City of London - HRA - Maintenance of Lifts and Platform Lifts

Repair & MaintenanceCPV 50750000

Value£600k

Deadline28 Sept 2026

Published2 Sept 2026

RegionNationwide

Timeline

Published 2 Sept 202626 days leftCloses 28 Sept 2026

Who to contact

Robert Pine

Robert.pine@cityoflondon.gov.uk

The procurement contact named on the official notice.

How to submit

Open the submissions portal

The submission route named on the official notice.

Contract value in context

£600ktotal contract value

median £130k

this tender£0£4.8m

This sits in the upper-middle of the Repair & Maintenance band — a substantial contract for the sector. Based on 15,278 valued Repair & Maintenance tenders in our corpus.

When this comes round again

The Mayor and Commonalty and Citizens of the City of London publishes Repair & Maintenance work continuously — 7 notices, roughly one every 33 days. This is a stream to watch, not a cycle to wait for.

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The brief

The City of London Corporation (the City) invites Tenders for the provision of City of London Housing Lift Maintenance Services, to provide regular servicing in line with regulations and legislation, planned preventative maintenance, and reactive maintenance including lift breakdowns and passenger entrapments.

This includes both in hours, and out of hours requirements with strict SLAs and KPIs on priority and time limits.

This tendering exercise is being undertaken using the electronic tendering system ‘City of London Corporation Sourcing & Contracts Portal’ (https://cityoflondon.ukp.app.jaggaer.com/).

Suppliers will need to register an interest on the system in order to participate and registration is free.

The estimated contract value given at sections 31 and 32 is for the full duration of the contract including the maximum possible extensions.

The estimated annual contract value is therefore £120,000).

Requirements

What the notice asks for

Suppliers will need to register an interest

Suppliers will need to register an interest on the system in order to participate and registration is free.

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What it takes to bid this

12–20 daysof bid-team effort

£8.2k–£13.7kat typical UK bid-team rates

Typical UK bid effort for the £100k–£1m band — an estimate, not a quote.

Qualify & bid/no-bid ~10% · SQ / PQQ ~20% · Written response ~55% · Review & presentation ~15%

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