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DN Colleges Group - ITT for Lifts & Escalators Service & Maintenance

Repair & MaintenanceCPV 50740000

Value£125k

Deadline21 Sept 2026

Published20 Aug 2026

RegionNationwide

Timeline

Published 20 Aug 202629 days leftCloses 21 Sept 2026

Who to contact

Procurement@northlindsey.ac.uk

01302 553 553

The procurement contact named on the official notice.

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Contract value in context

£125ktotal contract value

median £130k

this tender£0£4.8m

This sits in the lower-middle of the Repair & Maintenance band — a mid-scale opportunity. Based on 15,278 valued Repair & Maintenance tenders in our corpus.

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The brief

DN Colleges Group is seeking to appoint suitably experienced contractor(s) to provide planned preventative maintenance, servicing, reactive and emergency breakdown support, repair and, where authorised, refurbishment of the Group’s lift and escalator assets across Doncaster College, North Lindsey College and University Campus North Lincolnshire.

The procurement is divided into two Lots: Lot 1 – Lifts & Related Equipment and Lot 2 – Escalators & Related Equipment.

Tenderers may submit a tender for one or both Lots.

Each Lot will be evaluated and awarded independently.

The contract will be for an initial period of 3 years, with the option to extend for a further 2 x 12-month periods.

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