Official UK procurement notice
Painting - External and Internal Communal Areas
Authority: Believe Housing Limited (Public body)
Painting Works of external and internal communal areas within County Durham.
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionPainting Works of external and internal communal areas within County Durham
CPV: Painting work · Painting work of buildings · Roof-painting and other coating work · Roof-painting work
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedPipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How Believe Housing Limited buys Painting and glazing work (CPV 4544), and who usually turns up
Believe Housing Limited’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: Painting and glazing work (CPV 4544) →
How the contest usually goes
Winner shares use published awards; bid and price charts use contested lots.
i
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.
i
Local means the winner is registered in the region where that award was delivered. The market figure counts awards delivered in North East England.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners were registered outside the region where that award was delivered.
i
Half of these awards have an award date within 32 days of the bid deadline.
i
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?
i
1 bid0% / 0%
2–342% / 0%
4–625% / 9%
7+33% / 91%
How did awards compare with estimates?
i
Below estimate42%
Within ±2%26%
Above estimate32%
Assess each lot i
i
Open a lot for its forecast, this buyer’s previous supplier and possible competitors, from published award history, not a bid list
Lot #1CPV 45Published estimate£2.8m
This lot lists more than one class in CPV 45. The comparison uses that group.
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 179 past lots.
1 bid11%
2–319%
4–627%
7+43%
i
No comparable awards for this lot yet.
Who has supplied this buyer on similar work? i
i
| Supplier | This buyer’s earlier contract | Lot | Award value | Why listed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dunningham Decorators LimitedEarlier contract | Painting (External and Internal Communal Areas) 2024 - AWARD ended Mar 2026 | — | — | Matched as the earlier contract |
Who could compete for this lot? i
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.
What this replaces i
79% title match.
i
79% title match.
The prior contract this notice most likely re-tenders · matched by title and category (79% title match), the holder is not guaranteed to re-bid
Painting (External and Internal Communal Areas) 2024 - AWARD — held by Dunningham Decorators Limited; the published contract ends 31 Mar 2026.
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
- Unspecified in notice
- 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, 12:40 BST
- Last source update
- 28 Sept 2026, 12:40 BST
- Authority reference
believe2026-340- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-091404- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-077b7bFind a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
- —
Timeline
28 Sept 2026 → 1 Apr 2027 · 4 dates- Planning notice published45 days ago28 Sept 2026, 12:40 BST
- Market engagement31 days ago12 Oct 2026, 23:59 BST
Please provide completed PME questionnaire by 12noon on Monday 12th October 2026.
- Tender notice expected10 days ago2 Nov 2026, 23:59 GMT
- Today13 Nov 2026
- Contract startsin 138 days1 Apr 2027, 00:00 BST
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Preliminary market engagement notice published28 Sept 2026, 12:40 BSTUK2
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
Official documents & specifications (1)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender