Official UK procurement notice
Cleaning Services · Epping Forest District Council (Dec 2025)
Authority: Epping Forest District Council (Local council)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionEpping Forest District Council are undertaking a market engagement exercise for the upcoming procurement for provision of full and comprehensive cleaning and window cleaning services of Council owned and managed properties within the Epping Forest District, including but not limited to
- Civic Offices
- Oakwood Hill Depot
- Town Mead Depot
- Ongar Toilets
- Emergency Works (All Sites)
- Area Cleaning Adhoc Work (All Sites)
- Window Cleaning (All Sites)
The Contractors will be required to provide throughout the Contract period which include:
- To provide and maintain an office base during and outside normal office hours.
- To provide dedicated office and managerial staff to deal with day to day operations of the Contract.
- To provide dedicated suitably qualified supervisor and operational staff to carry out the cleaning programmes to the quality set out in the Output Specification and within the time-period.
Initial contract period is likely to be 2 years with an option to extend (TBC)
Full information to be provided at tender stage
Please note all dates are estimate and are subject to change
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CPV: Cleaning services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · value publishedLot #1PlannedRenewalPublished value£825,000
Pipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How Epping Forest District Council buys Cleaning services (CPV 9091), and who usually turns up
Epping Forest District 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: 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.
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.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners were registered outside 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 65 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.
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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 bid8%
2–314%
4–649%
7+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 estimate28%
Within ±2%38%
Above estimate34%
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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£825k
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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 580 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid8%
2–314%
4–649%
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- Procedure method
- Open procedure
- 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
- 3 Dec 2025, 15:06 GMT
- Last source update
- 9 Feb 2026, 15:37 GMT
- Award evaluation window
- Submission end – 1 Jul 2026
- Authority reference
EPP0207- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-011486- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
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How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
- 1 Jun 2026, 12:00 BST
- Electronic submission
- Allowed
- Accepted languages
- en
Timeline
3 Dec 2025 → 1 Feb 2027 · 7 dates- Planning notice published327 days ago3 Dec 2025, 15:06 GMT
- Latest notice published259 days ago9 Feb 2026, 15:37 GMT
- Market engagement231 days ago9 Mar 2026, 23:59 GMT
Interested suppliers are to read the PME document in the document area and respond to the questionnaire.
Suppliers may email a copy of the completed questionnaire to claire.sargeant@essex.gov.uk
The deadline to submit completed questionnaires is 5pm, Monday 09 March 2026
- Tender notice expected178 days ago1 May 2026, 23:59 BST
- Submission deadline147 days ago1 Jun 2026, 12:00 BST
- Award decision expected by117 days ago1 Jul 2026, 23:59 BST
- Today27 Oct 2026
- Contract startsin 96 days1 Feb 2027
Notice history
3 events · 2 releases on Find a Tender · since 3 Dec 2025- Planned procurement notice published3 Dec 2025, 15:06 GMTUK3
- Preliminary market engagement notice published9 Feb 2026, 15:37 GMTUK2
- Published value updated to £720,0009 Feb 2026, 15:37 GMTwas £825,000
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 (2)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender
- Planned procurement notice Planned procurement notice on Find a Tender