Find a TenderPast planning noticePreliminary market engagement notice
Published 19 May 2025, 14:25 BST

Official UK procurement notice

Professional Services - Estates

Official notice

Authority: Student Loans Company (Central government)

Framework agreementServicesAbove threshold
Sectors: Architecture & Engineering (71) Delivery: Delivery location not published
Planned pipeline value£480,000pipeline notice, not a live tender
Tender notice expected Date not publishedfrom the planned procurement notice
Framework period 3 yrsends 30 Nov 2028 · up to 30 Nov 2029 with extensions · starts 1 Dec 2025

What is being bought

Published requirement description

The Student Loans Company (SLC)is a non-profit making government owned organisation that administers loans and grants to students in colleges and universities in the UK. We have 9.7 million customers, manage a loan book worth £260.8bn and manage the full end to end “apply, asses, pay and repay “process.

SLC is seeking a supplier (s) to provide the following:

Structural Engineering consulting Services

Mechanical & Electrical Engineering

Architectural and Design Services

Construction Project Management Services

Quantity Surveyor Services

Building Surveying Services

For more information about this opportunity, please visit the Delta eSourcing portal at:

www.delta-esourcing.com/tenders/UK-title/23V… ↗

To respond to this opportunity, please click here:

www.delta-esourcing.com/respond/23V2PR5NWP ↗

CPV: Architectural and building-surveying services · Architectural and related services · Architectural services for buildings · Architectural, engineering and planning services · Architectural, engineering and surveying services · Building consultancy services · Building surveying services · Engineering design services for mechanical and electrical installations for buildings · Mechanical engineering services · Quantity surveying services · Structural engineering consultancy services · Surveying services

How this framework works

From the published notice
Framework period
3 yrs · up to 4 yrs from 1 Dec 2025

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published

What it takes to win
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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
What this means for your bid
  • “Professional Services - Estates” is a framework: the contest is a place on its panel, not a single contract.

Procedure terms & legal framework

From the official record
Legal basis
UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
Procurement category
Services
Notice status
Past planning notice
Procurement threshold
Above threshold (FTS publication)
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
19 May 2025, 14:25 BST
Last source update
19 May 2025, 14:25 BST
FTS notice number
2025/S 000-022678
Latest notice
Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
Classification (CPV)
Architectural and building-surveying servicesArchitectural and related servicesArchitectural services for buildingsArchitectural, engineering and planning servicesArchitectural, engineering and surveying servicesBuilding consultancy servicesBuilding surveying servicesEngineering design services for mechanical and electrical installations for buildingsMechanical engineering servicesQuantity surveying services
+2 moreStructural engineering consultancy servicesSurveying services
Delivery area
Not published
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-05170c Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice
Appointment period ends
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Timeline

19 May 2025 → 1 Dec 2025 · 3 dates
  1. Planning notice published
    19 May 2025, 14:25 BST
  2. Market engagement
    7 Jun 2025, 00:59 BST

    Prior to initiating the procurement, SLC wishes to establish the level of market interest to participating in the forth coming procurement process.

    Suitably qualified and experienced suppliers who may have an interest in this project are invited to complete the questionnaire that is available to registered suppliers via the Delta e-tendering system, for this Preliminary Market Engagement. The high level requirements are detailed within the online questionnaire.

    The purpose of the market engagement is to help assess the reaction of the market, to understand risks and future possibilities to ensure a future proofed procurement strategy and resulting contract. Please note that lengthy questionnaire responses are not necessary at this stage. However, SLC would welcome any pertinent information on your company's views on an approach to the provision of the required services.

    Any submission received in response to this exercise will not constitute any contractual agreement between the respondent and SLC. Nor does the receipt of a response automatically include the respondent in the procurement process.

    A Tender Notice will be issued to the market which will provide details of how the relating procurement documentation can be accessed and timescales for submission of the said tender response.

    Interested parties shall bear their own costs of participation in this Market Engagement of whatever nature. SLC shall not be liable for the costs, expenses or losses howsoever arising (including, without limitation, any loss of profit or other economic loss incurred), regardless of the outcome of the Market Engagement.

    The next stage in the process will be considered once this exercise has been completed. **PLEASE NOTE: ALL COMPLETED QUESTIONNAIRES MUST BE SUBMITTED, BEFORE 15:00 on the date specified within the Preliminary Market Engagement tenderbox.

  3. Contract starts331 days ago
    1 Dec 2025

Notice history

1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender
  1. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    19 May 2025, 14:25 BST
    UK2

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

Student Loans Company Ltd

Contracting authorityPublic authority - sub-central government GB-PPON: PMXL-3278-BCWT The Memphis Building, Lingfield Point, McMullen Road, Darlington, North East, DL1 1RWContact name, email

Official documents & specifications (1)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure