Official UK procurement notice
Lightning Protection Systems And Person Safety Systems
Authority: Anchor Hanover Group (Public body)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionAnchor Hanover Group is England’s largest not-for-profit provider of specialist housing and care for those later in life. We manage 54,000 homes for both rent and sale to those aged 55 and over.
Lightning Protection Systems (LPS) and Person Safety Systems represent safety-critical assets across Anchor's portfolio. These systems help protect our buildings, residents, employees, contractors and visitors from risks associated with lightning strikes, the resulting fire risk, and working at height activities with fixed assets. Ensuring that these assets are appropriately identified, maintained, repaired and replaced forms an important part of Anchor's compliance and asset management responsibilities.
Based on current records, LPS are understood to be present at approximately 262 locations, while Person Safety Systems are identified at approximately 44 locations. Bidders shall note that asset information continues to be reviewed and validated, and should therefore be considered indicative.
The future scope of service is expected cover, but is not limited to, the following activities across LPS and Person Safety System assets:
- Inspection, testing and PPM (Planned Preventative Maintenance)
- Repair (emergency and responsive)
- Replacement
- Installation
- Baseline survey, assessment and inclusion within service activities of undocumented assets
- Maintenance of an asset register
Anchor defines that an LPS includes the external lightning protection system and associated internal protection or interfaces:
- Air termination networks
- Conductors
- Down conductors
- Test joints
- Earth electrodes
- Bonding
- Separation distance arrangements
- Surge protection measures where applicable
- Warning labels
- Inspection pits
Person Safety Systems which are expected to fall under the contract's scope are:
- Single-point anchors, eyebolts, anchor posts and safety hooks
- Horizontal flexible lifelines, rigid rails and travelling anchor systems
- Fall restraint, fall arrest and rope access anchor systems
- Permanent fixed, freestanding and counterweighted guardrails and edge protection
- Permanent fixed ladders, ladder hoops/cages, gates, platforms and roof hatches
- Roof walkways, steps, treads, staging and designated access routes
- Roof light guards, mesh, covers and fragile-surface protection
- Demarcation systems, warning signs, labels and system operating information
- Associated structural fixings, baseplates, counterweights, brackets and terminations
CPV: Fencing, railing and safety equipment installation work · Installation of safety equipment · Lightning-conductor installation work · Lightning-protection works · Repair and maintenance services of building installations · Safety equipment
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedPipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How Anchor Hanover Group buys Electrical installation work (CPV 4531), and who usually turns up
Anchor Hanover Group’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: Electrical installation work (CPV 4531) →
How the contest usually goes
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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.
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 48 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% / 14%
2–329% / 37%
4–648% / 26%
7+24% / 23%
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 estimate60% / 38%
Within ±2%10% / 32%
Above estimate30% / 30%
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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 4523Estimate not published
This lot is listed as CPV 4523. The table above uses the notice category.
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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 185 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid12%
2–337%
4–630%
7+21%
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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.
A statistical guide from past awards, not a price to bid.
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?
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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.
- 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- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Planned procurement
- Procurement threshold
- Unspecified in notice
- 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
- 6 Oct 2026, 17:13 BST
- Last source update
- 6 Oct 2026, 17:13 BST
- Authority reference
Project-00356- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-094459- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-078211Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
6 Oct 2026 → 1 Jan 2028 · 4 dates- Planning notice published21 days ago6 Oct 2026, 17:13 BST
- Market engagement7 days ago20 Oct 2026, 23:59 BST
Anchor is conducting Preliminary Market Engagement (PME) to support the delivery of an upcoming re-procurement of our Lightning Protection Systems and Person Safety Systems contract.
The purpose of this exercise is to gather feedback from interested organisations operating in a relevant market to gain insights into common market practices, relevant procurement considerations, market capability and innovative practices.
Feedback captured during this PME is intended to help inform our procurement strategy, contract documentation, tender process and support the refinement of specifications as well as the scope of works.
We therefore invite any interested parties to complete a written questionnaire via our E-Procurement Portal.
The PME submission deadline is 17:00 hours on 20th October 2026.
Please follow the link below to see our open opportunities and register your company's interest by completing our PME exercise our on our e-procurement portal - anchor.my.site.com/s/Welcome ↗
- Today28 Oct 2026
- Tender notice expectedin 76 days12 Jan 2027, 23:59 GMT
- Contract starts1 Jan 2028
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Preliminary market engagement notice published6 Oct 2026, 17:13 BSTUK2
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
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