Find a TenderPlanned procurementPipeline notice
Published 7 Apr 2026, 16:16 BST

Official UK procurement notice

Water Systems (Legionella Control)

Authority: London Borough of Islington (Local council)

Services
Sectors: Real estate services (70) Delivery: Delivery location not published
Planned pipeline valueValue not publishedpipeline notice, not a live tender
Tender notice expected 2 Nov 2026from the planned procurement notice
Contract term 6 yrsends 31 May 2033 · starts 1 Jun 2027

What is being bought

Published requirement description

Housing Management

This notice is a PIPELINE NOTICE and therefore is NOT currently a call for competition. For the avoidance of doubt, the Pipeline Notice is intended to provide the most accurate forecast currently available for the council’s high value procurement activity, but does not commit the council to procuring any contract and may be amended after publication.

CPV: Housing services

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published
Lot #1Planned 6 yrs
Contract period: 1 Jun 2027 – 31 May 2033 (6 yrs)

Who is likely to bid for this lot ↓

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

How London Borough of Islington buys Property management services of real estate on a fee or contract basis (CPV 7033), and who usually turns up

London Borough of Islington’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: Property management services of real estate on a fee or contract basis (CPV 7033) →

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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 Borough of Islington · 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: 108 of 129 known-size awards · market: CPV 7033 · Greater London (authority’s region), n=19
84%21%

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 registered in Greater London (authority’s region).

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

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 111 of 116 known-location awards · market: CPV 7033 · Greater London (authority’s region), n=34
96%68%

Most of this buyer’s recorded winners are registered in 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: 6 decided notices · market: CPV 7033 · UK-wide, n=39
110 days52 days

Half of these awards were announced within 110 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 22 of 177 procurements with awards had no recorded rival · market: CPV 7033 · Greater London (authority’s region), n=32
12%41%

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 buyer72 lots with bid counts · all categories
6% had one bid
The market9 lots with bid counts · CPV 7033 · Greater London (authority’s region)
11% had one bid
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
1 bid6% / 11%
Buyer: 4 of 72 lots with published bid counts. Market: 1 of 9 lots with published bid counts.
2–325% / 11%
Buyer: 18 of 72 lots with published bid counts. Market: 1 of 9 lots with published bid counts.
4–649% / 44%
Buyer: 35 of 72 lots with published bid counts. Market: 4 of 9 lots with published bid counts.
7+21% / 33%
Buyer: 15 of 72 lots with published bid counts. Market: 3 of 9 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 buyer3 lots with estimate and award · all categories · too few to chart
The market78 lots with estimate and award · CPV 7033 · UK-wide
42% below estimate
Market · select a colour for counts
Below estimate42%
Market: 33 of 78 lots with an estimate and award.
Within ±2%40%
Market: 31 of 78 lots with an estimate and award.
Above estimate18%
Market: 14 of 78 lots with an estimate and award.
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Assess each lot
i

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 703372 monthsEstimate not published
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 22 past lots.

A forecast, not a list of bidders.

—No model forecast yet5% single-bid risk
Past bids on 22 similar lots
1 bid5%
1 of 22 similar past lots received 1 bid (5%).
2–332%
7 of 22 similar past lots received 2–3 (32%).
4–645%
10 of 22 similar past lots received 4–6 (45%).
7+18%
4 of 22 similar past lots received 7+ (18%).
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.

—Estimate not published
The buyer published no estimate for this lot, so there is nothing to forecast against. A price prediction here would be a number about a number we do not have.

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
7 Apr 2026, 16:16 BST
Last source update
7 Apr 2026, 16:16 BST
FTS notice number
2026/S 000-031607
Latest notice
Pipeline notice (UK1)
Classification (CPV)
Housing services
Delivery area
Not published
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-067d49 Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice
Submission deadline
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Timeline

7 Apr 2026 → 1 Jun 2027 · 3 dates
  1. Planning notice published196 days ago
    7 Apr 2026, 16:16 BST
  2. Today
    20 Oct 2026
  3. Tender notice expectedin 14 days
    2 Nov 2026, 23:59 GMT
  4. Contract startsin 224 days
    1 Jun 2027, 00:00 BST

Notice history

1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender
  1. Pipeline notice published
    7 Apr 2026, 16:16 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 Borough of Islington

Contracting authorityPublic authority - sub-central government GB-PPON: PBMD-2513-CWJJ Islington Town Hall, Upper Street, London, London, N1 2UDContact name, email, phone

Official documents & specifications (1)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure

  • Pipeline notice planningPipeline noticeUK1Pipeline notice on Find a Tender