Official UK procurement notice
L&Q Mobility Lifts Servicing & Maintenance
Authority: LONDON & QUADRANT HOUSING TRUST (Housing)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThis Contract covers the provision of inspection, servicing, maintenance, repair and associated works for:
- Domestic Mobility Lifts and Lifting Equipment, and
- Passenger Lifts located within communal residential buildings
across London & Quadrant’s property portfolio.
These asset groups have distinct operational, technical and risk characteristics:
- Mobility equipment supports individual residents, often within their own homes and frequently involving vulnerable users
- Passenger lifts serve multiple residents and the wider public, typically operating in high-traffic communal environments where uptime and public safety are critical
Contractors are required to deliver a service model that is proportionate, responsive and tailored to each asset type.
Contractors shall service and maintain (non-exhaustive):
A - Domestic Mobility Equipment
- Slings, Bathing Equipment, Electric Beds, Hoists, Platform lifts, Stairlifts, Through Floor Lifts and other domestic lifting / accessibility equipment
B - Passenger Lifts
- Traction Lifts (geared and gearless), Hydraulic Lifts, Machine Room Less (MRL) Lifts, Firefighting/Fireman's Lifts and Goods Passenger Lifts
These assets may vary in:
- Age
- Manufacturer
- Technical Complexity
- Usage intensity
CPV: Bath lifts · Chairlifts · Installation services of lifting and handling equipment, except lifts and escalators · Lifts · Lifts, skip hoists, hoists, escalators and moving walkways · Repair and maintenance services · Stairlifts
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedPipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How LONDON & QUADRANT HOUSING TRUST buys Lifting and handling equipment (CPV 4241), and who usually turns up
LONDON & QUADRANT HOUSING TRUST’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: Lifting and handling equipment (CPV 4241) →
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 Greater London (authority’s region).
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners are registered in Greater London.
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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 64 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.
Both shares are minimums: some awards have no bid count.
Thin markets produce this too; it is not proof of a tailored specification.
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.
1 bid9% / 12%
2–322% / 42%
4–626% / 38%
7+43% / 8%
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 estimate37%
Within ±2%41%
Above estimate22%
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 #1CPV 4241Published estimate£9.5m
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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 15 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid53%
2–313%
4–627%
7+7%
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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- 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
- 20 Aug 2026, 11:08 BST
- Last source update
- 20 Aug 2026, 11:17 BST
- Authority reference
PropProc00018- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-079355- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Not published
- Official registry OCID
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How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
20 Aug 2026 → 1 Jun 2027 · 4 dates- Planning notice published63 days ago20 Aug 2026, 11:08 BST
- Market engagement49 days ago3 Sept 2026, 23:59 BST
L&Q are undertaking this preliminary market engagement (PME) to inform the design of a future procurement exercise for the servicing, maintenance and repair of domestic mobility lifts and associated lifting equipment.
The procurement will be structured into multiple Lots, with the intention of appointing one contract per Lot.
The purpose of this PME is to:
- Test the proposed Lot-based procurement strategy for mobility lifts
- Assess market capability, capacity and readiness to deliver domestic mobility lift servicing and maintenance at scale
- Identify key risks, dependencies and considerations associated with the safe, compliant and reliable delivery of these services
- Understand factors that may impact service resilience, compliance and commercial sustainability
This PME is not intended to form part of any tender evaluation or selection process.
Responses will used solely to inform and refine the future procurement approach including:
- Lot structure
- Scope definition
- Contractual and performance frameworks
- Evaluation methodology
Feedback received will not be used to assess supplier eligibility, ranking or advantage in any subsequent tender exercise.
How will we set this out?
L&Q intends to undertake a single tender exercise for mobility lift servicing and maintenance, structured into defined Lots, aligned to geographical and /or service delivery considerations. Each Lot is intended to be awarded to a separate contractor.
This approach is intended to:
- Align specialist capability with defined scopes of work
- Improve service resilience for vulnerable residents
- Reduce delivery, compliance and continuity risks
- Encourage a competitive and sustainable supply market
The PME has a structured Yes / No / Maybe response format.
Where additional detail is requested, responses should be brief and factual only. Promotional or marketing content is not required.
- Tender notice expected24 days ago28 Sept 2026, 23:59 BST
- Today22 Oct 2026
- Contract startsin 221 days1 Jun 2027, 00:00 BST
Notice history
2 events · 2 releases on Find a Tender · since 20 Aug 2026- Pipeline notice published20 Aug 2026, 11:08 BSTUK1
- Preliminary market engagement notice published20 Aug 2026, 11:17 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 (2)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender
- Pipeline notice Pipeline notice on Find a Tender