The government has launched the tender for its £780 million Estates Management Services contract which is used by all public sector bodies to chose estate management advisers.
The deadline for bids to be submitted for the contract is 29 April, with the results to be issued in October 2025. The four-year contract will last from 29 October 2025 to 28 October 2029.
The framework, which has a total estimated value overall of £780 million including value added tax, is for the provision of Estate Management Services which can be used by central government departments and all other UK public sector bodies. including local authorities, health, police, fire and rescue, education and devolved administrations.
The services are divided into 11 lots: total estate management, estate (property) management, agency and lease management, surveying and strategic advice, valuation and compulsory purchase orders, business rating services. workplace services performance partner, private finance initiative technical and strategic advice services, PFI surveying services, PFI fire safety and audit, and PFI specialist commercial and financial advice.
The tender replaces the previous Crown Commercial Services Framework four-year contract.
Forty five firms are currently on that framework. JLL, Avison Young, Knight Frank and Savills are the only firms to have been picked for all seven lots.
The other successful bidders were: AA Projects, Align Property Partners, Arcadis, Archus, Bellrock, Engie, BNP Paribas Real Estate, Boddy & Edwards, Bruton Knowles, Capita Business Services, Carter Jonas, CBRE, Cluttons, CS2, Copping Joyce Surveyors, Cushman & Wakefield, Deloitte, Eddisons, Essentia Trading, Fisher German, Gerald Eve, GL Hearn, Graham + Sibbald, Hartnell Taylor Cook, HCP Management Services, Jacobs UK, Kellogg Brown & Root, Kier, Lambert Smith Hampton, Malcolm Hollis, Montagu Evans, Newsteer, Pick Everard, Ryden, Sanderson Weatherall, Sodexo, Tetra Tech, The Valuation Office Agency, Watts Group and WT Partnership.
The Crown Commercial Services framework agreed in 2021 replaced the government estates professional services framework, which has a roster of 33 firms.