Official UK procurement notice
St Mary's Church of England High School - Cleaning Tender
Authority: St Mary's Church of England High School (Education)·On behalf of: RIVA Partnership Ltd
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionSt Mary’s is an 11–19 co-educational comprehensive school with Academy status and an admission number of 180 for each new Year 7 cohort.
We are one of four Church secondary schools in Hertfordshire within the Diocese of St Albans. The school is widely recognised in the local community for its high quality provision and outstanding commitment to inclusion.
St Mary’s is committed to providing a safe and caring learning environment founded on Christian principles. We continue to deliver an excellent standard of education for all students, enabling every individual to achieve their full potential regardless of ability or background.
We moved to our new purpose-built site on Lieutenant Ellis Way in April 2010. The new school buildings provide an exceptional learning environment and our modern facilities include a full-size sports hall and main hall, drama studios, an outdoor amphitheatre, dedicated computer suites, science laboratories, technology workshops, a Learning Resource Centre and Student Centre, social spaces for each year group and industrial-standard IT facilities.
Further information regarding St Mary’s CE High School can be obtained here: https://st-maryshigh.herts.sch.uk/
Tender information:
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The successful tenderer will be required to provide excellent cleaning services at St Mary’s CE High School, which has 915 pupils and 138 teaching and support staff.
The contract term being tendered for 3 years, from 15th February 2027 – 31st March 2030. There is an option for a further extension period for up to two additional years to 31st March 2032.
The contract offers an excellent opportunity to review and propose enhancements to the current cleaning services. This includes both core term time cleaning and periodic deep cleaning throughout the year.
The Client is keen to secure a high quality cleaning service whereby its students are able to enjoy excellence in education, supported by excellently kept facilities.
The Client expects a tightly managed service where key objectives include excellence in both leadership and communication. The Client also expects a management style delivered by the successful contractor that supports, encourages and develops the cleaning staff. The successful contractor must also have robust plans to ensure the school is fully staffed at all times. The Client’s further key objectives are consistently high standards of cleanliness across the school, a safe and hygienic environment for pupils and staff, reliable service delivery throughout the year, and a responsive working relationship with the school.
The Client is not obliged to accept the lowest price submitted for this tender, rather the Client is keen to secure best value from this contract and to deliver best value to its students. Innovative and creative ideas as to how the cleaning services can be developed and improved, will be welcomed. The Client seeks a contractor that is keen to work in partnership and who will deliver to its highest abilities, at all times.
Competitive Flexible Procedure
This procurement will be run under the Competitive Flexible Procedure. This will follow a two stage approach, with stage 1 being the Procurement Specific Questionnaire (PSQ). Here a minimum of 5 candidates (or less, in the event less than 5 meet the minimum criteria) and a maximum of 10 candidates, will progress to stage 2. Any selection of tenderers will be based solely on the criteria set out for the procurement and a minimum score of 60% must be achieved.
Selected tenderers will then be invited to stage 2, the Invitation To Tender (ITT). Here, the evaluation of tender response will be set as 30% price and 70% quality.
Value of contract:
The annual value of the current contract is £219,319
Therefore, the value of this contract is £1,096,595
The contract shall be a fixed price contract with invoices raised monthly to the Client.
Additional requirements and information:
•The Client has a minimum requirement for a contractor’s employers' liability and public liability insurances of £5 million
•The minimum annual turnover that your company must have achieved to be considered for this opportunity is £500,000
•There are incumbent cleaning staff currently within the Local Government Pension Scheme
•The cleaning services are currently contracted to Evergreen
•Please note that the successful tenderer will be required to pay 50% of the RIVA tender fee for this project directly to RIVA, upon their contract award.
For more information about this opportunity, please visit the eSourcing portal at:
https://www.delta-esourcing.com/tenders/UK-UK-Cheshunt:-School-cleaning-services./26ASCK9XGH
To respond to this opportunity, please click here:
https://www.delta-esourcing.com/respond/26ASCK9XGH
How the procedure runs: This procurement will be run under the Competitive Flexible Procedure. This will follow a two stage approach, with stage 1 being the Procurement Specific Questionnaire (PSQ). Here a minimum of 5 candidates (or less, in the event less than 5 meet the minimum criteria) and a maximum of 10 candidates, will progress to stage 2. Any more…
selection of tenderers will be based solely on the criteria set out for the procurement and a minimum score of 60% must be achieved. Selected tenderers will then be invited to stage 2, the Invitation To Tender (ITT). Here, the evaluation of tender response will be set as 30% price and 70% quality.
CPV: School cleaning services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · value publishedLot #1Lot 1RenewalPublished value£1,096,595
- Value
- £1,096,595 exc. VAT · £1,315,914 inc. VAT
- Extensions
- There is an option for a further extension period for up to two additional years to 31st March 2032.
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).
No conditions of participation were published on the notice; check the tender documents.
Competition analysis · published record, not a forecast of who will bid
Cleaning services (CPV 9091) in East of England — and who usually turns up
St Mary's Church of England High School 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: Cleaning services (CPV 9091) →
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 Mary's Church of England High School
no contract notices in Cleaning services (CPV 9091) in 36 months
St Mary's Church of England High School has published no bid reports, no comparable estimate → award pairs and no award dates that this analysis can use — in Cleaning services (CPV 9091) (36 months) or across all categories (24 months).
East of England · Cleaning services (CPV 9091)
contract notices delivered in East of England in 36 months: 180 in CPV 9091 (161 competed, 10 route not published) · 500 in division 90 (413 competed, 60 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 9091), last 36 months: 102 lots. 49 lots are from Procurement Act 2023 notices (bids assessed, middle 6) and 53 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 9091), last 36 months: 102 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 9091), last 36 months: 39 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 9091), last 36 months: 43 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 9091), last 36 months: 77 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 9091), last 36 months: 128 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.
Based on the East of England market’s usual movement over 39 lots (CPV 9091), applied to the £1,096,595 estimate on this notice. The range comes from the region’s middle half.
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
- Competitive flexible procedure
- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Open for expressions of interest
- 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, CPTPP)
- Recurring procurement
- No (one-off requirement)
- First published
- 25 Sept 2026, 11:55 BST
- Last source update
- 25 Sept 2026, 11:55 BST
- Award evaluation window
- Submission end — 8 Jan 2027, 23:59 GMT
- Latest notice
- Tender notice (UK4)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-077a66Find a Tender
- How it runs
This procurement will be run under the Competitive Flexible Procedure. This will follow a two stage approach, with stage 1 being the Procurement Specific Questionnaire (PSQ). Here a minimum of 5 candidates (or less, in the event less than 5 meet the minimum criteria) and a maximum of 10 candidates, will progress to stage 2. Any selection of tenderers will be based solely on the criteria set out for the procurement more…
and a minimum score of 60% must be achieved. Selected tenderers will then be invited to stage 2, the Invitation To Tender (ITT). Here, the evaluation of tender response will be set as 30% price and 70% quality.
How to participate & submission route
Official notice Submit via Delta eSourcing- Expression of interest (EOI)
- 20 Oct 2026, 12:00 BST
- Tender submission deadline
- 20 Oct 2026, 12:00 BST
- Clarification deadline
- 20 Oct 2026, 12:00 BST
- Submission channel
- Official e-sourcing portal
- Electronic submission
- Allowed
- Accepted languages
- en
Timeline
6 published dates · Europe/London- Tender notice publishedearlier today25 Sept 2026, 11:55 BST
- Clarification questions byin 25 days20 Oct 2026, 12:00 BST
- Expressions of interest byin 25 days20 Oct 2026, 12:00 BST
- Submission deadlinein 25 days20 Oct 2026, 12:00 BST
- Award decision expected byin 105 days8 Jan 2027, 23:59 GMT
- Contract startsin 142 days15 Feb 2027, 00:00 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 published25 Sept 2026, 11:55 BSTUK4
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
2 public bodies on the noticeOther public bodies
- RIVA Partnership LtdProcuring entityProcurement Consultancy supporting the Contracting Authority
Official documents & specifications (2)
Official links; attachments are not copiedTender pack and attachments
- Conflict of interest declarationNot published
Notices published for this procedure
- Tender notice Tender notice on Find a Tender