Official UK procurement notice
Air Traffic Service Maintenance Service
Authority: Highlands and Islands Airports Limited
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionProvision of a regulatory approved, formally controlled Maintenance Service for HIAL’s Air Traffic Service (ATS) Communications, Navigation and Surveillance (CNS), Meteorological and ancillary equipment, against defined requirements and service levels.
CPV: Navigation services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1The Service Provider shall deliver both preventive and corrective maintenance on HIAL…Planned
The Service Provider shall deliver both preventive and corrective maintenance on HIAL CNS, MET and ATS ancillary equipment at the eleven Airports to maintain operational service in accordance with regulatory and safety performance requirements. The service shall be delivered by a suitably certified and accredited provider in accordance with civil aviation requirements.
Pipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How Highlands and Islands Airports Limited buys Support services for water transport (CPV 6372), and who usually turns up
Highlands and Islands Airports Limited’s own published record, next to the published market for the same work. Frameworks and DPS are kept out: they attract a different number of bids. Whole-market view: Support services for water transport (CPV 6372) →
How the contest usually goes
Winner shares use published awards; bid and price charts use contested lots.
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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.
Small firms have won here. Neither number says whether you qualify; it describes who has been winning.
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How often local firms win similar work.
Winners with a registered address in the delivery region, out of awards with a known address.
Here, local means the winner is registered in the region where that contract was delivered.
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners are registered in Scotland.
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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.
Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.
Half of these awards were announced within 20 days of the bid deadline.
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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.
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.
1 bid10%
2–360%
4–620%
7+10%
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.
Below estimate60%
Within ±2%40%
Above estimate0%
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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.
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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 #1The Service Provider shall deliver both preventive and corrective maintenance on HIAL…CPV 6372Published estimate£3.7m
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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 12 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid8%
2–325%
4–633%
7+33%
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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.
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.
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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.
| Supplier | This buyer’s earlier contract | Lot | Award value | Why listed |
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| NATS (Services)Earlier contract | Air Traffic Engineering and Maintenance Servicesnotice published Jun 2025 | — | £2.4m | Matched as the earlier contract |
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.
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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.
What this replaces i
Who has done similar work for this buyer.
Past contracts are matched by buyer, title and type of work.
65% title match.
A past supplier may not bid again.
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Who has done similar work for this buyer.
Past contracts are matched by buyer, title and type of work.
65% title match.
A past supplier may not bid again.
The prior contract this notice most likely re-tenders · matched by title and category (65% title match), the holder is not guaranteed to re-bid
Air Traffic Engineering and Maintenance Services — held by NATS (Services) and NATS (Services); no contract end date published.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record · publisher note attached- Legal basis
- CELEX · 32014L0025 Utilities Contracts Regulations 2016 (Directive 2014/25/EU)
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Planned procurement
- Procurement threshold
- Unspecified in notice
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Yes (GPA)
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 19 Jan 2026, 13:19 GMT
- Last source update
- 19 Jan 2026, 13:19 GMT
- Authority reference
HIA-26-005- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-004343- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-0608b4Find a Tender
Publisher note: This notice serves to inform potential suppliers of the Authority’s upcoming intention to commence a tender process. At this stage, the Authority is not requesting or accepting bids. The authority aims to publish the contract notice in May/June 2026, with the contract award anticipated in October 2026. NOTE: To register your interest in this notice and obtain any additional information please visit the Public Contracts Scotland Web Site at https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/Search/Search_Switch.aspx?ID=820235. (SC Ref:820235)
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
19 Jan 2026 → 1 Apr 2026 · 2 dates- Notice published275 days ago19 Jan 2026, 13:19 GMT
- Tender notice expected204 days ago1 Apr 2026, 00:00 BST
Commercial outcome & contract awards
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- No award published
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- No contract published
- Bid statistics
- No aggregate bid statistics published
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Official documents & specifications
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