Official UK procurement notice
Baglan bay Topographical Survey
Authority: Llywodraeth Cymru / Welsh Government (Central government)
Welsh Government is seeking to appoint a suitably qualified and experienced contractor to undertake a topographical survey of the Baglan Bay site, located southwest of the M4 motorway. The survey area is approximately 170.62 hectares and the requirement includes a three-dimensional survey of the existing ground levels and site features, including highways, structures, hardstanding, boundaries, drainage, water features and utilities. The required outputs include a three-dimensional digital ground model, AutoCAD DWG drawings and PDF drawings.
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionWelsh Government is seeking to appoint a suitably qualified and experienced contractor to undertake a topographical survey of the Baglan Bay site, located southwest of the M4 motorway. The survey area is approximately 170.62 hectares and the requirement includes a three-dimensional survey of the existing ground levels and site features, including highways, structures, hardstanding, boundaries, drainage, water features and utilities. The required outputs include a three-dimensional digital ground model, AutoCAD DWG drawings and PDF drawings. The contract is expected to commence in January 2027 and will be for a three-month term.
CPV: Topographical services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · value publishedLot #1Published value£350,000
- Economic & financial standing
Bidders must satisfy the mandatory requirements of the Qualification Questionnaire and demonstrate sufficient financial standing and resources to perform the contract. Bidders must maintain minimum insurance cover of £1,000,000 Professional Indemnity, £5,000,000 Public Liability and £5,000,000 Employers’ Liability. Bidders registered or located outside England and Wales will be required to provide an acceptable independent legal opinion before contract award. Qualification requirements will be assessed on a pass/fail basis.
- Technical & professional ability
The bidder must demonstrate that geomatics or land surveying services constitute a principal business activity. Evidence must include a company profile, the percentage of staff holding relevant geomatics or land surveying qualifications, including MRICS, FRICS or other chartered geomatics or land surveying professionals, and evidence of being an RICS Regulated Firm. This condition will be assessed on a pass/fail basis.
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Published sub-criteria (3)
- Technical: 20%
- Price: 70%
- Social Value: 10%
Published award criteria (3)
- Technical
- Social Value
- Price
- Economic & financial standing
Bidders must satisfy the mandatory requirements of the Qualification Questionnaire and demonstrate sufficient financial standing and resources to perform the contract. Bidders must maintain minimum insurance cover of £1,000,000 Professional Indemnity, £5,000,000 Public Liability and £5,000,000 Employers’ Liability. Bidders registered or located outside England and Wales will be required to provide an acceptable independent legal opinion before contract award. Qualification requirements will be assessed on a pass/fail basis.
- Technical & professional ability
The bidder must demonstrate that geomatics or land surveying services constitute a principal business activity. Evidence must include a company profile, the percentage of staff holding relevant geomatics or land surveying qualifications, including MRICS, FRICS or other chartered geomatics or land surveying professionals, and evidence of being an RICS Regulated Firm. This condition will be assessed on a pass/fail basis.
- Price carries 70 of 100 points: a 10% discount moves about 7 points. This one is won on the number: sharpen the price before polishing the prose.
- Turnover usually expected at this size: about £700,000 (twice the annual value).
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How Llywodraeth Cymru / Welsh Government buys Engineering-related scientific and technical services (CPV 7135), and who usually turns up
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1 bid19% / 13%
2–339% / 38%
4–635% / 32%
7+7% / 17%
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Below estimate29% / 48%
Within ±2%66% / 27%
Above estimate5% / 24%
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Lot #1CPV 7135Published estimate£350k
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1 bid13%
2–323%
4–628%
7+36%
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About this data
- Source. Official UK public procurement notices (Find a Tender and Contracts Finder), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0. New notices arrive through the day; the figures are rebuilt nightly. Contracts Finder appears in live search, the Retender Radar, contract pages, organisation counts, the earlier contracts and past suppliers on a tender's competition panel, the buyer's decision figure and its award against estimate; the other analytical figures are built from Find a Tender notices.
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Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Procedure method
- Open procedure
- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Services
- 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
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 6 Nov 2026, 15:11 GMT
- Last source update
- 6 Nov 2026, 15:11 GMT
- Award evaluation window
- Submission end – 21 Dec 2026
- Authority reference
C093/02026/2027- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-105833- Latest notice
- Tender notice (UK4)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-07b6c8Find a Tender
How to participate & submission route
Official notice Submit via Sell2Wales- Requests to participate (first stage)
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- Tender submission deadline
- 7 Dec 2026, 12:00 GMT
- Clarification deadline
- 30 Nov 2026, 16:00 GMT
- Submission channel
- Official e-sourcing portal
- Electronic submission
- Allowed
- Accepted languages
- en
Tenders must be submitted electronically through the eTenderWales portal: itt_128313 - Baglan bay Topographical Survey
Timeline
6 Nov 2026 → 18 Jan 2027 · 5 dates- Tender notice published3 days ago6 Nov 2026, 15:11 GMT
- Today10 Nov 2026
- Clarification questions byin 20 days30 Nov 2026, 16:00 GMT
- Submission deadlinein 26 days7 Dec 2026, 12:00 GMT
- Award decision expected byin 41 days21 Dec 2026, 23:59 GMT
- Contract startsin 68 days18 Jan 2027
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Tender notice published6 Nov 2026, 15:11 GMTUK4
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Nothing awarded yet- 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
- Tender notice Tender notice on Find a Tender