1. Which tenders concern a property diagnostician?
Direct answer: property-diagnostics contracts fall into four main families, both public and private.
Property diagnosticians — energy performance (EPC), asbestos, lead, electrical, gas, termite surveys, energy audits — are regular bidders for public procurement and structured private clients (social landlords, property funds, hospitals, local authorities, universities). Four families of contracts stand out.
- Estate-wide diagnostic campaigns: collective energy-performance assessment of a housing or tertiary portfolio, across a landlord's or authority's entire estate.
- Pre-works or pre-demolition surveys: asbestos and lead surveys before renovation or demolition of one or more buildings, often with sampling and laboratory analysis.
- Energy audits: regulatory or voluntary audits of a property portfolio, supporting a renovation plan (tertiary-sector decree, multi-year works plan).
- Multi-year call-off frameworks: recurring diagnostics (EPC, electrical, gas, asbestos, lead, termites) across an estate, triggered by successive orders over 1 to 4 years.
Across the EU the logic is identical in all 27 member states: a public operator publishes above the European thresholds on TED, below them on its national platform. Diagnostic obligations and certifications remain national and vary from one country to another; an established diagnostician may bid for a cross-border contract subject to freedom of establishment and recognition of qualifications.
Key takeaway
A call-off framework guarantees no volume: it sets unit prices (a flat rate per diagnostic, per lot or per m²) applied to actual orders. The unit-price schedule is therefore the decisive document, even more than in a lump-sum contract.