Simulators: UK Tenders, Buyers & Competition
CPV 34150000·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 6 lots from 6 competitions, last 36 months. 2 lots are from Procurement Act 2023 notices (bids assessed, middle 4.5) and 4 from older notices (bids received, middle 2.5).
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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 16 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
34152000 Training simulators72 notices · 73%34150000 Simulators40 notices · 41%34151000 Driving simulators8 notices · 8%- Road equipment 439 · 12m
- Heavy-duty motor vehicles 197 · 12m
- Passenger cars 148 · 12m
- Motor vehicles 141 · 12m
- Control, safety, signalling and light equipment 91 · 12m
- Ships 70 · 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 46 · 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.
- Education & universities 34% (32 notices)
- Central government 32% (30 notices)
- Other public bodies 14% (13 notices)
- Police, fire & emergency 9% (9 notices)
- Local authorities 5% (5 notices)
- Not classified 6% (6 notices)
| Contracting authority | Type | Notices | Last 12 months | Open now |
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| Ministry of Defence | Central government | 12 | 1 | 0 |
| MID AND WEST WALES FIRE AND RESCUE SERVICE | Police, fire & emergency | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| Oxford Brookes University | Education & universities | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| CAFRE, College of Agriculture, Food and Rural Enterprise | Education & universities | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust | Central government | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| New College Lanarkshire | Education & universities | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust | Central government | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| Suffolk County Council | Local authorities | 2 | 2 | 1 |
| Anglia Ruskin University Higher Education Corporation | Education & universities | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| CHILTERN RAIL LIMITED | Other public bodies | 2 | 1 | 0 |
62 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 68 of 98 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 | — | — | — | |
| Northern Ireland | — | — | — | |
| South East England | — | — | — | |
| North East England | — | — | — | |
| South West England | — | — | — | |
| Wales (Cymru) | — | — | — | |
| East of England | — | — | — | |
| Yorkshire and the Humber | — | — | — | |
| West Midlands | — | — | — | |
| Greater London | — | — | — | |
| North West England | — | — | — | |
| East 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 91% (89 notices)
- Framework 4% (4 notices)
- Dynamic purchasing system 5% (5 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 50% (49 notices)
- Selective 21% (21 notices)
- Limited / restricted 15% (15 notices)
- Route not published 13% (13 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 53% (10 notices)
- Below threshold 47% (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 (33) · 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 6 lots from 6 competitions, last 36 months. 2 lots are from Procurement Act 2023 notices (bids assessed, middle 4.5) and 4 from older notices (bids received, middle 2.5).
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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.
21 of 27 notices that state a procedure, last 36 months. 6 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.
8 of 11 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.
2 of 33 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 · 56 awards to 42 suppliers
| Supplier | Procedures | Awards | Last 12 months | Buyers |
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| OKB Medical Limited | 2 | 3 | 0 | 2 |
| VirtaMed AG | 2 | 3 | 0 | 2 |
| Capita Business Services | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Crofton Engineering Ltd | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 |
| EDM Limited | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| HAAG-STREIT LIMITED | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Tenstar Simulation AB | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Limbs & Things Ltd | 2 | 2 | 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 · 25 of 98 notices name one · each portal page explains registration
Open tenders in simulators
5 live at the nightly build · soonest deadline first
| Notice | Authority | Deadline | Days left | Published value |
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| Medical Simulations Devices and Technologies | SUPPLY CHAIN COORDINATION LIMITED | 28 Sept 2026 | 7d | £210,000,000 ceiling |
| Supply and Installation of two (2) Fire Behaviour Training Containers for Suffolk Fire and Rescue Service | Suffolk County Council | 13 Oct 2026 | 22d | £120,000 |
| Immersive, Simulation and Related Technologies Dynamic Purchasing System | Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust | 3 Sept 2027 | 347d | £500,000,000 ceiling |
| Spark — The Technology Innovation Marketplace | The Minister for the Cabinet Office acting through Crown Commercial Service | 15 Feb 2029 | 878d | £650,000,000 ceiling |
| Space Technology Solutions | Government Commercial Agency | 30 Jul 2031 | 1773d | — |
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 3415. A notice with several codes counts in each sector it names. Earliest notice 2021; latest 16 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 3415; 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.