Official UK procurement notice
UOW993 Access Control & Intruder Alarms
Authority: University of Worcester (Education)
The University of Worcester is looking to appoint suitably qualified and experienced contractors to provide routine servicing, maintenance, and reactive call out services for its existing SALTO access control and GALAXY intruder alarm system across the University estate. We are looking to divide the requirement into the following lots:
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThe University of Worcester is looking to appoint suitably qualified and experienced contractors to provide routine servicing, maintenance, and reactive call out services for its existing SALTO access control and GALAXY intruder alarm system across the University estate.
We are looking to divide the requirement into the following lots:
Lot 1 – Access Control Systems
Lot 2 – Intruder Alarm Systems
CPV: Access control system · Repair and maintenance services of security equipment · Surveillance and security systems and devices
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedPipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How University of Worcester buys Command and control system, printing, graphics, office automation and information-processing equipment (CPV 4296), and who usually turns up
University of Worcester’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: Command and control system, printing, graphics, office automation and information-processing equipment (CPV 4296) →
How the contest usually goes
Winner shares use published awards; bid and price charts use contested lots.
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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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Local means the winner is registered in the region where that award was delivered.
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 99 days of the bid deadline.
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Both shares are minimums: some awards have no bid count.
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 bid7% / 13%
2–314% / 25%
4–643% / 25%
7+36% / 38%
How did awards compare with estimates?
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Below estimate50%
Within ±2%38%
Above estimate13%
Assess each lot i
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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 4296Estimate not published
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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 18 past lots.
1 bid17%
2–328%
4–633%
7+22%
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No comparable awards for this lot yet.
Who has supplied this buyer on similar work? i
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No earlier contract of this buyer matches this lot on the published record.
Who could compete for this lot? i
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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.
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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
- Unspecified in notice
- 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, 14:23 GMT
- Last source update
- 10 Nov 2026, 14:23 GMT
- Authority reference
UOW993- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-106711- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-07b8a7Find 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 published3 days ago10 Nov 2026, 14:23 GMT
- Today14 Nov 2026
- Market engagementin 23 days7 Dec 2026, 23:59 GMT
The PME document can be accessed at: in-tendhost.co.uk/universityofworcester/aspx/Home
There is a questionnaire to be completed and submitted through the in-Tend portal
- Tender notice expectedin 58 days11 Jan 2027, 23:59 GMT
- Contract startsin 259 days1 Aug 2027, 00:00 BST
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Preliminary market engagement notice published10 Nov 2026, 14:23 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