Official UK procurement notice
Sport & Active Wellness Kit
Authority: Oxford Brookes University (Education)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionOxford Brookes University has a student population of approximately 17,000 students and over 2800 staff, with approximately 2000 students being members of our 39 sports clubs, and a wider Sport & Active Wellness membership consisting of 6000 student, staff and community members accessing a range of our facilities and services.
With our existing Under Armour contract terminating on 31st December 2025, the Directorate of Sport & Active Wellness are now requiring a new contract to be established with a sportswear supplier for a long-term partnership that enables student sports clubs, sports staff and coaches and the general student and staff community to wear university-branded sports apparel to help support the University’s profile and brand better in the wider HE environment.
Following on from our supplier event on 17/11/2025 and the feedback received from suppliers, we have decided to run 1-2-1 supplier meetings over the next 2 weeks. These will be in the form of a 30 minute online meeting with Oxford Brookes University project team and any releveant people from the suppliers side.
If you wish to request a 1-2-1 meeting please contact [email protected] with some available dates and times and we will do our best to accomodate those where possible.
The last 1-2-1 meetings will be held on 28/11/2025.
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CPV: Recreational, cultural and sporting services · Sporting services · Sports footwear · Sports goods and equipment · Sports shirts · Sportswear
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedPipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How Oxford Brookes University buys Special clothing (CPV 1841): the notice lists a non-UK location
Oxford Brookes University’s published record is shown without a UK market comparison because the notice lists a non-UK delivery location. Check the notice description and tender documents for the actual site. Frameworks and DPS are kept out: they attract a different number of bids. Whole-market view: Special clothing (CPV 1841) →
How the contest usually goes
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How often small and medium firms win.
Share of awards where the winner’s size is known.
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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.
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
The notice lists delivery in Ireland, so this procedure has no confirmed single UK region; the buyer’s figure reads its other awards, each against its own delivery region.
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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 27 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.
The buyer’s share is a minimum: some awards have no bid count.
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No supplier is confirmed as a bidder.
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Lot #1Published estimate£150k
This lot lists only non-UK delivery addresses. Supplier examples below come from UK award history and are not checked for this delivery area.
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How many bids this lot may attract.
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This lot has only non-UK delivery countries in its published addresses, so the UK model forecast is withheld.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
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Where the award price may land.
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No comparable awards for this lot yet.
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Who has done similar work for this buyer.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Planned procurement
- Procurement threshold
- Below threshold
- Regulatory regime
- Concession
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 6 Nov 2025, 12:05 GMT
- Last source update
- 17 Nov 2025, 14:05 GMT
- FTS notice number
2025/S 000-074414- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area in notice
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-05dbb8Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
6 Nov 2025 → 1 Jun 2026 · 4 dates- Planning notice published348 days ago6 Nov 2025, 12:05 GMT
- Latest notice published337 days ago17 Nov 2025, 14:05 GMT
- Market engagement325 days ago28 Nov 2025, 23:59 GMT
Following on from our supplier event on 17/11/2025 and the feedback received from suppliers, we have decided to run 1-2-1 supplier meetings over the next 2 weeks. These will be in the form of a 30 minute online meeting with Oxford Brookes University project team and any releveant people from the suppliers side.
If you wish to request a 1-2-1 meeting please contact [email protected] with some available dates and times and we will do our best to accomodate those where possible.
The last 1-2-1 meetings will be held on 28/11/2025.
- Contract starts141 days ago1 Jun 2026, 00:00 BST
Notice history
2 events · 2 releases on Find a Tender · since 6 Nov 2025- Preliminary market engagement notice published6 Nov 2025, 12:05 GMTUK2
- Preliminary market engagement notice published17 Nov 2025, 14:05 GMTUK2
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 (2)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender