BST
- Submission deadlinein 38 days3 Nov 2026, 12:00 GMT
- Contract startsin 100 days4 Jan 2027, 00:00 GMT
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Nothing awarded yet- Awards (0)
- No award published
- Contracts (0)
- No contract published
- Bid statistics
- No aggregate bid statistics published
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Tender notice published24 Sept 2026, 14:51 BSTUK4
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Official documents & specifications (2)
Official links; attachments are not copiedTender pack and attachments
Notices published for this procedure
- Tender notice Tender notice on Find a Tender