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Published 2 Oct 2026, 11:33 BST

Official UK procurement notice

Prince Henry's High School ~ Cleaning Tender

Authority: Prince Henry's High School (Education)

ServicesOpen procedureAbove thresholdSME suitable
Published estimate£1,375,000≈ £367k / year · £1,375,000 inc. VAT
Submission deadline 30 Oct 202612:00 GMT · 2 days left
Clarification cut-off 30 Oct 202612:00 GMT · questions to the authority
Contract term 3 yrs 9 moends 31 Oct 2030 · up to 31 Oct 2032 with extensions · starts 13 Feb 2027

What is being bought

Published requirement description

The successful Supplier will be required to provide cleaning services for Prince Henry’s High School

The annual contract value is approximately £275,000.00. The initial contract term will be three years, commencing on 13 February 2027 and concluding on 31 October 2030. The contract will operate on a guaranteed performance basis, with the successful Supplier providing a fixed annual contract price. There will be an option to extend the contract for a further period of up to one plus one years by mutual agreement.

Prince Henry’s High School is a large 13–18 secondary school and Sixth Form in Evesham, Worcestershire. The school occupies a substantial and varied estate comprising buildings of different ages, general teaching accommodation, specialist curriculum areas, sports facilities, performance spaces and facilities used by the wider community.

There are approximately 1,282 pupils on role and 180 staff.

The school has high expectations for students and places importance on providing a safe, welcoming and well-maintained environment. Cleaning standards should reflect the professional standards expected across the school.

For the avoidance of doubt TUPE Regulations will apply to this contract.

Whilst the monthly contract payment will represent one-twelfth of the annual contract value, a monthly reconciliation process will be undertaken to verify actual hours worked against those budgeted within the contract. Where actual hours delivered are lower than those budgeted, the Supplier will be required to provide a credit to the school. This credit will be calculated by dividing the annual contract value by the annual contracted hours to establish a contractual hourly rate, which will then be multiplied by the shortfall in hours delivered.

The school is seeking a suitably experienced Supplier with a proven track record of delivering cleaning services within the secondary school sector. Preference will be given to Suppliers with a strong operational presence within the local area, enabling the provision of responsive contract support, operational resilience and service flexibility throughout the contract term.

A robust management structure must be provided to ensure the specification is delivered consistently throughout the contract period. This will include regular engagement with key stakeholders at the school and proactive contract management.

The school is seeking a Supplier that will work collaboratively and flexibly with school leaders to maintain high standards of cleanliness. The school is also keen to explore opportunities to achieve improved value for money through service efficiencies, enhanced staff training and innovative equipment solutions.

The scope of the contract includes all cleaning services across the school site, including holiday cleaning and periodic deep cleaning requirements.

The successful Supplier will be required to provide a concise but detailed monthly management report, enabling the senior leadership team to monitor contract performance, service standards and continuous improvement initiatives.

Key Contract Objectives from February 2027

The school requires the cleaning operation to deliver the following outcomes:

•Deliver consistently high standards of cleanliness and hygiene across the School, providing a safe, welcoming and well-maintained environment for students, staff and visitors.

•Achieve and maintain particularly high standards within toilets, washrooms and other high-footfall areas, supported by an effective daytime cleaning provision and responsive approach to reactive cleaning requirements.

•Provide a reliable and adequately resourced cleaning service, with sufficient staffing levels and robust arrangements for covering sickness, absence and vacancies without compromising service standards.

•Ensure effective on-site supervision and contract management, supported by clear lines of responsibility, regular management presence and responsive communication with the School.

•Implement robust quality assurance and performance management arrangements, including regular inspections, meaningful KPIs, transparent reporting and prompt corrective action where required standards are not achieved.

•Provide appropriate, modern and well-maintained cleaning equipment, products and working methods suitable for the School's varied estate, specialist areas, flooring and cleaning requirements.

•Provide a flexible and responsive service capable of adapting to the operational needs of the School, including lettings, events, holiday periods and other changing requirements.

•Deliver demonstrable value for money and continuous improvement, incorporating appropriate innovation and environmentally responsible practices where these can be achieved without compromising cleaning, hygiene or infection-control standards.

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 yrs 9 moSMEPublished value£1,375,000
Contract period: 13 Feb 2027 – 31 Oct 2030 (3 yrs 9 mo) · up to 31 Oct 2032 with extensionsValue: £1,375,000 exc. VAT · £1,375,000 inc. VAT
Delivery: West MidlandsEligibility: SME eligibleTurnover guideline: ~£739,683/yr≈ 2× annual value
Extensions: 3+1+1 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 £739,683 (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 Prince Henry's High School buys Cleaning services (CPV 9091), and who usually turns up

Prince Henry's High School 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
This buyerPrince Henry's High School · all categories
The marketCleaning services (CPV 9091) · West Midlands
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: 0 of 1 known-size awards · market: CPV 9091 · West Midlands, n=68
0 of 169%

No small-firm winners recorded among this authority’s published awards in this sample.

How often do local suppliers win?
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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.

A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 0 of 1 known-location awards · market: CPV 9091 · West Midlands, n=92
0 of 115%

Most of this buyer’s recorded winners were registered outside the region where that award was delivered.

How long to a decision?
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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.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: no decision dates published · market: CPV 9091 · West Midlands, n=44
—62 days

Half of these awards have an award date within 62 days of the bid deadline.

How often single-bid or direct?
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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.

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: exactly 0 of 1 procurements with awards had no recorded rival · market: CPV 9091 · West Midlands, n=88
0 of 117%

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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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 buyerToo few to chart: 1 lot with bid counts, 5 needed · all categories
The market75 lots with bid counts · CPV 9091 · West Midlands
3% had one bid
Market · select a colour for counts
1 bid3%
Market: 2 of 75 lots with published bid counts.
2–38%
Market: 6 of 75 lots with published bid counts.
4–649%
Market: 37 of 75 lots with published bid counts.
7+40%
Market: 30 of 75 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 buyerToo few to chart: 1 lot with estimate and award, 5 needed · all categories
The market43 lots with estimate and award · CPV 9091 · West Midlands
16% below estimate
Market · select a colour for counts
Below estimate16%
Market: 7 of 43 lots with an estimate and award.
Within ±2%44%
Market: 19 of 43 lots with an estimate and award.
Above estimate40%
Market: 17 of 43 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 909145 monthsSME suitablePublished estimate£1.4m
Expected competition
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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.

6expected bids7% chance of a single bid
similar past contests in this category: 107
Forecast chances for this lot
1 bid7%
Chance this lot gets 1 bid: 7%. This is a forecast.
2–36%
Chance this lot gets 2–3: 6%. This is a forecast.
4–636%
Chance this lot gets 4–6: 36%. This is a forecast.
7+51%
Chance this lot gets 7+: 51%. 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 73 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.

£1.4mMatches estimate (53% chance)
73 comparable awards
Forecast compared with the buyer’s estimate
Middle 50%£1.4m
The middle half of likely prices meets at £1,375,000.
Estimate£1.4m
The buyer published an estimate of £1,375,000 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?
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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.

SupplierWon in this categoryLive contractsAward vs estimate
1 win in West Midlands
£25m19 awards in 36m · last 1 month ago14 live · £32m
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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
1 win in West Midlands
£21m14 awards in 36m · last 1 month ago10 live · £4.7m
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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.

4% above n=11
2 wins in West Midlands1 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
8 wins in West Midlands1 panel places
£29m18 awards in 36m · last 3 months ago29 live · £40m
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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
3 wins in West Midlands5 panel places
£6.1m12 awards in 36m · last 1 month ago8 live · £3.6m
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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.

14% below n=5
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
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
Unspecified in notice
First published
2 Oct 2026, 11:33 BST
Last source update
2 Oct 2026, 11:33 BST
Award evaluation window
Submission end – 14 Dec 2026
FTS notice number
2026/S 000-093237
Latest notice
Tender notice (UK4)
Classification (CPV)
School cleaning services
Delivery area
West Midlands (UKG12)
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-077f79 Find a Tender

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
30 Oct 2026, 12:00 GMT
Clarification deadline
30 Oct 2026, 12:00 GMT
Submission channel
Official e-sourcing portal
Electronic submission
Allowed
Accepted languages
en
Detailed submission instructions & authority contactsFrom official release
Published estimate £1,375,000 excludes VAT (£1,375,000 including VAT).

Timeline

2 Oct 2026 → 13 Feb 2027 · 5 dates
  1. Tender notice published26 days ago
    2 Oct 2026, 11:33 BST
  2. Today
    28 Oct 2026
  3. Clarification questions byin 2 days
    30 Oct 2026, 12:00 GMT
  4. Submission deadlinein 2 days
    30 Oct 2026, 12:00 GMT
  5. Award decision expected byin 47 days
    14 Dec 2026, 23:59 GMT
  6. Contract startsin 107 days
    13 Feb 2027

Notice history

1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender
  1. Tender notice published
    2 Oct 2026, 11:33 BST
    UK4

Commercial outcome & contract awards

Nothing awarded yet
Awards (0)
No award published
Contracts (0)
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Bid statistics
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Contracting authority & participating public bodies

Prince Henry's High School

Contracting authorityPublic authority - sub-central government GB-PPON: PGTZ-2989-RYNP Prince Henry's High school, Victoria Ave, Evesham, West Midlands, WR11 4QHContact email, phone

Official documents & specifications (1)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure

  • Tender notice tenderTender noticeUK4Tender notice on Find a Tender