Official UK procurement notice
Fully Comprehensive Lift Maintenance and Repairs (Passenger Lifts, Platform Lifts and Stairlifts)(Brunelcare)
Authority: Brunelcare (Public body)·On behalf of: MAND (PLS) LTD
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionBrunelcare wishes to invite Tender Responses for the supply of services in respect of a Fully Comprehensive Lift Maintenance and Repairs (Passenger Lifts, Platform Lifts and Stairlifts) Contract.
Brunelcare is looking for a reliable, experienced lift contractor to keep its lifts safe and running across 55 assets at 20 sites in Bristol and Somerset. Many of these sites are care homes and extra care schemes, where residents depend on their lifts every day. Fast response, a high first-time fix rate and clear communication are essential.
Brunelcare is a Bristol-based charity providing high-quality housing, care and support for later living in the South West.
This is a fully comprehensive contract lift maintenance and repairs. It covers planned maintenance, 24/7 emergency call-out, all repairs and parts, and testing, for one fixed annual price per lift.
Brunelcare is undertaking an Open Procedure to select a suitable Supplier to deliver the Fully Comprehensive Lift Maintenance and Repairs Contract to commence on 1st April 2027 (five (5) year contract term).
Full scope details can be found within the associated tender documents on ProContract.
The tender deadline for this opportunity is 12pm (noon) on 30th November 2026.
Within the Pricing Schedule of this tender, the Contracting Authority has stated a number of assets/properties that the Supplier will be expected to deliver services to - if this list of assets/properties needs to be modified throughout the contract term, this will be considered a "materialisation of a known risk".
Please note that Shared Service for Housing (SSfH) is acting as the managing and contact organisation on behalf of the Contracting Authority for this tender opportunity.
- Not divided into lots: The contract has not been divided into lots. It covers a single portfolio of 55 lift assets across 20 Brunelcare sites, delivered as one fully comprehensive servicing, repair and statutory testing service. Dividing it would not provide any practical, technical or economic benefit. Splitting by site or lift type would create gaps in responsibility for safety-critical equipment, including breakdown response and statutory testing, increasing technical risk to delivery. Each lot would also be too small to attract competitive pricing, and managing several contractors would be disproportionately expensive for Brunelcare.
- The authority expects to re-tender this requirement around 3 Oct 2031, 23:59 BST.
CPV: Lift-maintenance services · Mechanical lifts · Repair and maintenance services of electrical and mechanical building installations
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · value publishedLot #1Published value£494,110
- Economic & financial standing
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- Technical & professional ability
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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).
Published award criteria (2)
- Quality: As per procurement documents (see Schedule 1 and the ProContract Evaluation Questionnaire)
- Price: As per procurement documents (see Schedule 1, the Pricing Schedule and the ProContract Evaluation Questionnaire)
- Economic & financial standing
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- Technical & professional ability
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- Price carries 40 of 100 points: a 10% discount moves about 4 points. The method statement decides this lot, not the discount.
- Turnover usually expected at this size: about £197,428 (twice the annual value).
Price arithmetic assumes straight proportional scoring; the tender pack may use another formula. 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 Brunelcare buys Lifting and handling equipment (CPV 4241), and who usually turns up
Brunelcare’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: Lifting and handling equipment (CPV 4241) →
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Half of these awards have an award date within 36 days of the bid deadline.
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1 bid13%
2–375%
4–613%
7+0%
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Below estimate37%
Within ±2%41%
Above estimate22%
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Lot #1CPV 4241Published estimate£494k
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1 bid10%
2–343%
4–638%
7+10%
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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.
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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
- Open for tender
- Procurement threshold
- Above threshold (FTS publication)
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Yes (GPA)
- Recurring procurement
- Yes · next expected 3 Oct 2031
- First published
- 26 Oct 2026, 11:56 GMT
- Last source update
- 26 Oct 2026, 11:56 GMT
- Award evaluation window
- Submission end – 15 Feb 2027
- Authority reference
BC.PI.C.26.017- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-100948- Latest notice
- Tender notice (UK4)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-078fffFind a Tender- Contract terms summary
Please see Schedule 3, Contract (Terms and Conditions)
- Risks
The following risks have been identified that would impact the performance of the Contract, where the impact cannot be known at this stage but may relate to a Contract modification if the risk was to materialise:
- Risk of legislative changes, regulatory changes or changes in law during the term of a Contract
- Risk of unforeseen changes to delivery/operational standards
- Risk of changes in technology, IT solutions or systems
- Risk of unforeseen increase in Contracting Authority budgets/increased volume of works/services
- Risk of unforeseen circumstances that cause the value of the Contract to increase (previous examples include BREXIT, war, pandemic and the cost of living crisis)
- Risk of unforeseen political impact
- Risk of unforeseen increase in property volume
Within the Pricing Schedule of this tender, the Contracting Authority has stated a number of assets/properties that the Supplier will be expected to deliver services to - if this list of assets/properties needs to be modified throughout the contract term, this will be considered a "materialisation of a known risk".
How to participate & submission route
Official notice Submit via ProContract (Due North)- Requests to participate (first stage)
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- Tender submission deadline
- 30 Nov 2026, 12:00 GMT
- Clarification deadline
- 23 Nov 2026, 17:00 GMT
- Submission channel
- Official e-sourcing portal
- Electronic submission
- Allowed
- Accepted languages
- en
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Timeline
26 Oct 2026 → 1 Apr 2027 · 5 dates- Tender notice publishedearlier today26 Oct 2026, 11:56 GMT
- Today26 Oct 2026
- Clarification questions byin 28 days23 Nov 2026, 17:00 GMT
- Submission deadlinein 35 days30 Nov 2026, 12:00 GMT
- Award decision expected byin 112 days15 Feb 2027, 23:59 GMT
- Contract startsin 156 days1 Apr 2027, 00:00 BST
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Tender notice published26 Oct 2026, 11:56 GMTUK4
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
3 public bodies on the noticeOther public bodies
- MAND (PLS) LTDProcuring entityTechnical Consultant
- SHARED SERVICES FOR HOUSING LIMITEDProcess contact pointProcuring entityShared Service for Housing (SSfH) is acting as the managing and contact organisation on behalf of the Contracting Authority for this tender opportunity, carrying out the role as Procurement Consultant.
Official documents & specifications (2)
Official links; attachments are not copiedTender pack and attachments
- Bidding documents and specifications All documentation can be found within the attachments section of ProContract, with a list of Schedules/Appendices within Schedule 1
Notices published for this procedure
- Tender notice Tender notice on Find a Tender