Official UK procurement notice
Supply & Delivery of Building, Timber & Trade Materials, including Power Tools (2025–2029)
Authority: University of Strathclyde (Education)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThis Prior Information Notice (PIN) relates to a project to establish a Contract for the Supply & Delivery of Building, Timber & Trade Materials, including Power Tools (2025–2029) at the University of Strathclyde.
CPV: Building materials · Hardware · Miscellaneous hand tools · Power tools · Timber
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1The University of Strathclyde (“the University”) is seeking to establish a contract to…Planned
The University of Strathclyde (“the University”) is seeking to establish a contract to support the delivery of activities outlined below. This Contract will include, however, will not be limited to:
- General building supplies:
- Timber and sheet materials:
- Insulation and damp-proofing products:
- Paints and decorating materials:
- Fixings and fasteners:
- Hand tools and power tools:
- All deliveries must be delivered to the University’s appointed location, and the Contractor must contact the University’s nominated representative on the working day before any delivery is due; and
- Implementation of an electronic catalogue for ordering products that will be uploaded onto our Financial Management System (FMS), allowing users to purchase from a core product list with fixed pricing windows. Additional information: Please note, the information contained within this Prior Information Notice (PIN) is subject to change.
Pipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How University of Strathclyde buys Construction materials (CPV 4411), and who usually turns up
University of Strathclyde’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 materials (CPV 4411) →
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. The market figure counts awards delivered in Scotland.
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 29 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 bid13% / 12%
2–338% / 41%
4–635% / 40%
7+15% / 7%
How did awards compare with estimates?
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Where winning prices landed against estimates.
Each colour shows awards below, close to or above the published estimate, one lot at a time.
Past prices are a guide, not a bid price.
Below estimate41% / 23%
Within ±2%55% / 48%
Above estimate5% / 30%
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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.
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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 #1The University of Strathclyde (“the University”) is seeking to establish a contract to…CPV 4411Published estimate£241k
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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. The bar shows 20 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid10%
2–320%
4–665%
7+5%
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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.
No comparable awards for this lot yet.
A statistical guide from past awards, not a price to bid.
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.
No earlier contract of this buyer matches this lot on the published record.
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.
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.
- 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 · publisher note attached- Legal basis
- CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
- Procurement category
- Goods
- Notice status
- Planned procurement
- Procurement threshold
- Unspecified in notice
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Yes (GPA)
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 29 Oct 2025, 11:15 GMT
- Last source update
- 29 Oct 2025, 11:15 GMT
- Authority reference
UOS-39145-2025- FTS notice number
2025/S 000-069277- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-05d600Find a Tender
Publisher note: The University of Strathclyde may conduct further market engagement with interested parties. As such, all interested parties must register their interest no later than 12 noon on 07 November 2025. NOTE: To register your interest in this notice and obtain any additional information please visit the Public Contracts Scotland Web Site at https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/Search/Search_Switch.aspx?ID=813732. (SC Ref:813732)
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
29 Oct 2025 → 14 Nov 2025 · 2 dates- Notice published361 days ago29 Oct 2025, 11:15 GMT
- Tender notice expected345 days ago14 Nov 2025
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
Official links; attachments are not copiedNo document links were published on the notice.