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Professional Services Framework

Open United Kingdom Architecture & engineering services

Buyer Lancashire County Council

27 days left

Key facts

Closes
12:00 (UTC)
Estimated value
€6.0M
€5,998,225 · converted from GBP
Procedure
Open procedure Anyone may submit a bid, in one step, with no pre-selection. Full entry
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Summary

Machine-generated summary

A local authority is establishing a Professional Services Framework to provide contingent professional advice supporting capital works and building maintenance for schools, supplementing the in house officer team. The capital programme is anticipated at 100 million pounds sterling per year, with external providers expected to support around 25 million pounds per year, roughly 100 million across the four year framework duration. Eleven lots cover architect led multidisciplinary teams for packages up to and over one million pounds, structural engineering, CDM principal designer, quantity surveying, site supervision, building surveying, project management, architecture, landscape architecture and drainage engineering.

Timing

33 days from publication to deadline. Usual length in United Kingdom: 30 days. Usual length

  1. Published
  2. Today
  3. Deadline
  4. Awarded pending
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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 2,161 notices of the last two years.

Description

A Professional Services Framework to assist officers in their work of providing a capital works and building maintenance service to schools. The framework is intended to provide a contingent professional advice service should funding should be available from e.g. the Department for Education for school capital works. The framework is to provide a top up capacity to the work of officers and so is optional expenditure. Suppliers will have to re- price every year in a competitive environment to keep prices sharp. The option of not procuring this framework does not exist as there is insufficient officer resource to deliver the entire programme in- house. Demand is too uncertain for the Council to commit to a long- term service contract. The client team anticipates that the capital programme will have a value of £100 million per year. It is anticipated that the in-house team would provide professional support to 75% of the programme. This would mean that external providers would support work to the value of £25 million per year or £100 million over the 4- year life of the framework. Lot 1 Architect led teams (full teams) to provide coordinated multidisciplinary design and contract administration for packages £1,000,000 and under Lot 2 Architect led teams (full teams) to provide coordinated multidisciplinary design and contract administration for packages over £1,000,000. Lot 3 Structural Engineering, working with in-house team Lot 4 CDM principal Designer, working with in-house team Lot 5 Quantity Surveying, working with in-house team Lot 6 Site supervisor, working with in-house team Lot 7 Building Surveying, working with in-house team Lot 8 Project Management of capital works reporting to a Council officer. Lot 9 Architect working with in- house team Lot 10 Landscape Architect Lot 11 Drainage Engineer

Bid or no-bid?

2 of 6 answered from the register

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 €6.0M.

  3. Your call:

    Do we have two comparable references?

    Comparable work is in Architecture & engineering services.

  4. In your favour:

    Is the deadline realistic for a proper offer?

    27 days left, 20 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 €58,474 and €283,621.

  6. Your call:

    Do we know this buyer?

    The buyer has 66 notices in the register and no pattern of winners yet.

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) 5 days ago

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

Market

Architecture & engineering services in United Kingdom

median award in this market
€116,805
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What this market pays

The buyer has too few awards of its own in this sector, so this is the range of the last 955 awards for Architecture & engineering services in United Kingdom.

This notice
€6.0M
Median award
€116,805
Middle half of past awards
€58,474 to €283,621

The estimate is larger than three in four past awards.

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

Market context

Larger than 92% of the open notices in Architecture & engineering services across Europe.

open now in Architecture & engineering services
6,778
median open notice
€269,991

Who wins in this market

Many suppliers

United Kingdom · Architecture & engineering services

different companies won awards here
612
of the awards went to the three most frequent winners
9%
buyers awarded contracts here
379

Based on 1,121 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.

The buyer in figures

Lancashire County Council

notices in the register
66
awards
43
awarded in total
€34.3M

Who wins its contracts

Many suppliers
different companies won its awards
31
of the awards went to the three most frequent winners
26%
of its calls state an estimated value
97%

Based on 38 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.

One dot per award, on the day it was signed, sized by its value. A ring is an award with no published value.

Lancashire County Council

United Kingdom

This buyer has no award history in this sector yet. Usual winners, Architecture & engineering services - United Kingdom

Company Wins Total awarded Last win
WSP uk limited 43 €17.9M Nov 2026
Aecom Limited 34 €8.6M Nov 2026
Arcadis consulting (UK) limited 22 €1.6M Oct 2026
Ove arup & partners limited 19 €9.3M Nov 2026
Mott macdonald limited 16 €2.5M Nov 2026

Based on 1125 awards with a linked company profile over the last 2 years.

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