Official UK procurement notice
Provision of Furnished Tenancies for Fife residents
Authority: Fife Council (Local council)
Fife Council is exploring the option of undertaking a procurement exercise within the next 12 months to appoint a Contractor capable of meeting the needs of the Council in relation to delivering a furnished tenancy/furniture rental solution whereby the supplier provides the required capital investment for furniture and household goods and operates a managed service model. As part of the early development process the Council is seeking information from the marketplace. Delivery of a furnished tenancy/furniture rental solution whereby the supplier provides the required capital investment for furniture and household goods and operates a managed service model. Deliveries would be required to various domestic locations throughout Fife.
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionFife Council is exploring the option of undertaking a procurement exercise within the next 12 months to appoint a Contractor capable of meeting the needs of the Council in relation to delivering a furnished tenancy/furniture rental solution whereby the supplier provides the required capital investment for furniture and household goods and operates a managed service model.
As part of the early development process the Council is seeking information from the marketplace.
CPV: Bedroom, dining room and living-room furniture · Domestic furniture · Furniture (incl. office furniture), furnishings, domestic appliances (excl. lighting) and cleaning products · Repair and maintenance services of furniture
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1Delivery of a furnished tenancy/furniture rental solution whereby the supplier…Planned
Delivery of a furnished tenancy/furniture rental solution whereby the supplier provides the required capital investment for furniture and household goods and operates a managed service model. Deliveries would be required to various domestic locations throughout Fife. Additional information: Suppliers should note that this Request for information (RFI) does not guarantee any work. It is issued solely for market research purposes and is a Request for Information, not an Invitation to Tender.
Pipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How Fife Council buys Repair and maintenance services of furniture (CPV 5085), and who usually turns up
Fife Council’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: Repair and maintenance services of furniture (CPV 5085) →
How the contest usually goes
Winner shares use published awards; bid and price charts use contested lots.
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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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Local means the winner is registered in the region where that award was delivered. The market figure counts awards delivered in Scotland.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners were registered in the region where that award was delivered.
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Half of these awards have an award date within 55 days of the bid deadline.
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Both shares are minimums: some awards have no bid count.
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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1 bid10% / 16%
2–345% / 29%
4–630% / 30%
7+15% / 26%
How did awards compare with estimates?
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Below estimate33% / 46%
Within ±2%33% / 34%
Above estimate33% / 20%
Assess each lot i
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Open a lot for its forecast, this buyer’s previous supplier and possible competitors, from published award history, not a bid list
Lot #1Delivery of a furnished tenancy/furniture rental solution whereby the supplier…CPV 5085Published estimate£400k
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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 253 past lots.
1 bid16%
2–329%
4–630%
7+26%
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No comparable awards for this lot yet.
Who has supplied this buyer on similar work? i
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No earlier contract of this buyer matches this lot on the published record.
Who could compete for this lot? i
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Candidate suppliers for this notice have not been worked out yet, so this is not a verdict that nobody fits.
About this data
- Estimates, labelled. The price range, possible competitors and earlier-work matches are our estimates from past awards, not published facts, win chances or price advice. The buyer’s own record and the wider market are shown apart, never mixed.
- Source. Official UK public procurement notices (Find a Tender and Contracts Finder), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0, updated through the day and rebuilt nightly. Not every figure uses both feeds, and each one shows how many records it rests on: see the methodology. Spotted something wrong? Tell us.
Coming up in this sector
Contracts ending within 12 months · Retender Radar, sector filter set
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
- 25 Sept 2026, 12:46 BST
- Last source update
- 25 Sept 2026, 12:46 BST
- Authority reference
CFM0528- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-090970- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-077a7bFind a Tender
Publisher note: Suppliers should note that this Request for information (RFI) does not guarantee any work. It is issued solely for market research purposes and is a Request for Information, not an Invitation to Tender. Pricing is not requested at this stage. Any Supplier within the marketplace interested in this opportunity and willing to provide additional information to the Council should complete the questionnaire which is attached to this notice and return this to [email protected] by Friday 16th October 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=841019. (SC Ref:841019)
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
25 Sept 2026 → 11 Jan 2027 · 2 dates- Notice published50 days ago25 Sept 2026, 12:46 BST
- Today14 Nov 2026
- Tender notice expectedin 57 days11 Jan 2027
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
Official links; attachments are not copiedNo document links were published on the notice.