Find a TenderPlanned procurementPreliminary market engagement notice
Published 29 Apr 2026, 15:10 BST

Official UK procurement notice

Painting & Decorating: Housing

Authority: Leeds City Council (Local council)

WorksBelow thresholdSME suitable
Planned pipeline valueValue not publishedpipeline notice, not a live tender
Tender notice expected Date not publishedfrom the planned procurement notice
Contract term 5 yrsends 14 Jul 2031 · up to 14 Jul 2032 with extensions · starts 15 Jul 2026

What is being bought

Published requirement description

Leeds Building Services are the Council’s in house service provider for buildings, refurbishment and repairs works (formerly known as Direct Labour Organisations) and are responsible for the delivery of Painting & Decorating provision across Leeds to carry out a procurement to seek to appoint one contractor to each of the lots outlined below and will be looking to appoint up to 2 contractors.

CPV: Decoration work · Painting work · Repainting work

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published
Lot #1PlannedRenewal 5 yrsSME
Contract period: 15 Jul 2026 – 14 Jul 2031 (5 yrs) · up to 14 Jul 2032 with extensions
Delivery: Yorkshire & HumberEligibility: SME eligible
Extensions: Extension options published

Who is likely to bid for this lot ↓

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

How Leeds City Council buys Painting and glazing work (CPV 4544), and who usually turns up

Leeds City Council’s own published record, next to the published market for the same work. Frameworks and DPS are kept out: they attract a different number of bids. Whole-market view: Painting and glazing work (CPV 4544) →

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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 buyerLeeds City Council · division 45
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: 27 of 32 known-size awards · market: CPV 4544 · Yorkshire and the Humber, n=9
84%100%

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.

Here, local means registered in Yorkshire and the Humber.

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

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 25 of 40 known-location awards · market: CPV 4544 · Yorkshire and the Humber, n=21
63%38%

Most of this buyer’s recorded winners are registered in Yorkshire and the Humber.

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: 5 decided notices · market: CPV 4544 · UK-wide, n=11
41 days35 days

Half of these awards were announced within 41 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 13 of 66 procurements with awards had no recorded rival · market: CPV 4544 · Yorkshire and the Humber, n=14
20%21%

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 buyer5 lots with bid counts · broad CPV 45
60% had one bid
The market23 lots with bid counts · CPV 4544 · Yorkshire and the Humber
0% had one bid
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
1 bid60% / 0%
Buyer: 3 of 5 lots with published bid counts. Market: 0 of 23 lots with published bid counts.
2–340% / 0%
Buyer: 2 of 5 lots with published bid counts. Market: 0 of 23 lots with published bid counts.
4–60% / 9%
Buyer: 0 of 5 lots with published bid counts. Market: 2 of 23 lots with published bid counts.
7+0% / 91%
Buyer: 0 of 5 lots with published bid counts. Market: 21 of 23 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 buyer11 lots with estimate and award · broad CPV 45
55% below estimate
The market18 lots with estimate and award · CPV 4544 · UK-wide
44% below estimate
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
Below estimate55% / 44%
Buyer: 6 of 11 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 8 of 18 lots with an estimate and award.
Within ±2%27% / 28%
Buyer: 3 of 11 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 5 of 18 lots with an estimate and award.
Above estimate18% / 28%
Buyer: 2 of 11 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 5 of 18 lots with an estimate and award.
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Assess each lot
i

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 454460 monthsSME suitableEstimate not published
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 23 past lots.

A forecast, not a list of bidders.

—No model forecast yet0% single-bid risk
Past bids on 23 similar lots
1 bid0%
0 of 23 similar past lots received 1 bid (0%).
2–30%
0 of 23 similar past lots received 2–3 (0%).
4–69%
2 of 23 similar past lots received 4–6 (9%).
7+91%
21 of 23 similar past lots received 7+ (91%).
Comparable past lots usually drew 10 bids.
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.

—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

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.

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
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
29 Apr 2026, 15:10 BST
Last source update
29 Apr 2026, 15:10 BST
FTS notice number
2026/S 000-039305
Latest notice
Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
Classification (CPV)
Decoration workPainting workRepainting work
Delivery area
Yorkshire & Humber (UKE42)
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-068e35 Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice
Submission deadline
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Timeline

29 Apr 2026 → 15 Jul 2026 · 3 dates
  1. Planning notice published174 days ago
    29 Apr 2026, 15:10 BST
  2. Market engagement159 days ago
    14 May 2026, 23:59 BST

    Please complete the PME through the Leeds City Council sourcing platform:

    leedscitycouncil.ukp.app.jaggaer.com/esop/ogc-host/public… ↗

    Tender reference: Tender_346

    Tender reference: Tender_346

  3. Contract starts98 days ago
    15 Jul 2026, 00:00 BST

Notice history

1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender
  1. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    29 Apr 2026, 15:10 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

Leeds City Council

Contracting authorityPublic authority - sub-central government GB-PPON: PJYG-6658-PPMY Civic Hall, Calverley Street, Leeds, Yorkshire & Humber, LS1 1URContact email

Official documents & specifications (1)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure