Official UK procurement notice
Business Travel Management Services
Authority: SATELLITE APPLICATIONS CATAPULT LIMITED (Public body)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionSatellite Applications Catapult is seeking a travel management company to provide business travel booking and management services for its staff and authorised travellers. Full requirements will be set out in the tender documents. The contract is expected to start in March 2027, with a mobilisation period ahead of service go-live no later than May 2027, for an initial term of two years with the option to extend for up to three further periods of 12 months.
CPV: Travel management services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1PlannedRenewal
Pipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How SATELLITE APPLICATIONS CATAPULT LIMITED buys Travel agency and similar services (CPV 6351), and who usually turns up
SATELLITE APPLICATIONS CATAPULT LIMITED’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: Travel agency and similar services (CPV 6351) →
How the contest usually goes
Winner shares use published awards; bid and price charts use contested lots.
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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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Local means the winner is registered in the region where that award was delivered.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners were registered outside the region where that award was delivered.
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Half of these awards have an award date within 16 days of the bid deadline.
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Both shares are minimums: some awards have no bid count.
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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1 bid22%
2–333%
4–628%
7+17%
How did awards compare with estimates?
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Below estimate11%
Within ±2%67%
Above estimate22%
Assess each lot i
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Open a lot for its forecast, this buyer’s previous supplier and possible competitors, from published award history, not a bid list
Lot #1CPV 6351Estimate not published
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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 18 past lots.
1 bid22%
2–333%
4–628%
7+17%
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No comparable awards for this lot yet.
Who has supplied this buyer on similar work? i
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No earlier contract of this buyer matches this lot on the published record.
Who could compete for this lot? i
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Candidate suppliers for this notice have not been worked out yet, so this is not a verdict that nobody fits.
About this data
- Estimates, labelled. The price range, possible competitors and earlier-work matches are our estimates from past awards, not published facts, win chances or price advice. The buyer’s own record and the wider market are shown apart, never mixed.
- Source. Official UK public procurement notices (Find a Tender and Contracts Finder), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0, updated through the day and rebuilt nightly. Not every figure uses both feeds, and each one shows how many records it rests on: see the methodology. Spotted something wrong? Tell us.
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Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Procedure method
- Competitive flexible procedure
- 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
- 6 Nov 2026, 11:02 GMT
- Last source update
- 6 Nov 2026, 11:02 GMT
- Award evaluation window
- Submission end – 9 Mar 2027
- Authority reference
SAC-28-002- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-105594- Latest notice
- Planned procurement notice (UK3)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-07b633Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
- 12 Feb 2027
- Electronic submission
- Not allowed
- Accepted languages
- en
Timeline
6 Nov 2026 → 22 Mar 2027 · 5 dates- Planning notice published7 days ago6 Nov 2026, 11:02 GMT
- Today14 Nov 2026
- Tender notice expectedin 58 days11 Jan 2027, 23:59 GMT
- Submission deadlinein 89 days12 Feb 2027
- Award decision expected byin 115 days9 Mar 2027, 23:59 GMT
- Contract startsin 127 days22 Mar 2027
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Planned procurement notice published6 Nov 2026, 11:02 GMTUK3
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
- Planned procurement notice Planned procurement notice on Find a Tender