Official UK procurement notice
Civils Maintenance Provision · UK public procurement notice
Authority: Highlands and Islands Airports Limited
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionHIAL has a continued requirement for civils maintenance provision at its eleven airports and will be conducting a future procurement exercise to secure these services.
This PIN notice is for prior information and market engagement only. Potential bidders who are interested in contributing their views are encouraged to complete the online Supplier Engagement Questionnaire. Please complete the online Supplier Engagement Questionnaire, the link is contained within the PIN document attachment or accessible via the following link:
forms.cloud.microsoft/Pages/DesignPageV2.aspx ↗
Responses must be submitted no later than Friday 24th July 2026 at 1400 hours.
CPV: Cesspool or septic tank emptying services · Construction work for airfields, runways and manoeuvring surfaces · Construction-related services · Drainage and surface works · Drainage works · Grounds maintenance services · Road markings · Runway construction works · Runway resurfacing · Runway-inspection services · Sewage, refuse, cleaning and environmental services · Surface work for footpaths · +1 more
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1HIAL has a continued requirement for civils maintenance provision at its eleven…Planned
HIAL has a continued requirement for civils maintenance provision at its eleven airports and will be conducting a future procurement exercise to secure these services. The provision of civil maintenance includes emergency repair, planned preventative maintenance, unplanned reactive maintenance and minor project works to associated infrastructure.
The scope of services may include:
- Maintenance and reactive repairs to runway, taxiway and apron surfaces;
- Maintenance and reactive repairs to the airport drainage systems;
- Maintenance of surface markings within landside and airside operational areas;
- Maintenance and reactive repairs to car parks and ground surfaces;
- Maintenance of Airfield Ground Lighting (AGL) structural components in conjunction with HIAL’s mechanical and electrical contractor;
- Maintenance and reactive repairs to airfield security fencing, general fencing and gates;
- Carry out interceptor and septic tank maintenance services;
- Provide assistance in environmental spill and incident clean up;
- Providing a 24-hour 365-day responsive emergency repair service;
- Carry out minor new works.
This PIN notice is for prior information and market engagement only. We are encouraging potential bidders who are interested in contributing their views to complete the online Supplier Engagement Questionnaire. Please complete the online Supplier Engagement Questionnaire, the link is contained within the PIN document attachment or accessible via the following link:
forms.cloud.microsoft/Pages/DesignPageV2.aspx ↗
Responses must be submitted no later than Friday 24th July 2026 at 1400 hours.
This PIN Notice and associated questionnaire is for information gathering and market engagement only, this is not a call for competition and response to the questionnaire will not constitute any form of contract, or commitment to contract from HIAL.
Pipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How Highlands and Islands Airports Limited buys Construction work for pipelines, communication and power lines, for highways, roads, airfields and railways; flatwork (CPV 4523), and who usually turns up
Highlands and Islands Airports 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: Construction work for pipelines, communication and power lines, for highways, roads, airfields and railways; flatwork (CPV 4523) →
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.
Local means the winner is registered in the region where that award was delivered. The market figure counts awards delivered in Scotland.
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners were registered outside the region where that award was delivered.
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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.
Half of these awards have an award date within 42 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 buyer’s share is a minimum: 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 bid12%
2–336%
4–630%
7+22%
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 estimate44%
Within ±2%35%
Above estimate21%
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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 #1HIAL has a continued requirement for civils maintenance provision at its eleven…CPV 4523Estimate not published
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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 151 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid10%
2–328%
4–638%
7+24%
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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 · publisher note attached- Legal basis
- CELEX · 32014L0025 Utilities Contracts Regulations 2016 (Directive 2014/25/EU)
- Procurement category
- Works
- 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
- 13 Jul 2026, 16:31 BST
- Last source update
- 13 Jul 2026, 16:31 BST
- Authority reference
HIA-26-023- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-065782- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06c9e9Find a Tender
Publisher note: Please complete the Supplier Engagement Questionnaire, the link is contained within the PIN document attachment or accessible via the following link: https://forms.cloud.microsoft/Pages/DesignPageV2.aspx?prevorigin=shell&origin=NeoPortalPage&subpage=design&id=CnQkj3ZhqkmY96LfVyw3w2j2fRJikzFBkZy3Vavb9CVUOE9VNDE0TzZYRkZCMTZVUFBEQ1c4QjlLVC4u Responses must be submitted no later than Friday 24th July 2026 at 1400 hours. This Prior Information Notice (PIN) and associated questionnaire is for information gathering and market engagement only, this is not a call for competition and response to this questionnaire will not constitute any form of contract, or commitment to contract from Highlands and Islands Airports Limited (HIAL). 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=837220. (SC Ref:837220)
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
13 Jul 2026 → 26 Oct 2026 · 2 dates- Notice published102 days ago13 Jul 2026, 16:31 BST
- Today23 Oct 2026
- Tender notice expectedin 3 days26 Oct 2026
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
Official links; attachments are not copiedNo document links were published on the notice.