Official UK procurement notice
Relocation of the School of Business and Innovation, Cardiff Campus
Authority: University of South Wales (Education)
The University of South Wales is seeking a contractor to refurbish and fit out the fourth floor of A Block and room CA.A101 at its Cardiff Campus, so the School of Business and Innovation can move there. Works are planned from 1 February to 25 June 2027, with an earlier completion date for part of the works on 28 May 2027.
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThe University of South Wales is seeking a contractor to refurbish and fit out the fourth floor of A Block and room CA.A101 at its Cardiff Campus, so the School of Business and Innovation can move there. Works are planned from 1 February to 25 June 2027, with an earlier completion date for part of the works on 28 May 2027. The building will remain occupied throughout the works
A site visit is mandatory and is by appointment. Please see the Invitation to Tender document for more details
Tender documents are available on eTenderWales (ITT: itt_128315).
CPV: Construction work
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · value publishedLot #1Published value£700,000
- Condition of participation
Please see Invitation to tender document for all details and the etenderwales Qualification envelope
Bidders are required to attend a site visit which is a Pass/Fail requirement
What it takes to wini
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 morei
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 (3)
- Quality Assessment: 35%
- Pricing Assessment: 60%
- Social Value Contribution: 5%
Published award criteria (3)
- Quality Assessment
- Pricing Assessment
- Social Value Contribution
- Condition of participation
Please see Invitation to tender document for all details and the etenderwales Qualification envelope
Bidders are required to attend a site visit which is a Pass/Fail requirement
- Price carries 60 of 100 points: a 10% discount moves about 6 points. This one is won on the number: sharpen the price before polishing the prose.
- Turnover usually expected at this size: about £1,400,000 (twice the annual value).
Price arithmetic assumes straight proportional scoring; the tender pack may use another formula. 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 University of South Wales buys Construction work (CPV 45), and who usually turns up
University of South Wales’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: Construction work (CPV 45) →
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.
Local means the winner is registered in the region where that award was delivered.
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 54 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 bid20% / 12%
2–340% / 27%
4–640% / 31%
7+0% / 31%
How did awards compare with estimates?
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Where winning prices landed against estimates.
Awards below, close to or above the estimate, per lot. The buyer side adds below-threshold contracts with a pre-award estimate; an award inside a published range counts as close.
Past prices are a guide, not a bid price.
Below estimate60% / 42%
Within ±2%16% / 30%
Above estimate24% / 27%
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 #1CPV 45Published estimate£700k
This lot lists more than one class in CPV 45. The comparison uses that group.
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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.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid8%
2–345%
4–641%
7+7%
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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.
Based on 171 comparable awards. Each lot reflects its own category; forecasts for different lots of the same notice are not comparative.
A statistical guide from past awards, not a price to bid.
Middle 50%£529k–£684k
Estimate£700k
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| APEX ENERGY SOLUTIONS (SOUTH WALES) LIMITEDWorked for this buyer | Award of Provision of Builders Work for Cinema Refurbishment, Cardiff Campusnotice published Jun 2025 | — | — | Similar wording and category |
| Cardo Group (Wales and West) LimitedWorked for this buyer | Award of Renewal of Kitchens, Installation of some New Boilers and Associated Works at Student Accommodation Blocks S&Tnotice published May 2026 | — | — | Similar wording and category |
| V3 Facilities Management LimitedWorked for this buyer | Award of Installation of New Ceiling and Associated Works at the Treforest Students Unionnotice published Feb 2026 | — | — | Similar wording and category |
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.
| Supplier | Won in this category | Live contracts | Award vs estimate |
|---|---|---|---|
BELL GROUP LTDLarge | £87m112 awards in 36m · last 1 month ago | 13 live · £28m iPublic contracts this supplier still holds. Its awards whose published end date is still in the future, with their values. Many contracts publish no end date, so this is a floor, not the whole book. Unexpired says nothing about spare capacity. | at estimate n=30 |
| £11m31 awards in 36m · last 2 months ago | 6 live · £1.6m iPublic contracts this supplier still holds. Its awards whose published end date is still in the future, with their values. Many contracts publish no end date, so this is a floor, not the whole book. Unexpired says nothing about spare capacity. | at estimate n=7 | |
| £2.7m4 awards in 36m · last 2 months ago | 1 live · £395k iPublic contracts this supplier still holds. Its awards whose published end date is still in the future, with their values. Many contracts publish no end date, so this is a floor, not the whole book. Unexpired says nothing about spare capacity. | 30% below n=1 | |
| £1.6m9 awards in 36m · last 2 months ago | 1 live · £450k iPublic contracts this supplier still holds. Its awards whose published end date is still in the future, with their values. Many contracts publish no end date, so this is a floor, not the whole book. Unexpired says nothing about spare capacity. | at estimate n=3 | |
| £58m8 awards in 36m · last 14 months ago | 1 live · £12m iPublic contracts this supplier still holds. Its awards whose published end date is still in the future, with their values. Many contracts publish no end date, so this is a floor, not the whole book. Unexpired says nothing about spare capacity. | at estimate n=5 |
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.
- 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- Procedure method
- Below threshold - open competition
- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Works
- Notice status
- Open for tender
- 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
- 12 Nov 2026, 16:27 GMT
- Last source update
- 12 Nov 2026, 16:27 GMT
- Authority reference
2132- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-107728- Latest notice
- Tender notice (UK4)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-07bafcFind a Tender
How to participate & submission route
Official notice Submit via Jaggaer- Requests to participate (first stage)
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- Tender submission deadline
- 10 Dec 2026, 12:00 GMT
- Clarification deadline
- 4 Dec 2026, 18:00 GMT
- Submission channel
- Official e-sourcing portal
- Electronic submission
- Allowed
Tenders must be submitted through eTenderWales at etenderwales.bravosolution.co.uk ↗ (ITT: itt_128315). All tender documents can be downloaded from the portal, and every response must be uploaded there in the envelopes and format the ITT asks for.
Tenders received by email, by post, by hand or in any other format will not be accepted. The only exception is where the University has agreed it in writing beforehand.
All questions about the tender must be raised through the eTenderWales messaging function by the clarification deadline, 12:00 on Friday 4 December 2026. Bidders must not contact any other University staff about this tender.
Bidders with technical problems using the portal should contact the eTenderWales Helpdesk first, on 0800 069 8634 (Monday to Friday, 8am to 6pm).
Bidders are strongly advised to upload their response well before the deadline. This leaves time for large files to upload and for any technical problems to be fixed. Responses must be fully submitted on the portal before the deadline; uploading documents without pressing submit does not count. Late tenders will be rejected.
Timeline
12 Nov 2026 → 1 Feb 2027 · 4 dates- Tender notice publishedjust passed12 Nov 2026, 16:27 GMT
- Today12 Nov 2026
- Clarification questions byin 22 days4 Dec 2026, 18:00 GMT
- Submission deadlinein 27 days10 Dec 2026, 12:00 GMT
- Contract startsin 80 days1 Feb 2027
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Tender notice published12 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
Official documents & specifications (1)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Tender notice Tender notice on Find a Tender