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Procurement Assist Limited c/o Integrated Facilities Management Bolton Ltd (iFM Bolton)

Consultant Support

Engineering & ArchitectureCPV 71315200
Value£50.0m
Deadline31 May 2029
Published14 Jan 2025
RegionNationwide
Timeline
Published 14 Jan 20251007 days leftCloses 31 May 2029
Who to contact
tenders@procurementassist.co.uk
+44 3301281336

The procurement contact named on the official notice.

Contract value in context
£50.0mtotal contract value
median £95k
this tender£0£54.0m

This is a large award for Engineering & Architecture — above three-quarters of comparable contracts. Based on 33,646 valued Engineering & Architecture tenders in our corpus.

When this comes round again

Procurement Assist Limited c/o Integrated Facilities Management Bolton Ltd (iFM Bolton) publishes Engineering & Architecture work continuously — 11 notices, roughly one every 1 day. This is a stream to watch, not a cycle to wait for.

65% of Procurement Assist Limited c/o Integrated Facilities Management Bolton Ltd (iFM Bolton)’s awards go to a supplier it has used before.

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The brief

Procurement Assist Limited is seeking service providers to take part in tendering for a place on a 60 month Dynamic Purchasing System for Consultant Support.

The DPS will be available for use by iFM Bolton and the whole public sector from across the United Kingdom.

The DPS initial application period is 30 days but will remain open until 31 May 2029.

Applications from service providers can be made at any time during this period.

The DPS is intended to be a fast route to market for Clients, with Clients not needing any further engagement with OJEU procurement processes.

Procurement Assist is publishing this Notice of Amendment made pursuant to the original Notice 2020/S 082-194759 to extend the DPS to 31 May 2029.

The DPS reference number has changed from PA DMB 02 to PA CI 13 and the scope of the DPS is also to include, but not limited to include Stock Condition Surveys, Damp Surveys and all other types of survey work to existing dwellings.

The remaining information in relation to this DPS is unchanged.

The gates

What this notice demands of you

1 named, none in explicit obligation language. Each one is quoted from the notice.

Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS)Frameworks & routes to market
Procurement Assist Limited is seeking service providers to take part in tendering for a place on a 60 month Dynamic Purchasing System for Consultant Support.

Matched against the notice text, so this is a floor — the tender pack will demand things the notice never mentions. “Says must” means the quoted sentence itself used obligation language; anything ambiguous is left as a mention.

What it takes to bid this

4580 daysof bid-team effort
£30.8k£54.8kat typical UK bid-team rates

Typical UK bid effort for the £10m+ band — an estimate, not a quote.

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

Typical for this category — confirm against the ITT pack

  • Hold at bidProfessional indemnity insurance (often £5–10m)
  • Show at bidChartered leads (CEng / RIBA / RICS) named with CVs
  • Show at bidComparable references / case studies
  • Hold at bidFinancial standing (accounts, often ~2× contract value turnover)
  • Hold at bidInsurance cover (PL / EL, often PI)
  • Show at bidSocial value commitments

Hold at bid = pass/fail conditions of participation. Show at bid = scored in the quality response. Plan for delivery = contract obligations from day one.

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Source & provenance
OCID
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Stage
tender · Open
Source
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Buyer ref
001281-2025
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