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Published 28 Sept 2026, 14:39 BST

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Lady Margaret School Sacred Heart High School William Morris Sixth Form ~ Cleaning Tender

Authority: Lady Margaret, Sacred Heart and William Morris Sixth Form (Education)

ServicesCompetitive flexible procedureAbove thresholdSME suitable
Published estimate£2,390,000≈ £797k / year · £2,390,000 inc. VAT
Submission deadline 8 Jan 202712:00 GMT · 73d 15h left
Clarification cut-off 23 Oct 202612:00 BST · questions to the authority
Contract term 3 yrsends 1 Apr 2030 · up to 31 Mar 2032 with extensions · starts 1 Apr 2027

What is being bought

Published requirement description

This tender opportunity is to provide cleaning services to three high achieving schools which are within a small geographical distance of each other within the London borough of Hammersmith & Fulham. The three schools, Lady Margaret School, Sacred Heart High School and William Morris Sixth Form maintain an excellent partnership in operating their cleaning services utilising one shard external provider.

The schools believe that success should be celebrated and that pupils should enjoy their time at school; if lessons are stimulating and challenging then students will love learning. Much time therefore, is spent reviewing and planning schemes of work to ensure that they are differentiated to meet the needs of all students.

The schools are continually seeking ways to improve and develop the ethos and environment for students and staff, to give them the facilities they deserve and which are needed to meet the challenges of the 21st Century. Please be advised that this contract will be let on a 3-year fixed price basis.

Please see PSQ Document for more information.

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CPV: School cleaning services

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · value published
Lot #1Renewal 3 yrsSMEPublished value£2,390,000
Contract period: 1 Apr 2027 – 1 Apr 2030 (3 yrs) · up to 31 Mar 2032 with extensionsValue: £2,390,000 exc. VAT · £2,390,000 inc. VAT
Delivery: LondonEligibility: SME eligibleTurnover guideline: ~£1,591,819/yr≈ 2× annual value
Extensions: Initial 3 year contract with additional 1+1 option. Please see PSQ Document for more information.

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
Quality: 70%Price: 30%
Published sub-criteria (2)
  • Criterion 1: 70%
  • Criterion 2: 30%
Published award criteria (2)
  • Criterion 1
  • Criterion 2

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

What this means for your bid
  • Price carries 30 of 100 points: a 10% discount moves about 3 points. The method statement decides this lot, not the discount.
  • Turnover usually expected at this size: about £1,591,819 (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 Lady Margaret, Sacred Heart and William Morris Sixth Form buys Cleaning services (CPV 9091), and who usually turns up

Lady Margaret, Sacred Heart and William Morris Sixth Form has little published record in this market. Frameworks and DPS are left out: they draw different bid counts. Whole-market view: Cleaning services (CPV 9091) →

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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 marketCleaning services (CPV 9091) · Greater London
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: no supplier sizes published · market: CPV 9091 · Greater London, n=122
—51%

Across this market, small firms won 51% of awards with a known supplier size.

How often do local suppliers win?
i

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.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: no winner locations published · market: CPV 9091 · Greater London, n=150
—33%

Across this market, 33% of winners were registered in the delivery region.

How long to a decision?
i

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: no decision dates published · market: CPV 9091 · Greater London, n=64
—83 days

Half of these awards have an award date within 83 days of the bid deadline.

How often single-bid or direct?
i

How often work is awarded with no recorded rival.

Direct awards and tenders where every published lot count shows one bid.

The market share is a minimum: some awards have no bid count.

Thin markets produce this too; it is not proof of a tailored specification.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: no awards on record · market: CPV 9091 · Greater London, n=136
—13%

Across this market, at least 13% of awarded procurements had no recorded rival.

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 buyerNo bid counts published
The market128 lots with bid counts · CPV 9091 · Greater London
4% had one bid
Market · select a colour for counts
1 bid4%
Market: 5 of 128 lots with published bid counts.
2–319%
Market: 24 of 128 lots with published bid counts.
4–644%
Market: 56 of 128 lots with published bid counts.
7+34%
Market: 43 of 128 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 buyerNo estimate-and-award pairs published
The market75 lots with estimate and award · CPV 9091 · Greater London
37% below estimate
Market · select a colour for counts
Below estimate37%
Market: 28 of 75 lots with an estimate and award.
Within ±2%25%
Market: 19 of 75 lots with an estimate and award.
Above estimate37%
Market: 28 of 75 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 909136 monthsSME suitablePublished estimate£2.4m
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.

5expected bids3% chance of a single bid
similar past contests in this category: 193
Forecast chances for this lot
1 bid3%
Chance this lot gets 1 bid: 3%. This is a forecast.
2–312%
Chance this lot gets 2–3: 12%. This is a forecast.
4–659%
Chance this lot gets 4–6: 59%. This is a forecast.
7+26%
Chance this lot gets 7+: 26%. 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 83 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.

£2.4mMatches estimate (79% chance)
83 comparable awards
Forecast compared with the buyer’s estimate
Middle 50%£2.4m
The middle half of likely prices meets at £2,390,000.
Estimate£2.4m
The buyer published an estimate of £2,390,000 for this lot.

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.

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.

SupplierWon in this categoryLive contractsAward vs estimate
9 wins in Greater London1 panel places
£49m15 awards in 36m · last 1 months ago14 live · £46m
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.

8% above n=15
1 win in Greater London
£25m19 awards in 36m · last 1 months ago14 live · £32m
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.

7% above n=29
7 wins in Greater London1 panel places
£21m15 awards in 36m · last 2 months ago9 live · £15m
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.

at estimate n=10
2 wins in Greater London1 panel places
£29m18 awards in 36m · last 3 months ago29 live · £40m
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.

at estimate n=45
1 win in Greater London
£12m9 awards in 36m · last 2 months ago4 live · £4.3m
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.

at estimate n=6
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
Competitive flexible 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
Unspecified in notice
First published
28 Sept 2026, 14:39 BST
Last source update
28 Sept 2026, 14:39 BST
Award evaluation window
Submission end – 8 Feb 2027
FTS notice number
2026/S 000-091488
Latest notice
Tender notice (UK4)
Classification (CPV)
School cleaning services
Delivery area
London (UKI)
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-077ba3 Find a Tender
How it runs

Please see PSQ document for more information.

How to participate & submission route

Official notice Submit via Litmus TMS
Submission portal named on this notice: Litmus TMS
Supplier login requiredElectronic submission allowedLanguage: EN
Access & registration note: Free
Requests to participate (first stage)
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Tender submission deadline
8 Jan 2027, 12:00 GMT
Clarification deadline
23 Oct 2026, 12:00 BST
Submission channel
Official e-sourcing portal
Electronic submission
Allowed
Accepted languages
en
Detailed submission instructions & authority contactsFrom official release
Published estimate £2,390,000 excludes VAT (£2,390,000 including VAT).

Timeline

28 Sept 2026 → 1 Apr 2027 · 5 dates
  1. Tender notice published28 days ago
    28 Sept 2026, 14:39 BST
  2. Clarification questions by3 days ago
    23 Oct 2026, 12:00 BST
  3. Today
    26 Oct 2026
  4. Submission deadlinein 74 days
    8 Jan 2027, 12:00 GMT
  5. Award decision expected byin 105 days
    8 Feb 2027, 23:59 GMT
  6. Contract startsin 156 days
    1 Apr 2027, 00:00 BST

Notice history

1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender
  1. Tender notice published
    28 Sept 2026, 14:39 BST
    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

Lady Margaret, Sacred Heart and William Morris Sixth Form

Contracting authorityPublic authority - sub-central government GB-PPON: PLGN-5641-PZWH Lady Margaret School, 9-15 Parsons Grn, Aylesbury, London, London, SW6 4UNContact name, email, phone

Official documents & specifications (1)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure

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