Official UK procurement notice
715862501-Provision of a Maritime Interdiction Operations (MIOps) Training Facility
Authority: Ministry of Defence (Central government)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionProvision of a Maritime Interdiction Operations training facility at RM Bickleigh and option to purchase an additional facility at CTCRM.
Please see Invitation to Tender documentation for further detail.
The Cyber Risk Profile for this requirement identified by the Cyber Security Model (CSM) Risk Assessment is Level 1.
Please note:
The Contracting Authority may carry out a future, subsequent procurement of similar goods/services/works and rely on the direct award ground at Schedule 5, paragraph 8.
- No preliminary market engagement: In this instance, a preliminary market engagement notice was not published due to requirement timescales and because the contracting authority believes it has sufficient knowledge of the market based on previous, similar requirements. A site visit is also being offered to tenderers prior to the tender return date.
CPV: Rope climbing equipment · Towers · Training aids and devices · Training and simulation in warships · Training facilities building · Wall and rope climbing equipment · Wall climbing equipment
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · value publishedLot #1Lot 1Published value£1,233,300
- Value
- £1,233,300 exc. VAT · £1,479,960 inc. VAT
- Extensions
- The contract is set at an initial value of £616,650 ex VAT (£739,980 inc VAT) with the option to increase this to a total value of £1,233,300 ex VAT (£1,479,960 inc VAT) to allow for the purchase of additional goods/services as detailed in the contract. Please see Invitation to Tender documentation for further details.
What it takes to wini
How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
Evaluation split and conditions of participation as published — the tender pack may add morei
How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
- Financial — Full details of the Financial Evaluation criteria and scoring are included in the Invitation to Tender document
- Technical — Full details of the Technical Evaluation criteria and scoring are included in the Invitation to Tender document.
- Economic & financial standingFull details are included in the Invitation to Tender document.
- Technical & professional abilityFull details are included in the Invitation to Tender document.
Competition analysis · published record, not a forecast of who will bid
How Ministry of Defence buys Playground equipment (CPV 3753) — and who usually turns up
Ministry of Defence’s own published record, next to the South East England market for the same work. Frameworks and DPS are kept out: they attract a different number of bids. Whole-market view: Playground equipment (CPV 3753) →
How the contest usually goes
Left: this authority. Right: the market where the work is delivered. Bids and award-vs-estimate pairs are per lot, from contested contracts only — direct awards (including PA 2023 transparency notices) report one bid by definition and are left out. On Procurement Act 2023 notices the count is the tenders assessed at the final stage, not every submission received; pairs compare like with like (VAT-exclusive, or VAT-inclusive on both sides). Empty means nothing was published, not filled in from elsewhere.
Ministry of Defence
contract notices in 36 months: 12 in division 37 (3 without competition · 3 route not published) · 1,262 in all categories (486 without competition · 216 route not published)
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How many companies usually bid for work like this.
Middle value of published bid counts, one per lot, for this buyer or this region in the same sector.
Based on this buyer’s tenders in this industry (CPV 37), last 36 months: 5 lots. 2 lots are from Procurement Act 2023 notices (bids assessed, middle 5.5) and 3 from older notices (bids received, middle 1).
Nothing is filled in from UK-wide numbers. An empty tile means nothing usable was published.
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How often only one company bid.
Share of lots that received exactly one bid, on the same competitions as the bids figure.
Based on this buyer’s tenders in this industry (CPV 37), last 36 months: 5 lots.
High means a thin market or an incumbent that is hard to beat.
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Do awards for work like this land above or below the estimate.
Estimate against award per lot, for this buyer or this region in the same sector.
Based on this buyer’s tenders in all categories, last 36 months: 129 pairs.
A past pattern, not a price to bid.
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How long buyers here take to decide after bids close.
Middle value in days from the deadline to the first award notice, on competitions that published both dates.
Based on this buyer’s tenders in all categories, last 36 months: 79 notices.
Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.
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How often this buyer changes a notice after publishing it.
Middle number of amendments per notice. Deadline extensions and corrections both count.
Based on this buyer’s tenders in all categories, last 24 months: 1,160 notices.
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How often this buyer awards without a competition.
Direct or limited awards as a share of its notices that say which procedure was used. These routes are legal in defined cases. This is just the record.
Based on this buyer’s tenders in this industry (CPV 37), last 36 months: 9 notices.
South East England · Playground equipment (CPV 3753)
contract notices delivered in South East England in 36 months: 64 in CPV 3753 (60 competed, 3 route not published) · 104 in division 37 (88 competed, 6 route not published) · the notice publishes no delivery location, so the authority’s registered region is used
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How many companies usually bid for work like this.
Middle value of published bid counts, one per lot, for this buyer or this region in the same sector.
Based on this region’s tenders in this sector (CPV 3753), last 36 months: 23 lots. 22 lots are from Procurement Act 2023 notices (bids assessed, middle 4) and 1 from older notices (bids received, middle 4).
Nothing is filled in from UK-wide numbers. An empty tile means nothing usable was published.
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How often only one company bid.
Share of lots that received exactly one bid, on the same competitions as the bids figure.
Based on this region’s tenders in this sector (CPV 3753), last 36 months: 23 lots.
High means a thin market or an incumbent that is hard to beat.
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Do awards for work like this land above or below the estimate.
Estimate against award per lot, for this buyer or this region in the same sector.
Based on this region’s tenders in this sector (CPV 3753), last 36 months: 15 pairs.
A past pattern, not a price to bid.
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How long buyers here take to decide after bids close.
Middle value in days from the deadline to the first award notice, on competitions that published both dates.
Based on this region’s tenders in this sector (CPV 3753), last 36 months: 22 notices.
Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.
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How much of this market goes to small and medium firms.
SME bidders where buyers published the split, otherwise SME winners.
Based on this region’s tenders in this sector (CPV 3753), last 36 months: 22 lots.
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How much work like this goes to companies based in the delivery region.
Awards in this category delivered here where the winner’s registered address is in the region.
Based on this region’s tenders in this sector (CPV 3753), last 36 months: 27 awards.
Registered address, so a national firm with a local branch counts as outside.
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Where this tender’s estimate would land if the usual pattern repeats.
We apply the buyer’s usual movement between estimate and award (or the region’s) to the estimate on this notice.
Based on this buyer’s own usual movement over 129 lots (all categories), applied to the £1,233,300 estimate on this notice.
A benchmark, not a price to bid.
Coverage and what to read with care
- Each tile explains itself. The on a figure says what it is, how it is counted and which scope this notice’s own record came from (class, division, all categories, or the authority’s 24-month row). The two columns are never blended and nothing is filled from a UK-wide figure; an empty tile means the source published nothing usable. Long form: Methodology.
- Coverage. Roughly 40 % of notices publish a bid count; about half publish an ITL1 delivery location, so the market column reads the authority’s registered region when the notice has none (labelled). About 30 % of award-vs-estimate pairs are exact matches — the buyer published the award at the estimate. n is on every figure; a thin sample is muted, never hidden.
- “Match” and “relevance” are model scores from the nightly matcher, not published facts. Find a Tender does not publish who is bidding. Never shown: contact details, payment behaviour, or a recommended price.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Procedure method
- Open procedure
- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Goods
- Notice status
- Open for tender
- Procurement threshold
- Above threshold (FTS publication)
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- No (one-off requirement)
- First published
- 2 Oct 2026, 13:52 BST
- Last source update
- 2 Oct 2026, 13:52 BST
- Award evaluation window
- Submission end — 10 Nov 2026, 23:59 GMT
- Authority reference
715862501- Latest notice
- Tender notice (UK4)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-077fc4Find a Tender- Contract terms summary
- Payments to be made in accordance with Terms & Conditions. Full details are included in the Invitation to Tender document.
- Risks
The following risks could occur which could affect contract delivery or performance: Changes in laws or regulations resulting in a need to amend the Contract timescales, costs, deliverables or scope. Unexpected delays to delivery timescales due to either Authority, Contractor or third party actions resulting in a need more…
to amend the Contract timescales, costs, deliverables or scope. Unexpected changes to costs due to either Authority, Contractor or third party actions resulting in a need to amend the Contract timescales, costs, deliverables or scope. Unexpected changes to volume of deliverables due to either Authority, Contractor or third party actions resulting in a need to amend the Contract timescales, costs, deliverables or scope. Unexpected changes to scope of deliverables due to either Authority, Contractor or third party actions resulting in a need to amend the Contract timescales, costs, deliverables or scope.
How to participate & submission route
Official notice Submit via Defence Sourcing Portal- Expression of interest (EOI)
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- Tender submission deadline
- 27 Oct 2026, 10:00 GMT
- Clarification deadline
- 15 Oct 2026, 10:00 BST
- Submission channel
- Official e-sourcing portal
- Electronic submission
- Allowed
- Accepted languages
- en
Timeline
5 published dates · Europe/London- Tender notice publishedearlier today2 Oct 2026, 13:52 BST
- Clarification questions byin 13 days15 Oct 2026, 10:00 BST
- Submission deadlinein 25 days27 Oct 2026, 10:00 GMT
- Award decision expected byin 39 days10 Nov 2026, 23:59 GMT
- Contract startsin 53 days25 Nov 2026, 00:00 GMT
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Nothing awarded yet- Awards (0)
- No award published
- Contracts (0)
- No contract published
- Bid statistics
- No aggregate bid statistics published
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Tender notice published2 Oct 2026, 13:52 BSTUK4
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Official documents & specifications (2)
Official links; attachments are not copiedTender pack and attachments
- Conflict of interest declarationNot published
Notices published for this procedure
- Tender notice Tender notice on Find a Tender