Official UK procurement notice
Pest Control Services Concession 2027-30
Authority: The District Council of Folkestone and Hythe (Local council)·Consortium: 3 public authorities
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionFolkestone and Hythe District Council (FHDC) on behalf of itself and Dover District Council and Thanet District Council wishes to select and appoint a suitable supplier for the provision of pest control services and invites organisations to submit a tender to meet the councils' requirements.
This tender will be conducted using a one-stage 'open' procedure.
This is a joint tender exercise between Folkestone and Hythe District Council, Dover District Council, and Thanet District Council. A single shared supplier will be selected for all three councils, but awarded a separate contract by each council individually.
The contract is anticipated to start 4 January 2027 and continue for a period of 3 years (with the option to extend for two further periods of 12 months each i.e. 3+1+1 years).
The estimated contract values for the initial 3-year term excluding VAT are £123,000 for Dover District Council, £69,000 for Folkestone and Hythe District Council, and £129,000 for Thanet District Council (total £321,000 excl. VAT).
The estimated contract values for the full 5-year term (including allowance for inflation) excluding VAT are £240,800 for Dover District Council, £229,600 for Folkestone and Hythe District Council, and £128,800 for Thanet District Council (total rounded to £600,000 excl. VAT).
- Not divided into lots: Appointing a single provider for all 3 districts provides a financially secure service allowing the provider to offer advantageous pricing.
- The authority expects to re-tender this requirement around 1 Jun 2030, 23:59 BST.
CPV: Pest-control services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · value publishedLot #1RenewalPublished value£600,000
- Technical & professional ability
The Contractor shall be a member of the British Pest Control Association or another relevant professional body in relation to pest control
What it takes to wini
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).
Published sub-criteria (7)
- best practice: 10%
- operations: 10%
- complaints: 6%
- added value and innovation: 4%
- Total 5-year tender sum for Standard Rate prices: 30%
- Total 5-year tender sum for Discounted Rate prices: 30%
- cost control: 10%
Published award criteria (7)
- Total 5-year tender sum for Standard Rate prices: based on estimated volumes
- Total 5-year tender sum for Discounted Rate prices: based on estimated volumes (Discounted Rates for qualifying benefit recipients)
- best practice: Explain how you will ensure you meet and maintain best practice within industry standards. Your answer should include • how you ensure changes in regulations and regulatory updates are implemented; • an outline of your Quality Assurance systems; • an outline of your company Health & Safety systems; • any other relevant accreditations; and • any relevant Professional Membership(s). Max 750 words
- cost control: The service seeks to provide competitive rates residents within the districts. Explain how you will control costs and manage economic risk to ensure the service is both competitive and financially viable. Your answer should include: • how you will ensure the service is accessible to all sectors of the community (e.g. concessions for vulnerable households and eligibility); • how you will monitor costs; and • what statistical information you can provide to support the payment mechanism. Max 750 words
- operations: Explain your approach for ensuring the delivery of the three contracts. Your answer should include: • An outline mobilisation plan covering all 3 contracts (narrative explanation required. Illustrations/charts exempt from word count); • How you will resource the contract; • How you will notify the relevant council(s) of escalated infestations and/or other issues (e.g. public health risk, damage to social housing properties, etc); • An outline of your triage and booking process; • An outline of your emergency call-out process including o what criteria you use to classify an emergency; and o your Out of Hours process for emergencies. • How you ensure service continuity for staff sickness, equipment failure, severe weather, etc. Max 1000 words
- complaints: Provide an outline of your complaints procedure. Your answer should include: • a diagram of your complaints process including target timeframes; • when and how you would involve the relevant council(s); and • how this process is communicated to clients. Max 500 words
- added value and innovation: Explain how your organisation will bring added value to these contracts. For example your answer might include: • operational practices to enhance service quality; • innovative solutions for more effective treatments; • use of technology; • how your approach enhances customer satisfaction; • practices to reduce the risk of future infestations; or • any other relevant information about how you will introduce additional value to the contract. NB: your answer to this question can include references to information provided in answers to other questions. Max 500 words
- Technical & professional ability
The Contractor shall be a member of the British Pest Control Association or another relevant professional body in relation to pest control
- Price carries 70 of 100 points: a 10% discount moves about 7 points. This one is won on the number: sharpen the price before polishing the prose.
Price arithmetic assumes straight proportional scoring; the tender pack may use another formula.
Competition analysis · published record, not a forecast of who will bid
How The District Council of Folkestone and Hythe buys Facility related sanitation services (CPV 9092), and who usually turns up
The District Council of Folkestone and Hythe’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: Facility related sanitation services (CPV 9092) →
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.
Here, local means registered in South East England.
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners are registered in South East England.
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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 33 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.
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.
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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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.
1 bid5% / 0%
2–318% / 14%
4–614% / 29%
7+64% / 57%
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.
Below estimate35% / 57%
Within ±2%47% / 29%
Above estimate18% / 14%
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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 #1CPV 9092Published estimate£600k
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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.
1 bid2%
2–39%
4–611%
7+79%
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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.
Based on 2 comparable awards. Each lot reflects its own category; forecasts for different lots of the same notice are not comparative.
A statistical guide from past awards, not a price to bid.
Middle 50%£448k–£600k
Estimate£600k
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.
| Supplier | Won in this category | Live contracts | Award vs estimate |
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| £56m15 awards in 36m · last this month | 5 live · £17m iPublic 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. | 21% below n=3 | |
| £9.0m26 awards in 36m · last 2 months ago | 10 live · £9.3m iPublic 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. | 6% below n=8 | |
| £3.3m2 awards in 36m · last 3 months ago | 2 live · £3.3m iPublic 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. | 5% below n=2 | |
| £5.4m18 awards in 36m · last 4 months ago | 4 live · £3.9m iPublic 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. | 23% above n=3 | |
| £5.3m8 awards in 36m · last 4 months ago | 2 live · £2.6m iPublic 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. | 20% below n=4 |
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 match score 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- Procedure method
- Open 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
- Concession
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Yes (GPA)
- Recurring procurement
- Yes · next expected 1 Jun 2030
- First published
- 14 Oct 2026, 16:10 BST
- Last source update
- 14 Oct 2026, 16:10 BST
- Award evaluation window
- Submission end – 10 Dec 2026
- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-097176- Latest notice
- Tender notice (UK4)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-0787e7Find a Tender
- Risks
Local Government Reorganisation (LGR) may result in significant changes to the Authority's structure, responsibilities, or service requirements during the term of any resulting contract. The Authority reserves the right to vary the terms of the contract, or to exercise its right to terminate the contract early in accordance with the contract's standard termination provisions (as set out in the draft Terms and Conditions at Appendix D). The Authority does not accept any liability or responsibility for any costs incurred by a tenderer (whether directly or otherwise) in relation to the preparation or submission of an offer, or any potential loss of earnings or profits if the contract is varied or terminated early as a result of the review.
How to participate & submission route
Official notice Submit via ProContract (Due North)- Requests to participate (first stage)
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- Tender submission deadline
- 17 Nov 2026, 13:00 GMT
- Clarification deadline
- 9 Nov 2026, 23:59 GMT
- Submission channel
- Official e-sourcing portal
- Electronic submission
- Allowed
- Accepted languages
- en
Tenders must be submitted via the Kent Business Portal (www.kentbusinessportal.org.uk/respond/2C9Z446974 ↗) . We cannot accept tenders returned by post or email.
Timeline
14 Oct 2026 → 4 Jan 2027 · 5 dates- Tender notice published1 day ago14 Oct 2026, 16:10 BST
- Today15 Oct 2026
- Clarification questions byin 26 days9 Nov 2026, 23:59 GMT
- Submission deadlinein 33 days17 Nov 2026, 13:00 GMT
- Award decision expected byin 57 days10 Dec 2026, 23:59 GMT
- Contract startsin 81 days4 Jan 2027
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Tender notice published14 Oct 2026, 16:10 BSTUK4
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Nothing awarded yet- Awards (0)
- No award published
- Contracts (0)
- No contract published
- Bid statistics
- No aggregate bid statistics published
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
3 public bodies on the noticeConsortium members and other public bodies
- Dover District CouncilContracting authorityPublic authority - sub-central government
- THANET DISTRICT COUNCILContracting authorityPublic authority - sub-central government
Official documents & specifications (2)
Official links; attachments are not copiedTender pack and attachments
- Bidding documents and specifications tender documents are available from www.kentbusinessportal.org.uk
Notices published for this procedure
- Tender notice Tender notice on Find a Tender