Official UK procurement notice
WCC Housing Play Areas: Playground Inspection and Maintenance Services
Authority: Westminster City Council (Local council)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionWestminster City Council is embarking on a term contract for Playground Surveying, Repairs and Maintence for a period of 4 years (2+1+1). A two-year initial contract term is to allow for the establishment of the contract delivery.
- Electronic management system.
- For all assets, inspections and repairs.
- Reporting and monitoring.
- Inspections
- Undertake three Operational Inspections each year.
- Assessment of Risk and urgency of repair
- High risk items
- Defects
- Record management
- Safety and condition hazards to be recorded and repairs to be identified.
- Annual inspection undertaken by an independent third party
- Repairs and maintenance - to also include upgrades/replacements of individual pieces of equipment
- Provide training.
- Visual inspection and defect analysis
- Electronic records management
- Repair reporting procedures
- Risk assessment, control and elimination
The contract is not a fixed price contract and the stated value of the contract is only an estimate. The actual value will depend on the types and volumes of work placed under the contract over the full contract period.
CPV: Repair and maintenance services of playground equipment
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · value publishedLot #1AwardedRenewalPublished value£500,000
What 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).
Published sub-criteria (3)
- Technical: 50%
- Responsible Procurement: 10%
- Price: 40%
Published award criteria (3)
- Technical: The technical element will be evaluated via questions designed to assess the supplier’s ability to deliver the contract requirements.
- Responsible Procurement: The responsible procurement element will be evaluated via questions designed to assess the supplier’s ability to deliver the contract requirements.
- Price: The pricing element will be evaluated via a pricing schedules distributed to suppliers at release of the tender.
- Price carries 40 of 100 points: a 10% discount moves about 4 points. The method statement decides this lot, not the discount.
Price arithmetic assumes straight proportional scoring; the tender pack may use another formula.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Procedure method
- Open procedure
- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Awarded
- Procurement threshold
- Above threshold (FTS publication)
- 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 Aug 2025, 12:16 BST
- Last source update
- 22 Apr 2026, 15:45 BST
- Award evaluation window
- Submission end – 16 Oct 2025
- Authority reference
P36/ITT_30411- FTS notice number
2025/S 000-046863- Latest notice
- Contract details notice (UK7)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-058344Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
- 17 Sept 2025, 12:00 BST
- Clarification deadline
- 8 Sept 2025, 12:00 BST
- Submission channel
- Official e-sourcing portal
- Electronic submission
- Allowed
- Accepted languages
- en
Timeline
7 Aug 2025 → 22 Apr 2026 · 8 dates- Tender notice published7 Aug 2025, 12:16 BST
- Clarification questions by8 Sept 2025, 12:00 BST
- Submission deadline398 days ago17 Sept 2025, 12:00 BST
- Award decision expected by368 days ago16 Oct 2025, 23:59 BST
- Contract starts351 days ago3 Nov 2025
- Assessment summaries sent285 days ago8 Jan 2026
- Standstill ends273 days ago19 Jan 2026, 23:59 GMT
- Latest notice published181 days ago22 Apr 2026, 15:45 BST
Notice history
8 events · 5 releases on Find a Tender · since 7 Aug 2025- Tender notice published7 Aug 2025, 12:16 BSTUK4
- Tender notice published28 Aug 2025, 15:17 BSTUK4
- Deadline moved to 17 Sept 2025, 12:00 BST28 Aug 2025, 15:17 BST+13 days · was 4 Sept 2025, 12:00 BST
- Tender notice published28 Aug 2025, 15:32 BSTUK4
- Contract award notice published8 Jan 2026, 22:35 GMTUK6
- Status changed to complete8 Jan 2026, 22:35 GMT
- Contract signature expected26 Jan 2026, 23:59 GMTscheduled
- Contract details notice published22 Apr 2026, 15:45 BSTUK7
Published amendments (2)
The tender deadline has been extended to allow for review of revised documents
Amendments to the scope to highlight the estimated value of the contract due to the actual value depending on the types and volumes of work placed under the contract over the full contract period
Routine re-releases (5)
- 2025-08: 2 releases · 7 Aug 2025, 28 Aug 2025
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast| Awarded to | Value | Date | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| KOMPAN LimitedSME26 Jan 2026 – 25 Jan 2028 · up to 25 Jan 2030Extensions: Option to extend for an additional 1 + 1 years. | £600,000 inc. VATsame award published again · counted once | 22 Dec 2025standstill to 19 Jan 2026 | Standstill |
| KOMPAN LimitedSME | £600,000 inc. VAT † | — | Awarded |
Contracts
Contract 2 · KOMPAN LimitedSME
- Signed
- 26 Mar 2026
- Value
- £600,000 inc. VAT
- Period
- 1 Apr 2026 – 31 Mar 2028 · up to 31 Mar 2030 with extensions
- Status
- active
- Extensions
- There is the option to extend for a further 1 + 1 years following the initial 2 year term.
Bid statistics published by the authority
| Bids | SME | VCSE | Valid bid range |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3final-stage tenders | 3 | 0 | — |
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Bidders & participating suppliers
2 commercial parties on the notice- KOMPAN LimitedAwarded supplier
- Kompan LimitedAwarded supplier
Official documents & specifications (5)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Contract details notice Contract details notice on Find a Tender
- Contract award notice Contract award notice on Find a Tender
- Tender notice Tender notice on Find a Tender
- Tender notice Tender notice on Find a Tender
- Tender notice Tender notice on Find a Tender