Official UK procurement notice
Loan Finance Tender · UK public procurement notice
Authority: Falmouth Exeter Plus (Public body)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThe University is seeking proposals from suitably qualified lenders for the provision of loan finance services to refinance its existing borrowing arrangements and support its long-term financial strategy.
CPV: Banking services · Credit granting services · Loan brokerage services
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The lotProcurement structure
single lot · value publishedLot #1Published value£4,000,000
What it takes to wini
Evaluation split and conditions of participation as published; the tender pack may add morei
- Technical: Technical questionnaire question number STQ question and description of what will be evaluated STQ question weighting 01 Proposal. 7.5% 02 Relationship Management 7.5% 03 Reporting and Support 7.5% 04 Experience and Capability 7.5%
No conditions of participation were published on the notice; check the tender documents.
Competition analysis · published record, not a forecast of who will bid
How Falmouth Exeter Plus buys Banking services (CPV 6611), and who usually turns up
Falmouth Exeter Plus’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: Banking services (CPV 6611) →
How the contest usually goes
Winner shares use published awards; bid and price charts use contested lots.
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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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Local means the winner is registered in the region where that award was delivered. The market figure counts awards delivered in South West England (authority’s region).
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners were registered in the region where that award was delivered.
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Half of these awards have an award date within 57 days of the bid deadline.
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The market share is a minimum: some awards have no bid count.
Missing bid counts may hide more single-bid awards. This share is a minimum.
How many bids did past lots attract?
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1 bid0% / 26%
2–314% / 32%
4–657% / 42%
7+29% / 0%
How did awards compare with estimates?
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Below estimate11%
Within ±2%67%
Above estimate22%
Assess each lot i
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Open a lot for its forecast, this buyer’s previous supplier and possible competitors, from published award history, not a bid list
Lot #1CPV 66Published estimate£4.0m
This lot lists more than one class in CPV 66. The comparison uses that group.
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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 39 past lots.
1 bid13%
2–341%
4–646%
7+0%
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No comparable awards for this lot yet.
Who has supplied this buyer on similar work? i
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No earlier contract of this buyer matches this lot on the published record.
Who could compete for this lot? i
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Candidate suppliers for this notice have not been worked out yet, so this is not a verdict that nobody fits.
About this data
- Estimates, labelled. The price range, possible competitors and earlier-work matches are our estimates from past awards, not published facts, win chances or price advice. The buyer’s own record and the wider market are shown apart, never mixed.
- Source. Official UK public procurement notices (Find a Tender and Contracts Finder), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0, updated through the day and rebuilt nightly. Not every figure uses both feeds, and each one shows how many records it rests on: see 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
- Open for tender
- Procurement threshold
- Above threshold (FTS publication)
- Regulatory regime
- Concession
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Yes (GPA)
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 13 Nov 2026, 13:21 GMT
- Last source update
- 13 Nov 2026, 13:21 GMT
- Award evaluation window
- Submission end – 25 Jan 2027
- Authority reference
2144Falmouth- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-108012- Latest notice
- Tender notice (UK4)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Not published
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-07bbafFind a Tender
How to participate & submission route
Official notice Submit via EU-Supply (CTM)- Requests to participate (first stage)
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- Tender submission deadline
- 11 Dec 2026, 12:00 GMT
- Clarification deadline
- 4 Dec 2026, 12:00 GMT
- Submission channel
- Official e-sourcing portal
- Electronic submission
- Allowed
- Accepted languages
- en
Timeline
13 Nov 2026 → 8 Feb 2027 · 5 dates- Tender notice publishedjust passed13 Nov 2026, 13:21 GMT
- Today13 Nov 2026
- Clarification questions byin 20 days4 Dec 2026, 12:00 GMT
- Submission deadlinein 27 days11 Dec 2026, 12:00 GMT
- Award decision expected byin 73 days25 Jan 2027, 23:59 GMT
- Contract startsin 86 days8 Feb 2027
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Tender notice published13 Nov 2026, 13:21 GMTUK4
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Nothing awarded yet- 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 (1)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Tender notice Tender notice on Find a Tender