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Published 30 Oct 2026, 09:37 GMT

Official UK procurement notice

EEAST - Refurbishment of Stansted Ambulance Station (26-T23)

Authority: East of England Ambulance Service NHS Trust (Central government)

WorksBelow threshold - open competitionBelow thresholdReserved for SMEs and VCSEsReserved: E10000012SME suitableVCSE suitable
Published estimate£123,000£147,600 inc. VAT
Submission deadline 20 Nov 202612:00 GMT · 11 days left
Clarification cut-off 11 Nov 202612:00 GMT · questions to the authority
Contract term 2 moends 31 Jan 2027 · starts 14 Dec 2026

What is being bought

Published requirement description

The East of England Ambulance Service NHS Trust (“The Authority”) is issuing an Invitation to Tender in connection with a competitive procurement for the Refurbishment of Stansted Ambulance Station.

CPV: Refurbishment work

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · value published
Lot #1 2 moSMEVCSEPublished value£123,000
Contract period: 14 Dec 2026 – 31 Jan 2027 (2 mo)Value: £123,000 exc. VAT · £147,600 inc. VAT
Delivery: East of EnglandEligibility: SME eligibleVCSE eligibleTurnover guideline: ~£246,000/yr≈ 2× annual value

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
How bids are scored

Lot awarding rule: Please refer to ITT Documents

No conditions of participation were published on the notice; check the tender documents.

What this means for your bid
  • Turnover usually expected at this size: about £246,000 (twice the annual value).

Turnover is an indicative market norm (≈2× annual value), not a published condition.

Competition analysis · published record, not a forecast of who will bid

How East of England Ambulance Service NHS Trust buys Other building completion work (CPV 4545), and who usually turns up

East of England Ambulance Service NHS Trust’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: Other building completion work (CPV 4545) →

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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
The marketOther building completion work (CPV 4545) · East of England
What to do with it
How often do SMEs win?
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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.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 6 of 10 known-size awards · market: CPV 4545 · East of England, n=97
60%70%

Small firms have won here. Neither number says whether you qualify; it describes who has been winning.

How often do local suppliers win?
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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 East of England.

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

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 4 of 7 known-location awards · market: CPV 4545 · East of England, n=111
57%40%

Most of this buyer’s recorded winners were registered in the region where that award was delivered.

How long to a decision?
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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.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 9 decided notices · market: CPV 4545 · East of England, n=18
40 days38 days

Half of these awards have an award date within 40 days of the bid deadline.

How often single-bid or direct?
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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.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: at least 4 of 18 procurements with awards had no recorded rival · market: CPV 4545 · East of England, n=143
22%22%

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.

Last 36 months.

This buyer5 lots with bid counts · broad CPV 45
20% had one bid
The market27 lots with bid counts · CPV 4545 · East of England
19% had one bid
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
1 bid20% / 19%
Buyer: 1 of 5 lots with published bid counts. Market: 5 of 27 lots with published bid counts.
2–340% / 19%
Buyer: 2 of 5 lots with published bid counts. Market: 5 of 27 lots with published bid counts.
4–620% / 26%
Buyer: 1 of 5 lots with published bid counts. Market: 7 of 27 lots with published bid counts.
7+20% / 37%
Buyer: 1 of 5 lots with published bid counts. Market: 10 of 27 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.

Past prices are a guide, not a bid price.

Last 36 months.

This buyer8 lots with estimate and award · all categories
13% below estimate
The market32 lots with estimate and award · CPV 4545 · East of England
28% below estimate
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
Below estimate13% / 28%
Buyer: 1 of 8 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 9 of 32 lots with an estimate and award.
Within ±2%75% / 44%
Buyer: 6 of 8 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 14 of 32 lots with an estimate and award.
Above estimate13% / 28%
Buyer: 1 of 8 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 9 of 32 lots with an estimate and award.
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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 45452 monthsSME suitablePublished estimate£123k
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.

A forecast, not a list of bidders.

3expected bids8% chance of a single bid
similar past contests in this category: 27
Forecast chances for this lot
1 bid8%
Chance this lot gets 1 bid: 8%. This is a forecast.
2–346%
Chance this lot gets 2–3: 46%. This is a forecast.
4–628%
Chance this lot gets 4–6: 28%. This is a forecast.
7+18%
Chance this lot gets 7+: 18%. This is a forecast.
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.

Based on 18 comparable awards. Each lot reflects its own category; forecasts for different lots of the same notice are not comparative.

A statistical guide from past awards, not a price to bid.

£123kLevel with estimate
18 comparable awards
Forecast compared with the buyer’s estimate
Middle 50%£116k–£123k
Half of likely prices fall between £116,039 and £123,000.
Estimate£123k
The buyer published an estimate of £123,000 for this lot.
A 46% chance the award lands exactly on the estimate.

Who has supplied this buyer on similar work?
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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.

SupplierThis buyer’s earlier contractLotAward valueWhy listed
Axel Group LtdWorked for this buyerEEAST – Welwyn Garden City Ambulance Roof (26-T12)runs to Dec 2026—£100kSimilar wording and category
Every Project Counts LtdWorked for this buyerEEAST - Refurbishment of First Floor, University of Essex (26-T11)ended Oct 2026—£70kSimilar wording and category
Thoroughbred Industrial Doors LimitedWorked for this buyerEEAST - Vehicle Bay Doors, Barriers and Gates Maintenance, Reactive and New Installationsruns to May 2029—£1.8mSimilar wording and category

Who could compete for this lot?
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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.

Reserved for SMEs and VCSEs: only small and medium-sized firms and voluntary, community and social enterprises can take part. Firms labelled Large are listed last.
SupplierWon in this categoryLive contractsAward vs estimate
1 win in East of England
£1.8m1 award in 36m · last 5 months ago1 live · £1.8m
i

Public contracts this supplier still holds.

Its awards whose published end date is still in the future, with their values. Many contracts publish no end date, so this is a floor, not the whole book.

Unexpired says nothing about spare capacity.

no comparable pairs
1 panel places
£2.4m11 awards in 36m · last 3 months ago1 live · £2.1m
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Public contracts this supplier still holds.

Its awards whose published end date is still in the future, with their values. Many contracts publish no end date, so this is a floor, not the whole book.

Unexpired says nothing about spare capacity.

at estimate n=2
1 win in East of England
£307k3 awards in 36m · last 2 months agoNone on file24% above n=2
12 wins in East of England38 panel places
£102m113 awards in 36m · last this month12 live · £28m
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Public contracts this supplier still holds.

Its awards whose published end date is still in the future, with their values. Many contracts publish no end date, so this is a floor, not the whole book.

Unexpired says nothing about spare capacity.

at estimate n=30
6 wins in East of England6 panel places
£7.9m16 awards in 36m · last this month1 live · £14m
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Public contracts this supplier still holds.

Its awards whose published end date is still in the future, with their values. Many contracts publish no end date, so this is a floor, not the whole book.

Unexpired says nothing about spare capacity.

16% below n=3
About this data
  • Source. Official UK public procurement notices (Find a Tender and Contracts Finder), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0. New notices arrive through the day; the figures are rebuilt nightly. Contracts Finder appears in live search, the Retender Radar, contract pages, organisation counts and the buyer's decision figure; the other analytical figures are built from Find a Tender notices.
  • 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
Below threshold - open competition
Legal basis
UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
Procurement category
Works
Notice status
Open for tender
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
30 Oct 2026, 09:37 GMT
Last source update
30 Oct 2026, 09:37 GMT
FTS notice number
2026/S 000-102978
Latest notice
Tender notice (UK4)
Classification (CPV)
Refurbishment work
Delivery area
East of England (UKH3)
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-079440 Find a Tender
Contract terms
Reserved participation area
E10000012
Submission portal named on this notice: Atamis legacy domain (health-family.force.com) · Who buys & how to bid on Atamis
Supplier login requiredElectronic submission allowed
Access & registration note: Legacy Salesforce domain still used in notices — use the current Atamis portal · this portal address is a legacy domain; the operator has migrated
Requests to participate (first stage)
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Tender submission deadline
20 Nov 2026, 12:00 GMT
Clarification deadline
11 Nov 2026, 12:00 GMT
Submission channel
Official e-sourcing portal
Electronic submission
Allowed
Detailed submission instructions & authority contactsFrom official release
Published estimate £123,000 excludes VAT (£147,600 including VAT).

Timeline

30 Oct 2026 → 14 Dec 2026 · 4 dates
  1. Tender notice published9 days ago
    30 Oct 2026, 09:37 GMT
  2. Today
    8 Nov 2026
  3. Clarification questions byin 2 days
    11 Nov 2026, 12:00 GMT
  4. Submission deadlinein 11 days
    20 Nov 2026, 12:00 GMT
  5. Contract startsin 35 days
    14 Dec 2026

Notice history

1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender
  1. Tender notice published
    30 Oct 2026, 09:37 GMT
    UK4

Commercial outcome & contract awards

Nothing awarded yet
Awards (0)
No award published
Contracts (0)
No contract published
Bid statistics
No aggregate bid statistics published

Contracting authority & participating public bodies

East of England Ambulance Service NHS Trust

Contracting authorityPublic authority - central government GB-PPON: PBNZ-4155-WXBZ Whiting Way, Melbourn, East of England, SG8 6ENContact name, email, phone

Official documents & specifications (1)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure

  • Tender notice tenderTender noticeUK4Tender notice on Find a Tender