Find a TenderPlanned procurementPlanned procurement notice
Published 27 Nov 2025, 19:05 GMT

Official UK procurement notice

University of Bath_Estate Condition Surveys 25 26

Authority: University of Bath (Education)

ServicesOpen procedureAbove thresholdSME suitable
Planned pipeline value£500,000pipeline notice, not a live tender
Tender notice expected 9 Dec 2025from the planned procurement notice
Contract term 7 moends 30 Sept 2026 · starts 2 Mar 2026

What is being bought

Published requirement description

The University of Bath will be looking to have these surveys completed to 131 buildings (refer to University of Bath Building List) which is a mixture of Academic, Residential, Sports/Leisure/Recreational, Facilities Management and Other buildings. Approximate internal gross areas (m²) have been provided within the University of Bath Building List. Building condition surveys were previously undertaken in 2019. The University can provide summary reports and data sets for each building where required.

The results of the surveys are to be entered into the University’s PlanOn IWMS (Integrated Workplace Management System) software package so that they can be used by the University for the ongoing maintenance and management of the Estate.

Written reports are required for each building broken down by Building Fabric, Mechanical and Electrical disciplines. These should give a commentary on the results of each survey.

The surveys include:

Executive summary of survey.

Property description.

A condition survey of all sites and buildings.

Identification of costs associated with long term maintenance (10 years)

Captured asset register information

Amounts, Dates and Times add are estimates and likely to change

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CPV: Building surveying services

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · value published
Lot #1Planned 7 moSMEPublished value£500,000
Contract period: 2 Mar 2026 – 30 Sept 2026 (7 mo)Value: £500,000 exc. VAT · £500,000 inc. VAT
Delivery: South WestEligibility: SME eligible
Pre-qualification & selection criteria (PQQ)1
  • Technical & professional ability

    RICS Surveyor

Who is likely to bid for this lot ↓

What it takes to win
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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 more
Conditions of participation1
  • Technical & professional ability

    RICS Surveyor

Pipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published

How University of Bath buys Consultative engineering and construction services (CPV 7131), and who usually turns up

University of Bath’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: Consultative engineering and construction services (CPV 7131) →

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How the contest usually goes

Winner shares use published awards; bid and price charts use contested lots.

Question for the bid
This buyerUniversity of Bath · all categories
What to do with it
How often do SMEs win?
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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.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 3 of 14 known-size awards · market: CPV 7131 · South West England, n=175
21%65%

Small firms have won here. Neither number says whether you qualify; it describes who has been winning.

How often do local suppliers win?
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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 South West England.

A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 4 of 17 known-location awards · market: CPV 7131 · South West England, n=228
24%28%

Most of this buyer’s recorded winners were registered outside the region where that award was delivered.

How long to a decision?
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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.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 10 decided notices · market: CPV 7131 · South West England, n=35
63 days54 days

Half of these awards have an award date within 63 days of the bid deadline.

How often single-bid or direct?
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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.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: at least 2 of 20 procurements with awards had no recorded rival · market: CPV 7131 · South West England, n=242
10%51%

Missing bid counts may hide more single-bid awards. This share is a minimum.

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.

Last 36 months.

This buyer17 lots with bid counts · all categories
6% had one bid
The market48 lots with bid counts · CPV 7131 · South West England
21% had one bid
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
1 bid6% / 21%
Buyer: 1 of 17 lots with published bid counts. Market: 10 of 48 lots with published bid counts.
2–335% / 6%
Buyer: 6 of 17 lots with published bid counts. Market: 3 of 48 lots with published bid counts.
4–618% / 29%
Buyer: 3 of 17 lots with published bid counts. Market: 14 of 48 lots with published bid counts.
7+41% / 44%
Buyer: 7 of 17 lots with published bid counts. Market: 21 of 48 lots with published bid counts.

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.

Last 36 months.

This buyer11 lots with estimate and award · all categories
27% below estimate
The market39 lots with estimate and award · CPV 7131 · South West England
38% below estimate
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
Below estimate27% / 38%
Buyer: 3 of 11 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 15 of 39 lots with an estimate and award.
Within ±2%45% / 44%
Buyer: 5 of 11 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 17 of 39 lots with an estimate and award.
Above estimate27% / 18%
Buyer: 3 of 11 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 7 of 39 lots with an estimate and award.
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Assess each lot
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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 #1CPV 71317 monthsSME suitablePublished estimate£500k
Expected competition
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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 48 past lots.

A forecast, not a list of bidders.

—No model forecast yet21% chance of a single bid
Past bids on 48 similar lots
1 bid21%
10 of 48 similar past lots received 1 bid (21%).
2–36%
3 of 48 similar past lots received 2–3 (6%).
4–629%
14 of 48 similar past lots received 4–6 (29%).
7+44%
21 of 48 similar past lots received 7+ (44%).
Comparable past lots usually drew 5.5 bids.
Commercial price forecast
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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.

—No model forecast yet
No comparable awards on record for this lot’s category yet. The published estimate is £500k, and the forecast stays empty until the market has a record to read.

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.

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.

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
Procedure method
Open procedure
Legal basis
UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
Procurement category
Services
Notice status
Planned procurement
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
Unspecified in notice
First published
27 Nov 2025, 19:05 GMT
Last source update
27 Nov 2025, 19:05 GMT
Award evaluation window
Submission end – 29 Jan 2026
Authority reference
1426-CS
FTS notice number
2025/S 000-077891
Latest notice
Planned procurement notice (UK3)
Classification (CPV)
Building surveying services
Delivery area
South West (UKK12)
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-05eaa4 Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice
Submission deadline
26 Jan 2026, 13:00 GMT
Clarification deadline
8 Dec 2025
Electronic submission
Allowed
Accepted languages
en
Detailed submission instructions & authority contactsFrom official release

Delta

Timeline

27 Nov 2025 → 2 Mar 2026 · 6 dates
  1. Planning notice published335 days ago
    27 Nov 2025, 19:05 GMT
  2. Clarification questions by325 days ago
    8 Dec 2025
  3. Tender notice expected323 days ago
    9 Dec 2025, 23:59 GMT
  4. Submission deadline275 days ago
    26 Jan 2026, 13:00 GMT
  5. Award decision expected by272 days ago
    29 Jan 2026, 23:59 GMT
  6. Contract starts241 days ago
    2 Mar 2026

Notice history

1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender
  1. Planned procurement notice published
    27 Nov 2025, 19:05 GMT
    UK3

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

University of Bath

Contracting authorityPublic undertaking GB-PPON: PNGV-7869-ZHZQ Purchasing Services, Bath, South West, BA2 7AYContact name, email, phone

Official documents & specifications (1)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure