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Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon Borough Council

CfT_6659605 PME Questionnaire for External Cleaning Services Contract

Environment & WasteCPV 90910000
Value£500k
Deadline19 Aug 2026
Published5 Aug 2026
RegionNationwide
Timeline
Published 5 Aug 202614 days leftCloses 19 Aug 2026
Who to contact
procurement@armaghbanbridgecraigavon.gov.uk

The procurement contact named on the official notice.

How to submit

www.etendersni.gov.uk

The submission route named on the official notice.

Contract value in context
£500ktotal contract value
median £195k
this tender£0£5.0m

This sits in the upper-middle of the Environment & Waste band — a substantial contract for the sector. Based on 11,894 valued Environment & Waste tenders in our corpus.

When this comes round again

Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon Borough Council's Environment & Waste cycle is past due — it ran about every 4 months across 9 notices, and the door is open now. It may re-tender at any time.

72% of Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon Borough Council’s awards go to a supplier it has used before.

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The brief

Preliminary Market Engagement exercise for our forthcoming External Contract Cleaning Services Tender.

We welcome supplier feedback on innovative cleaning methods, including the use of smart technologies, sustainable practices and data-driven performance management.

Your insights will help shape a contract that delivers high standards of cleanliness, efficiency and value for money, ensuring public funds are used effectively and responsibly.

We encourage you to share your experience, ideas and examples of best practice to help inform the development of a future-focused and outcome-driven service specification.

The Council hope to be able to award the contract in early to mid-2027

Requirements

What the notice asks for

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The Council hope to be able

The Council hope to be able to award the contract in early to mid-2027.

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What it takes to bid this

1220 daysof bid-team effort
£8.2k£13.7kat typical UK bid-team rates
Compressed window — start the same week

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%

Typical for this category — confirm against the ITT pack

  • Hold at bidWaste carrier licence / environmental permits
  • Hold at bidISO 14001 (environmental)
  • Plan for deliveryTUPE (incumbent staff often transfer)
  • 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
ocds-h6vhtk-06dc60
Stage
tender · Open
Source
Find a Tender
Buyer ref
074191-2026
View the original notice on Find a Tender

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source data © Crown copyright.

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