Find a TenderPlanned procurementPreliminary market engagement notice
Published 23 Jun 2026, 12:23 BST

Official UK procurement notice

L&Q North West (NW) Servicing & Maintenance of Active Fire Assets

Authority: LONDON & QUADRANT HOUSING TRUST (Housing)

ServicesOpen procedureAbove thresholdSME suitable
Planned pipeline value£2,215,229pipeline notice, not a live tender · 1 value update
Tender notice expected 18 Oct 2027from the planned procurement notice
Contract term 5 yrsends 31 Oct 2033 · starts 1 Nov 2028

What is being bought

Published requirement description

This contract covers the statutory servicing, maintenance, remedial works, and associated support services for Active Fire Safety systems across L&Q's North West housing portfolio.

The contracts are intended to ensure that all applicable fire safety systems remain compliant, operationally effective, and supported by auditable evidence at all times, thereby contributing to the L&Q's overarching objective of keeping residents, staff and buildings safe.

he contracts cover all Active Fire Safety assets installed within the Employer's portfolio, including:

  • Existing operational stock
  • New build handovers
  • Assets transferred into the portfolio during the contract term.

Services include:

  • Planned servicing and maintenance in line with statutory and compliance requirements
  • Reactive and emergency attendance following faults, failures, or alerts
  • Out-of-hours response for life-critical systems
  • Remedial works arising from:

o Planned servicing inspections

o Reactive reports via L&Q's call centre

o Notifications from the Fire Safety Team or Neighbourhood Housing Leads

o Fire Risk Assessment (FRA) actions

o Other inspection programmes or projects (E.G. EWS1, AOV programmes)

Asset servicing frequencies vary by system type and are defined by the applicable British Standard, manufacturer guidance, and L&Q's compliance plan.

Asset volumes are indicative and may vary during the contract term. No minimum volume guarantee is provided. Contractors must maintain sufficient capacity to accommodate reasonable portfolio change.

CPV: Repair and maintenance services

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published
Lot #1Planned 5 yrsSME
Contract period: 1 Nov 2028 – 31 Oct 2033 (5 yrs)
Delivery: North WestEligibility: SME eligible

Who is likely to bid for this lot ↓

Pipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published

How LONDON & QUADRANT HOUSING TRUST buys Repair and maintenance services (CPV 50), and who usually turns up

LONDON & QUADRANT HOUSING TRUST’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: Repair and maintenance services (CPV 50) →

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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 buyerLONDON & QUADRANT HOUSING TRUST · all categories
The marketRepair and maintenance services (CPV 50) · North West England
What to do with it
How often do SMEs win?
i

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: 9 of 24 known-size awards · market: division 50 · North West England, n=338
38%53%

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

How often do local suppliers win?
i

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. The market figure counts awards delivered in North West England.

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

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 18 of 23 known-location awards · market: division 50 · North West England, n=452
78%31%

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

How long to a decision?
i

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: 7 decided notices · market: division 50 · North West England, n=84
64 days58 days

Half of these awards have an award date within 64 days of the bid deadline.

How often single-bid or direct?
i

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.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: at least 12 of 31 procurements with awards had no recorded rival · market: division 50 · North West England, n=549
39%57%

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?

i

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 buyer23 lots with bid counts · all categories
9% had one bid
The market137 lots with bid counts · division 50 · North West England
11% had one bid
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
1 bid9% / 11%
Buyer: 2 of 23 lots with published bid counts. Market: 15 of 137 lots with published bid counts.
2–322% / 35%
Buyer: 5 of 23 lots with published bid counts. Market: 48 of 137 lots with published bid counts.
4–626% / 21%
Buyer: 6 of 23 lots with published bid counts. Market: 29 of 137 lots with published bid counts.
7+43% / 33%
Buyer: 10 of 23 lots with published bid counts. Market: 45 of 137 lots with published bid counts.

How did awards compare with estimates?

i

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 buyerToo few to chart: 3 lots with estimate and award, 5 needed · all categories
The market94 lots with estimate and award · division 50 · North West England
19% below estimate
Market · select a colour for counts
Below estimate19%
Market: 18 of 94 lots with an estimate and award.
Within ±2%67%
Market: 63 of 94 lots with an estimate and award.
Above estimate14%
Market: 13 of 94 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 5060 monthsSME suitablePublished estimate£2.2m

This lot lists more than one class in CPV 50. The comparison uses that group.

Expected competition
i

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 137 past lots.

A forecast, not a list of bidders.

—No model forecast yet11% chance of a single bid
Past bids on 137 similar lots
1 bid11%
15 of 137 similar past lots received 1 bid (11%).
2–335%
48 of 137 similar past lots received 2–3 (35%).
4–621%
29 of 137 similar past lots received 4–6 (21%).
7+33%
45 of 137 similar past lots received 7+ (33%).
Comparable past lots usually drew 4 bids.
Commercial price forecast
i

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.

—No model forecast yet
No comparable awards on record for this lot’s category yet. The published estimate is £2.2m, and the forecast stays empty until the market has a record to read.

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.

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.

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
Procedure method
Open procedure
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
23 Jun 2026, 12:23 BST
Last source update
18 Aug 2026, 10:38 BST
Authority reference
PropProc00021
FTS notice number
2026/S 000-078418
Latest notice
Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
Classification (CPV)
Repair and maintenance services
Delivery area
North West (UKD)
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06bafc Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice
Submission deadline
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Timeline

23 Jun 2026 → 1 Nov 2028 · 5 dates
  1. Planning notice published125 days ago
    23 Jun 2026, 12:23 BST
  2. Latest notice published69 days ago
    18 Aug 2026, 10:38 BST
  3. Market engagement55 days ago
    1 Sept 2026, 23:59 BST

    L&Q will issue a PME questionnaire on In-Tend which contractors are welcome to complete and return via the portal, the PME questionnaire will also be advertised to suppliers on ConstructionLine MarketPlace for visibility.

  4. Today
    26 Oct 2026
  5. Tender notice expectedin 357 days
    18 Oct 2027, 23:59 BST
  6. Contract starts
    1 Nov 2028

Notice history

3 events · 2 releases on Find a Tender · since 23 Jun 2026
  1. Pipeline notice published
    23 Jun 2026, 12:23 BST
    UK1
  2. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    18 Aug 2026, 10:38 BST
    UK2
  3. Published value published: £2,215,229
    18 Aug 2026, 10:38 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

LONDON & QUADRANT HOUSING TRUST

Contracting authorityPublic authority - sub-central government GB-COH: IP030441 · GB-PPON: PJQV-6311-TQXL 29-35 West Ham Lane, London, London, E15 4PNContact name, email, phone

Official documents & specifications (2)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure