Official UK procurement notice
York Road Refurbishment · UK public procurement notice
Authority: Guildford Borough Council (Local council)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionGuildford Borough Council wishes to notify contractors of an upcoming procurement opportunity for the delivery of the York Road Refurbishment Project in Guildford.
The site sits within a Conservation Area and the scope of works includes the refurbishment and partial reconfiguration of existing buildings at 1 & 3-5 York Road, Guildford, to provide improved emergency temporary accommodation and rough sleeper support facilities.
The proposed works will include:
- Internal refurbishment and reconfiguration works.
- Formation of new ensuites to bedrooms.
- Conversion of loft space into habitable accommodation.
- Building services (MEP) upgrades and replacement plant.
- Window and door replacements.
- Roof insulation, façade repairs and other external repairs.
- Associated external works.
- Delivery within a phased construction programme, maintaining operation of parts of the facility during the works.
The project is intended to be procured using a traditional procurement route.
Planning permission has now been granted (refer to Planning Application reference 26/P/00492 for more details), and the project is progressing through RIBA Stage 4 (Technical Design).
Prior to issuing the tender, the Council intends to undertake soft market testing with interested contractors. Further details will be shared with suppliers who respond to this notice expressing their interest
CPV: Electrical installation work · Facade work · Installation of doors and windows and related components · Overhaul and refurbishment work · Plumbing and sanitary works · Roof insulation work
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedPipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How Guildford Borough Council buys Other building completion work (CPV 4545), and who usually turns up
Guildford 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: Other building completion work (CPV 4545) →
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 South East 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 outside 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 81 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 bid22% / 21%
2–322% / 4%
4–611% / 32%
7+44% / 43%
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 estimate36%
Within ±2%29%
Above estimate36%
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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 45Estimate not published
This lot lists more than one class in CPV 45. The comparison uses that group.
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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 316 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid13%
2–323%
4–628%
7+36%
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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
- Works
- 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
- 30 Sept 2026, 10:16 BST
- Last source update
- 30 Sept 2026, 10:16 BST
- Authority reference
CRPN-00712- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-092195- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Not published
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-077d2aFind a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
30 Sept 2026 → 17 Feb 2027 · 3 dates- Planning notice published26 days ago30 Sept 2026, 10:16 BST
- Market engagement17 days ago10 Oct 2026, 00:59 BST
Interested contractors are invited to submit an expression of interest by email to procurement@guildford.gov.uk by 9th October 2026. Please provide the following information:
- Company name
- Name and job title of the principal contact
- Contact email address
The Council may provide further information to interested parties and may arrange a market engagement activity in October. Details of any such event, including the date, time, location and joining instructions, will be communicated directly to interested parties.
- Today27 Oct 2026
- Contract startsin 112 days17 Feb 2027
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Preliminary market engagement notice published30 Sept 2026, 10:16 BSTUK2
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 (1)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender