Official UK procurement notice
Window Cleaning Services · UK public procurement notice
Authority: Royal Armouries Museum (Central government)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionPROCUREMENT DESCRIPTION
To carry out window cleaning on all glazing and specified building areas at the Royal Armouries Museum and New Dock Hall in Leeds. Complying with all Health & Safety regulations (inc. Working at Height) and following industrial best practices.
CURRENT SERVICE SCOPE
Fortnightly Visits
- Ground floor building entrance areas including auto doors (inside and outside including the fold back glass inner doors)
- Dockside Ground floor frontage including the RA shop and Masters Restaurant Windows (Inside and outside)
- New Dock Hall: All of frontage glazing inside and outside
Quarterly Visits – Jan – Apr – Jul – Oct
- Regular windows and glazing – both internal and external surfaces
- Slit windows – both internal and external surfaces
- Triangular viewing windows – both internal and external surfaces
- Regular recessed windows – both internal and external surfaces
- Juliette windows (can be fully opened) – both internal and external surfaces
- Internal Doors/windows to street from shop and restaurant
- Office skylights 5th Floor – both internal and external surfaces
- Internal balconies, glazed bridges, window internal balconies and stairwell glazing - both sides
- Facia of ‘Street’ – both internal and external surfaces
- Hall of Steel’ internal and external surfaces and both sides of all stairway glazing
- To include internal glazing of all four galleries
Annual and 6 monthly Tasks (Apr/Oct)
- Panoramic glass lifts – by appointment and under the direct control of our lift maintenance service provider (internally). (Yearly task)
- External canopy over the Tiltyard (Annually- April)
- Hall of Steel ground and 1st floor building frontage, including brickwork (6 Monthly Apr/Oct)
- Street’ skylights - external surfaces (6 Monthly Apr/Oct)
- Craft Court Windows (1st Floor, smoking, shelter canopy, Cycle Storage (6 Monthly April/Oct)
- External balcony of ‘Pearl’ Suite’ Both sides
ESTIMATED CONTRACT VALUE (INCL. VAT): £400,000
- Initial term: £240,000
- Optional extensions: £160,000
CPV: Window-cleaning services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1PlannedRenewal
Pipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How Royal Armouries Museum buys Cleaning services (CPV 9091), and who usually turns up
Royal Armouries Museum’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: Cleaning services (CPV 9091) →
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.
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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.
Here, local means registered in Yorkshire and the Humber (authority’s region).
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners are registered outside Yorkshire and the Humber.
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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 76 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.
Missing bid counts may hide more single-bid awards. This share is a minimum.
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 bid9%
2–314%
4–645%
7+32%
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 estimate22%
Within ±2%56%
Above estimate22%
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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 9091Published estimate£400k
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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 22 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid9%
2–314%
4–645%
7+32%
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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
- 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
- 1 Aug 2026, 09:53 BST
- Last source update
- 1 Aug 2026, 09:53 BST
- Authority reference
RA-0213- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-072956- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Not published
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06d970Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
1 Aug 2026 → 1 May 2027 · 3 dates- Planning notice published81 days ago1 Aug 2026, 09:53 BST
- Market engagement64 days ago17 Aug 2026, 23:59 BST
The key purpose of this notice is to alert the market to the Tender and to flag the new social value criteria and outcomes that are being proposed for it, and thus to obtain feedback from suppliers.
The social value outcomes that will form 10% of the quality evaluation criteria will consist of the following:
1.Fair work – Create and retain high quality jobs
Suppliers will need to demonstrate that they are providing opportunities for, and measuring and monitoring of, staff workforce conditions over time, including employee engagement, involvement in decision-making and satisfaction and adapting to any changes in the results, with clear processes for acting on issues identified
2.Fair work - Fair pay practices
Suppliers will need to demonstrate that they provide payment of more than the National Minimum Wage or National Living Wage (as appropriate) to the contract workforce.
Suppliers wishing to participate must email the Estates Team at [email protected] to request the supplier questionnaire by 07 August 2026 at 12:00 and return it completed no later than 17 August 2026 at 17:00.
- Today21 Oct 2026
- Contract startsin 192 days1 May 2027, 00:00 BST
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Preliminary market engagement notice published1 Aug 2026, 09:53 BSTUK2
Commercial outcome & contract awards
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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