Official UK procurement notice
2627-0156 Asbestos Survey and Air Testing – Long Term
Authority: Islington Council (Local council)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThe London Borough of Islington is preparing to procure two UKAS Accredited contractors to deliver asbestos survey and air testing services to the Council’s estate of properties.
This Notice is for informational purposes only and is not a formal invitation to tender. Its aim is to enhance transparency and competition for the upcoming tender notice. All details provided here may be updated or changed in the final tender notice. The Authority reserves the right to cancel, postpone, suspend or abort the procurement at any stage. The issue of this notice in no way commits the Authority to commence a procurement process.
This Notice is to advertise Islington Borough Council’s desire to improve our experience in relation to Asbestos Survey and Air Testing services. We are keen to ensure that we design a specification and operating process that works most efficiently for everyone that comes into contact with asbestos services in and around the Council’s estate of properties.
For the avoidance of doubt, this process is for the purpose of conducting a pre-market engagement exercise and does not formally begin a procurement process or constitute any commitment by Islington Borough Council to subsequently undertake a procurement process.
CPV: Building-inspection services · Environmental quality control services · Technical building-inspection services · Technical inspection services of engineering structures
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedPipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How Islington Council buys Consultative engineering and construction services (CPV 7131), and who usually turns up
Islington Council’s published record next to the market for the same work. Frameworks and DPS are left out: they draw different bid counts. Whole-market view: Consultative engineering and construction services (CPV 7131) →
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.
Local means the winner is registered in the region where that award was delivered. The market figure counts awards delivered in Greater London.
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners were registered in the region where that award was delivered.
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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.
Half of these awards have an award date 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.
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 bid5% / 11%
2–328% / 23%
4–646% / 37%
7+21% / 29%
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 estimate48%
Within ±2%31%
Above estimate21%
Assess each lot i
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 7131Published estimate£2.0m
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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 65 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid11%
2–323%
4–637%
7+29%
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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
- 18 Sept 2026, 16:00 BST
- Last source update
- 18 Sept 2026, 16:00 BST
- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-088846- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-0775c6Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
18 Sept 2026 → 6 Jul 2027 · 4 dates- Planning notice published39 days ago18 Sept 2026, 16:00 BST
- Market engagement18 days ago9 Oct 2026, 23:59 BST
This Notice is for informational purposes only and is not a formal invitation to tender. Its aim is to enhance transparency and competition for the upcoming tender notice. All details provided here may be updated or changed in the final tender notice. The Authority reserves the right to cancel, postpone, suspend or abort the procurement at any stage. The issue of this notice in no way commits the Authority to commence a procurement process.
This Notice is to advertise Islington Borough Council’s desire to improve our experience in relation to Asbestos Survey and Air Testing services. We are keen to ensure that we design a specification and operating process that works most efficiently for everyone that comes into contact with asbestos services in and around the Council’s estate of properties.
The London Borough of Islington is preparing to procure two UKAS Accredited contractors to deliver asbestos survey and air testing services to the Council’s estate of properties.
This questionnaire seeks supplier feedback to support the council’s planning for the upcoming procurement. This pre-market engagement exercise aims to:
- Inform the development of the procurement strategy and specification.
- Gauge market interest and capacity.
- Understand supplier capabilities and innovations.
- Identify any barriers to participation, especially for SMEs and local providers.
Please note that responses to this questionnaire are for information‑gathering purposes only and will not be used to assess or exclude any supplier from any future procurement process. Please answer as many or as few of the questions as you deem relevant. All feedback is welcome.
We greatly appreciate your insight and expertise and time taken to participate in this engagement exercise.
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How to express an interest -
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- Register your organisation free of charge via the London Tenders Portal
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- Today28 Oct 2026
- Tender notice expectedin 21 days18 Nov 2026, 23:59 GMT
- Contract startsin 250 days6 Jul 2027, 00:00 BST
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Preliminary market engagement notice published18 Sept 2026, 16:00 BSTUK2
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
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