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Cleaning Services - Shipston High School
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01/ The notice
Key facts
- Value
- £958,333Estimated value stated in the notice
- Deadline (UK time)
- Mon 26 Oct 2026, 12:00 GMTOpen for bids.
- Published
- 16 Oct 2026
- Region
- Not stated
02/ The brief
What the notice says
Not fully read: this is the notice text; attached documents are not read.
The site. A single secondary school of approximately 4,315 m² of printed in-scope floor area across three blocks, together with a sports hall building of approximately 1,175 m² delivered under a 2025-26 expansion. A room-by-room schedule of floor surfaces, an out-of-scope list and a sanitary provision schedule are issued with the tender documents.
The service. Fully managed: routine cleaning over a 40-week service year, periodic, holiday, deep and non-routine cleaning including high-level work, on-site supervision, labour, equipment, materials, quality assurance and reporting. Washroom consumables are to be priced both as a School-supplied and as a Contractor-supplied option.
Points tenderers should note. Timber and sprung timber floors account for 616.6 m², 14.3 per cent of the in-scope area, across five areas including a sports floor and a floor in a food-consumption area. The estate contains 58 WCs, 56 wash basins and 20 showers. There is no site access at weekends or on bank holidays. The sports hall building is not expected to be available before the new year and is priced separately.
Workforce. A TUPE service provision change is anticipated, involving eight employees across two transferors - seven employed by the outgoing contractor and one employed directly by the School. One employee is an active member of the Local Government Pension Scheme at an employer contribution rate of 18.4 per cent. Anonymised workforce information is issued with the tender documents, subject to the confidentiality terms of the Invitation to Tender.
Approach to award. The School is procuring a properly resourced service that is correctly priced. Evaluation weights quality, staffing model, supervision and mobilisation alongside price.
03/ Classification
CPV codes
Common Procurement Vocabulary codes, exactly as the notice lists them. No descriptions are added here.
- 90919300
04/ History
Releases of this notice
5 releases held, oldest first. Dates are UK time.
- 24 Sep 2026Tender notice
Tender notice published 24 September 2026.
Deadline in this release: Mon 26 Oct 2026, 12:00 GMT.
Release 090772-2026
View this release on Find a Tender (opens in a new tab) - 25 Sep 2026Tender notice update
Tender notice update published 24 September 2026. Stated change: Region changed from UK to Warwickshire
Deadline in this release: Mon 26 Oct 2026, 12:00 GMT.
Release 090773-2026
View this release on Find a Tender (opens in a new tab) - 14 Oct 2026Tender notice update
Tender notice update published 14 October 2026. Stated change: Clarification Note 01 added to the tender documents. This notice has been updated to add one document: Clarification Note 01, dated 14 October 2026. It contains the Authority's consolidated, anonymised responses to all clarification questions received by the clarification deadline of 5.00pm on Friday 9 October 2026, together with the written note of the supplier site visit held on 5 October 2026, as required by clause 8.3 of the Invitation to Tender. The note corrects three points where published provisions were inconsistent with one another: the external hard standing is outside the Services, giving an internal printed in-scope area of 3,894.6 m²; the gymnasium is the only sprung timber floor, there being five timber areas in total; and the sports hall floor is wood. It also confirms where the basis of the first contract year is to be recorded in the Pricing Schedule. No other change has been made to this notice. The requirement, the conditions of participation, the award criteria and weightings, the estimated value and the contract term are all unchanged. The deadline for receipt of tenders remains 12.00 noon on Monday 26 October 2026, and the tendering period continues to run from the original publication date of 24 September 2026. Any further clarification will be issued in the same way.
Deadline in this release: Mon 26 Oct 2026, 12:00 GMT.
Release 097230-2026
View this release on Find a Tender (opens in a new tab) - 14 Oct 2026Tender notice update
Tender notice update published 14 October 2026. Stated change: Clarification Note 01 reissued as version 1.1, replacing version 1.0 published earlier today. Version 1.1 corrects the response at Q21 and the corresponding entry at clause 11.3, both concerning which of the five timber floors are of sprung construction. Version 1.0 stated that the gymnasium is the only sprung timber floor. That is not supported by the tender documents: clause 7.3.1 records the assembly hall in the same combined "wood / sprung timber" surface category, and only the gymnasium carries the School's express confirmation. Version 1.1 therefore states that the gymnasium is the only area whose sprung construction has been confirmed by the School, and the position for the remaining areas is being confirmed and will be issued in a supplementary note. One item has been added to the list of outstanding points at section 11. The correction to clause 19.2 is unchanged: there are five timber areas, and the statement that the gymnasium is the only timber floor on the Site is incorrect. No other response is altered. No other change has been made to this notice: the requirement, the conditions of participation, the award criteria and weightings, the estimated value and the contract term are all unchanged. The deadline for receipt of tenders remains 12.00 noon on Monday 26 October 2026, and the tendering period continues to run from the original publication date of 24 September 2026.
Deadline in this release: Mon 26 Oct 2026, 12:00 GMT.
Release 097235-2026
View this release on Find a Tender (opens in a new tab) - 16 Oct 2026Tender notice update
Tender notice update published 16 October 2026. Stated change: Clarification Note 02 published, consolidating all clarification responses into a single document. It supersedes and replaces Clarification Note 01 in both of its versions, v1.0 and v1.1, each issued on 14 October 2026. Those versions remain listed for completeness but are withdrawn and must not be relied upon. Tenderers should work from Clarification Note 02 alone. The consolidated note carries all 49 responses, the written note of the site visit required by clause 8.3 of the Invitation to Tender, a change log at clause 1.7 identifying every response that has changed, and a summary of the corrections made to the tender documents. Twenty-four responses previously marked outstanding are now answered. Tenderers are directed in particular to the transferring employee's contractual sick pay, holiday entitlement and notice period, which supersede the statutory-minimum assumption previously permitted; confirmation that the employee is entitled to future NJC pay awards; confirmation that attendance between 07:00 and 15:00 is permitted; the corrected site opening arrangements, the Site being opened at approximately 05:00 rather than 06:30; confirmation that the sheet vinyl is safety flooring throughout; revised sanitary fitting counts; confirmation that two of the five timber floors are of sprung construction; and the School's consumables expenditure, provided as an advisory baseline only. Three items remain outstanding, none of them material to the price of the main service, and the note explains how to price where an answer is still awaited. No other change has been made to this notice. The requirement, the conditions of participation, the award criteria and weightings, the estimated value and the contract term are all unchanged. The deadline for receipt of tenders remains 12.00 noon on Monday 26 October 2026, and the tendering period continues to run from the original publication date of 24 September 2026.
Deadline in this release: Mon 26 Oct 2026, 12:00 GMT.
Release 098077-2026
View this release on Find a Tender (opens in a new tab)
05/ Limits
What the source does not tell us
- None recorded for the fields above. Attached documents are not read, so this is not a full account of the tender.
06/ Questions
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- Reference
- ocds-h6vhtk-077a00
- Source
- Find a Tender
- Stage
- tender · Open
- Last verified
- Sat 17 Oct 2026, 07:12 BST
- Read at
- Tue 20 Oct 2026, 16:13 BST
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