AWARD OUTCOME
What happened
The Charter Schools Educational Trust published a contract award notice for school cleaning services. Two active contract records are linked to verified suppliers: NU-LOOK LTD. (£700,000) and TOWN AND COUNTRY CLEANERS LIMITED (£3,600,000). Both contracts show a signature date of 31 July 2026. However, the two published lots are marked cancelled and no award-to-lot allocation is supplied.
Published outcomeTwo supplier-specific active contract records, with a combined published value of £4,300,000, are recorded in the notice.
Market significanceThis is a £4.3m published school-cleaning award across two supplier-specific contracts, procured through a limited procedure without a prior call for competition.
AWARDED SUPPLIERS AND LOTS
2 supplier records analysed
NU-LOOK LTD.
99% confidenceAward 097202-2026-1 · 700000 GBP · Active contract record; signed date published
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Verified supplier identity: company number 07770320, verified legal name NU-LOOK LTD. Contract 097202-2026-1 is linked to award 097202-2026-1, is active, has value GBP 700,000 and dateSigned 2026-07-31.
TOWN AND COUNTRY CLEANERS LIMITED
99% confidenceAward 097202-2026-2 · 3600000 GBP · Active contract record; signed date published
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Verified supplier identity: company number 02482612, verified legal name TOWN AND COUNTRY CLEANERS LIMITED. Contract 097202-2026-2 is linked to award 097202-2026-2, is active, has value GBP 3,600,000 and dateSigned 2026-07-31.
LIFECYCLE
Award or contract stage
Notice publication
99% confidence14 October 2026
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Process published_at: 2026-10-14T16:43:10+01:00; release history identifies an "award, contract" notice.
Award records
98% confidenceTwo awards marked active
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Awards 097202-2026-1 and 097202-2026-2 each have status "active".
Contract records
99% confidenceTwo contracts marked active and showing signed dates
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Contracts 097202-2026-1 and 097202-2026-2 have status "active" and dateSigned 2026-07-31.
Lot status
99% confidenceLots 1 and 2 marked cancelled
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Tender lots 1 and 2 each have status "cancelled".
VALUES
Published values explained
Contract value — NU-LOOK LTD.
99% confidence£700,000 GBP
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Contract 097202-2026-1 value.amount is 700000 and currency is GBP.
Contract value — TOWN AND COUNTRY CLEANERS LIMITED
99% confidence£3,600,000 GBP
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Contract 097202-2026-2 value.amount is 3600000 and currency is GBP.
Combined published contract value
99% confidence£4,300,000 GBP
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Sum of the two separately published contract values: £700,000 and £3,600,000.
TIMELINE
Procurement timeline
Contract signature date
99% confidence31 July 2026
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Both published contract records state dateSigned 2026-07-31T00:00:00+01:00.
Award and contract notice published
99% confidence14 October 2026
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Process published_at and release history release_date are 2026-10-14T16:43:10+01:00.
SCOPE
What was awarded
Requirement
99% confidenceCleaning of schools
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Process description: "Cleaning of schools".
Service classification
99% confidenceCPV 90910000 — Cleaning services
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Primary tender classification and published classification record.
Published lot descriptions
99% confidenceLot 1: cleaning of 2 schools; Lot 2: cleaning of 5 schools
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Tender lot descriptions.
Published delivery regions
95% confidenceUKC, UKD, UKE, UKF, UKG, UKH, UKI, UKJ and UKK
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Delivery addresses are listed for each tender item across these UK regions.
PROCEDURE
Procedure and competition
Procurement method
99% confidenceLimited procedure
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Process and tender procurementMethod: "limited".
Procedure detail
99% confidenceAward procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
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Process and tender procurementMethodDetails.
Published rationale
99% confidenceContract tendered through DPS
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Tender procurementMethodRationale.
Evaluation criterion disclosed
96% confidencePrice/cost weighted at 60% for each published lot
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Both lots list award criterion "price", type "cost", description "60%".
Bid and competition information
99% confidenceUnknown
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Information not supplied in the published notice.
CONTRACT TERMS
Published contract terms
Contract status
99% confidenceBoth published contract records are active
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Contracts 097202-2026-1 and 097202-2026-2 each have status "active".
Signature status
99% confidenceBoth contracts show a published signature date of 31 July 2026
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Each contract includes dateSigned 2026-07-31.
Start and end dates
99% confidenceUnknown
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contract_start_at and contract_end_at are null; no dates are supplied in the contract records.
Options and extensions
96% confidenceNo options stated for either published lot; extension terms unknown
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Both lots state hasOptions: false. Information on extensions is not supplied.
COMMERCIAL VIEW
Commercial observations
Award structure
99% confidenceTwo supplier-specific contract records with materially different published values
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NU-LOOK LTD. has a £700,000 contract record and TOWN AND COUNTRY CLEANERS LIMITED has a £3,600,000 contract record.
Lot allocation
99% confidenceUnknown
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Neither award record nor contract record identifies a lot, while both published lots are marked cancelled.
Procurement route
95% confidenceThe buyer states the contract was tendered through a DPS despite using a limited procedure without prior publication
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Published procurementMethodDetails and procurementMethodRationale.
DATA QUALITY
Gaps and source limitations
Conflicting lot and contract lifecycle information
99% confidenceTwo lots are marked cancelled, while both linked awards and contracts are marked active and the contracts have published signature dates.
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Tender lots 1 and 2 have status cancelled; awards and contracts 097202-2026-1 and 097202-2026-2 have status active; both contracts state dateSigned 2026-07-31.
No award-to-lot mapping
99% confidenceThe published data does not allocate either supplier-specific award or contract to a lot.
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Award lot_ids_json is null and contract records provide awardID but no lot reference.
Supplier source-name variation
99% confidenceThe source name "Town & Country" differs from the verified legal name TOWN AND COUNTRY CLEANERS LIMITED; the verified legal identity is used in this analysis.
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Supplier verification for company number 02482612 reports nameMismatch true and verifiedCompanyName TOWN AND COUNTRY CLEANERS LIMITED.
Unpublished commercial detail
99% confidenceInformation not supplied in the published notice: contract duration, start/end dates, pricing breakdown, bid count, scores and individual lot values.
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Relevant published fields are null or absent.
SOURCE DATA LIMITATIONS
Information not supplied in the published notice
- The published record contains an unresolved lifecycle inconsistency: both lots are cancelled while both awards and contracts are active and the contracts show signature dates.
- The notice does not map either award or contract to a published lot, so supplier-to-lot allocation cannot be reported.
- Information not supplied in the published notice: contract start date, end date, duration, renewal or extension terms, bid count, evaluation scores, pricing breakdown and individual lot values.
MARKET THEMES
Relevant award themes
Charter Schools Educational Trustschool cleaning servicesNU-LOOK LTD.TOWN AND COUNTRY CLEANERS LIMITEDcleaning services contract awardDPS procurement
COMMON QUESTIONS
About this award
Who are the named suppliers?
The verified legal suppliers are NU-LOOK LTD. and TOWN AND COUNTRY CLEANERS LIMITED.
What values are published?
The two contract records show £700,000 for NU-LOOK LTD. and £3,600,000 for TOWN AND COUNTRY CLEANERS LIMITED.
Are the contracts signed?
Both published contract records include a signature date of 31 July 2026 and are marked active.
Which lots were awarded to each supplier?
This is unknown: the notice does not map the awards or contracts to lots, and both published lots are marked cancelled.
ProcuraAxis award analysis supplements, but does not replace, the official award notice, contract data or procurement documents. “Awarded” does not by itself prove that a contract has been signed.