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St Edmunds College Laundry Consumable Services

Community ServicesCPV 39291000

ValueValue not published

Deadline14 Oct 2026

Published23 Sept 2026

RegionNationwide

Not enough history for this buyer At least £30,000 — the value at which this notice had to be published. Below £207,720 — the buyer ran this as a below-threshold procurement.

Timeline

Published 23 Sept 202621 days leftCloses 14 Oct 2026

Who to contact

facilities@st-edmunds.cam.ac.uk

The procurement contact named on the official notice.

How to submit

Open the submissions portal

The submission route named on the official notice.

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The brief

SSC Partnership (the Agent) on behalf of St Edmunds College, University of Cambridge are currently out to tender for the provision of Laundry Consumable Services.

This procurement is being run under the open procedure, which is a formal bidding procedure, under which the contract is advertised, and all interested organisation/consortium can bid.

This ITT provides further details of the proposal and process for submitting bids.

All Bidders are required to complete the ITT document in order to submit their completed Bid.

Bids must comprise both the Procurement Specific Questionnaire (PSQ) and ITT response documents .

All aspects of the ITT should be completed in full and submitted as part of a Bid.

The ITT aims to: Provide information to Bidders on the Procurement and the opportunities available; Set out clearly the Authority’s requirements; Provide information on the Authority’s approach to the open procedure process; Set out the deliverables required from Bidders; and Set out the evaluation criteria and weightings that the Authority will use to assess Bids.

Following the submission of Bids, the Authority expects to undertake an evaluation process to identify which Bid is the most advantageous tender (MAT) and will be put forward for consideration to be awarded the Contract.

The Agent on behalf of the Authority is using the In-Tend portal for the Procurement Process. https://in-tendhost.co.uk/sscpartnership (“the Procurement Portal”).

Suppliers that would like to take part in this tender process are invited to "Express Interest" upon which the will be given access to the full tender documentation delivery through this e-tendering system.

When the tender documents have been made available involved suppliers will receive notification via email and the tender documents can be accessed from the "My Tenders" area of this website and selecting the "View Details" button of this project.

The deadline for submissions of the tender will be 14th October 2026 at 12 noon.

Please allow sufficient time to make your return as late returns will not be permitted.

Any questions relating to this tender should be made via correspondence on the website and can be addressed to the main contact as shown in the details above.

Requirements

What the notice asks for

All Bidders are required to complete

All Bidders are required to complete the ITT document in order to submit their completed Bid.

All aspects of the ITT should

All aspects of the ITT should be completed in full and submitted as part of a Bid.

Provide information to Bidders on the Procurement

Provide information to Bidders on the Procurement and the opportunities available;.

Provide information on the Authority’s approach

Provide information on the Authority’s approach to the open procedure process;.

Sentences from the notice that state an obligation, surfaced automatically and shown in the order they appear. Not an exhaustive list — always confirm against the tender documents.

What it takes to bid this

10–22 daysof bid-team effort

£6.8k–£15.1kat typical UK bid-team rates

Typical UK bid effort for the value not published — mid-band assumed 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

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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