Official UK procurement notice
Provision of Drain Cleaning, Repairs & Investigation Services (2027-31)
Authority: University of Strathclyde (Education)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThis Prior Information Notice (PIN) relates to a project to establish a Contract for the Provision of Drain Cleaning, Repairs & Investigation Services (2027-31) (UOS-45982-2026).
CPV: Blast-cleaning services for tubular structures · Drainage works · Sewage, refuse, cleaning and environmental services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1The University of Strathclyde (“the University”) is seeking to establish a contract to…Planned
The University of Strathclyde (“the University”) is seeking to establish a contract to support the delivery of activities outlined below. This Contract will include, however, will not be limited to:
- Provide a range of reactive drainage services across all University sites and buildings:
- Provide drainage surveys, this service will investigate drainage issues, and establish the required remedial action necessary to resolve
drainage defects:
- Provide materials & labour rates to carry out drainage repair works to resolve drainage defects:
- Provide written drainage reports which include video film footage to support the survey investigation:
- Provide all necessary drain cleaning equipment to carry out the required services; and
- Provide a Vactor cleaning vehicle to clear foul water and solid waste. Additional information: Please note, the information contained within this Prior Information Notice (PIN) is subject to change.
Pipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How University of Strathclyde runs Sewage, refuse, cleaning and environmental (CPV 90) tenders for its clients, and who usually turns up
University of Strathclyde procures on behalf of other bodies; its record below covers every client it has tendered for, 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: Sewage, refuse, cleaning and environmental (CPV 90) →
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 Scotland.
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners are registered outside Scotland.
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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 53 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 bid13% / 9%
2–338% / 25%
4–635% / 41%
7+15% / 25%
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 estimate41% / 48%
Within ±2%55% / 30%
Above estimate5% / 23%
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 #1The University of Strathclyde (“the University”) is seeking to establish a contract to…Published estimate£600k
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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 139 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid9%
2–325%
4–641%
7+25%
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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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| DAMM EnvironmentalEarlier contract | Provision of Drain Cleaning, Repairs & Investigation Services (2025-29)notice published Nov 2025 | — | £282k | 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.
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Who has done similar work for this buyer.
Past contracts are matched by buyer, title and type of work.
87% 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.
87% title match.
A past supplier may not bid again.
The prior contract this notice most likely re-tenders · matched by title and category (87% title match), the holder is not guaranteed to re-bid
Provision of Drain Cleaning, Repairs & Investigation Services (2025-29) — held by DAMM Environmental; no contract end date published.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record · publisher note attached- Legal basis
- CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Planned procurement
- Procurement threshold
- Unspecified in notice
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Yes (GPA)
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 15 Oct 2026, 11:56 BST
- Last source update
- 15 Oct 2026, 11:56 BST
- Authority reference
UOS-45982-2026- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-097410- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-078865Find a Tender
Publisher note: The University of Strathclyde may conduct further market engagement with interested parties as per Regulation 41 - Preliminary Market Consultation, of The Public Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2015. As such, all interested parties must register their interest no later than 12 noon on 16 November 2026. NOTE: To register your interest in this notice and obtain any additional information please visit the Public Contracts Scotland Web Site at https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/Search/Search_Switch.aspx?ID=845708. (SC Ref:845708)
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
15 Oct 2026 → 18 Jan 2027 · 2 dates- Notice published6 days ago15 Oct 2026, 11:56 BST
- Today21 Oct 2026
- Tender notice expectedin 89 days18 Jan 2027
Commercial outcome & contract awards
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- No award published
- Contracts (0)
- No contract published
- Bid statistics
- No aggregate bid statistics published
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Official documents & specifications
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