Official UK procurement notice
Place for London - Minor Works Framework Agreement
Authority: Places for London Limited (Public body)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionInitial Preliminary Market Engagement Notice
Places for London (PfL) are issuing this preliminary market engagement (PmE) notice to inform the supplier market regarding the ability for suppliers to participate in market feedback exercise, in relation to the supply of Construction Minor Works Services across a range of services/categories using a bespoke Framework Agreement.
PfL has also produced a short memorandum & associated questionnaire to support the creation of the procurement strategy and tender pack for this procurement exercise. All feedback will help PfL to better understand the market, supplier appetite, capacity, and capability, as well as perceived risks and opportunities of this procurement.
In order to review and respond to the memorandum and questionnaire interested suppliers will need to register on www.risqs.org ↗ completed questionnaires should be forwarded to: [email protected] by 12:00 on the 21 JAN 2026.
PfL are proposing the use of PA23 Competitive Flexible procedure for this procurement exercise.
Following the publication of this UK2 Notice PfL plan to issue the associated Contract Notice 25 FEB 2026 where all tender documents, specification, draft contract etc will be available to those suppliers who express an interest to this EME notice.
CPV: Construction structures and materials; auxiliary products to construction (except electric apparatus) · Construction work · Installation services (except software) · Repair and maintenance services
How this framework works
From the published notice- Framework period
- 4 yrs from 29 Jun 2026
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedWhat 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).
- “Place for London - Minor Works Framework Agreement” is a framework: the contest is a place on its panel, not a single contract.
Pipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How Places for London Limited buys Construction structures and materials (CPV 44), and who usually turns up
Places for London Limited has little published record in this market. Compared with other frameworks and DPS only. Whole-market view: Construction structures and materials (CPV 44) →
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.
Local means the winner is registered in the region where that award was delivered. The market figure counts awards delivered in Greater London (authority’s region).
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners were registered in the region where that award was delivered.
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How long buyers here take to decide after bids close.
Middle value in days from the bid deadline to the award date, on competitions that published both.
Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.
Half of these awards have an award date within 71 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 bid12%
2–318%
4–66%
7+65%
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.
On a framework or DPS, prices are agreed when work is called off.
Past prices are a guide, not a bid price.
Not comparable on a framework or DPS: the price is set later, on each call-off.
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 44Estimate not published
This lot lists more than one class in CPV 44. The comparison uses that group.
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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 17 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid12%
2–318%
4–66%
7+65%
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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.
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.
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
- Unspecified in notice
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Framework agreement
- Who may use this agreement
- Not stated in the notice; call-off rights may be limited to the establishing authority
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 9 Jan 2026, 13:08 GMT
- Last source update
- 9 Jan 2026, 13:08 GMT
- Authority reference
000156- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-001851- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Not published
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-0602cbFind a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Appointment period ends
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Timeline
9 Jan 2026 → 29 Jun 2026 · 3 dates- Planning notice published289 days ago9 Jan 2026, 13:08 GMT
- Market engagement267 days ago30 Jan 2026, 23:59 GMT
As already stated interested suppliers can download the memorandum and questionnaire which can be obtained via www.risqs.org ↗
The questionnaire provides further details regarding the proposed framework agreement and the opportunity to respond to some questions asked with the ability to raise and questions, concerns they may have.
- Contract starts118 days ago29 Jun 2026, 00:00 BST
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Preliminary market engagement notice published9 Jan 2026, 13:08 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