Find a TenderPlanned procurementPipeline notice
Published 4 Jun 2026, 13:21 BST

Official UK procurement notice

Venue Booking · UK public procurement notice

Authority: London Fire Commissioner (Public body)

Services
Sectors: Hotel, restaurant and retail trade services (55) Delivery: Delivery location not published
Planned pipeline value£0pipeline notice, not a live tender
Tender notice expected 24 May 2027from the planned procurement notice
Contract term 4 yrsends 27 Nov 2031 · starts 28 Nov 2027

What is being bought

Published requirement description

This is a Pipeline Notice, not a call for competition.

Procurement for Conference and Venue Bookings.

CPV: Hotel meeting and conference services

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published
Lot #1Planned 4 yrs

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

How London Fire Commissioner buys Hotel meeting and conference services (CPV 5512), and who usually turns up

London Fire Commissioner’s own published record, next to the published market for the same work. Frameworks and DPS are kept out: they attract a different number of bids. Whole-market view: Hotel meeting and conference services (CPV 5512) →

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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 buyerLondon Fire Commissioner · all categories
What to do with it
How often do SMEs win?
i

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: 2 of 8 known-size awards · market: CPV 5512 · UK-wide, n=40
25%35%

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

How often do local suppliers win?
i

How often local firms win similar work.

Winners with a registered address in the delivery region, out of awards with a known address.

Here, local means the winner is registered in the region where that contract was delivered.

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

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 0 of 3 known-location awards · market: CPV 5512 · UK-wide, n=36
0 of 328%

Most of this buyer’s recorded winners are registered outside Greater London.

How long to a decision?
i

How long buyers here take to decide after bids close.

Middle value in days from the deadline to the first award notice, on competitions that published both dates.

Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 3 decided notices · market: division 55 · Greater London (authority’s region), n=43
54 days82 days

Half of these awards were announced within 54 days of the bid deadline.

How often single-bid or direct?
i

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 1 of 13 procurements with awards had no recorded rival · market: CPV 5512 · Greater London (authority’s region), n=6
8%83%

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

How many bids did past lots attract?

i

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 buyer3 lots with bid counts · all categories · too few to chart
The market85 lots with bid counts · division 55 · Greater London (authority’s region)
15% had one bid
Market · select a colour for counts
1 bid15%
Market: 13 of 85 lots with published bid counts.
2–332%
Market: 27 of 85 lots with published bid counts.
4–645%
Market: 38 of 85 lots with published bid counts.
7+8%
Market: 7 of 85 lots with published bid counts.

How did awards compare with estimates?

i

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 buyer4 lots with estimate and award · all categories · too few to chart
The market66 lots with estimate and award · division 55 · Greater London (authority’s region)
23% below estimate
Market · select a colour for counts
Below estimate23%
Market: 15 of 66 lots with an estimate and award.
Within ±2%39%
Market: 26 of 66 lots with an estimate and award.
Above estimate38%
Market: 25 of 66 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 551248 monthsNo real estimate
Expected competition
i

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 85 past lots.

A forecast, not a list of bidders.

—No model forecast yet15% single-bid risk
Past bids on 85 similar lots
1 bid15%
13 of 85 similar past lots received 1 bid (15%).
2–332%
27 of 85 similar past lots received 2–3 (32%).
4–645%
38 of 85 similar past lots received 4–6 (45%).
7+8%
7 of 85 similar past lots received 7+ (8%).
Comparable past lots usually drew 4 bids.
Commercial price forecast
i

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 real estimate
The buyer published £0 as the estimate (a placeholder, not the contract’s value), so there is nothing to forecast against.

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
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
4 Jun 2026, 13:21 BST
Last source update
4 Jun 2026, 13:21 BST
FTS notice number
2026/S 000-052792
Latest notice
Pipeline notice (UK1)
Classification (CPV)
Hotel meeting and conference services
Delivery area
Not published
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06ad78 Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice
Submission deadline
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Timeline

4 Jun 2026 → 28 Nov 2027 · 3 dates
  1. Planning notice published139 days ago
    4 Jun 2026, 13:21 BST
  2. Today
    21 Oct 2026
  3. Tender notice expectedin 215 days
    24 May 2027, 23:59 BST
  4. Contract starts
    28 Nov 2027

Notice history

1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender
  1. Pipeline notice published
    4 Jun 2026, 13:21 BST
    UK1

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

London Fire Commissioner

Contracting authorityPublic authority - sub-central government GB-PPON: PVBD-9678-ZYDR 169 Union Street, London, London, SE1 0LLContact email

Official documents & specifications (1)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure

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