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Published 15 May 2026, 15:58 BST

Official UK procurement notice

Leisure Centres Decarbonisation works - Camberwell Leisure Centre

Authority: Southwark Council (Local council)

WorksBelow threshold - limited competitionBelow thresholdSME suitable
Planned pipeline value£2,642,981pipeline notice, not a live tender
Tender notice expected Date not publishedfrom the planned procurement notice
Contract term 5 moends 31 Mar 2027 · starts 27 Oct 2026

What is being bought

Published requirement description

THIS IS A PIPELINE NOTICE - NOT A LIVE TENDER OPPORTUNITY

It is linked to Preliminary Market engagement notice 2025/S 000-075718

The London Borough of Southwark (LBS) is delivering a major decarbonisation initiative at

Camberwell Leisure Centre SE5 8TS and seeks to appoint a suitably skilled and

experienced Principal Contractor to carry out the Works in accordance with the completed

RIBA Stage 4 design. The goal of the project is to reduce carbon emissions, improve

energy efficiency, and support the borough's wider climate commitments. This project is

supported by funding from Phase 4 of the Public Sector Decarbonisation Scheme

(PSDS), administered by Salix Finance and has appointed a multi-disciplinary design

team to develop the design to RIBA Stages 1–4.

This will be carried via a single-stage procurement using the Alcumus SafeContractor List of construction companies: www.southwark.gov.uk/business-and-licence… ↗

CPV: Construction work · Heat pumps · Solar energy · Steam, hot water and associated products

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published
Lot #1Planned 5 moSME

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

How Southwark Council buys Steam, hot water and associated products (CPV 0932), and who usually turns up

Southwark Council’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: Steam, hot water and associated products (CPV 0932) →

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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 buyerSouthwark Council · all categories
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: 15 of 45 known-size awards · market: division 09 · Greater London, n=50
33%20%

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.

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

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 46 of 67 known-location awards · market: CPV 0932 · UK-wide, n=12
69%67%

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: 6 decided notices · market: division 09 · Greater London, n=10
81 days30 days

Half of these awards have an award date within 81 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 53 procurements with awards had no recorded rival · market: CPV 0932 · UK-wide, n=14
23%50%

Missing bid counts may hide more single-bid awards. This share is a minimum.

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 buyer27 lots with bid counts · all categories
7% had one bid
The market11 lots with bid counts · division 09 · Greater London
18% had one bid
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
1 bid7% / 18%
Buyer: 2 of 27 lots with published bid counts. Market: 2 of 11 lots with published bid counts.
2–319% / 27%
Buyer: 5 of 27 lots with published bid counts. Market: 3 of 11 lots with published bid counts.
4–641% / 18%
Buyer: 11 of 27 lots with published bid counts. Market: 2 of 11 lots with published bid counts.
7+33% / 36%
Buyer: 9 of 27 lots with published bid counts. Market: 4 of 11 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 buyer12 lots with estimate and award · all categories
42% below estimate
The market10 lots with estimate and award · division 09 · Greater London
20% below estimate
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
Below estimate42% / 20%
Buyer: 5 of 12 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 2 of 10 lots with an estimate and award.
Within ±2%42% / 70%
Buyer: 5 of 12 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 7 of 10 lots with an estimate and award.
Above estimate17% / 10%
Buyer: 2 of 12 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 1 of 10 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 42515 monthsSME suitablePublished estimate£2.6m

This lot is listed as CPV 4251. The table above uses the notice category.

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 15 past lots.

A forecast, not a list of bidders.

—No model forecast yet53% chance of a single bid
Past bids on 15 similar lots
1 bid53%
8 of 15 similar past lots received 1 bid (53%).
2–313%
2 of 15 similar past lots received 2–3 (13%).
4–627%
4 of 15 similar past lots received 4–6 (27%).
7+7%
1 of 15 similar past lots received 7+ (7%).
Check who supplied similar work and whether the route limits bidders.
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 £2.6m, 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.

Restricted route (Stage 2 ITT / Shortlist): Bidding is restricted to invited candidates who qualified at Stage 1. Uninvited suppliers cannot participate in this round.

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
Below threshold - limited competition
Legal basis
UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
Procurement category
Works
Notice status
Planned procurement
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
Unspecified in notice
First published
15 May 2026, 15:58 BST
Last source update
15 May 2026, 15:58 BST
Authority reference
DN812037
FTS notice number
2026/S 000-045028
Latest notice
Pipeline notice (UK1)
Classification (CPV)
Construction workHeat pumpsSolar energySteam, hot water and associated products
Delivery area
London (UKI44)
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-069a46 Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice
Submission deadline
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Timeline

15 May 2026 → 27 Oct 2026 · 2 dates
  1. Planning notice published166 days ago
    15 May 2026, 15:58 BST
  2. Contract starts40h ago
    27 Oct 2026

Notice history

1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender
  1. Pipeline notice published
    15 May 2026, 15:58 BST
    UK1

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 Borough of Southwark

Contracting authorityPublic authority - sub-central government GB-PPON: PXTW-7647-VDLV Southwark Council, London, London, SE1 2QHContact name, email

Official documents & specifications (1)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure

  • Pipeline notice planningPipeline noticeUK1Pipeline notice on Find a Tender