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Published 12 Oct 2026, 12:49 BST

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Loriners MAT (Park Hall Infant & Junior Schools) ~ Cleaning Tender

Authority: Loriners MAT (Park Hall Infant & Junior Schools) (Education)

ServicesCompetitive flexible procedureAbove thresholdSME suitable
Published estimate£450,000≈ £150k / year · £450,000 inc. VAT
Submission deadline 5 Mar 202712:00 GMT · 143d 7h left
Clarification cut-off 11 Dec 202612:00 GMT · questions to the authority
Contract term 3 yrsends 31 Jul 2030 · up to 31 Jul 2032 with extensions · starts 1 Aug 2027

What is being bought

Published requirement description

The successful Supplier/s will be required to provide catering services at the following schools:

1.Park Hall Junior Academy, Park Hall Road Walsall WS5 3HF

2.Park Hall Infant Academy, Park Hall Road Walsall WS5 3HF

3. ‘The Bungalow’ - onsite offices for Trust support staff, WS5 3HF

Whilst each School is operated independently, they will both fall within scope of the Loriners Trust Cleaning Contract, which shall be awarded as a single contract to one supplier, following agreement regarding ‘best value’

The contract cover the scope for the provision of all cleaning services within all Trust schools.

The contract value for the schools is circa £50K per annum at Park Hall Junior Academy and £40K at Park Hall Infant Academy. The bungalow is not currently in scope, but shall be by the time this contract commences.

Please see PSQ Document for more information.

For more information about this opportunity, please visit the eSourcing portal at:

https://litmustms.co.uk/tenders/UK-UK-Walsall:-School-cleaning-services./DB7WCJJ2HN

To respond to this opportunity, please click here:

https://litmustms.co.uk/respond/DB7WCJJ2HN

  • How the procedure runs: Please see PSQ Document for more information.

CPV: School cleaning services

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · value published
Lot #1Renewal 3 yrsSMEPublished value£450,000
Contract period: 1 Aug 2027 — 31 Jul 2030 (up to 31 Jul 2032 with extensions) · up to 5 yrs with extensionsEligibility: SME eligibleDelivery: West MidlandsTurnover guideline: ~£299,726/yr≈ 2× annual value
Value
£450,000 exc. VAT · £450,000 inc. VAT
Extensions
3+2 Please see PSQ Document for more information.
90919300 School cleaning services

Who is likely to bid for this lot ↓

What it takes to win
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How this buyer will score bids.

The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).

Evaluation split and conditions of participation as published — the tender pack may add more
How bids are scored
Quality: 70%Price: 30%
Published sub-criteria (2)
  • Criterion 1 — 70%
  • Criterion 2 — 30%
Published award criteria (2)
  • Criterion 1
  • Criterion 2

No conditions of participation were published on the notice; check the tender documents.

What this means for your bid
  • Price carries 30 of 100 points — a 10% discount moves about 3 points. The method statement decides this lot, not the discount.
  • Turnover usually expected at this size: about £299,726 (twice the annual value).

Price arithmetic assumes straight proportional scoring — the tender pack may use another formula. Turnover is an indicative market norm (≈2× annual value), not a published condition.

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

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

Loriners MAT (Park Hall Infant & Junior Schools) has too little published record in this market to describe on its own. Published market evidence for the same work stands beside whatever it has. Frameworks and DPS are kept out: they attract a different number of bids. Whole-market view: Cleaning services (CPV 9091) →

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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
The marketCleaning services (CPV 9091) · West Midlands
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: no sizes known · market: CPV 9091 · West Midlands, n=60
—72%

No winner size data published for this authority.

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.

Here, local means registered in West Midlands.

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

Last 36 months.

Buyer: no locations · market: CPV 9091 · West Midlands, n=87
—16%

Winner locations not published for this authority. Local means a registered address in West Midlands.

How long to a decision?
i

How long buyers here take to decide after bids close.

Middle value in days from the deadline to the first award notice, on competitions that published both dates.

Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: no dates · market: CPV 9091 · West Midlands, n=38
—62 days

Half of these awards were announced within 62 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.

The market share is a minimum: some awards have no bid count.

Thin markets produce this too; it is not proof of a tailored specification.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: no awards on record · market: CPV 9091 · West Midlands, n=79
—14%

No awards recorded for this authority in this market.

How many bids did past lots attract?

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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 buyerNo published bid counts
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The market66 lots with bid counts · CPV 9091 · West Midlands
2% had one bid
Market · select a colour for counts
1 bid2%
Market: 1 of 66 lots with published bid counts.
2–39%
Market: 6 of 66 lots with published bid counts.
4–650%
Market: 33 of 66 lots with published bid counts.
7+39%
Market: 26 of 66 lots with published bid counts.

How did awards compare with estimates?

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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 buyerNo matched awards
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The market41 lots with estimate and award · CPV 9091 · West Midlands
17% below estimate
Market · select a colour for counts
Below estimate17%
Market: 7 of 41 lots with an estimate and award.
Within ±2%41%
Market: 17 of 41 lots with an estimate and award.
Above estimate41%
Market: 17 of 41 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 909136 monthsSME suitablePublished estimate£450k
Expected competition
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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.

A forecast, not a list of bidders.

5expected bids3% single-bid risk
forecast from 102 past contests
Forecast chances for this lot
1 bid3%
Chance this lot gets 1 bid: 3%. This is a forecast.
2–312%
Chance this lot gets 2–3: 12%. This is a forecast.
4–669%
Chance this lot gets 4–6: 69%. This is a forecast.
7+15%
Chance this lot gets 7+: 15%. This is a forecast.
Commercial price forecast
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Where the winning price may land.

The forecast uses similar awards and the buyer’s estimate. The band covers the middle half of likely prices.

Based on 56 comparable awards. Each lot reflects its own category; forecasts for different lots of the same notice are not comparative.

A guide, not a price to bid.

£450kMatches estimate (50% chance)
56 comparable awards
Forecast compared with the buyer’s estimate
Middle 50%£450k
The middle half of likely prices meets at £450,000.
Estimate£450k
The buyer published an estimate of £450,000 for this lot.

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.

SupplierThis buyer’s earlier contractLotAward valueMatch
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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.

SupplierWon in this categoryLive contractsAward vs estimate
4 wins in West Midlands12 panel places
£293m47 awards in 36m · last this month16 live · £171m
i

Public contracts this supplier still holds.

Its awards whose published end date is still in the future, with their values. Many contracts publish no end date, so this is a floor, not the whole book.

Unexpired says nothing about spare capacity.

at estimate n=25
1 win in West Midlands
£30m21 awards in 36m · last 1 months ago13 live · £30m
i

Public contracts this supplier still holds.

Its awards whose published end date is still in the future, with their values. Many contracts publish no end date, so this is a floor, not the whole book.

Unexpired says nothing about spare capacity.

7% above n=29
2 wins in West Midlands1 panel places
£21m15 awards in 36m · last 1 months ago9 live · £15m
i

Public contracts this supplier still holds.

Its awards whose published end date is still in the future, with their values. Many contracts publish no end date, so this is a floor, not the whole book.

Unexpired says nothing about spare capacity.

at estimate n=10
9 wins in West Midlands1 panel places
£30m19 awards in 36m · last 2 months ago28 live · £38m
i

Public contracts this supplier still holds.

Its awards whose published end date is still in the future, with their values. Many contracts publish no end date, so this is a floor, not the whole book.

Unexpired says nothing about spare capacity.

at estimate n=45
3 wins in West Midlands5 panel places
£6.1m12 awards in 36m · last this month8 live · £3.6m
i

Public contracts this supplier still holds.

Its awards whose published end date is still in the future, with their values. Many contracts publish no end date, so this is a floor, not the whole book.

Unexpired says nothing about spare capacity.

14% below n=5
Coverage and what to read with care
  • Each figure explains itself. The on a figure says what it is, how it is counted and which scope this notice’s own record came from (class, division, all categories, or the authority’s 24-month row). The two sides are never blended. A lot’s own market is read at its delivery region where the lot names one; where it names several, or none that can be resolved, the chart falls back to the UK-wide record for the same category and says so under the bar. An empty cell means the source published nothing usable. Long form: Methodology.
  • When we call out a difference. A buyer figure is only flagged against the market when the sample is large enough that the gap is unlikely to be chance; at most two callouts appear, always phrased as a comparison with both numbers and the sample size.
  • Coverage (re-measured 5 Oct on the live record, 94,497 awarded procedures of the last three years). 51 % publish a bid count and 72 % a delivery region, so the market column reads the authority’s registered region when the notice names none, labelled. Of the 17,687 award-vs-estimate pairs, 34 % sit exactly on the estimate — the buyer published the award at the figure it advertised. n is on every figure; a thin sample is muted, never hidden, and a distribution is not drawn as percentages below ten observations.
  • “Match”, text similarity, the expected-bid figure and the distribution drawn beneath it are model outputs, not published facts or win probabilities. Find a Tender does not publish who is bidding. Never shown: contact details, payment behaviour, or a recommended price.

Procedure terms & legal framework

From the official record
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 structure
Stand-alone contract (no framework)
Competition type
Competitive procedure
GPA / WTO covered
Yes (GPA)
Recurring procurement
Unspecified in notice
First published
12 Oct 2026, 12:49 BST
Last source update
12 Oct 2026, 12:49 BST
Award evaluation window
Submission end — 3 May 2027
FTS notice number
2026/S 000-096043
Latest notice
Tender notice (UK4)
Classification (CPV)
School cleaning services
Delivery area
West Midlands (UKG38)
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-07858e Find a Tender
How it runs
Please see PSQ Document for more information.

How to participate & submission route

Official notice Submit via Litmus TMS
Submission portal named on this notice: Litmus TMS
Supplier login requiredElectronic submission allowedLanguage: EN
Access & registration note: Free
Requests to participate (first stage)
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Tender submission deadline
5 Mar 2027, 12:00 GMT
Clarification deadline
11 Dec 2026, 12:00 GMT
Submission channel
Official e-sourcing portal
Electronic submission
Allowed
Accepted languages
en
Detailed submission instructions & authority contactsFrom official release
Published estimate £450,000 excludes VAT (£450,000 including VAT).

Timeline

5 published dates · Europe/London
  1. Tender notice published1 day ago
    12 Oct 2026, 12:49 BST
  2. Clarification questions byin 59 days
    11 Dec 2026, 12:00 GMT
  3. Submission deadlinein 143 days
    5 Mar 2027, 12:00 GMT
  4. Award decision expected byin 203 days
    3 May 2027, 23:59 BST
  5. Contract startsin 292 days
    1 Aug 2027, 00:00 BST

Commercial outcome & contract awards

Nothing awarded yet
Awards (0)
No award published
Contracts (0)
No contract published
Bid statistics
No aggregate bid statistics published

Notice history

2 events · 1 release on Find a Tender · since 12 Oct 2026
  1. Tender notice published
    12 Oct 2026, 12:49 BSTUK4
  2. First tender notice published
    12 Oct 2026, 12:49 BST

Contracting authority & participating public bodies

Loriners MAT (Park Hall Infant & Junior Schools)

Contracting authorityPublic authority - sub-central government GB-PPON: PLWV-3747-QYJZ Park Hall Junior Academy, Park Hall Road, Weston-super-Mare, Walsall, West Midlands, WS5 3HFContact name, email, phone

Official documents & specifications (1)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure

  • Tender notice tenderTender noticeUK4Tender notice on Find a Tender