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Cleaning Services/Restricted/PRO/2025

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Buyer
The Open University
Value
£5,000,000
Topic
Building-cleaning services
Published
3 February 2025
Submission
5 March 2025
Source
uk:find_a_tender

Tender description

The Open University (O.U) is seeking a contractor for cleaning services at its sites at Walton Hall (Milton Keynes) and 7 affiliated offices across England, Scotland, Ireland (northern) and Wales. Cleaning services are to be provided for office areas, meeting rooms, lecture theatres, circulation areas, washrooms, kitchens, catering areas and window cleaning. Window cleaning includes internal and external glass and cleaning external signage across all 7 sites. The contract will commence on the 1st September 2025 for initially a 3 year term with an option of two further 12 month extensions.The documents are available for free and unrestricted access at https://in-tendhost.co.uk/openuniversity Lot 1: The Open University (O.U) is seeking a contractor for cleaning services at its sites at Walton Hall (Milton Keynes) and 7 affiliated offices across England, Scotland, Ireland (northern) and Wales. Cleaning services are to be provided for office areas, meeting rooms, lecture theatres, circulation areas, washrooms, kitchens, catering areas and window cleaning. Window cleaning includes internal and external glass and cleaning external signage across all 7 sites. The restricted procurement procedure under the terms of the Public Contract Regulations 2015 requires potential bidders to complete a Standard Supplier Selection Questionnaire in the first instance. The five (5) highest scoring bidders will be invited to the invitation to tender stage.The contract will commence on the 1st September 2025 for initially a 3 year term with an option of two further 12 month extensions.TUPE shall apply to this contractThe documents are available for free and unrestricted access at https://in-tendhost.co.uk/openuniversity

Timeline

  1. Tender published3 February 2025
    Current notice
  2. Submission date5 March 2025

About the buyer

The Open University is a higher education provider that runs procurement under the Procurement Act 2023 through its own procurement service. Tender opportunities are advertised on Find a Tender and managed through the university's Intend e-tendering portal. Southern Universities Purchasing Consortium membership gives access to a shared framework used across UK universities. Lower-value purchases can go through a Direct Request for Quote instead of a full tender. A business team advises organisations on the most suitable procurement route before a contract begins. Purchase orders and supplier invoices route through the SAP Ariba Business Network.

Education procurement reached £47.4bn in 2024/25, the fourth-largest public sector budget.

Over the past 5 years, most of The Open University's contract awards have been in business services, software and information systems and education and training.

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  • 90911200 · Building-cleaning services

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