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Published 6 Nov 2025, 15:02 GMT

Official UK procurement notice

SOL SOL Community Equipment Maintenance and Support Services

Official notice Competition analysis

Authority: Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council (Local council)

ServicesAbove thresholdSME suitableVCSE suitable
Sectors: Repair & Maintenance (50) Delivery: Delivery location not published
Planned pipeline valueValue not publishedpipeline notice, not a live tender
Tender notice expected Date not publishedfrom the planned procurement notice
Contract term 4 yrsends 1 Feb 2030 · starts 2 Feb 2026

What is being bought

Published requirement description

SMBC provides essential community equipment to support independent living and hospital discharge. The current contract is due for renewal, and the Council is exploring options to enhance service delivery, compliance, and value for money.

The future contract may include:

  • Planned Preventative Maintenance
  • LOLER inspections (every 6 months)
  • Reactive repairs
  • Out-of-hours support (24/7/365)
  • PAT testing
  • Installation and minor adaptations (e.g., ceiling track hoists, modular ramps)
  • Data recording and reporting via IT platforms (e.g., TCES)

Key Objectives

  • Ensure statutory compliance (LOLER, Health & Safety)
  • Improve service responsiveness and reliability
  • Enhance customer satisfaction and accessibility
  • Support sustainability and social value outcomes

CPV: Miscellaneous repair and maintenance services · Repair and maintenance services of medical and precision equipment

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published
Lot #1Planned 4 yrsSMEVCSE
Contract period: 2 Feb 2026 – 1 Feb 2030 (4 yrs)
Eligibility: SME eligibleVCSE eligible
50400000 Repair and maintenance services of medical and precision equipment50800000 Miscellaneous repair and maintenance services

Who is likely to bid for this lot ↓

Pipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published

How Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council buys Repair and maintenance services of medical and precision equipment (CPV 5040), and who usually turns up

Solihull Metropolitan Borough 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 medical and precision equipment (CPV 5040) →

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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 buyerSolihull Metropolitan Borough Council · all categories
The marketRepair and maintenance services of medical and precision equipment (CPV 5040)
What to do with it
How often do SMEs win?
i

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: 15 of 30 known-size awards · market: CPV 5040 · West Midlands (authority’s region), n=11
50%18%

Small firms have won here. Neither number says whether you qualify; it describes who has been winning.

How often do local suppliers win?
i

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.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 17 of 39 known-location awards · market: CPV 5040 · West Midlands (authority’s region), n=17
44%18%

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

How long to a decision?
i

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: 10 decided notices · market: division 50 · West Midlands (authority’s region), n=61
61 days62 days

Half of these awards have an award date within 61 days of the bid deadline.

How often single-bid or direct?
i

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.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: at least 25 of 44 procurements with awards had no recorded rival · market: CPV 5040 · West Midlands (authority’s region), n=17
57%88%

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?

i

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.

Last 36 months.

This buyer14 lots with bid counts · all categories
36% had one bid
The market7 lots with bid counts · CPV 5040 · UK-wide
14% had one bid
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
1 bid36% / 14%
Buyer: 5 of 14 lots with published bid counts. Market: 1 of 7 lots with published bid counts.
2–343% / 71%
Buyer: 6 of 14 lots with published bid counts. Market: 5 of 7 lots with published bid counts.
4–67% / 14%
Buyer: 1 of 14 lots with published bid counts. Market: 1 of 7 lots with published bid counts.
7+14% / 0%
Buyer: 2 of 14 lots with published bid counts. Market: 0 of 7 lots with published bid counts.

How did awards compare with estimates?

i

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 buyer9 lots with estimate and award · all categories
22% below estimate
The market6 lots with estimate and award · CPV 5040 · UK-wide
50% below estimate
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
Below estimate22% / 50%
Buyer: 2 of 9 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 3 of 6 lots with an estimate and award.
Within ±2%67% / 50%
Buyer: 6 of 9 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 3 of 6 lots with an estimate and award.
Above estimate11% / 0%
Buyer: 1 of 9 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 0 of 6 lots with an estimate and award.
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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.

Open a lot for its forecast, this buyer’s previous supplier and possible competitors, from published award history, not a bid list

Lot #1CPV 5048 monthsSME suitableEstimate not published

This lot lists more than one class in CPV 50. The comparison uses that group.

Expected competition
i

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 124 past lots.

A forecast, not a list of bidders.

—No model forecast yet15% chance of a single bid
Past bids on 124 similar lots
1 bid15%
18 of 124 similar past lots received 1 bid (15%).
2–332%
40 of 124 similar past lots received 2–3 (32%).
4–624%
30 of 124 similar past lots received 4–6 (24%).
7+29%
36 of 124 similar past lots received 7+ (29%).
Comparable past lots usually drew 4 bids.
Commercial price forecast
i

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.

—Estimate not published
The buyer published no estimate for this lot, so there is nothing to forecast against. A price prediction here would be a number about a number we do not have.

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.

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.

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
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
6 Nov 2025, 15:02 GMT
Last source update
6 Nov 2025, 15:02 GMT
Authority reference
SOL30151
FTS notice number
2025/S 000-071699
Latest notice
Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
Classification (CPV)
Miscellaneous repair and maintenance servicesRepair and maintenance services of medical and precision equipment
Delivery area
Not published
Official registry OCID
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How it was run

Official notice
Submission deadline
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Timeline

6 Nov 2025 → 2 Feb 2026 · 3 dates
  1. Planning notice published354 days ago
    6 Nov 2025, 15:02 GMT
  2. Market engagement336 days ago
    24 Nov 2025, 23:59 GMT

    The future contract may include:

    • Planned Preventative Maintenance (PPM)
    • LOLER inspections (every 6 months)
    • Reactive repairs (emergency and routine)
    • Out-of-hours support (24/7/365)
    • PAT testing
    • Installation and minor adaptations (e.g., ceiling track hoists, modular ramps)
    • Data recording and reporting via IT platforms (e.g., TCES)
  3. Contract starts267 days ago
    2 Feb 2026

Notice history

1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender
  1. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    6 Nov 2025, 15:02 GMT
    UK2

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

Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council

Contracting authorityPublic authority - sub-central government GB-PPON: PGWC-7578-LYDG The Council House, Manor Square, Solihull, West Midlands, B91 3QBContact email

Official documents & specifications (1)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure