Official UK procurement notice
Rathfern Primary School - Cleaning Tender Apr27
Procurement agent: Educo·On behalf of: Rathfern Primary School (from the title)
Educo Consultancy & Facilities Management are completing a competitive tendering procedure for the cleaning services on behalf of the Rathfern Primary School in the London Borough of Lewisham. Educo are seeking sufficiently experienced contract cleaning companies to formally express their interest and engage in the Tendering process, by completing and submitting the required responses to key sections within the SQ uploaded at this stage. The School require the appointed contractor to be fully responsible for the cleaning of the school buildings during term time and for deep cleans to be carried out during the school holidays.
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionEduco Consultancy & Facilities Management are completing a competitive tendering procedure for the cleaning services on behalf of the Rathfern Primary School in the London Borough of Lewisham.
Educo are seeking sufficiently experienced contract cleaning companies to formally express their interest and engage in the Tendering process, by completing and submitting the required responses to key sections within the SQ uploaded at this stage.
Educo requires any Contractor to have a clear safeguarding policy that includes an overarching declaration that the organisation acknowledges its duty of care and is committed to protecting all individuals from harm, regardless of age, disability, race, religion, sex, or sexual orientation.
The School require the appointed contractor to be fully responsible for the cleaning of the school buildings during term time and for deep cleans to be carried out during the school holidays.
The School is therefore seeking an experienced professional Contractor that operates high standards throughout, to include staff welfare and environmental conservation as the school views this as a necessity in delivering a consistent quality service, and this will be a key component in the final evaluation of the tender process.
- How the procedure runs: Educo on behalf of the School will manage a multiple stage process through the mytenders portal that links to the Find a Tender Central Digital Platform. In essence there will be 3 stages to the tender process. This is stage 1 of the process to seek potential interest in the opportunity, and for Contractors to submit their responses to the relevant sections within the Selection Questionnaire document. All other detail relating to the tender process is contained in the Selection Questionnaire Document uploaded with this tender. Section 2.0.
- No preliminary market engagement: there will be further stages following the publication of this tender to provide contractors the opportunity to engage.
CPV: School cleaning services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · value publishedLot #1RenewalPublished value£280,000
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How this buyer will score bids.
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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).
Published sub-criteria (2)
- Financial Status: 20%
- Technical: 80%
Published award criteria (2)
- Financial Status: response to Section 8.0 of the SQ
- Technical: response to questions in Section 9.0 of SQ
No conditions of participation were published on the notice; check the tender documents.
- Turnover usually expected at this size: about £186,496 (twice the annual value).
Turnover is an indicative market norm (≈2× annual value), not a published condition.
Competition analysis · published record, not a forecast of who will bid
How Educo runs Cleaning services (CPV 9091) tenders for its clients, and who usually turns up
Educo buys for other bodies; its column covers all its clients. Frameworks and DPS are left out: they draw different bid counts. Whole-market view: Cleaning services (CPV 9091) →
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Half of these awards have an award date within 89 days of the bid deadline.
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1 bid0% / 4%
2–356% / 18%
4–644% / 44%
7+0% / 34%
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Below estimate17% / 35%
Within ±2%3% / 27%
Above estimate79% / 38%
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Lot #1CPV 9091Published estimate£280k
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1 bid4%
2–318%
4–644%
7+34%
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A past supplier may not bid again.
| Supplier | This buyer’s earlier contract | Lot | Award value | Why listed |
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| CleanTECLive contract | Contract Award - Haringey Primary School Cleaning Tenderruns to Oct 2028 | — | £506k | Matched as the earlier contract |
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Who could compete for this lot?
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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 and Contracts Finder), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0. New notices arrive through the day; the figures are rebuilt nightly. Contracts Finder appears in live search, the Retender Radar, contract pages, organisation counts, the earlier contracts and past suppliers on a tender's competition panel, the buyer's decision figure and its award against estimate; the other analytical figures are built from Find a Tender notices.
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Who has done similar work for this buyer.
Past contracts are matched by buyer, title and type of work.
48% title match.
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Who has done similar work for this buyer.
Past contracts are matched by buyer, title and type of work.
48% title match.
A past supplier may not bid again.
The prior contract this notice most likely re-tenders · matched by title and category (48% title match), the holder is not guaranteed to re-bid
Contract Award - Haringey Primary School Cleaning Tender — held by CleanTEC and CleanTEC (+1 more); the published contract ends 31 Oct 2028.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Procedure method
- Competitive flexible procedure
- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Open for tender
- Procurement threshold
- Above threshold (FTS publication)
- 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
- 10 Nov 2026, 16:27 GMT
- Last source update
- 10 Nov 2026, 16:27 GMT
- Award evaluation window
- Submission end – 22 Feb 2027
- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-106848- Latest notice
- Tender notice (UK4)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-07b8f4Find a Tender
- How it runs
Educo on behalf of the School will manage a multiple stage process through the mytenders portal that links to the Find a Tender Central Digital Platform.
In essence there will be 3 stages to the tender process. This is stage 1 of the process to seek potential interest in the opportunity, and for Contractors to submit their responses to the relevant sections within the Selection Questionnaire document.
All other detail relating to the tender process is contained in the Selection Questionnaire Document uploaded with this tender. Section 2.0.
How to participate & submission route
Official notice Submit via mytenders- Requests to participate (first stage)
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- Tender submission deadline
- 15 Dec 2026, 12:00 GMT
- Clarification deadline
- 8 Dec 2026, 17:00 GMT
- Submission channel
- Official e-sourcing portal
- Electronic submission
- Allowed
- Accepted languages
- en
Timeline
10 Nov 2026 → 1 Apr 2027 · 5 dates- Tender notice publishedjust passed10 Nov 2026, 16:27 GMT
- Today10 Nov 2026
- Clarification questions byin 28 days8 Dec 2026, 17:00 GMT
- Submission deadlinein 34 days15 Dec 2026, 12:00 GMT
- Award decision expected byin 104 days22 Feb 2027, 23:59 GMT
- Contract startsin 141 days1 Apr 2027, 00:00 BST
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Tender notice published10 Nov 2026, 16:27 GMTUK4
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Nothing awarded yet- Awards (0)
- No award published
- Contracts (0)
- No contract published
- Bid statistics
- No aggregate bid statistics published
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
2 public bodies on the noticeClients of the procurement agent
- Rathfern Primary SchoolBeneficiary authoritynamed in the title
Official documents & specifications (3)
Official links; attachments are not copiedTender pack and attachments
- Bidding documents and specifications Example agreement
- Bidding documents and specifications Selection Questionnaire
Notices published for this procedure
- Tender notice Tender notice on Find a Tender