Official UK procurement notice
Student Residence Carpet Cleaning Services
Authority: University of Exeter (Education)
The University of Exeter is undertaking Preliminary Market Engagement (PME) to inform the development of its procurement strategy and requirements for a future Student Residence Carpet Cleaning Services contract. The University is seeking engagement from suitably experienced carpet cleaning service providers to better understand current market capability, service delivery models, specialist cleaning techniques, innovation, sustainability, staffing and mobilisation considerations, pricing approaches and other factors that may inform the development of the future procurement.
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThe University of Exeter is undertaking Preliminary Market Engagement (PME) to inform the development of its procurement strategy and requirements for a future Student Residence Carpet Cleaning Services contract. The University is seeking engagement from suitably experienced carpet cleaning service providers to better understand current market capability, service delivery models, specialist cleaning techniques, innovation, sustainability, staffing and mobilisation considerations, pricing approaches and other factors that may inform the development of the future procurement. Interested suppliers are invited to review the information provided and complete the associated PME questionnaire. Feedback received will be used to help shape the University's requirements, specification, commercial model and approach to the subsequent procurement exercise. Responses should be submitted via the University's e-tendering portal by 12:00pm on Friday 11th December 2026. The University will review responses on a rolling basis throughout the pre-market engagement period and may contact suppliers before the closing date to seek clarification, request additional information or arrange follow-up discussions where appropriate. Participation in this PME does not constitute a commitment by the University to undertake a procurement exercise or award a contract. Participation, or non-participation, will not advantage or disadvantage any supplier in any subsequent procurement process.
CPV: Accommodation cleaning services · Cleaning services · Textile-cleaning services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedPipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How University of Exeter buys Cleaning services (CPV 9091), and who usually turns up
University of Exeter’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: Cleaning services (CPV 9091) →
How the contest usually goes
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Most of this buyer’s recorded winners were registered outside the region where that award was delivered.
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Half of these awards have an award date within 66 days of the bid deadline.
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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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1 bid36% / 8%
2–320% / 14%
4–624% / 49%
7+20% / 29%
How did awards compare with estimates?
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Below estimate50% / 27%
Within ±2%45% / 40%
Above estimate5% / 34%
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Open a lot for its forecast, this buyer’s previous supplier and possible competitors, from published award history, not a bid list
Lot #1CPV 9091Published estimate£150k
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1 bid8%
2–314%
4–649%
7+29%
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No comparable awards for this lot yet.
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Candidate suppliers for this notice have not been worked out yet, so this is not a verdict that nobody fits.
About this data
- Estimates, labelled. The price range, possible competitors and earlier-work matches are our estimates from past awards, not published facts, win chances or price advice. The buyer’s own record and the wider market are shown apart, never mixed.
- Source. Official UK public procurement notices (Find a Tender and Contracts Finder), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0, updated through the day and rebuilt nightly. Not every figure uses both feeds, and each one shows how many records it rests on: see the methodology. Spotted something wrong? Tell us.
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
- 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, 15:05 GMT
- Last source update
- 10 Nov 2026, 15:05 GMT
- Authority reference
UOE_2026_177_CO- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-106750- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-07b8bcFind a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
10 Nov 2026 → 1 Aug 2027 · 4 dates- Planning notice published2 days ago10 Nov 2026, 15:05 GMT
- Today13 Nov 2026
- Market engagementin 28 days11 Dec 2026, 23:59 GMT
- Tender notice expectedin 80 days1 Feb 2027, 23:59 GMT
- Contract startsin 260 days1 Aug 2027
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Preliminary market engagement notice published10 Nov 2026, 15:05 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 (1)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender