Find a TenderPlanned procurementPreliminary market engagement notice
Published 8 Oct 2026, 11:32 BST

Official UK procurement notice

Pest control services — UK public procurement notice

Authority: YORKSHIRE WATER SERVICES LIMITED (Public body)

ServicesAbove thresholdUtilitiesSME suitable
Planned pipeline valueValue not publishedpipeline notice — not a live tender
Tender notice expected 22 Oct 2026from the planned procurement notice
Contract term 4 yrsends 1 Apr 2031 · up to 1 Apr 2033 with extensions · starts 1 Apr 2027

What is being bought

Published requirement description

Pest control services, primarily bait boxes across Yorkshire Water's estate.

Approximately 600 sites with other pest control services needed too.

CPV: Pest-control services

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published
Lot #1PlannedRenewal 4 yrsSME
Contract period: 1 Apr 2027 — 1 Apr 2031 (up to 1 Apr 2033 with extensions) · up to 6 yrs with extensionsEligibility: SME eligibleDelivery: Yorkshire & Humber
Extensions
Extension options published
90922000 Pest-control services

Who is likely to bid for this lot ↓

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

How YORKSHIRE WATER SERVICES LIMITED buys Facility related sanitation services (CPV 9092) — and who usually turns up

YORKSHIRE WATER SERVICES LIMITED’s own published record, next to the Yorkshire and the Humber 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) →

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How the contest usually goes

This buyer’s published record next to the market where the work is delivered — contested contracts only, counted per lot

Question for the bid
This buyerYORKSHIRE WATER SERVICES LIMITED · all categories
The marketFacility related sanitation services (CPV 9092) · Yorkshire and the Humber
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: 3 of 9 known-size awards · market: CPV 9092, n=10
33%50%

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: 6 of 7 known-location awards · market: CPV 9092, n=16
86%50%

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: 11 decided notices · market: n=3
94 days60 days

Half of these awards were announced within 94 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 1 of 8 awarded contracts without a rival · market: n=11
13%0%

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 buyer1 lots with bid counts · all categories · too few to chart
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The market11 lots with bid counts · CPV 9092
9% had one bid
Market · select a colour for counts
1 bid9%
Market: 1 of 11 lots with published bid counts.
2–336%
Market: 4 of 11 lots with published bid counts.
4–69%
Market: 1 of 11 lots with published bid counts.
7+45%
Market: 5 of 11 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 buyerNo matched awards
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The market8 lots with estimate and award · CPV 9092
100% below estimate
Market · select a colour for counts
Below estimate100%
Market: 8 of 8 lots with an estimate and award.
Within ±2%0%
Market: 0 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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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 90929% single-bidEstimate 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 11 past lots.

A forecast, not a list of bidders.

—9% single-bid risk
Past bids on 11 similar lots
1 bid9%
1 of 11 similar past lots received 1 bid (9%).
2–336%
4 of 11 similar past lots received 2–3 (36%).
4–69%
1 of 11 similar past lots received 4–6 (9%).
7+45%
5 of 11 similar past lots received 7+ (45%).
Comparable past lots usually drew 4 bids.
Commercial price forecast
i

Where the winning 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 guide, 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.

SupplierThis buyer’s earlier contractLotAward valueMatch
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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.

SupplierWon in this categoryLive contractsAward vs estimate
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Coverage and what to read with care
  • Each figure explains itself. The on a figure says what it is, how it is counted and which scope this notice’s own record came from (class, division, all categories, or the authority’s 24-month row). The two sides are never blended. A lot’s own market is read at its delivery region where the lot names one; where it names several, or none that can be resolved, the chart falls back to the UK-wide record for the same category and says so under the bar. An empty cell means the source published nothing usable. Long form: Methodology.
  • When we call out a difference. A buyer figure is only flagged against the market when the sample is large enough that the gap is unlikely to be chance; at most two callouts appear, always phrased as a comparison with both numbers and the sample size.
  • Coverage (re-measured 5 Oct on the live record, 94,497 awarded procedures of the last three years). 51 % publish a bid count and 72 % a delivery region, so the market column reads the authority’s registered region when the notice names none, labelled. Of the 17,687 award-vs-estimate pairs, 34 % sit exactly on the estimate — the buyer published the award at the figure it advertised. n is on every figure; a thin sample is muted, never hidden, and a distribution is not drawn as percentages below ten observations.
  • “Match”, text similarity, the expected-bid figure and the distribution drawn beneath it are model outputs, not published facts or win probabilities. Find a Tender does not publish who is bidding. Never shown: contact details, payment behaviour, or a recommended price.

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
Above threshold (FTS publication)
Regulatory regime
Utilities
Commercial structure
Stand-alone contract (no framework)
Competition type
Competitive procedure
GPA / WTO covered
Unspecified in notice
Recurring procurement
Unspecified in notice
First published
8 Oct 2026, 11:32 BST
Last source update
8 Oct 2026, 11:32 BST
Authority reference
CM3635
FTS notice number
2026/S 000-095113
Latest notice
Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
Classification (CPV)
Pest-control services
Delivery area
Yorkshire & Humber (UKE)
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-07838c Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice
Submission deadline
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Timeline

4 published dates · Europe/London
  1. Planning notice published1 day ago
    8 Oct 2026, 11:32 BST
  2. Market engagementin 11 days
    20 Oct 2026, 00:59 BSTYorkshire Water will host a Teams event to provide an overview of the opportunity for the pest control services. The session will take place w/c 19-10-2026 so please email [email protected] to express your interest to be invited to the engagement session.
  3. Tender notice expectedin 13 days
    22 Oct 2026, 00:59 BST
  4. Contract startsin 174 days
    1 Apr 2027

Commercial outcome & contract awards

Pipeline notice
Awards (0)
No award published
Contracts (0)
No contract published
Bid statistics
No aggregate bid statistics published

Notice history

2 events · 1 release on Find a Tender · since 8 Oct 2026
  1. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    8 Oct 2026, 11:32 BSTUK2
  2. First planning notice published
    8 Oct 2026, 11:32 BST

Contracting authority & participating public bodies

YORKSHIRE WATER SERVICES LIMITED

Contracting authorityPrivate utility GB-COH: 02366682 · GB-PPON: PXGT-3622-WXBQ Ellington House, Leeds, Yorkshire & Humber, LS10 1AB [email protected]

Official documents & specifications (1)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure