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Find a Tender Service (UK Cabinet Office / Crown Commercial Service) verified 4 hours ago Contract notice

Supply, Delivery, Installation and Disposal of Scottish Welfare Fund Items

Open United Kingdom Furniture & appliances

Buyer Midlothian Council

33 days left

Key facts

Closes
12:00 (UTC)
Estimated value
€2.1M
€2,126,528 · converted from GBP
Procedure
Open procedure
  1. Published
  2. Today
  3. Deadline open for 33 days
  4. Awarded pending

Bidding window

32 days from publication to deadline

Usual length

Notices of this kind (United Kingdom, open procedure) give a median of 30 days, half of them between 24 and 34 days, based on 492 notices of the last two years.

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Summary

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Midlothian Council is establishing a framework for the supply, delivery, installation and disposal of domestic furniture and furnishings, including white goods, to various types of domestic dwellings in Midlothian. The goods are intended to meet the needs of applicants of the Scottish Welfare Community Care Grant. The requirement is divided into two lots: Lot 1 covers new furniture and Lot 2 covers reuse furniture. Contractors must ensure that all awarded applicants of the Scottish Welfare Community Care Grant can access and view the goods on offer, for example through physical and in-person viewing or digital and online viewing. Tenderers may submit a response for one or both lots.

Description

Midlothian Council seeks to establish a framework for the supply, delivery, installation and disposal of domestic furniture and furnishings, including white goods to various types of domestic dwellings in Midlothian. The supply of goods is to meet the needs of the applicants of the Scottish Welfare Community Care Grant. The requirements will be tendered in the following Lots: Lot 1: New Furniture Lot 2: Reuse Furniture The Contractor will have to ensure accessibility for all awarded applicants of the Scottish Welfare Community Care Grant to view the goods on offer. For example, physical and in-person viewing, digital and online viewing, etc. Tenderers are invited to submit a tender response for one or both lots.

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 €2.1M.

  3. Your call:

    Do we have two comparable references?

    Comparable work is in Furniture & appliances.

  4. In your favour:

    Is the deadline realistic for a proper offer?

    33 days left, 24 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 €52,405 and €424,929.

  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) 4 hours ago

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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 117 awards for Furniture & appliances in United Kingdom.

This notice
€2.1M
Median award
€110,765
Middle half of past awards
€52,405 to €424,929

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.

Midlothian Council

United Kingdom

This buyer has no award history in this sector yet. Usual winners, Furniture & appliances - United Kingdom

Company Wins Total awarded Last win
Wagstaff Interiors Group 4 €36,156 Aug 2026
City Building (Contracts) LLP/RSBi 3 €3.4M Jun 2026
Furniture Resource Centre Ltd 2 €7.0M Sep 2026
ABRI TRADING LIMITED 2 €5.0M Aug 2026
Harvest Healthcare Ltd 2 €1.3M Dec 2025

Based on 152 awards with a linked company profile over the last 2 years.

Market context

Larger than 88% of the open notices in Furniture & appliances across Europe.

open now in Furniture & appliances
3,984
median open notice
€176,000

Who wins in this market

Many suppliers

United Kingdom · Furniture & appliances

different companies won awards here
126
of the awards went to the three most frequent winners
6%
buyers awarded contracts here
97

Based on 151 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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