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UOS-S00927 Marquee Hire

Buyer: University of Suffolk →

BuyerUniversity of Suffolk
StatusAwarded
DeadlineNot published
ValueValue not published
Published9 Sept 2025

What is being bought

The University of Suffolk require an experienced and capable supplier to provide hire of a marquee and luxury portable toilet facilities for the University’s graduation ceremonies in October 2025, with a University only option to extend the contract on four occasions, each extension being for one additional year, making the maximum contract length 5 years in total. The maximum estimated total value in II 1.5 only applies if the contract is extended and is subject to inflationary increase after the initial 12 months. The graduation ceremonies will take place from Saturday 18 to Wednesday 22 October 2025 at the University of Suffolk on the Ipswich waterfront. The marquee and toilet facilities will be positioned in the Wharf car park (Orwell Quay, Ballast Wharf Walk, Wykes Bishop St, Ipswich, IP3 0DT).

Delivery location

UKH14

Categories

Event services 79952000Event services 79952000

Lot details

Lot 1

The University of Suffolk sought a suitably experienced and capable supplier to provide hire of a marquee and luxury portable toilet facilities for the University’s graduation ceremonies in October 2025, with a University only option to extend the contract on four occasions, each extension being for one additional year, making the maximum contract length 5 years in total. The graduation ceremonies will take place from Saturday 18 to Wednesday 22 October 2025 at the University of Suffolk on the Ipswich waterfront. The marquee and toilet facilities will be positioned in the Wharf car park (Orwell Quay, Ballast Wharf Walk, Wykes Bishop St, Ipswich, IP3 0DT).

Statuscancelled

Award criteria
Quality — 50
Cost — 50

What is included

ItemCategoryQuantity
1Event servicesNot published

Comparable-procurement analytics

Benchmarked against retained Find a Tender procedures with CPV division 79. The category anchor is Event services (79952000); this is a deliberately broad market comparator. The comparison is shown at several levels rather than pretending one company or region is always the best benchmark.

Comparison setProceduresReported bids per procedureNamed award suppliersPrice evidence
Market: CPV division 796,0113 median · 32.6 average (1,979 of 6,011 with a bid count)3.3 average (2,214 of 6,011 with named award suppliers)Not published
Same buyer0Not publishedNot publishedNot published
Delivery region: UKH14324 median · 12.4 average (10 of 32 with a bid count)2.5 average (11 of 32 with named award suppliers)Not published

“Reported bids” is an official aggregate, sometimes reported per lot; it is the closest available competition measure. “Named award suppliers” are winners, not all applicants.

Price-outcome signal

Not enough comparable procedures currently publish both a GBP tender value and a usable lowest-valid-bid value to calculate a responsible price-reduction benchmark. Tenderline deliberately does not infer a saving from named award suppliers or from missing award values.

Procurement strategy & market signals

Framework agreementNot published
Dynamic purchasing systemNot published
Competitive procurementNot published
Recurring requirementNot published
Procurement method rationaleNot published
Rationale classificationsNot published
Special regimeNot published
Covered byGPA
Submission policyNot published
Selection criteriaNot published
Risk detailsNot published

Planning & early market engagement

BudgetNot published
No-engagement rationaleNot published
Planning documents0
Planning milestones0

No planning milestones published.

Related procurements

No linked framework, prior procurement or reprocurement published.

Awards

Contracts

Event Services

Statusactive
Value£625,000

Documents & submission route

No documents are published in the current source record.

Source data inventory

Diagnostic view. “Not published” means this current release does not provide a value.

OCIDocds-h6vhtk-04e47e
Latest release ID055035-2025
Latest release timestampTue Sep 09 2025 13:05:27 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Sourcefind-a-tender
Official notice URLNot published
Tender statuscomplete
Procurement methodopen
Procurement method detailsOpen procedure
Main procurement categoryservices
Above thresholdNot published
Legal basis32014L0024
Tender period: startNot published
Tender period: endNot published
Expression of interest deadlineNot published
Enquiry deadlineNot published
Award period: startNot published
Award period: endNot published
Submission method detailsNot published
Submission languagesNot published
Electronic catalogue policyNot published
Total tender valueNot published
Tender lots in source1
Tender items in source1
Tender documents in source0
Awards in latest release1
Contracts in latest release1
Parties in latest release3

Notice history

DateEventReference
9 Sept 2025award, contract055035-2025
19 Feb 2025tender006017-2025

All source data

Unmodified official OCDS data retained by Tenderline for this procurement process.

Complete current OCDS release JSON
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Complete JSON history (2 releases)
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