Official UK procurement notice
Soft Strip & Demolition of Londonderry, Lambton, Lumley Towers
Authority: Gentoo Group Limited (Public body)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionSoft Strip & Demolition of Londonderry, Lambton, Lumley Towers - 3 Large Panel System High-Rise Residential Tower Blocks within Sunderland.
Please note that the Contract Dates contained within this UK3 Notice are only estimations for the purpose of this Notice. The Contract Dates are to be determined based on the Procurement Timescales which are currently still being discussed and agreed. Interested Bidders are welcome to reach out directly confirming their interest and to request to be notified of the updated timeline once available.
- How the procedure runs: Whilst the below may be subject to amendments as the process and documents continue to be developed, we anticipate the propose structure of the Competitive Flexible Procedure to be as follows. Stage 1 - Due Diligence & Quality This section will be divided into Essential Pass/Fail Criteria and scored Method of Working Statement questions and Social Value proposals. Stage 2 - Priced Proposals and Programmes Stage 3 - Formal Scored Interview
CPV: Demolition work
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · value publishedLot #1PlannedPublished value£5,916,667
Pipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How Gentoo Group Limited buys Building demolition and wrecking work and earthmoving work (CPV 4511), and who usually turns up
Gentoo Group 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: Building demolition and wrecking work and earthmoving work (CPV 4511) →
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.
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 North East England.
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 41 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 bid11% / 0%
2–311% / 38%
4–622% / 63%
7+56% / 0%
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 estimate38% / 42%
Within ±2%0% / 33%
Above estimate63% / 25%
Assess each lot i
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 4511Published estimate£5.9m
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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 177 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid11%
2–319%
4–627%
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.
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- Procedure method
- Competitive flexible procedure
- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Works
- 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
- 22 May 2026, 08:51 BST
- Last source update
- 26 Oct 2026, 11:35 GMT
- Award evaluation window
- Submission end – 1 Jun 2027
- Authority reference
REQ741- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-100922- Accelerated
- Qualifying planned procurement notice
- Latest notice
- Planned procurement notice (UK3)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06a03fFind a Tender
- How it runs
Whilst the below may be subject to amendments as the process and documents continue to be developed, we anticipate the propose structure of the Competitive Flexible Procedure to be as follows.
Stage 1 - Due Diligence & Quality
This section will be divided into Essential Pass/Fail Criteria and scored Method of Working Statement questions and Social Value proposals.
Stage 2 - Priced Proposals and Programmes
Stage 3 - Formal Scored Interview
How it was run
Official notice- Requests to participate (first stage)
- 13 Jan 2027, 12:00 GMT
- Submission deadline
- 13 Jan 2027, 12:00 GMT
- Clarification deadline
- 8 Jan 2027, 12:00 GMT
- Submission channel
- Official e-sourcing portal
- Electronic submission
- Allowed
- Accepted languages
- en
Timeline
22 May 2026 → 1 Jul 2027 · 7 dates- Planning notice published158 days ago22 May 2026, 08:51 BST
- Latest notice publishedearlier today26 Oct 2026, 11:35 GMT
- Today26 Oct 2026
- Tender notice expectedin 36 days1 Dec 2026, 23:59 GMT
- Clarification questions byin 74 days8 Jan 2027, 12:00 GMT
- Submission deadlinein 79 days13 Jan 2027, 12:00 GMT
- Award decision expected byin 218 days1 Jun 2027, 23:59 BST
- Contract startsin 247 days1 Jul 2027
Notice history
4 events · 2 releases on Find a Tender · since 22 May 2026- Pipeline notice published22 May 2026, 08:51 BSTUK1
- Planned procurement notice published26 Oct 2026, 11:35 GMTUK3
- Published value published: £5,916,66726 Oct 2026, 11:35 GMT
- Procurement method changed26 Oct 2026, 11:35 GMT
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 (2)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Planned procurement notice Planned procurement notice on Find a Tender
- Pipeline notice Pipeline notice on Find a Tender