Official UK procurement notice
Appointment of Integrated Consultant Team for New Build at St Columban’s Primary School, Kilkeel
Authority: the Education Authority (Central government)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThe provision of an Integrated Consultant Team (ICT) to develop the Employer’s Brief in
relation to the design and delivery of a new St Columban’s Primary School. The ICT shall
develop the design and complete the RIBA (2020) Stage 4 Technical Design before
appointing a Contracting Team to undertake the construction of the new St Columban’s
Primary School. The ICT shall undertake the procurement, appointment and management
of the Contracting Team on behalf of the Employer and shall continue to manage and
oversee the project through the remaining stages of the RIBA 2020 Plan of Work 5-7.
CPV: Architectural and related services · Architectural design services · Architectural, construction, engineering and inspection services · Construction project management services · Engineering design services for mechanical and electrical installations for buildings · Quantity surveying services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1Planned
Pipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How the Education Authority buys Architectural design services (CPV 7122), and who usually turns up
the Education Authority’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: Architectural design services (CPV 7122) →
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 Northern Ireland.
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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 45 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.
The market share is a minimum: some awards have no bid count.
Thin markets produce this too; it is not proof of a tailored specification.
Missing bid counts may hide more single-bid awards. This share is a minimum.
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 bid0% / 29%
2–312% / 0%
4–66% / 57%
7+82% / 14%
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 estimate80% / 50%
Within ±2%20% / 33%
Above estimate0% / 17%
Assess each lot i
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 #1CPV 7122Published estimate£750k
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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 108 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid18%
2–323%
4–631%
7+28%
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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.
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.
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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.
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
- Below threshold
- 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
- 14 Apr 2026, 14:53 BST
- Last source update
- 14 Apr 2026, 14:53 BST
- Authority reference
MA16-000004BA- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-033830- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Not published
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-068223Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
14 Apr 2026 → 1 Dec 2026 · 3 dates- Planning notice published189 days ago14 Apr 2026, 14:53 BST
- Market engagement175 days ago28 Apr 2026, 23:59 BST
The Education Authority Northern Ireland (EANI), in preparation for the procurement
process for the provision of an Integrated Consultant Team (ICT) to develop the Employer’s Brief in relation to the design and delivery of a new St Columban’s Primary School, have prepared a Pre-Market Engagement Briefing Document (including drawing attachments) to provide suppliers with pre-tender information regarding the forthcoming project.
This document may be downloaded from the CfT documents section of CfT CA Unique ID
EANI-5228 via eTendersNI.
Suppliers, as part of the Pre-Market Engagement process, also have the opportunity to
submit queries regarding the project. This should be done via the messaging service in
the above CfT on eTendersNI no later than 5pm on Tuesday 28th Arpil 2026 . A
response to these queries shall be forwarded shortly after this date.
Please note that participation or non-participation in this Pre-Market Engagement shall not
prevent any supplier from participating in any potential procurement process. In addition,
for the avoidance of doubt, this stage of the process is not part of a formal procurement
process.
- Today20 Oct 2026
- Contract startsin 41 days1 Dec 2026
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Preliminary market engagement notice published14 Apr 2026, 14:53 BSTUK2
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Pipeline notice- Awards (0)
- No award published
- Contracts (0)
- No contract published
- Bid statistics
- No aggregate bid statistics published
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Official documents & specifications (1)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender