Ships and boats: UK Tenders, Buyers & Competition
CPV 34500000·Supplies · class·in Transport Equipment & Vehicles
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Tenders you can still bid for.
Notices at tender stage whose deadline has not passed.
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Notices published in the last 12 months.
Counted per tender, not per lot, against the 12 months before where shown.
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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 9 lots from 9 competitions, last 36 months. 2 lots are from Procurement Act 2023 notices (bids assessed, middle 2) and 7 from older notices (bids received, middle 2).
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What a contract here is usually worth.
Middle value of published award values, VAT excluded. Framework ceilings are left out because they are not real contract values.
Based on 14 awards with a usable value, last 36 months.
Published values, not actual spend.
Codes and neighbouring classes
The 8-digit CPV codes notices in this class actually use, and the other classes of the same division
34500000 Ships and boats82 notices · 100%- Road equipment 443 · 12m
- Heavy-duty motor vehicles 197 · 12m
- Passenger cars 151 · 12m
- Motor vehicles 142 · 12m
- Control, safety, signalling and light equipment 92 · 12m
- Ships 69 · 12m
- Motor vehicles for the transport of 10 or more persons 67 · 12m
- Motor vehicles for the transport of goods 66 · 12m
- Railway and tramway locomotives and rolling stock and associated parts 50 · 12m
- Trailers, semi-trailers and mobile containers 47 · 12m
- All of Transport Equipment & Vehicles →
Who buysi
Which buyers publish the most notices here.
Buyers ranked by the number of notices, duplicate names merged.
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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
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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 34% (28 notices)
- Local authorities 18% (15 notices)
- Other public bodies 12% (10 notices)
- Education & universities 5% (4 notices)
- Police, fire & emergency 4% (3 notices)
- Not classified 27% (22 notices)
| Contracting authority | Type | Notices | Last 12 months | Open now |
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| Home Office | Central government | 9 | 1 | 0 |
| Caledonian Maritime Assets Ltd (Utility) | not classified | 5 | 2 | 0 |
| TRINITY HOUSE | Central government | 4 | 2 | 0 |
| The Cornwall College Group | Education & universities | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENT, FISHERIES AND AQUACULTURE SCIENCE | Other public bodies | 3 | 1 | 0 |
| Ferguson Marine (Port Glasgow) Ltd | not classified | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| Isle of Wight Council | Local authorities | 3 | 2 | 0 |
| Ministry of Defence | Central government | 3 | 2 | 0 |
| The Corporation of Trinity House | not classified | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| UK Ministry of Defence | Central government | 3 | 0 | 0 |
45 distinct authorities in total · the ten most active shown.
Where the work is deliveredi
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.
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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 43 of 82 notices · a notice covering several regions counts in each · competition columns: contracts awarded in the last 36 months, lots delivered in the region
| Region | Notices | Bids / lot | SME wins | Local wins |
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| Scotland | — | — | — | |
| South West England | — | — | — | |
| South East England | — | — | — | |
| Yorkshire and the Humber | — | — | — | |
| Northern Ireland | — | — | — | |
| North West England | — | — | — | |
| Greater London | — | — | — | |
| North East England | — | — | — | |
| East of England | — | — | — | |
| Wales (Cymru) | — | — | — | |
| East Midlands | — | — | — | |
| West Midlands | — | — | — |
Local wins = the winner’s registered region is the delivery region. Dashes: fewer than ten observations.
How it is boughti
How work here is packaged.
Notices by commercial tool: a single contract, a framework, or a dynamic purchasing system.
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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
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How work here is packaged.
Notices by commercial tool: a single contract, a framework, or a dynamic purchasing system.
- Contract 90% (74 notices)
- Framework 7% (6 notices)
- Dynamic purchasing system 2% (2 notices)
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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 45% (37 notices)
- Route not published 38% (31 notices)
- Selective 17% (14 notices)
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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 44% (7 notices)
- Below threshold 56% (9 notices)
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How long bidders get to respond.
Middle value in days from the tender notice to its deadline.
Competition
Contracts published in the last 36 months (38) · bid counts per lot from award notices · values are net contract awards, framework and DPS ceilings excluded · SME and local status as declared
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The usual range of contract values here.
The middle half of published award values, VAT excluded, with the middle value marked. Framework ceilings are left out.
Published values, not actual spend.
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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 9 lots from 9 competitions, last 36 months. 2 lots are from Procurement Act 2023 notices (bids assessed, middle 2) and 7 from older notices (bids received, middle 2).
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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.
29 of 29 notices that state a procedure, last 36 months. 9 more give no procedure and are left out.
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What share of contracts go to small and medium firms.
Awards to a single supplier that declared its size. SME divided by all.
5 of 10 awards where the winner declared its size.
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How often a tender ends with no award.
Notices cancelled, withdrawn or marked unsuccessful, plus terminated ones that never got an award.
3 of 38 notices, last 36 months.
Only what buyers published. Tenders that quietly went nowhere are not counted.
Who winsi
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.
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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 · 31 awards to 26 suppliers
| Supplier | Procedures | Awards | Last 12 months | Buyers |
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| Houlder Limited | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 |
| Parkol Marine Engineering Ltd. | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Berthon Boat Company Ltd | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
| Clarity Travel Limited | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 |
| navalue GmbH | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
| ASTILLEROS ARMON VIGO SA | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Ardmaleish Boatbuilding Co Ltd | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Astilleros Gondan S.A. | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Where to submiti
Where bids for this work are submitted.
Notices by the portal in their submission link, where one is published.
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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 · 26 of 82 notices name one · each portal page explains registration
Open tenders in ships and boats
1 live at the nightly build · soonest deadline first
| Notice | Authority | Deadline | Days left | Published value |
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| YPO - 001110 Emergency Response and Rescue Equipment | YPO | 13 Jun 2032 | 2089d | £40,000,000 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 3450. A notice with several codes counts in each sector it names. Earliest notice 2021; latest 17 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 3450; 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.