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Published 29 Oct 2026, 11:09 GMT

Official UK procurement notice

Agri-Tech Exports Accelerator Programme

Official notice Competition analysis

Authority: Department for Business & Trade (Central government)

ServicesAbove thresholdSME suitableVCSE suitable
Sectors: Business Services & Consultancy (79) Delivery: Delivery location not published
Planned pipeline value£750,000pipeline notice, not a live tender
Tender notice expected 15 Mar 2027from the planned procurement notice
Contract term 3 yrsends 31 Mar 2030 · starts 1 Apr 2027

What is being bought

Published requirement description

The Department for Business and Trade (DBT) is considering the procurement of a supplier or a consortium to design, manage and deliver an Agri-tech Export Accelerator Programme. The programme will support high-growth-potential UK agri-tech businesses to build sustainable export capability and progress international growth opportunities.

The anticipated requirement is a three-year programme covering six agri-tech subsector cohorts. Services may include:

  1. Participant marketing, recruitment and cohort management
  • Market and promote the programme through appropriate platforms and networks, with clear application information and deadlines.
  • Identify, assess and select participating businesses.
  • Manage cohorts, participant engagement, stakeholder coordination and communications.
  1. Market intelligence and export strategy
  • Identify priority international markets.
  • Undertake market research and opportunity assessments.
  • Develop practical export and market-entry strategies.
  1. Curated capability-development pathway
  • Design a logical learning pathway that supports the programme objectives.
  • Undertake export-readiness assessments.
  • Deliver workshops, training sessions, webinars, peer-learning activities and mentoring.
  • Provide and manage mentors, specialist advisers and delivery partners.
  1. Commercial and trade development activity
  • Provide buyer introductions and networking opportunities.
  • Identify, secure and manage relationships with investors, distributors and delivery partners to accelerate international growth opportunities.
  • Plan commercial activation activity, with a current working assumption of one trade mission after capability-building activity for each cohort. The final approach may evolve as learning is incorporated during the programme.
  1. Programme management, monitoring and evaluation
  • Provide programme governance, delivery planning and reporting.
  • Manage risks, issues and finances.
  • Monitor and evaluate outputs, outcomes, impact and continuous improvement.

CPV: Business and management consultancy and related services · Miscellaneous business and business-related services

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published
Lot #1Planned 3 yrsSMEVCSE
Contract period: 1 Apr 2027 – 31 Mar 2030 (3 yrs)
Eligibility: SME eligibleVCSE eligible
79400000 Business and management consultancy and related services79900000 Miscellaneous business and business-related services

Who is likely to bid for this lot ↓

Pipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published

How Department for Business & Trade buys Business and management consultancy and related services (CPV 7940), and who usually turns up

Department for Business & Trade’s published record next to the market for the same work. Frameworks and DPS are left out: they draw different bid counts. Whole-market view: Business and management consultancy and related services (CPV 7940) →

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How the contest usually goes

Winner shares use published awards; bid and price charts use contested lots.

Question for the bid
This buyerDepartment for Business & Trade · all categories
The marketBusiness and management consultancy and related services (CPV 7940)
What to do with it
How often do SMEs win?
i

How often small and medium firms win.

Share of awards where the winner’s size is known.

The counts under this question show how many awards have a known supplier size.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 77 of 179 known-size awards · market: CPV 7940 · Greater London (authority’s region), n=61
43%57%

Small firms have won here. Neither number says whether you qualify; it describes who has been winning.

How often do local suppliers win?
i

How often local firms win similar work.

Winners with a registered address in the delivery region, out of awards with a known address.

Local means the winner is registered in the region where that award was delivered. The market figure counts awards delivered in Greater London (authority’s region).

A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 6 of 7 known-location awards · market: CPV 7940 · Greater London (authority’s region), n=79
86%56%

Most of this buyer’s recorded winners were registered in the region where that award was delivered.

How long to a decision?
i

How long buyers here take to decide after bids close.

Middle value in days from the bid deadline to the award date, on competitions that published both.

Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: no decision dates published · market: CPV 7940 · UK-wide, n=28
—32 days

Half of these awards have an award date within 32 days of the bid deadline.

How often single-bid or direct?
i

How often work is awarded with no recorded rival.

Direct awards and tenders where every published lot count shows one bid.

Both shares are minimums: some awards have no bid count.

Thin markets produce this too; it is not proof of a tailored specification.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: at least 252 of 270 procurements with awards had no recorded rival · market: CPV 7940 · Greater London (authority’s region), n=104
93%48%

Direct awards or one recorded bid are common here. Check the route before spending time on a bid.

How many bids did past lots attract?

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How many bids past lots received.

Each colour is a bid-count range. Only competed lots with a published count are included.

Past bids do not predict this tender.

Last 36 months.

This buyer14 lots with bid counts · all categories
21% had one bid
The market8 lots with bid counts · CPV 7940 · Greater London (authority’s region)
13% had one bid
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
1 bid21% / 13%
Buyer: 3 of 14 lots with published bid counts. Market: 1 of 8 lots with published bid counts.
2–343% / 0%
Buyer: 6 of 14 lots with published bid counts. Market: 0 of 8 lots with published bid counts.
4–636% / 50%
Buyer: 5 of 14 lots with published bid counts. Market: 4 of 8 lots with published bid counts.
7+0% / 38%
Buyer: 0 of 14 lots with published bid counts. Market: 3 of 8 lots with published bid counts.

How did awards compare with estimates?

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Where winning prices landed against estimates.

Each colour shows awards below, close to or above the published estimate, one lot at a time.

Past prices are a guide, not a bid price.

Last 36 months.

This buyer6 lots with estimate and award · all categories
17% below estimate
The market9 lots with estimate and award · CPV 7940 · Greater London (authority’s region)
56% below estimate
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
Below estimate17% / 56%
Buyer: 1 of 6 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 5 of 9 lots with an estimate and award.
Within ±2%83% / 44%
Buyer: 5 of 6 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 4 of 9 lots with an estimate and award.
Above estimate0% / 0%
Buyer: 0 of 6 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 0 of 9 lots with an estimate and award.
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Assess each lot
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What past awards tell you about each lot.

See the forecast, this buyer’s earlier suppliers and firms with relevant wins.

No supplier is confirmed as a bidder.

Open a lot for its forecast, this buyer’s previous supplier and possible competitors, from published award history, not a bid list

Lot #1CPV 7936 monthsSME suitablePublished estimate£750k

This lot lists more than one class in CPV 79. The comparison uses that group.

Expected competition
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How many bids this lot may attract.

The forecast uses similar past competitions. The bar shows either that forecast or past bid counts; the line below says which.

Each lot shows its own forecast based on its own category; forecasts for different lots of the same notice are not comparative. The bar shows 261 past lots.

A forecast, not a list of bidders.

—No model forecast yet13% chance of a single bid
Past bids on 261 similar lots
1 bid13%
34 of 261 similar past lots received 1 bid (13%).
2–325%
64 of 261 similar past lots received 2–3 (25%).
4–633%
87 of 261 similar past lots received 4–6 (33%).
7+29%
76 of 261 similar past lots received 7+ (29%).
Comparable past lots usually drew 4 bids.
Commercial price forecast
i

Where the award price may land.

The forecast uses similar awards and the buyer’s estimate. The band covers the middle half of likely prices.

No comparable awards for this lot yet.

A statistical guide from past awards, not a price to bid.

—No model forecast yet
No comparable awards on record for this lot’s category yet. The published estimate is £750k, and the forecast stays empty until the market has a record to read.

Who has supplied this buyer on similar work?
i

Who has done similar work for this buyer.

Past contracts are matched by buyer, title and type of work.

A past supplier may not bid again.

No earlier contract of this buyer matches this lot on the published record.

Who could compete for this lot?
i

Who could compete for this lot?

Firms with relevant past wins. On a framework, we show firms on that agreement.

None is confirmed as a bidder.

Candidate suppliers for this notice have not been worked out yet, so this is not a verdict that nobody fits.

About this data
  • Source. Official UK public procurement notices (Find a Tender), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0. New notices arrive through the day; the figures are rebuilt nightly.
  • Two views, kept apart. The authority’s own track record and the wider market for the same kind of work sit side by side and are never mixed. Where the local picture is too thin, a figure widens to a broader market and says which one it used.
  • Forecasts are labelled. The price forecast and its range, possible competitors and the earlier-work matches are our estimates from past awards: not published facts, not win chances and not price advice. Official notices do not say who is bidding.
  • Every figure shows what it rests on. Not every notice publishes a bid count, a value or a delivery region, so each figure carries the number of records behind it, and one built on few records is marked as such. The on a figure explains it; the counting rules are in the methodology. Spotted something wrong? Tell us.

Procedure terms & legal framework

From the official record
Legal basis
UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
Procurement category
Services
Notice status
Planned procurement
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
Unspecified in notice
First published
29 Oct 2026, 11:09 GMT
Last source update
29 Oct 2026, 11:18 GMT
FTS notice number
2026/S 000-102502
Latest notice
Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
Classification (CPV)
Business and management consultancy and related servicesMiscellaneous business and business-related services
Delivery area
Not published
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-07933f Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice
Submission deadline
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Timeline

29 Oct 2026 → 1 Apr 2027 · 4 dates
  1. Planning notice published12h ago
    29 Oct 2026, 11:09 GMT
  2. Today
    29 Oct 2026
  3. Market engagementin 21 days
    19 Nov 2026, 23:59 GMT

    The Department for Business and Trade (DBT) is undertaking preliminary market engagement in relation to a proposed Agri-tech Export Accelerator Programme.

    The purpose of this engagement is to test the market's capacity and capability to deliver the proposed requirement, gather feedback on delivery models, commercial approaches and risks, and inform the development of the procurement strategy and specification.

    Interested suppliers are invited to register their interest by emailing [email protected]

    DBT intends to engage with suppliers through:

    • A written expression of interest and questionnaire;
    • A virtual supplier engagement session; and
    • Follow-up clarification discussions, where appropriate.

    Proposed timetable:

    • Publication of UK2 Notice: 26.10.2026
    • Deadline for expressions of interest: 2.11.2026
    • Deadline for questionnaire responses: 9.11.2026
    • Supplier engagement event (Microsoft Teams): 12.11.2026

    Participation in this engagement is voluntary and at the supplier's own expense. Participation or non-participation will not confer any advantage or disadvantage in any future procurement process.

    Upon receiving confirmation of your interest, you will be sent the questionnaire to fill in and to return to us by the 9th November 2026.

  4. Tender notice expectedin 137 days
    15 Mar 2027, 23:59 GMT
  5. Contract startsin 152 days
    1 Apr 2027, 00:00 BST

Notice history

2 events · 2 releases on Find a Tender · since 29 Oct 2026
  1. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    29 Oct 2026, 11:09 GMT
    UK2
  2. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    29 Oct 2026, 11:18 GMT
    UK2
Published amendments (1)

Please note the following revised dates to those in the "Engagement Process Pescription" as follows: The Department for Business and Trade (DBT) is undertaking preliminary market engagement in relation to a proposed Agri-tech Export Accelerator Programme. The purpose of this engagement is to test the market's capacity and capability to deliver the proposed requirement, gather feedback on delivery …

Commercial outcome & contract awards

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Awards (0)
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Contracts (0)
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Bid statistics
No aggregate bid statistics published

Contracting authority & participating public bodies

Department for Business & Trade

Contracting authorityPublic authority - central government GB-PPON: PZZJ-6312-QTTD Old Admiralty Building, London, London, SW1A 2DYContact email

Official documents & specifications (2)

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Notices published for this procedure