Official UK procurement notice
Legionella Surveying, Testing and Repairs
Authority: Platform Housing Limited (Public body)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionPlatform are looking to engage in pre-market engagement for three workstreams ahead of re-procuring our Legionella Surveying, Testing and Repairs.
Workstream 1: Legionella risk assessments
Workstream 2: On-site monitoring and remedials
Workstream 3: Remote monitoring
We do not know yet whether these workstreams will turn into 3 individual Lots, or whether they will be merged into 1 or 2. We will use the pre-market engagement to inform this decision.
CPV: Monitoring and control services · Technical testing services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedPipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How Platform Housing Limited buys Technical inspection and testing services (CPV 7163), and who usually turns up
Platform Housing Limited’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: Technical inspection and testing services (CPV 7163) →
How the contest usually goes
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How often small and medium firms win.
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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. The market figure counts awards delivered in West Midlands (authority’s region).
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners were registered in 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 49 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.
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.
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Past bids do not predict this tender.
1 bid0% / 0%
2–30% / 11%
4–680% / 67%
7+20% / 22%
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 estimate29%
Within ±2%43%
Above estimate29%
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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.
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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 71Published estimate£1.2m
This lot lists more than one class in CPV 71. The comparison uses that group.
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How many bids this lot may attract.
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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 86 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid5%
2–323%
4–629%
7+43%
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- 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
- 28 Sept 2026, 16:40 BST
- Last source update
- 28 Sept 2026, 16:40 BST
- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-091582- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Not published
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-077bd9Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
28 Sept 2026 → 1 Apr 2027 · 3 dates- Planning notice published29 days ago28 Sept 2026, 16:40 BST
- Market engagement10 days ago17 Oct 2026, 00:59 BST
The following engagement will take place for the 3 workstreams:
Workstream 1: Legionella risk assessments:
Interested parties are invited to complete a questionnaire via this link - wkf.ms/4y9h4a5 ↗
Workstream 2: On-site monitoring and remedials and Workstream 3: Remote monitoring:
Instead of a questionnaire we invite interested parties to 45 minute teams meetings to discuss the two workstreams. We are particularly interested in understanding the remote monitoring. Platform have not previously used remote monitoring and therefore would like to understand it more. Any information gathered as part of the pre-market will be used to inform our specification. Please register your interest in these meetings here wkf.ms/4iT1UBE ↗.
Workstream specific, the areas we are interested in for these meetings are:
W2 - On site monitoring and remedial works:
- How do ensure that monitoring taking place covers all parts of the system?
- How do you ensure that exceptions raised are accurate and relevant?
- What's your system in place to ensure that the correct checks are undertaken on the correct frequency?
W3 - Remote monitoring:
- How does your remote monitoring system meet the needs of legionella monitoring on site?
- Can your system do anything other than temperature monitoring?
- What are the key components required both on site and desktop based for your system to work?
- How does your system communicate from site? Is it based on a fixed wired connection or remote?
- Is there a contractual minimum number of assets required for remote systems to be installed?
- Today27 Oct 2026
- Contract startsin 155 days1 Apr 2027
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Preliminary market engagement notice published28 Sept 2026, 16:40 BSTUK2
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Pipeline notice- Awards (0)
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- Contracts (0)
- No contract published
- Bid statistics
- No aggregate bid statistics published
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Official documents & specifications (1)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender