Find a TenderPlanned procurementPreliminary market engagement notice
Published 10 Jul 2026, 08:46 BST

Official UK procurement notice

YMCA St Paul's Group Cleaning Services Procurement (FM DPS)

Authority: YMCA St Paul's Group (Public body)

Dynamic marketServicesAbove thresholdSME suitable
Planned pipeline value£2,400,000pipeline notice, not a live tender
Tender notice expected 1 Aug 2026from the planned procurement notice
Market period 3 yrsends 31 Mar 2030 · up to 1 Apr 2030 with extensions · starts 1 Apr 2027

What is being bought

Published requirement description

Provision of cleaning services across YMCA St Pauls Group's property portfolio, including planned and periodic cleaning, consumable management (subject to final scope), performance monitoring and reporting, social value delivery, and contract mobilisation/transition activities

CPV: Cleaning services

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published
Lot #1PlannedRenewal 3 yrsSME
Contract period: 1 Apr 2027 – 31 Mar 2030 (3 yrs) · up to 1 Apr 2030 with extensions
Delivery: London, South EastEligibility: SME eligible
Extensions: Extension options published

Who is likely to bid for this lot ↓

What it takes to win
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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 more
What this means for your bid
  • “YMCA St Paul's Group Cleaning Services Procurement (FM DPS)” is a dynamic market: the contest is a place on its panel, not a single contract.

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

How YMCA St Paul's Group buys Cleaning services (CPV 9091), and who usually turns up

YMCA St Paul's Group has little published record in this market. Compared with other frameworks and DPS only. Whole-market view: Cleaning services (CPV 9091) →

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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 buyerYMCA St Paul's Group · this authority
The marketCleaning services (CPV 9091) · UK-wide
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: no supplier sizes published · market: CPV 9091 · UK-wide, n=68
—54%

Across this market, small firms won 54% of awards with a known supplier size.

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.

Local means the winner is registered in the region where that award was delivered.

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

Last 36 months.

Buyer: no winner locations published · market: CPV 9091 · UK-wide, n=86
—64%

Across this market, 64% of winners were registered in the delivery region.

How long to a decision?
i

How long buyers here take to decide after bids close.

Middle value in days from the bid deadline to the award date, on competitions that published both.

Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: no decision dates published · market: CPV 9091 · UK-wide, n=18
—48 days

Half of these awards have an award date within 48 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.

The market share is a minimum: some awards have no bid count.

Thin markets produce this too; it is not proof of a tailored specification.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: no awards on record · market: CPV 9091 · UK-wide, n=73
—4%

Across this market, at least 4% of awarded procurements had no recorded rival.

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.

Last 36 months.

This buyerNo bid counts published
The market114 lots with bid counts · CPV 9091 · UK-wide
4% had one bid
Market · select a colour for counts
1 bid4%
Market: 4 of 114 lots with published bid counts.
2–318%
Market: 21 of 114 lots with published bid counts.
4–629%
Market: 33 of 114 lots with published bid counts.
7+49%
Market: 56 of 114 lots with published bid counts.

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.

On a framework or DPS, prices are agreed when work is called off.

Past prices are a guide, not a bid price.

Last 36 months.

Not comparable on a framework or DPS: the price is set later, on each call-off.

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Assess each lot
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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 909136 monthsSME suitablePublished estimate£2.4m
Expected competition
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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 114 past lots.

A forecast, not a list of bidders.

—No model forecast yet4% chance of a single bid
Past bids on 114 similar lots
1 bid4%
4 of 114 similar past lots received 1 bid (4%).
2–318%
21 of 114 similar past lots received 2–3 (18%).
4–629%
33 of 114 similar past lots received 4–6 (29%).
7+49%
56 of 114 similar past lots received 7+ (49%).
Comparable past lots usually drew 6 bids.
Commercial price forecast
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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.

—Priced at call-off
On a framework or DPS the price is agreed on each call-off, so there is no award price to forecast here: the published figure is a ceiling.

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
Above threshold (FTS publication)
Regulatory regime
Standard
Commercial structure
Dynamic market
Who may use this agreement
Any qualifying supplier may apply while the market is open
Competition type
Competitive procedure
GPA / WTO covered
Unspecified in notice
Recurring procurement
Unspecified in notice
First published
10 Jul 2026, 08:46 BST
Last source update
10 Jul 2026, 08:46 BST
Authority reference
Facilities Management Dynamic Market
FTS notice number
2026/S 000-064956
Latest notice
Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
Classification (CPV)
Cleaning services
Delivery area
London (UKI)South East (UKJ)
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06c812 Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice
Admission period ends
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Timeline

10 Jul 2026 → 1 Apr 2027 · 4 dates
  1. Planning notice published108 days ago
    10 Jul 2026, 08:46 BST
  2. Market engagement103 days ago
    14 Jul 2026, 23:59 BST

    The contract will be procured competitively in accordance with the Procurement Act 2023, using the competitive flexible procedure applicable to procurements run by reference to a dynamic market. It is anticipated that the procurement process will include conditions of participation, followed by evaluation on Quality, Social Value and Price, with a potential interview and site visit for shortlisted suppliers. Only suppliers who meet YMCA St Paul's Group's minimum criteria will be invited to submit a tender.

  3. Tender notice expected85 days ago
    1 Aug 2026, 23:59 BST
  4. Today
    25 Oct 2026
  5. Contract startsin 157 days
    1 Apr 2027, 00:00 BST

Notice history

1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender
  1. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    10 Jul 2026, 08:46 BST
    UK2

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

YMCA St. Paul's Group

Contracting authorityPublic authority - sub-central government GB-COH: 02971930 · GB-PPON: PRRT-7576-MMBX 49 Victoria Road, Surbiton, London, KT6 4NGContact email

Official documents & specifications (1)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure