Fasteners: UK Tenders, Buyers & Competition

CPV 44530000Supplies · classin Construction Materials & Prefab

Open now2deadline in the future or not published
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Tenders you can still bid for.

Notices at tender stage whose deadline has not passed.

Notices, last 12 months77 contracting authorities · 48 in the catalogue
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Notices published in the last 12 months.

Counted per tender, not per lot, against the 12 months before where shown.

Typical bids per lot46 procedures, 36 months
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How many companies usually bid for a lot here.

The middle value of the bid counts that award notices publish, one per lot. Only real competitions count: direct awards and framework places are left out.

Based on 6 lots from 6 competitions, last 36 months. 3 lots are from Procurement Act 2023 notices (bids assessed, middle 4) and 3 from older notices (bids received, middle 2).

Last 36 months.

Codes and neighbouring classes

The 8-digit CPV codes notices in this class actually use, and the other classes of the same division

Who buys
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Which buyers publish the most notices here.

Buyers ranked by the number of notices, duplicate names merged.

All notices carrying this code · official UK_CA_TYPE where published (NHS bodies are central government authorities), else derived from the authority name

Buyer type
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What kinds of public bodies buy here.

Notices by the buyer’s type as published, otherwise by its name.

  • Central government 27% (13 notices)
  • Other public bodies 23% (11 notices)
  • Local authorities 21% (10 notices)
  • Education & universities 4% (2 notices)
  • Housing associations 2% (1 notices)
  • Not classified 23% (11 notices)
Contracting authorityTypeNoticesLast 12 monthsOpen now
LEIDOS SUPPLY, LIMITEDCentral government310
AWE PLCnot classified200
City & County of SwanseaLocal authorities200
East Ayrshire CouncilLocal authorities200
Ministry of DefenceCentral government200
Places for People Group LtdOther public bodies200
Scotland Excelnot classified200
TranslinkOther public bodies210
Great Places Housing GroupHousing associations111
South Western Ambulance Service NHS Foundation TrustCentral government111

39 distinct authorities in total · the ten most active shown.

Where the work is delivered
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Where this supplier has delivered.

Delivery regions published on its awarded tenders. A tender with several regions counts in each.

Where the work was, not where the company is based.

Delivery regions (ITL1) published on 33 of 48 notices · a notice covering several regions counts in each · competition columns: contracts awarded in the last 36 months, lots delivered in the region

RegionNoticesBids / lotSME winsLocal wins
Scotland9 · 27%———
Northern Ireland5 · 15%———
South East England5 · 15%———
Greater London3 · 9%———
North West England3 · 9%———
East of England3 · 9%———
South West England3 · 9%———
Wales (Cymru)3 · 9%———
West Midlands2 · 6%———
Yorkshire and the Humber1 · 3%———
North East England1 · 3%———

Local wins = the winner’s registered region is the delivery region. Dashes: fewer than ten observations.

How it is bought
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How work here is packaged.

Notices by commercial tool: a single contract, a framework, or a dynamic purchasing system.

Commercial tool, procedure route and threshold as published on the notice, not a legal-regime claim

Commercial tool
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How work here is packaged.

Notices by commercial tool: a single contract, a framework, or a dynamic purchasing system.

  • Contract 56% (27 notices)
  • Framework 40% (19 notices)
  • Dynamic purchasing system 4% (2 notices)
Procedure route
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Which procedures buyers here use.

Notices by the procedure they declare: open, selective, limited or direct. Open and selective are competitions; limited and direct are not.

  • Open 65% (31 notices)
  • Selective 17% (8 notices)
  • Route not published 17% (8 notices)
  • Limited / restricted 2% (1 notices)
Threshold
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How much of this market is above the legal threshold.

Notices by whether the buyer marked them above or below the threshold that triggers the full rules.

  • Above threshold 71% (5 notices)
  • Below threshold 29% (2 notices)
Typical tender window
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How long bidders get to respond.

Middle value in days from the tender notice to its deadline.

All notices we hold, not just recent ones.

32 daysrobust · n=13middle value, notice to deadline

Competition

Contracts published in the last 36 months (12) · bid counts per lot from award notices · values are net contract awards, framework and DPS ceilings excluded · SME and local status as declared

Typical bids per lot
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How many companies usually bid for a lot here.

The middle value of the bid counts that award notices publish, one per lot. Only real competitions count: direct awards and framework places are left out.

Based on 6 lots from 6 competitions, last 36 months. 3 lots are from Procurement Act 2023 notices (bids assessed, middle 4) and 3 from older notices (bids received, middle 2).

Last 36 months.

4robust · n=6middle half 2–5
Competed
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How much of this market is actually put out to competition.

Notices run as an open or selective procedure, out of all notices that say which procedure was used. Direct awards count as not competed.

9 of 10 notices that state a procedure, last 36 months. 2 more give no procedure and are left out.

Last 36 months.

90%robust · n=10
Bids from SMEs
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What share of bids come from small and medium firms.

SME bids divided by all bids, on lots where the buyer published the split.

18 SME bids out of 26, on 6 lots where the buyer published the split.

Last 36 months.

69%robust · n=26
Frameworks & DPS: bidders per lot
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How many companies apply to get onto a framework or DPS here.

Middle value per lot, frameworks and dynamic markets only. Getting onto a panel is not the same as winning work, so it is kept separate.

Based on 13 lots from 9 framework and DPS notices, last 36 months.

Last 36 months.

6robust · n=913 vehicle procedures · admission to a panel, not a contest

Who wins
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Which suppliers win the most here.

Suppliers ranked by the number of tenders won, not by money. A supplier on one big framework with many call-offs does not outrank one that won many separate competitions.

Ranked by distinct procedures won on notices carrying this code, then award records · 83 awards to 53 suppliers

Where to submit
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Where bids for this work are submitted.

Notices by the portal in their submission link, where one is published.

E-sourcing portals named in the submission address · 17 of 48 notices name one · each portal page explains registration

JAGGAER / BravoSolution4 notices · 24%
Atamis Health Family Portal2 notices · 12% · 1 open
Delta eSourcing2 notices · 12%
Proactis / ProContract2 notices · 12% · 1 open

Open tenders in fasteners

2 live at the nightly build · soonest deadline first

NoticeAuthorityDeadlineDays leftPublished value
Property Maintenance & Construction MaterialsFramework11 lotsGreat Places Housing Group2 Oct 20262d£32,000,000 ceiling
SWAST-5039-F Supply of Workshop ConsumablesFrameworkSouth Western Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust5 Nov 202636d£2,033,333 ceiling

Method

What the numbers on this page are and are not

Which notices count?

Every Find a Tender notice that carries a CPV code starting 4453. A notice with several codes counts in each sector it names. Earliest notice 2021; latest 22 Sept 2026.

Competition figures

Lot-grain contest statistics over the last 36 months: a lot counts where its own CPV codes (or, for single-class notices, the procedure’s) start 4453; contracts and frameworks / DPS are kept apart. Each figure’s own method — grain, window, exclusions and this page’s sample — is behind its ; the long form is on Methodology.

Why no total value or month-by-month chart?

Sums of notice estimates repeat framework ceilings and mix net with gross. Monthly volumes per sector are not shown yet: the catalogue’s CPV coverage per notice changed in May 2026 (compiled records carry every lot’s codes), so a curve would show the catalogue, not the market.