Official UK procurement notice
St Edmunds College Mechanical and Electrical Services
Authority: ST EDMUND'S COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE (Charity / VCSE)·On behalf of: SSC Partnership Limited
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionSSC Partnership (the Agent) on behalf of St Edmunds College, University of Cambridge are currently out to tender for the provision of Mechanical and Electrical Services.
This procurement is being run under the open procedure, which is a formal bidding procedure, under which the contract is advertised, and all interested organisation/consortium can bid. This ITT provides further details of the proposal and process for submitting bids.
All Bidders are required to complete the ITT document in order to submit their completed Bid. Bids must comprise both the Procurement Specific Questionnaire (PSQ) and ITT response documents . All aspects of the ITT should be completed in full and submitted as part of a Bid.
The ITT aims to:
Provide information to Bidders on the Procurement and the opportunities available;
Set out clearly the Authority’s requirements;
Provide information on the Authority’s approach to the open procedure process;
Set out the deliverables required from Bidders; and
Set out the evaluation criteria and weightings that the Authority will use to assess Bids.
Following the submission of Bids, the Authority expects to undertake an evaluation process to identify which Bid is the most advantageous tender (MAT) and will be put forward for consideration to be awarded the Contract.
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The Agent on behalf of the Authority is using the In-Tend portal for the Procurement Process. https://in-tendhost.co.uk/sscpartnership (“the Procurement Portal”).
Suppliers that would like to take part in this tender process are invited to "Express Interest" upon which the will be given access to the full tender documentation delivery through this e-tendering system.
When the tender documents have been made available involved suppliers will receive notification via email and the tender documents can be accessed from the "My Tenders" area of this website and selecting the "View Details" button of this project.
The deadline for submissions of the tender will be 29th October 2026 at 12 noon.
Arrangements will be made for Companies to visit St Edmund’s College, University of Cambridge, Mount Pleasant, Cambridge CB3 0BN and view the current facilities to obtain a better understanding of the layout and any other relevant information to help in putting together tender bids. The site visit is planned to take place on Monday 12th October 2026 at 9:00am. Please note that the site visit is not mandatory to submit a bid.
Please allow sufficient time to make your return as late returns will not be permitted.
Any questions relating to this tender should be made via correspondence on the website and can be addressed to the main contact as shown in the details above.
CPV: Electric instantaneous or storage water heaters and immersion heaters · Electrical installation work of heating and other electrical building-equipment · Electrical machinery, apparatus, equipment and consumables; lighting · Electrical-system repair services · Hot-water boilers · Installation services of electrical and mechanical equipment · Installation services of mechanical equipment · Mechanical and electrical engineering services · Repair and maintenance services of electrical and mechanical building installations · Repair and maintenance services of electrical building installations · Repair and maintenance services of mechanical building installations
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · value publishedLot #1Lot 1RenewalPublished valueAED 0
- Value
- AED 0 exc. VAT · AED 0 inc. VAT
- Extensions
- The Authority will sign a contract with the successful Company for a period of 36 Months (3 Years) with the option to extend it for up to a further 24 Months (2 Years). The maximum contract term is 5 years inclusive of the extension period.
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).
- Technical Ability and Quality
- Price Criteria
- Social Value
No conditions of participation were published on the notice; check the tender documents.
Competition analysis · published record, not a forecast of who will bid
Repair and maintenance services of electrical and mechanical building installations (CPV 5071) in East of England — and who usually turns up
ST EDMUND'S COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE has too little published record in this market to describe on its own; the East of England market stands beside whatever it has. Frameworks and DPS are kept out: they attract a different number of bids. Whole-market view: Repair and maintenance services of electrical and mechanical building installations (CPV 5071) →
How the contest usually goes
Left: this authority. Right: the market where the work is delivered. Bids and award-vs-estimate pairs are per lot, from contested contracts only — direct awards (including PA 2023 transparency notices) report one bid by definition and are left out. On Procurement Act 2023 notices the count is the tenders assessed at the final stage, not every submission received; pairs compare like with like (VAT-exclusive, or VAT-inclusive on both sides). Empty means nothing was published, not filled in from elsewhere.
ST EDMUND'S COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE
contract notices in 36 months: 3 in CPV 5071 · 11 in division 50 · 16 in all categories
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How many companies usually bid for work like this.
Middle value of published bid counts, one per lot, for this buyer or this region in the same sector.
Nothing published for this buyer in this sector: no bid reports published.
Nothing is filled in from UK-wide numbers. An empty tile means nothing usable was published.
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How often only one company bid.
Share of lots that received exactly one bid, on the same competitions as the bids figure.
Nothing published for this buyer in this sector: no bid reports published.
High means a thin market or an incumbent that is hard to beat.
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Do awards for work like this land above or below the estimate.
Estimate against award per lot, for this buyer or this region in the same sector.
Nothing published for this buyer in this sector: no comparable estimate → award pairs.
A past pattern, not a price to bid.
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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.
Nothing published for this buyer in this sector: no award dates published.
Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.
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How often this buyer changes a notice after publishing it.
Middle number of amendments per notice. Deadline extensions and corrections both count.
Based on this buyer’s tenders in all categories, last 24 months: 16 notices.
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How often this buyer awards without a competition.
Direct or limited awards as a share of its notices that say which procedure was used. These routes are legal in defined cases. This is just the record.
Based on this buyer’s tenders in this sector (CPV 5071), last 36 months: 3 notices.
East of England · Repair and maintenance services of electrical and mechanical building installations (CPV 5071)
contract notices delivered in East of England in 36 months: 63 in CPV 5071 (51 competed, 9 route not published) · 545 in division 50 (420 competed, 79 route not published)
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How many companies usually bid for work like this.
Middle value of published bid counts, one per lot, for this buyer or this region in the same sector.
Based on this region’s tenders in this sector (CPV 5071), last 36 months: 28 lots. 15 lots are from Procurement Act 2023 notices (bids assessed, middle 6) and 13 from older notices (bids received, middle 5).
Nothing is filled in from UK-wide numbers. An empty tile means nothing usable was published.
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How often only one company bid.
Share of lots that received exactly one bid, on the same competitions as the bids figure.
Based on this region’s tenders in this sector (CPV 5071), last 36 months: 28 lots.
High means a thin market or an incumbent that is hard to beat.
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Do awards for work like this land above or below the estimate.
Estimate against award per lot, for this buyer or this region in the same sector.
Based on this region’s tenders in this sector (CPV 5071), last 36 months: 8 pairs.
A past pattern, not a price to bid.
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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.
Based on this region’s tenders in this sector (CPV 5071), last 36 months: 18 notices.
Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.
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How much of this market goes to small and medium firms.
SME bidders where buyers published the split, otherwise SME winners.
Based on this region’s tenders in this sector (CPV 5071), last 36 months: 24 lots.
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How much work like this goes to companies based in the delivery region.
Awards in this category delivered here where the winner’s registered address is in the region.
Based on this region’s tenders in this sector (CPV 5071), last 36 months: 21 awards.
Registered address, so a national firm with a local branch counts as outside.
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Where this tender’s estimate would land if the usual pattern repeats.
We apply the buyer’s usual movement between estimate and award (or the region’s) to the estimate on this notice.
No estimate in pounds on this notice, so the movement stays a percentage.
A benchmark, not a price to bid.
Coverage and what to read with care
- Each tile explains itself. The on a figure says what it is, how it is counted and which scope this notice’s own record came from (class, division, all categories, or the authority’s 24-month row). The two columns are never blended and nothing is filled from a UK-wide figure; an empty tile means the source published nothing usable. Long form: Methodology.
- Coverage. Roughly 40 % of notices publish a bid count; about half publish an ITL1 delivery location, so the market column reads the authority’s registered region when the notice has none (labelled). About 30 % of award-vs-estimate pairs are exact matches — the buyer published the award at the estimate. n is on every figure; a thin sample is muted, never hidden.
- “Match” and “relevance” are model scores from the nightly matcher, not published facts. Find a Tender does not publish who is bidding. Never shown: contact details, payment behaviour, or a recommended price.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Procedure method
- Open 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
- Yes (GPA)
- Recurring procurement
- No (one-off requirement)
- First published
- 29 Sept 2026, 16:14 BST
- Last source update
- 29 Sept 2026, 16:14 BST
- Award evaluation window
- Submission end — 1 Nov 2026, 23:59 GMT
- Authority reference
SSC CAM ME 11_26- Latest notice
- Tender notice (UK4)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-077cdbFind a Tender
How to participate & submission route
Official notice Submit via In-tend- Expression of interest (EOI)
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- Tender submission deadline
- 29 Oct 2026, 12:00 GMT
- Clarification deadline
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- Submission channel
- Official e-sourcing portal
- Electronic submission
- Allowed
- Accepted languages
- en
Timeline
4 published dates · Europe/London- Tender notice publishedearlier today29 Sept 2026, 16:14 BST
- Submission deadlinein 30 days29 Oct 2026, 12:00 GMT
- Contract startsin 32 days1 Nov 2026, 00:00 GMT
- Award decision expected byin 33 days1 Nov 2026, 23:59 GMT
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Nothing awarded yet- Awards (0)
- No award published
- Contracts (0)
- No contract published
- Bid statistics
- No aggregate bid statistics published
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Tender notice published29 Sept 2026, 16:14 BSTUK4
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
2 public bodies on the noticeOther public bodies
- SSC Partnership LimitedProcess contact pointProcuring entityAgent
Official documents & specifications (3)
Official links; attachments are not copiedTender pack and attachments
- Conflict of interest declarationNot published
- Bidding documents and specifications All tenders documents can be accessed via the web address above.
Notices published for this procedure
- Tender notice Tender notice on Find a Tender