Official UK procurement notice
Learners' Trust Cleaning Services Tender
Authority: LEARNERS' TRUST (Public body)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionLearners' Trust is seeking to identify suitably experienced and capable cleaning service providers to potentially undertake the Trust's cleaning services contract.
This Expression of Interest ("EOI") represents Stage One of the Trust's proposed procurement process.
The procurement is anticipated to comprise four stages:
Stage One - Pre-Tender Expression of Interest: Initial assessment of prospective Contractors and shortlisting of up to three Contractors.
Stage Two - Full Tender Specification and Application: Detailed tender submission and evaluation by shortlisted Contractors.
Stage Three - Contractor Interviews / Presentations: Further assessment of the two highest-ranking suitable Contractors from Stage Two.
Stage Four - Contract Offer and Award: Identification of a preferred bidder and progression to contract award, subject to the applicable approvals and processes.
The Trust intends to invite up to three Contractors to participate in Stage Two.
Following detailed evaluation of the Stage Two tender submissions, the Trust intends to invite up to two Contractors to participate in Stage Three.
The purpose of this EOI is to establish which prospective Contractors demonstrate sufficient relevant experience, capability, operational capacity and general suitability to justify progressing to the full tender stage.
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Stage One is intentionally proportionate and concise. Prospective Contractors are not required to submit a full service proposal or detailed tender response at this stage.
CPV: Cleaning services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1Lot 1PlannedRenewal
- Extensions
- Extension options published
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
- No (one-off requirement)
- First published
- 6 Oct 2026, 15:28 BST
- Last source update
- 6 Oct 2026, 15:28 BST
- Authority reference
LTCS_0926- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-0781e2
How it was run
- Submission deadline
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Timeline
4 published dates · Europe/London- Planning notice publishedearlier today6 Oct 2026, 15:20 BST
- Market engagementin 31 days6 Nov 2026, 23:59 GMTCopies of the cleaning services pre tender expression of interest form can be download from our website by following the link below - thelearnerstrust.org/our-trust/tendering-… ↗
- Tender notice expectedin 38 days13 Nov 2026, 23:59 GMT
- Contract startsin 176 days1 Apr 2027, 00:00 BST
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Pipeline notice- Awards (0)
- No award published
- Contracts (0)
- No contract published
- Bid statistics
- No aggregate bid statistics published
Notice history
2 events · 2 releases on Find a Tender · since 6 Oct 2026- Preliminary market engagement notice published6 Oct 2026, 15:28 BSTUK2
- Preliminary market engagement notice published6 Oct 2026, 15:20 BSTUK2
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
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender