Find a TenderPlanned procurementPreliminary market engagement notice
Published 28 Sept 2026, 10:22 BST

Official UK procurement notice

Maintenance Building Management System (BMS) for Maidstone Hospital 2027

Authority: Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust (NHS & healthcare)

ServicesBelow threshold
Sectors: Repair & Maintenance (50) Delivery: Delivery location not published
Planned pipeline valueValue not publishedpipeline notice, not a live tender
Tender notice expected 2 Nov 2026from the planned procurement notice
Contract term 2 yrsends 23 Jan 2029 · starts 24 Jan 2027
Notice summaryFrom the published notice

Planned Preventative Maintenance for Trend 963 Building Management System (BMS.

What is being bought

Published requirement description

Planned Preventative Maintenance for Trend 963 Building Management System (BMS

CPV: Repair and maintenance services of medical equipment

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published
Lot #1Planned 2 yrs

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

How Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust buys Repair and maintenance services of medical and surgical equipment (CPV 5042), and who usually turns up

Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust’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: Repair and maintenance services of medical and surgical equipment (CPV 5042) →

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How the contest usually goes

Winner shares use published awards; bid and price charts use contested lots.

How often do SMEs win?
i

The counts under this question show how many awards have a known supplier size.

Buyer: 9 of 22 known-size awards · market: CPV 5042 · South East England (authority’s region), n=42
41%31%

Small firms have won here. Neither number says whether you qualify; it describes who has been winning.

How often do local suppliers win?
i

Local means the winner is registered in the region where that award was delivered. The market figure counts awards delivered in South East England (authority’s region).

Buyer: 21 of 25 known-location awards · market: CPV 5042 · South East England (authority’s region), n=60
84%47%

Most of this buyer’s recorded winners were registered in the region where that award was delivered.

How long to a decision?
i
Buyer: no decision dates published · market: CPV 5042 · UK-wide, n=12
—36 days

Half of these awards have an award date within 36 days of the bid deadline.

How often single-bid or direct?
i

Both shares are minimums: some awards have no bid count.

Buyer: at least 24 of 26 procurements with awards had no recorded rival · market: CPV 5042 · South East England (authority’s region), n=72
92%92%

Direct awards or one recorded bid are common here. Check the route before spending time on a bid.

How many bids did past lots attract?

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This buyerToo few to chart: 1 lot with bid counts, 5 needed · all categories
The market36 lots with bid counts · CPV 5042 · UK-wide
11% had one bid
% of the market's 36 lots with a published bid count · select a colour for counts
1 bid11%
Market: 4 of 36 lots with published bid counts.
2–347%
Market: 17 of 36 lots with published bid counts.
4–639%
Market: 14 of 36 lots with published bid counts.
7+3%
Market: 1 of 36 lots with published bid counts.

How did awards compare with estimates?

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This buyerToo few to chart: 1 lot with estimate and award, 5 needed · all categories
The market8 lots with estimate and award · CPV 5042 · UK-wide
25% below estimate
% of the market's 8 lots with an estimate and award · select a colour for counts
Below estimate25%
Market: 2 of 8 lots with an estimate and award.
Within ±2%75%
Market: 6 of 8 lots with an estimate and award.
Above estimate0%
Market: 0 of 8 lots with an estimate and award.
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Assess each lot
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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 504224 monthsEstimate not published
Expected competition
i

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 148 past lots.

—No model forecast yet14% chance of a single bid
Past bids on 148 similar lots
1 bid14%
21 of 148 similar past lots received 1 bid (14%).
2–331%
46 of 148 similar past lots received 2–3 (31%).
4–628%
42 of 148 similar past lots received 4–6 (28%).
7+26%
39 of 148 similar past lots received 7+ (26%).
Comparable past lots usually drew 4 bids.
Commercial price forecast
i

No comparable awards for this lot yet.

—Estimate not published
The buyer published no estimate for this lot, so there is nothing to forecast against. A price prediction here would be a number about a number we do not have.

Who has supplied this buyer on similar work?
i

No earlier contract of this buyer matches this lot on the published record.

Who could compete for this lot?
i

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.

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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
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
28 Sept 2026, 10:22 BST
Last source update
28 Sept 2026, 10:22 BST
Authority reference
C473817
FTS notice number
2026/S 000-091298
Latest notice
Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
Classification (CPV)
Repair and maintenance services of medical equipment
Delivery area
Not published
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-077b3b Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice
Submission deadline
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Timeline

28 Sept 2026 → 24 Jan 2027 · 4 dates
  1. Planning notice published47 days ago
    28 Sept 2026, 10:22 BST
  2. Market engagement15 days ago
    30 Oct 2026, 23:59 GMT

    Please express your interest and all documents will be published after the expression of interest has closed

  3. Tender notice expected12 days ago
    2 Nov 2026, 23:59 GMT
  4. Today
    15 Nov 2026
  5. Contract startsin 69 days
    24 Jan 2027

Notice history

1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender
  1. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    28 Sept 2026, 10:22 BST
    UK2

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

Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust

Contracting authorityPublic authority - central government GB-PPON: PLWZ-5628-VQPM Hermitage Lane, Kent, Maidstone, South East, ME16 9QQContact name, email

Official documents & specifications (1)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure