Official UK procurement notice
White Goods - Laundry Asset & Condition Surveying
Authority: Orbit Group Limited (Public body)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionOutline specification
- Potential contract value - £30,000 exc VAT. Contract will give no commitment to any fixed volumes or level of expenditure.
- Contract term: the amount of time needed to complete the surveying. It is expected as a maximum it would be no longer than 11.5months.
- Potential contract will be a single supplier contract. The supplier will be required to provide coverage to all Orbit locations within the Midlands, East and South of England. The Supplier must have sufficient coverage to meet any requirements within all regions.
- Condition Surveys will relate to both domestic and commercial appliances and the supplier must be capable of covering both types of appliances. Surveying will include:
o On Site Asset Labelling
o Recording of make and model
o Serial Numbers
o Approximate Age
o Type of appliance (Commercial / Domestic / Gas / Vented / Unvented)
o Condition of appliances (RAG rating)
o Photos
- The supplier will also be required to:
o Manage diaries and ensure appointments are made with onsite staff.
o Ensure collated information is returned to Orbit in agreed timescales and formats.
o Support ongoing contract management with an Orbit representative.
o Support Orbit in gathering information on legal & regulatory standards for future servicing.
- Orbit's current appliance footprint is outlined below:
o 397 assets split 40 domestic and 357 commercial machines.
o Geographically there is 162 in the Midlands / 113 in the South / 122 in the East.
o The assets solely relate to 207 washing machines & 190 tumble driers.
o A range of manufacturers and models, with a large proportion of Miele machines.
- Orbit will share further information, data and geographical locations with those suppliers invited to participate in the under-threshold tender.
CPV: Electrical equipment and apparatus · Surveying services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedPipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How Orbit Group Limited buys Engineering-related scientific and technical services (CPV 7135), and who usually turns up
Orbit Group Limited’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: Engineering-related scientific and technical services (CPV 7135) →
How the contest usually goes
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How often small and medium firms win.
Share of awards where the winner’s size is known.
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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.
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners are registered in the delivery region.
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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 44 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.
The buyer’s share is a minimum: 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.
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Past bids do not predict this tender.
1 bid11%
2–342%
4–60%
7+47%
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 estimate75%
Within ±2%8%
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.
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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 7135Published estimate£30k
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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. The bar shows 67 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid12%
2–339%
4–634%
7+15%
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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.
No comparable awards for this lot yet.
A statistical guide from past awards, not a price to bid.
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.
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.
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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.
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
- 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
- 3 Mar 2026, 15:24 GMT
- Last source update
- 3 Mar 2026, 15:24 GMT
- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-019091- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-066144Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
3 Mar 2026 → 1 May 2026 · 3 dates- Planning notice published231 days ago3 Mar 2026, 15:24 GMT
- Market engagement215 days ago18 Mar 2026, 23:59 GMT
Orbit Group Ltd wish to conclude preliminary market engagement in relation to the potential award for a contract for Laundry Asset & Condition Surveying for its domestic and commercial laundry appliances, within its housing portfolio at locations it has within the Midlands, East and South of England.
The intention of the engagement is for Orbit to understand:
- the level of supplier interest to participate in a potential procurement for the contract.
- suppliers' ability in the market to meet all of the potential requirement as currently specified (please see outline specification provided).
- Capability and interest for Orbit to be able to identify and invite suppliers to participate in an under-threshold tender.
Where a supplier is interested in participating in any procurement for the contract and have the capability to fulfil the outline specification provided, we would ask them to provide a response to this notice to confirm this, via the e-tendering site details provided within the notice.
Further information and response document can be found here:
procontract.due-north.com/Supplier/Advert/View ↗
If a supplier wishes to seek any clarification on the outline specification, these should be submitted via the e-tendering site.
Please note: Orbit does not commit to any particular procurement route/procedure or timescales for any subsequent procurement.
If Orbit publishes a subsequent tender notice for the contract, we will also out of courtesy notify any suppliers who submitted a response to this notice.
Interested suppliers are required to visit the project on Procontract to complete the response document to advise Orbit of their interest in this upcoming procurement
- Contract starts173 days ago1 May 2026, 00:00 BST
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Preliminary market engagement notice published3 Mar 2026, 15:24 GMTUK2
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Pipeline notice- Awards (0)
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- No contract published
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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