Official UK procurement notice
Water Treatment Services including Water Risk Asesssments
Authority: Solihull College and University Centre (Education)·On behalf of: AGM Procurement Limited
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionAn existing contract for Water Treatment Services across all College campuses will expire on 31 December 2026. To ensure continuity of provision, a value for money assessment and compliance with College Financial Regulations the requirement is being competitively tendered for a contract start 01.01.27. The College is seeking tenders for both Water Treatment Services and Water Risk Assessments across all three campuses; Blossomfield (B91 1SB), Woodlands (B36 0NF) , Stratford-upon-Avon (CV37 9QR). Services will include Planned Preventative Maintenance, emergency call outs, remedial repairs, annual updates to schematics and installation works. Please see the tender pack available for download (free of charge) at supplier.in-tend.co.uk/educationportal/home ↗
CPV: Drinking-water piping · Operation of water supplies · Primary water systems · Services related to water pollution · Water containers · Water tanks · Water-treatment work
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · value publishedWhat it takes to wini
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 morei
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).
Lot awarding rule: 60 Quality and 40 Price. Please see the tender pack available for download (free of charge) at https://supplier.in-tend.co.uk/educationportal/home
No conditions of participation were published on the notice; check the tender documents.
- Turnover usually expected at this size: about £79,891 (twice the annual value).
Turnover is an indicative market norm (≈2× annual value), not a published condition.
Competition analysis · published record, not a forecast of who will bid
How Solihull College and University Centre buys Pollution tracking and monitoring and rehabilitation (CPV 9073), and who usually turns up
Solihull College and University Centre’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: Pollution tracking and monitoring and rehabilitation (CPV 9073) →
How the contest usually goes
Winner shares use published awards; bid and price charts use contested lots.
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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.
Small firms have won here. Neither number says whether you qualify; it describes who has been winning.
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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.
Here, local means registered in West Midlands.
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners are registered in West Midlands.
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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.
Half of these awards were announced within 45 days of the bid deadline.
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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.
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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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.
1 bid13%
2–338%
4–632%
7+17%
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.
Below estimate50%
Within ±2%33%
Above estimate17%
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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.
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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 9073Published estimate£80k
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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.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid13%
2–318%
4–631%
7+38%
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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.
Based on 5 comparable awards. Each lot reflects its own category; forecasts for different lots of the same notice are not comparative.
A statistical guide from past awards, not a price to bid.
Middle 50%£65k–£80k
Estimate£80k
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.
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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.
| Supplier | This buyer’s earlier contract | Lot | Award value | Match |
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| B&M Waste ServicesWorked for this buyer | Provision of Waste Management Servicesnotice published Aug 2021 | — | — | 82% match |
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.
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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.
| Supplier | Won in this category | Live contracts | Award vs estimate |
|---|---|---|---|
| £1.5bn101 awards in 36m · last this month | 27 live · £394m iPublic contracts this supplier still holds. Its awards whose published end date is still in the future, with their values. Many contracts publish no end date, so this is a floor, not the whole book. Unexpired says nothing about spare capacity. | at estimate n=34 | |
| £1.4bn78 awards in 36m · last this month | 16 live · £608m iPublic contracts this supplier still holds. Its awards whose published end date is still in the future, with their values. Many contracts publish no end date, so this is a floor, not the whole book. Unexpired says nothing about spare capacity. | at estimate n=13 | |
OCS Group UK LimitedLarge | £969m43 awards in 36m · last this month | 16 live · £371m iPublic contracts this supplier still holds. Its awards whose published end date is still in the future, with their values. Many contracts publish no end date, so this is a floor, not the whole book. Unexpired says nothing about spare capacity. | 8% below n=16 |
| £30m21 awards in 36m · last 1 months ago | 13 live · £30m iPublic contracts this supplier still holds. Its awards whose published end date is still in the future, with their values. Many contracts publish no end date, so this is a floor, not the whole book. Unexpired says nothing about spare capacity. | 7% above n=29 | |
| £21m15 awards in 36m · last 1 months ago | 9 live · £15m iPublic contracts this supplier still holds. Its awards whose published end date is still in the future, with their values. Many contracts publish no end date, so this is a floor, not the whole book. Unexpired says nothing about spare capacity. | at estimate n=10 |
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 match score 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
- Below threshold - open competition
- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Open for tender
- Procurement threshold
- Below threshold
- 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
- 14 Oct 2026, 11:08 BST
- Last source update
- 14 Oct 2026, 11:08 BST
- Authority reference
LEGI_0926- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-096879- Latest notice
- Tender notice (UK4)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-078743Find a Tender
How to participate & submission route
Official notice Submit via In-tend- Requests to participate (first stage)
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- Tender submission deadline
- 10 Nov 2026, 12:00 GMT
- Clarification deadline
- 3 Nov 2026, 12:00 GMT
- Submission channel
- Official e-sourcing portal
- Electronic submission
- Allowed
Please submit all tenders via supplier.in-tend.co.uk/educationportal/home ↗. Please ensure you have registered for a CDP code in advance of submitting. Instructions for upload have been provided in the Guidance document available in the tender pack.
Timeline
14 Oct 2026 → 1 Jan 2027 · 4 dates- Tender notice published1 day ago14 Oct 2026, 11:08 BST
- Today15 Oct 2026
- Clarification questions byin 19 days3 Nov 2026, 12:00 GMT
- Submission deadlinein 26 days10 Nov 2026, 12:00 GMT
- Contract startsin 78 days1 Jan 2027
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Tender notice published14 Oct 2026, 11:08 BSTUK4
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Nothing awarded yet- Awards (0)
- No award published
- Contracts (0)
- No contract published
- Bid statistics
- No aggregate bid statistics published
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
2 public bodies on the noticeOther public bodies
- AGM Procurement LimitedProcuring entitySupporting the procurement
Official documents & specifications (2)
Official links; attachments are not copiedTender pack and attachments
- Bidding documents and specifications All tender documents and clarifications will be posted to the above site. Please register free of charge to access documents. Any issues accessing documents should be flagged to the College directly, otherwise all correspondence should be through the In-Tend portal please.
Notices published for this procedure
- Tender notice Tender notice on Find a Tender