Find a TenderPast planning noticePreliminary market engagement notice
Published 28 Mar 2025, 18:47 GMT

Official UK procurement notice

Facilities Management & Security Services

Official notice

Authority: South Gloucestershire Council (Local council)

ServicesAbove threshold
Sectors: Business Services & Consultancy (79) Delivery: Delivery location not published
Planned pipeline value£3,500,000pipeline notice, not a live tender
Tender notice expected 31 May 2025from the planned procurement notice
Contract term 3 yrsends 1 May 2029 · up to 1 May 2033 with extensions · starts 1 May 2026

What is being bought

Published requirement description

The Opportunity includes, but is not limited to, the following activities within the Council’s corporate building assets:

  • Security services
  • Fire alarm drills and alarm testing
  • Care-taking duties
  • Security patrols
  • Key holding

The security service aspect of the tender refers to the supply of suitable soft security services for example, a key holding service, mobile patrols, response to alarm activations, testing of fire and security systems, opening and closing sites, static guarding and reception security duties.

The duration of the contract is expected to be 3 years with the potential to extend for two additional 24-month periods (total contract length up to a total of 7 years).

The Council is looking to procure a managed service, whereby the successful supplier manages the staff supplied. The supplier will hold keys to all sites and will be responsible for responding to all the Council’s out of hours requirements.

The supplier shall provide dedicated facilities operatives to carry out general building duties, which may vary from site to site, including Front of house services; Portering; Reception duties; Ad hoc cleaning; Car park control; External and internal building patrol staff; First aid responders; Waste management activities, and Fire Safety.

The supplier shall manage the supervision and performance monitoring of the Operatives and shall be the one point of contact between the Council and the Facilities Operatives for instructions and escalation purposes other than day to day requests for services.

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CPV: Building and facilities management services · Facilities management services

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published
Lot #1PlannedRenewal 3 yrs
Contract period: 1 May 2026 – 1 May 2029 (3 yrs) · up to 1 May 2033 with extensions
Extensions: Extension options published

Procedure terms & legal framework

From the official record
Legal basis
UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
Procurement category
Services
Notice status
Past planning notice
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
28 Mar 2025, 18:47 GMT
Last source update
28 Mar 2025, 18:47 GMT
Authority reference
DN766857
FTS notice number
2025/S 000-011887
Latest notice
Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
Classification (CPV)
Building and facilities management servicesFacilities management services
Delivery area
Not published
Official registry OCID
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How it was run

Official notice
Submission deadline
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Timeline

28 Mar 2025 → 1 May 2026 · 4 dates
  1. Planning notice published
    28 Mar 2025, 18:47 GMT
  2. Market engagement
    23 Apr 2025, 00:59 BST

    South Gloucestershire Council is currently reviewing the provision of Facilities Management & Security Services (“the Opportunity”). As part of developing our plans to meet this requirement we are issuing this Request for Information (RFI). This RFI is one vehicle by which we can systematically identify similarities and differences between suppliers in the market and additionally gain a greater understanding of specific suppliers’ abilities, core business and strategic outlook with respect to the Opportunity.

    This RFI is issued in accordance with the principles of the Procurement Act 2023, ensuring same treatment and sharing information for the purposes of allowing suppliers and others to understand the Council’s procurement policies and decisions. Responses to this RFI will help shape our procurement strategy in compliance with public sector procurement obligations.

    The Council has a current contract for the services within this Opportunity that comes to and end on 30th April 2026. The Council would welcome feedback on the current specification and service levels (attached as appendices to this document) and any suggestions from suppliers that would increase the attractiveness of the Opportunity.

    You are invited to submit a response to this RFI. We look forward to your response by the closing date and time provided on the cover page of our RFI documentation.

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  3. Tender notice expected
    31 May 2025, 00:59 BST
  4. Contract starts180 days ago
    1 May 2026

Notice history

1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender
  1. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    28 Mar 2025, 18:47 GMT
    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

South Gloucestershire Council

Contracting authorityPublic authority - sub-central government GB-PPON: PCMC-1241-BLJQ Council Offices, Badminton Road, Yate, South West, BS37 5AFContact email

Official documents & specifications (1)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure