Official UK procurement notice
Property Refurbishment - Lodge Farm Cottage, East Forest District
Authority: Forestry Commission (Public body)
Forestry England is planning to refurbish Lodge Farm Cottage so it is fit to live in and can be rented out. We expect the work to cover general building, heating and plumbing, electrical and external works.
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionForestry England is planning to refurbish Lodge Farm Cottage so it is fit to live in and can be rented out. We expect the work to cover general building, heating and plumbing, electrical and external works. The contractor we appoint would coordinate the works and give us the completion documents.
Working is detailed in the attached outline scope but would include:-
- Strip out the inside, clear the site and protect the existing building.
- New kitchen and bathroom, with the plumbing and electrical changes that go with them.
- New external oil boiler, changes to the heating system, a new hot water cylinder and the pipework.
- Plaster repairs, better insulation, decorating inside and minor carpentry.
- Electrical testing and certificates, lighting and extra power.
- Drainage and groundworks outside, lime pointing, repairs to the outhouse and a new well cover.
- Site welfare, security and waste removal, risk assessments and method statements, testing and commissioning, and handover information.
CPV: Overhaul and refurbishment work
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedPipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How Forestry Commission buys Other building completion work (CPV 4545), and who usually turns up
Forestry Commission’s published record next to the market for the same work. Frameworks and DPS are left out: they draw different bid counts. Whole-market view: Other building completion work (CPV 4545) →
How the contest usually goes
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How often small and medium firms win.
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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 South West England (authority’s region).
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners were registered outside 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 38 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.
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.
1 bid5% / 17%
2–327% / 10%
4–661% / 28%
7+7% / 45%
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 estimate29% / 37%
Within ±2%42% / 30%
Above estimate29% / 33%
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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.
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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 4545No real estimate
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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 29 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid17%
2–310%
4–628%
7+45%
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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. Contracts Finder contracts appear on the Retender Radar, not yet in these figures.
- 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
- 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
- 4 Nov 2026, 09:46 GMT
- Last source update
- 4 Nov 2026, 09:46 GMT
- Authority reference
FCCN005387- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-104513- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Not published
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-07b288Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
4 Nov 2026 → 1 Apr 2027 · 3 dates- Planning notice published1h ago4 Nov 2026, 09:46 GMT
- Today4 Nov 2026
- Market engagementin 26 days30 Nov 2026, 23:59 GMT
The main aim of this engagement is to get an indicative cost for the works. We also want to understand supplier interest and capacity, and any factors that could affect delivery of the programme. We will use the feedback to improve the procurement documents before any competition.
Suppliers can ask us for the outline scope, photographs and plans. We will send these with a link to our MS Form, which suppliers should use to answer the questions below.
We may hold follow-up discussions or a supplier session if that would help us improve the requirement. Anything shared through the engagement may be summarised and made available to all suppliers on the same basis in a future procurement.
Please base your cost on the Schedule of Works (July 2026), site photographs and plans which we will provide to you once you have got in touch with us. We are looking for a rough range excluding VAT, not a formal quote or tender. Please tell us any assumptions you have made and anything you have left out.
Questions we are interested in your response to are:-
- What would you expect the cost of this work to be, excluding VAT?
- Can you break your cost down by work area, for example kitchen, bathroom and decorating?
- Are there any works you cannot estimate from the information provided? If so, what additional information would you need?
- Are there any parts of the specification that could be delivered differently to reduce cost without materially changing the required outcome?
- Are there any particular materials/items that could significantly affect price or availability?
- What lead-in time would you need, and how long would the works take?
- What assumptions have you made when estimating the cost, particularly where information is missing or unclear?
- Is anything excluded from your estimate? If so, why?
- Which parts of the work have the greatest cost uncertainty
Please email [email protected] with the reference "Lodge Farm Cottage Preliminary Market Engagement" to ask for the documents and the link to our MS Form. All responses should be made using the form.
- Contract startsin 147 days1 Apr 2027
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Preliminary market engagement notice published4 Nov 2026, 09:46 GMTUK2
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Official documents & specifications (1)
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- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender