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Published 9 Oct 2026, 15:10 BST

Official UK procurement notice

Plumbing Room Workshop and Classroom Alterations at the Roundhouse Stephenson Building.

Authority: Derby College Group (Education)·On behalf of: AGM Procurement

WorksBelow threshold - open competitionBelow threshold
Budget not disclosed£0£0 inc. VAT
Submission deadline 30 Oct 202610:00 GMT · 20d 8h left
Clarification cut-off 23 Oct 202610:00 BST · questions to the authority
Contract term 1 moends 26 Feb 2027 · starts 15 Jan 2027

What is being bought

Published requirement description

DCG’s Estates team undertakes planned preventative maintenance each year to ensure that facilities meet required safety and operational standards to support Campus maintenance and operational activities.

The intended outcome of the process is to determine the most advantageous tender (MAT) and select a single contractor to undertake the Plumbing Room Workshop & Classroom Alterations at the Stephenson Building on the Roundhouse Campus. Works are to be carried out in compliance with all applicable UK regulations, with particular regard to the operational demands of a Further Education campus environment.

CPV: Refurbishment work

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · value published
Lot #1 1 moPublished valueAED 0
Contract period: 15 Jan 2027 — 26 Feb 2027 (1 mo)Delivery: East Midlands
Value
AED 0 exc. VAT · AED 0 inc. VAT
45453100 Refurbishment work

Who is likely to bid for this lot ↓

What it takes to win
i

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 more
How bids are scored

Lot awarding rule: Price 45, quality 55 as detailed in the tender guidance documents, available for download at https://supplier.in-tend.co.uk/educationportal/home

No conditions of participation were published on the notice; check the tender documents.

Competition analysis · published record, not a forecast of who will bid

How Derby College Group buys Other building completion work (CPV 4545) — and who usually turns up

Derby College Group’s own published record, next to the East Midlands market for the same work. Frameworks and DPS are kept out: they attract a different number of bids. Whole-market view: Other building completion work (CPV 4545) →

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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 buyerDerby College Group · all categories
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: 0 of 1 known-size awards · market: CPV 4545, n=30
0 of 122 of 30

No small-firm winners recorded among this authority’s published awards in this sample.

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 East Midlands.

A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 2 of 4 known-location awards · market: CPV 4545, n=47
2 of 48 of 47

Most of this buyer’s recorded winners are registered in East Midlands.

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: 5 decided notices · market: n=18
53 days39 days

Half of these awards were announced within 53 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 0 of 4 awarded contracts without a rival · market: n=40
0 of 46 of 40

Missing bid counts may hide more single-bid awards. This share is a minimum.

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.

Last 36 months.

This buyer4 lots with bid counts · all categories · too few to chart
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The market24 lots with bid counts · CPV 4545
25% had one bid
Market · select a colour for counts
1 bid25%
Market: 6 of 24 lots with published bid counts.
2–313%
Market: 3 of 24 lots with published bid counts.
4–625%
Market: 6 of 24 lots with published bid counts.
7+38%
Market: 9 of 24 lots with published bid counts.

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.

Last 36 months.

This buyerNo matched awards
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The market23 lots with estimate and award · CPV 4545
30% below estimate
Market · select a colour for counts
Below estimate30%
Market: 7 of 23 lots with an estimate and award.
Within ±2%17%
Market: 4 of 23 lots with an estimate and award.
Above estimate52%
Market: 12 of 23 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 454525% single-bidPublished estimate£0
Expected competition
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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.

The published estimate is in AED, so this lot carries no forecast — the model is trained on sterling estimates.

A forecast, not a list of bidders.

—25% single-bid risk
Past bids on 24 similar lots
1 bid25%
6 of 24 similar past lots received 1 bid (25%).
2–313%
3 of 24 similar past lots received 2–3 (13%).
4–625%
6 of 24 similar past lots received 4–6 (25%).
7+38%
9 of 24 similar past lots received 7+ (38%).
Comparable past lots usually drew 4.5 bids.
Commercial price forecast
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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 in AED
No comparable awards on record for this lot’s category yet — the published estimate is , and the forecast stays empty until the market has a record to read.

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
Procedure method
Below threshold - open competition
Legal basis
UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
Procurement category
Works
Notice status
Open for tender
Procurement threshold
Below threshold
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
9 Oct 2026, 15:10 BST
Last source update
9 Oct 2026, 15:10 BST
Authority reference
PLUM_1026
FTS notice number
2026/S 000-095756
Latest notice
Tender notice (UK4)
Classification (CPV)
Refurbishment work
Delivery area
East Midlands (UKF1)
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-0784f2 Find a Tender

How to participate & submission route

Official notice Submit via In-tend
Submission portal named on this notice: In-tend · Who buys & how to bid on In-tend
Supplier login requiredElectronic submission allowed
Access & registration note: Free · one account per buying organisation's portal · reCAPTCHA on signup
Requests to participate (first stage)
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Tender submission deadline
30 Oct 2026, 10:00 GMT
Clarification deadline
23 Oct 2026, 10:00 BST
Submission channel
Official e-sourcing portal
Electronic submission
Allowed
Detailed submission instructions & authority contactsFrom official release
All tenders must be submitted electronically via the In-Tend portal at supplier.in-tend.co.uk/educationportal/home ↗ Any issues accessing the documents can be flagged via email to [email protected] Otherwise all queries through the correspondence function on In-Tend
Published estimate £0 excludes VAT (£0 including VAT).

Timeline

4 published dates · Europe/London
  1. Tender notice publishedearlier today
    9 Oct 2026, 15:10 BST
  2. Clarification questions byin 13 days
    23 Oct 2026, 10:00 BST
  3. Submission deadlinein 20 days
    30 Oct 2026, 10:00 GMT
  4. Contract startsin 97 days
    15 Jan 2027

Commercial outcome & contract awards

Nothing awarded yet
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 9 Oct 2026
  1. Tender notice published
    9 Oct 2026, 15:10 BSTUK4
  2. First tender notice published
    9 Oct 2026, 15:10 BST

Contracting authority & participating public bodies

2 public bodies on the notice

Derby College Group

Contracting authorityPublic authority - sub-central government GB-PPON: PHCR-9151-PMNL Roundhouse Road, Derby, East Midlands, DE24 8UG Abigail Godber [email protected]

Other public bodies

  • AGM ProcurementProcuring entitySupporting ComplianceGB-COH: 07431856 Sutton Coldfield, West Midlands Anna Manns [email protected]

Official documents & specifications (1)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure

  • Tender notice tenderTender noticeUK4Tender notice on Find a Tender