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Published 12 Oct 2026, 16:41 BST

Official UK procurement notice

UOW997 - SJC Storage Unit

Authority: University of Worcester (Education)

WorksBelow threshold - open competitionBelow threshold
Budget not disclosed£0exc. VAT
Submission deadline 2 Nov 202623:59 GMT · 7d 3h left
Contract term 1 moends 28 Feb 2027 · starts 1 Feb 2027

What is being bought

Published requirement description

The University is seeking a contractor, to undertake all works in connection with the supply and installation of a new 20x8m storage facility.

CPV: Building installation work · Storage units

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · value published
Lot #1 1 moPublished value£0

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

Lot awarding rule: Programme 5% Method statement 10% Price and Value for Money 75% Product information and supporting plans including base design requirements 10%

No conditions of participation were published on the notice; check the tender documents.

Competition analysis · published record, not a forecast of who will bid

How University of Worcester buys Shop furniture (CPV 3917), and who usually turns up

University of Worcester’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: Shop furniture (CPV 3917) →

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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 buyerUniversity of Worcester · all categories
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: 7 of 14 known-size awards · market: CPV 3917 · UK-wide, n=25
50%72%

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

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.

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

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 6 of 28 known-location awards · market: CPV 3917 · UK-wide, n=7
21%43%

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: 8 decided notices · market: division 39 · West Midlands (authority’s region), n=13
99 days82 days

Half of these awards have an award date within 99 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.

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 12 of 32 procurements with awards had no recorded rival · market: CPV 3917 · UK-wide, n=23
38%48%

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.

Last 36 months.

This buyer14 lots with bid counts · all categories
7% had one bid
The market19 lots with bid counts · division 39 · West Midlands (authority’s region)
11% had one bid
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
1 bid7% / 11%
Buyer: 1 of 14 lots with published bid counts. Market: 2 of 19 lots with published bid counts.
2–314% / 11%
Buyer: 2 of 14 lots with published bid counts. Market: 2 of 19 lots with published bid counts.
4–643% / 37%
Buyer: 6 of 14 lots with published bid counts. Market: 7 of 19 lots with published bid counts.
7+36% / 42%
Buyer: 5 of 14 lots with published bid counts. Market: 8 of 19 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: 3 lots with estimate and award, 5 needed · all categories
The market16 lots with estimate and award · division 39 · West Midlands (authority’s region)
25% below estimate
Market · select a colour for counts
Below estimate25%
Market: 4 of 16 lots with an estimate and award.
Within ±2%44%
Market: 7 of 16 lots with an estimate and award.
Above estimate31%
Market: 5 of 16 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 39171 monthNo real estimate
Expected competition
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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.

A forecast, not a list of bidders.

5expected bids7% chance of a single bid
similar past contests in this category: 1
Forecast chances for this lot
1 bid7%
Chance this lot gets 1 bid: 7%. This is a forecast.
2–313%
Chance this lot gets 2–3: 13%. This is a forecast.
4–657%
Chance this lot gets 4–6: 57%. This is a forecast.
7+23%
Chance this lot gets 7+: 23%. 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.

No comparable awards for this lot yet.

A statistical guide from past awards, not a price to bid.

—No real estimate
The buyer published £0 as the estimate (a placeholder, not the contract’s value), so there is nothing to forecast against.

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
3 panel places
£5.9m12 awards in 36m · last 4 months ago1 live · £50k
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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.

no comparable pairs
£86k4 awards in 36m · last 2 months ago1 live · £10k
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.

no comparable pairs
£1.7m7 awards in 36m · last 1 months agoNone on fileno comparable pairs
£80k2 awards in 36m · last 9 months ago2 live · £80k
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.

no comparable pairs
£70k3 awards in 36m · last 9 months ago2 live · £56k
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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.

no comparable pairs
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
Below threshold - open competition
Legal basis
UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
Procurement category
Works
Notice status
Open for tender
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
12 Oct 2026, 16:41 BST
Last source update
12 Oct 2026, 16:41 BST
FTS notice number
2026/S 000-096276
Latest notice
Tender notice (UK4)
Classification (CPV)
Building installation workStorage units
Delivery area
Not published
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-078602 Find a Tender

How to participate & submission route

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Requests to participate (first stage)
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Tender submission deadline
2 Nov 2026, 23:59 GMT
Clarification deadline
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Submission channel
Official e-sourcing portal
Electronic submission
Allowed
Detailed submission instructions & authority contactsFrom official release

Timeline

12 Oct 2026 → 1 Feb 2027 · 3 dates
  1. Tender notice published14 days ago
    12 Oct 2026, 16:41 BST
  2. Today
    26 Oct 2026
  3. Submission deadlinein 7 days
    2 Nov 2026, 23:59 GMT
  4. Contract startsin 97 days
    1 Feb 2027

Notice history

1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender
  1. Tender notice published
    12 Oct 2026, 16:41 BST
    UK4

Commercial outcome & contract awards

Nothing awarded yet
Awards (0)
No award published
Contracts (0)
No contract published
Bid statistics
No aggregate bid statistics published

Contracting authority & participating public bodies

University of Worcester

Contracting authorityPublic authority - sub-central government GB-PPON: PYJR-8772-LLDP Henwick Grove, Worcester, West Midlands, WR2 6AJContact email

Official documents & specifications (2)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Tender pack and attachments

Notices published for this procedure

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