Official UK procurement notice
Major Works Consultancy Framework
Authority: Tower Hamlets
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThe London Borough of Tower Hamlets (LBTH) intends to procure a number of building consultancy companies to support the delivery of a multi-year planned / major works remediation/refurbishment programme for its existing housing stock. The successful tenderers will be appointed to a framework agreement.
LBTH envisages the appointed consultants will provide technical support to LBTH planned works contracts and frameworks including frameworks for mechanical, electrical and lift installation programmes, provide technical support to planned works carried out through third-party frameworks and other contracts undertake asset and stock condition surveys ,provide related property and building consultancy services.
CPV: Architectural, construction, engineering and inspection services · Construction work
The lotProcurement structure
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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 morei
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).
- “Major Works Consultancy Framework” is a framework: the contest is a place on its panel, not a single contract.
Pipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How Tower Hamlets buys Construction work (CPV 45), and who usually turns up
Tower Hamlets’s own published record, next to the published market for the same work. This notice is a framework or DPS, so only frameworks and DPS are compared. Whole-market view: Construction work (CPV 45) →
How the contest usually goes
Winner shares use published awards; bid and price charts use contested lots.
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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.
Small firms have won here. Neither number says whether you qualify; it describes who has been winning.
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How often local firms win similar work.
Winners with a registered address in the delivery region, out of awards with a known address.
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners are registered in the delivery region.
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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.
Half of these awards were announced within 36 days of the bid deadline.
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How often work is awarded with no recorded rival.
Direct awards and tenders where every published lot count shows one bid.
Thin markets produce this too; it is not proof of a tailored specification.
Direct awards or one recorded bid are common here. Check the route before spending time on a bid.
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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.
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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 #1Published estimate£140m
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How many bids this lot may attract.
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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 1,401 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid5%
2–314%
4–628%
7+53%
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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.
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.
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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.
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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.
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- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Works
- Notice status
- Planned procurement
- Procurement threshold
- Above threshold (FTS publication)
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Framework agreement
- Who may use this agreement
- Not stated in the notice; call-off rights may be limited to the establishing authority
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 2 Dec 2025, 15:47 GMT
- Last source update
- 15 Jan 2026, 11:11 GMT
- Authority reference
HAR5973 Major Works Consultancy Framework- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-003403- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-05ed39Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Appointment period ends
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Timeline
2 Dec 2025 → 1 Jan 2027 · 5 dates- Planning notice published324 days ago2 Dec 2025, 15:47 GMT
- Latest notice published280 days ago15 Jan 2026, 11:11 GMT
- Market engagement272 days ago23 Jan 2026, 23:59 GMT
The London Borough of Tower Hamlets (LBTH) intends to procure a number of building consultancy companies to support the delivery of a multi-year planned / major works remediation/refurbishment programme for its existing housing stock. LBTH wishes to learn more about the appetite of the building consultancy market prior to undertaking this procurement. LBTH envisages that the appointed building consultancy firms will provide scoping, design, surveying, contract administration and asset / stock condition services.
Interested parties should return responses to the questions in the accompanying file via the
London Tenders Portal. The responses will be anonymized, the Council will not share the identity of the respondents with its evaluators or with its professional advisers.
LBTH will use the responses to inform its procurement and contract strategy.
LBTH may request to clarify responses and/or follow up with respondents.
Please see the indicative PME timeline below:
PME Launch 2nd December 2025
Deadline for Responses 16th January 2026
Tender Issue Date 1st May 2026
Expected Contract Start Date 1st January 2027
Please note, this notice is not a call for competition or a commitment to procure. Participation in this market engagement will not prejudice future involvement in any subsequent procurement process and does not commit LBTH to running a competitive tender process in the future.
- Tender notice expected174 days ago1 May 2026, 23:59 BST
- Today22 Oct 2026
- Contract startsin 70 days1 Jan 2027
Notice history
3 events · 3 releases on Find a Tender · since 2 Dec 2025- Preliminary market engagement notice published2 Dec 2025, 15:47 GMTUK2
- Preliminary market engagement notice published8 Dec 2025, 14:23 GMTUK2
- Preliminary market engagement notice published15 Jan 2026, 11:11 GMTUK2
Published amendments (2)
Removed value of the contract as this has not been confirmed
The PME engagement deadline has been extended till January 23rd,2026
Commercial outcome & contract awards
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- No award published
- Contracts (0)
- No contract published
- Bid statistics
- No aggregate bid statistics published
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Official documents & specifications (3)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender