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Find a Tender Service (UK Cabinet Office / Crown Commercial Service) verified 2 weeks ago Contract notice

DOF - Office Portering Service and Short-term Storage of Furniture for Department of Finance Properties Division

Open United Kingdom Other community services

Buyer Department of Finance

12 days left

Key facts

Closes
15:00 (UTC)
Estimated value
€961,763
converted from GBP
Procedure
Open procedure
  1. Published
  2. Today
  3. Deadline open for 33 days
  4. Awarded pending

Bidding window

33 days from publication to deadline

Usual length

Notices of this kind (United Kingdom, open procedure, above the EU threshold) give a median of 30 days, half of them between 26 and 36 days, based on 1,847 notices of the last two years.

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Summary

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The Department of Finance Properties Division seeks a single supplier to provide an office furniture portering service and a short-term furniture storage service across its office estate in Northern Ireland. The estate ranges from small office locations to major office facilities accommodating more than 1,000 staff. The aim is to ensure all staff can work in buildings that meet user needs and comply with legal requirements. Full details of the requirements are set out in the Specification Schedule accompanying the notice.

Description

The Department of Finance (DoF) Properties Division (PD) Estate comprises properties distributed throughout Northern Ireland. These properties vary in size and operational capacity, ranging from small office locations to major office facilities accommodating in excess of 1,000 staff. A major requirement of Properties Division is to ensure that all staff are able to conduct their work and business in offices and buildings that meet with the user needs and comply with all legal requirements. In order to meet this requirement, the Department of Finance has identified a need to provide an office furniture portering service and a short-term furniture storage service for the PD Office Estate. The Buyer requires a single supplier to provide an office furniture portering and furniture storage service throughout its own property and estate buildings. Suppliers should refer to the Specification Schedule for full detail on the requirements of this contract.

Bid or no-bid?

Six questions before you commit a team. Under each one, what the register holds on it. The answers are yours.

  1. In your favour:

    Do we meet every eligibility criterion?

    Open procedure: any interested supplier may submit a bid.

  2. Your call:

    Can we deliver this with the team we have?

    Estimated at €961,763.

  3. Your call:

    Do we have two comparable references?

    Comparable work is in Other community services.

  4. In your favour:

    Is the deadline realistic for a proper offer?

    12 days left, 9 of them working days.

  5. Your call:

    Is there a margin at the likely winning price?

    In this country this kind of contract is usually awarded for between €103,547 and €1.1M.

  6. Your call:

    Do we know this buyer?

    The register holds nothing on this. The official documents will.

Can I bid?

  • Open procedure: any interested supplier may submit a bid.
  • Documents in English.

Official source

Source: Find a Tender Service (UK Cabinet Office / Crown Commercial Service)

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Last verified against Find a Tender Service (UK Cabinet Office / Crown Commercial Service) 2 weeks ago

Documents on Find a Tender Service (UK Cabinet Office / Crown Commercial Service) (English)

What this market pays

The buyer has too few awards of its own in this sector, so this is the range of the last 62 awards for Other community services in United Kingdom.

This notice
€961,763
Median award
€199,227
Middle half of past awards
€103,547 to €1.1M

The estimate sits inside the usual range.

Award values as published by the official sources. Use them as a guide, not a rule: scope, lots and duration differ between contracts.

Department of Finance

United Kingdom

This buyer has no award history in this sector yet. Usual winners, Other community services - United Kingdom

Company Wins Total awarded Last win
AtkinsAltrad 11 €29.5M Oct 2026
Amentum Clean Energy Ltd 2 €17.9M Sep 2026
Salvation Army Trustee Company (The) 2 €1.9M Apr 2025
Sacro 2 €830,845 Apr 2026
Wheatley Care 2 €439,726 Apr 2025

Based on 78 awards with a linked company profile over the last 2 years.

4 open tenders right now

Market context

Larger than 73% of the open notices in Other community services across Europe.

open now in Other community services
987
median open notice
€319,280

Who wins in this market

Many suppliers

United Kingdom · Other community services

different companies won awards here
62
of the awards went to the three most frequent winners
19%
buyers awarded contracts here
51

Based on 78 awards with a named winner over the last 3 years. Counted by award, not by value, because lot and framework amounts are not comparable. Concentrated means the three most frequent winners took 65% or more of the awards; many suppliers, under 35% with at least ten different winners.

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