Official UK procurement notice
Pre-Market Engagement Notice Mechanical & Associated Electrical Service Contract
Authority: St Albans City and District Council (Local council)·On behalf of: PUBLIC SECTOR PARTNERSHIP SERVICES LTD
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionSt Albans City & District Council (the Council) is undertaking preliminary market engagement in advance of a forthcoming procurement exercise for the provision of a Mechanical & Electrical (M&E) Maintenance and Compliance Contract. The current service arrangement is due to expire on 31 March 2027, and the Council is seeking to engage with the market to better understand supplier capability, capacity, innovation, delivery models, and best practice approaches ahead of commencing a formal procurement process.
CPV: Repair and maintenance services of electrical and mechanical building installations
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedPipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How St Albans City and District Council buys Repair and maintenance services of electrical and mechanical building installations (CPV 5071), and who usually turns up
St Albans City and District Council’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: Repair and maintenance services of electrical and mechanical building installations (CPV 5071) →
How the contest usually goes
Winner shares use published awards; bid and price charts use contested lots.
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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.
No small-firm winners recorded among this authority’s published awards in this sample.
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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 East of England (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 73 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.
Direct awards or one recorded bid are common here. Check the route before spending time on a bid.
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.
1 bid7%
2–327%
4–633%
7+33%
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 estimate20%
Within ±2%80%
Above estimate0%
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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.
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 5071Estimate not published
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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. The bar shows 15 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid7%
2–327%
4–633%
7+33%
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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.
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.
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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
- Below threshold
- 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
- 26 Oct 2026, 10:14 GMT
- Last source update
- 26 Oct 2026, 10:14 GMT
- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-100856- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Not published
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-078fd5Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
26 Oct 2026 → 1 Apr 2027 · 3 dates- Planning notice published2 days ago26 Oct 2026, 10:14 GMT
- Today28 Oct 2026
- Market engagementin 16 days13 Nov 2026, 23:59 GMT
The Council is seeking a suitably qualified and experienced Mechanical & Electrical (M&E)
contractor to provide a comprehensive maintenance, compliance, and asset management
service across its property portfolio. The contract will encompass planned preventative
maintenance (PPM), statutory inspections and testing, reactive repairs, emergency response
services, lifecycle replacement works, and minor improvement projects relating to a broad
range of building services infrastructure and associated assets.
The appointed contractor will be responsible for the maintenance, repair, servicing,
inspection, and operational support of key mechanical and systems with associated
electrical work, including but not limited to:
Communal heating systems, boiler plant, heating distribution networks, and heat
metering infrastructure.
Air conditioning
Bulk gas networks and associated gas installations.
Mechanical ventilation systems, including Mechanical Ventilation with Heat Recovery
(MVHR) installations.
The contract will require the successful contractor to provide both planned and responsive
maintenance services, including a fully operational 24-hour emergency call-out service, 365
days per year, to ensure the continued safety, compliance, reliability, and operational
performance of the Council's estate. Services will include fault diagnosis, repairs, statutory
testing, condition-based maintenance, lifecycle replacement activities, and measured term
works.
The Council is seeking a contractor that can demonstrate strong technical expertise across
all service disciplines, experience of delivering multi-site maintenance contracts, effective
contract and supply chain management arrangements, robust mobilisation and business
continuity planning, and access to appropriately qualified and competent personnel. The
successful contractor will be expected to work collaboratively with the Council to maintain
compliance, improve asset performance, minimise service disruption, and support long-term
asset management objectives across the estate
To view this contract opportunity, prospective suppliers must first register on the PSPS electronic tendering portal in-tendhost.co.uk/pspslprocurement/asp… ↗
- Contract startsin 154 days1 Apr 2027
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Preliminary market engagement notice published26 Oct 2026, 10:14 GMTUK2
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
2 public bodies on the noticeOther public bodies
- PUBLIC SECTOR PARTNERSHIP SERVICES LTDProcess contact pointProcuring entityAssisting with Procurement
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