Official UK procurement notice
Pioneer Group Gas Servicing and Maintenance - Preliminary Market Engagement
Authority: The Pioneer Housing and Community Group Limited (Public body)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionPioneer's current gas servicing and maintenance contract is a 3-star service covering 2,400 properties.
The current contract is provided by an external Service Provider, and it expires in September 2026.
The majority of boilers are of a domestic nature, with a small number of commercial installations and domestic solar thermal installations.
Pioneer also undertakes approximately 50 boiler replacements each year.
The procurement process for the new contract expected to commence in January 2026 with the new contract commencing by September 2026.
Prior to launching the procurement process, Pioneer is undertaking a Pre Market Engagement exercise.
The purpose of the Pre Market Engagement exercise is to establish:
•Market capacity and appetite
•Solution options
•Technology options for alternative heating sources
•Funding options for alternative heating sources
•Specification content
•Tender content
•Contract options
•Procurement options
•Cost drivers and cost models
•Implementation timescales
•Social value opportunities
•Risks
•Barriers
Further details can be found in the Pre Market Engagement Brief. To request a copy of the Pre Market Engagement Brief, please contact our appointed Procurement Advisors, Clarity Procurement Solutions:
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CPV: Repair and maintenance services of central heating
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedPipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How The Pioneer Housing and Community Group Limited buys Repair and maintenance services of central heating (CPV 5072), and who usually turns up
The Pioneer Housing and Community Group Limited’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: Repair and maintenance services of central heating (CPV 5072) →
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 West Midlands (authority’s region).
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners are registered in West Midlands.
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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 51 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.
Both shares are minimums: 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 bid15%
2–326%
4–641%
7+19%
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 estimate42%
Within ±2%58%
Above estimate0%
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.
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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 5072Published estimate£2.5m
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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. The bar shows 129 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid16%
2–333%
4–623%
7+27%
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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.
| Supplier | This buyer’s earlier contract | Lot | Award value | Why listed |
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| Concept Elevators (UK) LtdLive contract | Pioneer Group Lift Maintenance and Repair Servicesruns to Dec 2028 | — | — | Matched as the earlier contract |
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.
What this replaces i
Who has done similar work for this buyer.
Past contracts are matched by buyer, title and type of work.
42% title match.
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.
42% title match.
A past supplier may not bid again.
The prior contract this notice most likely re-tenders · matched by title and category (42% title match), the holder is not guaranteed to re-bid
Pioneer Group Lift Maintenance and Repair Services — held by Concept Elevators (UK) Ltd; the published contract ends 31 Dec 2028.
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
- 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
- 11 Nov 2025, 10:05 GMT
- Last source update
- 11 Nov 2025, 10:05 GMT
- Authority reference
T116/2025- FTS notice number
2025/S 000-072652- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Not published
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-05de56Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
11 Nov 2025 → 1 Sept 2026 · 4 dates- Planning notice published345 days ago11 Nov 2025, 10:05 GMT
- Market engagement328 days ago28 Nov 2025, 23:59 GMT
The Pre Market Engagement exercise will be conducted via a 1-hour Teams meeting with each Participant at the following times:
•Week commencing 8th December 2025
•Week commencing 15th December 2025
Meeting spaces are limited and will be allocated on a first come first served basis to Interested Parties responding to this Brief.
Interested Parties wishing to attend should register their interest by no later than 28th November 2025 to our appointed Procurement Advisors, Clarity Procurement Solutions:
Interested Parties should also indicate the names and positions of those wishing to attend.
Subject to availability, meeting dates will be confirmed to Participants by 1st December 2025.
- Tender notice expected265 days ago30 Jan 2026, 23:59 GMT
- Contract starts52 days ago1 Sept 2026, 00:00 BST
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Preliminary market engagement notice published11 Nov 2025, 10:05 GMTUK2
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