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Published 17 Sept 2026, 14:18 BST

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Learning Community Trust Tender for Cleaning Services

Name: Procurement Process ocds-h6vhtk-077488
Creator: Learning Community Trust
Published: 2026-09-17T13:18:06.000Z
License: https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/

Official notice

Authority:Learning Community Trust(Public Body)

services

Competitive flexible procedure

Above threshold

SME suitable

VCSE suitable

Sectors:

Cleaning & Environmental Services (90)

Delivery:

Published estimate

£3,154,889

≈ £1,050,670 / year

Submission deadline

19 Oct 2026, 10:00 BST

31d 18h leftTypical competition: 6 bids4-digit CPV 9091 · n=2,436 bid reports

Clarification Cut-Off

12 Oct 2026, 12:00 BST

Tender enquiry deadline · 1 lot

Contract duration

3 yrs (with extension options)

Starts 1 Apr 2027, 00:00 BST

What is being bought & procurement scope

Procurement Scope & Specification

Tenderline summary generated from the published notice

Executive Summary: Learning Community Trust: "Learning Community Trust Tender for Cleaning Services". Published status: active. Published value: £3,154,889. 1 published lot. Recorded submission deadline: 19 Oct 2026, 10:00 BST. Published submission portal: suppliers.multiquote.com.

Official Requirement Description:

The Learning Community Trust is a well-established MAT in Telford and Shropshire who are seeking a contractor to provide cleaning services at 11 of their sites. Cleaning of a regular and routine nature is required, together with more specific periodical cleaning outside of the term-time operation. The contract will be awarded for a period of 3 years commencing 1st April 2027 with an option to extend for a further one plus one years, which will be measured on the achievement of agreed Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s), from Day One of the contract. The Trust values the personnel employed to deliver their services, and by tendering the cleaning contract are seeking to reset expectations for the cleaning provision, improve staff morale and consolidate consistent cleaning standards across the Trust.

Lots and requirements (1)

Procurement Structure

Published by the contracting authority

Lot #1
Lot 1
active
Renewal
Published value£3,154,889
The source published no individual title or description for this lot.
Contract period:
1 Apr 2027 — 31 Mar 2030 (3 yrs)
Eligibility:
SME eligible
VCSE eligible
Turnover benchmark:
~£2,101,340/yr
Options / extension:
Extensions allowed: Yes (2 x 12 months)
Award criteria (12)

Published award criteria & contract terms

From this notice

Only criteria and terms published on this notice. Conditions of participation in the tender pack are not inferred.

Evaluation weighting

Quality: 130

Price: 70

Published as relative weights, not percentage points.

Published sub-criteria

Service Delivery — 20
Analysis of Staffing — 20
Customer Care — 10
Clarification Meeting — 10
Added Value — 5
Service Delivery — 20
Analysis of Staffing — 20
Customer Care — 10
Clarification Meeting — 10
Added Value — 5
Price — 35
Price — 35

Published terms

Contract duration3 yrs (with extension options)

Competition analysis · published record, not a forecast of who will bid

Cleaning services (CPV 9091) in West Midlands — and who usually turns up

Learning Community Trust has too little published record in this market to describe on its own; the West Midlands market stands beside whatever it has. Frameworks and DPS are kept out: they attract a different number of bids. Whole-market view: sector page →

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 report one bid by definition and are left out. Empty means nothing was published, not filled in from elsewhere.

This authority

Learning Community Trust

contract notices in 36 months: 1 in CPV 9091 · 1 in division 90 · 2 in all categories

Learning Community Trust has published no bid reports, no comparable estimate → award pairs and no award dates that this analysis can use — in Cleaning services (CPV 9091) (36 months) or across all categories (24 months).

The market · authority’s region

West Midlands · Cleaning services (CPV 9091)

contract notices delivered in West Midlands in 36 months: 151 in CPV 9091 (141 contested) · 407 in division 90 (379 contested) · the notice publishes no delivery location, so the authority’s registered region is used

Bids per lot6CPV 9091 · 36m · n=82 lots

Single-bid lots4%CPV 9091 · 36m · n=82 lots

Award vs estimateat estimateCPV 9091 · 36m · n=36 pairs

Deadline → award64dCPV 9091 · 36m · n=31 notices

SME bidders68%CPV 9091 · 36m · n=22 lots

Winners based in the region62%CPV 9091 · 36m · n=78 awards

Bids per lot robust · n=82

1 bid 4%
2–3 7%
4–6 48%
7+ 41%

Median 6 · 82 lots on 64 contested notices · CPV 9091.

Winning award vs estimate robust · n=36

Below estimate 14%
Within ±2% 42%
Above estimate 44%

36 lot pairs · CPV 9091.

robust · n=36 Awards in West Midlands (CPV 9091, n=36 pairs) land a median at estimate: on this notice’s £3,154,889 that is about £3,154,889, middle half £3,154,889–£3,454,603 (quartiles from West Midlands · CPV 9091). Context for a bid, not a recommended price.

Method and what to read with care

Two columns, no blending. The authority column walks its own record only: notices in the 4-digit class, then the 2-digit division, then all categories (36 months, per lot, contested only), and as a last resort its 24-month row across all categories (per notice, every route). The market column is the notice’s primary delivery ITL1 × the same class, then division (36 months). Nothing is filled from the UK-wide class; an empty tile means the source published nothing usable.
Per lot, contested only. Find a Tender publishes bid counts per lot; a seven-lot tender is seven contests. Procedures awarded without competition (limited / direct) are excluded from bids, price pairs and decision days — they report one bid by definition. Frameworks and DPS are a separate population from contracts (6–7 bids per lot against 2–4) and only the notice’s own kind is shown.
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). Award-vs-estimate pairs need a lot estimate, one active award on the lot, one canonical supplier and a gap under 60 %; about 30 % of pairs are exact matches (the buyer published the award at the estimate). n is on every figure; below 3 the tile is muted, never hidden.
Pounds. The expected award applies the authority’s median movement (or the region’s, when the authority has fewer than 3 pairs) to this notice’s estimate; the middle half uses the region’s quartiles. A multi-lot notice publishes an envelope, so the movement is applied per lot, never to the total. A benchmark, not a recommended price.
“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

Procedure method	Competitive flexible procedure	Legal basis	UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023	Procurement category	services
Notice status	Open for tender	Procurement threshold	Above threshold (FTS publication)	Regulatory regime	Standard commercial regime
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	17 Sept 2026, 14:18 BST	Last source update	17 Sept 2026, 14:18 BST
Award evaluation window	Submission end — 1 Apr 2027, 23:59 BST	Classification (CPV)	School cleaning services
Delivery area	UK
Official Registry OCID	`ocds-h6vhtk-077488`

How to participate & submission route

Official notice

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Expression of interest (EOI)	—	Tender submission deadline	19 Oct 2026, 10:00 BST	Clarification deadline	12 Oct 2026, 12:00 BST
Submission channel	Official e-sourcing portal	Electronic submission	Allowed	Accepted languages	en
Participation fee	Free of charge (Open access)

Detailed Submission Instructions & Authority Contacts

From official release

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Timeline

Procedure published
17 Sept 2026, 14:18 BST
Clarification deadline
12 Oct 2026, 12:00 BST
Submission deadline
19 Oct 2026, 10:00 BST

Commercial outcome and contract awards

Awards (0)No award published

Contracts (0)No contract published

Bid statisticsNo aggregate bid statistics published

Notice history

1 lines · 1 source events

Official notice release published
17 Sept 2026, 14:18 BST

Contracting authority & participating public bodies