Find a TenderPlanned procurementPreliminary market engagement notice
Published 13 Nov 2025, 17:00 GMT

Official UK procurement notice

Concrete & Brick Wall Scabbling & Shaving

Authority: UK Atomic Energy Authority (Public body)

WorksBelow thresholdSME suitableVCSE suitable
Planned pipeline value£166,666pipeline notice, not a live tender
Tender notice expected 6 Jan 2026from the planned procurement notice
Contract term 11 moends 18 Dec 2026 · starts 23 Jan 2026

What is being bought

Published requirement description

Develop and test tools and solutions to scabble/ shave/plane brick and concrete walls by remote operation with the primary focus on brick walls. The requirement is to remove 5mm of the surface of the walls in localised areas and capture (vacuum or similar) any loose material from the scabbling/shaving process

CPV: Blast cleaning work for building exteriors · Concrete repair work · Machine tools for working concrete · Roof works and other special trade construction works

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published

Pipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published

How UK Atomic Energy Authority buys Roof works and other special trade construction works (CPV 4526), and who usually turns up

UK Atomic Energy Authority’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: Roof works and other special trade construction works (CPV 4526) →

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How the contest usually goes

Winner shares use published awards; bid and price charts use contested lots.

Question for the bid
This buyerUK Atomic Energy Authority · division 45
What to do with it
How often do SMEs win?
i

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.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 2 of 6 known-size awards · market: CPV 4526 · UK-wide, n=600
33%85%

Small firms have won here. Neither number says whether you qualify; it describes who has been winning.

How often do local suppliers win?
i

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.

A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 4 of 9 known-location awards · market: CPV 4526 · UK-wide, n=673
44%72%

Most of this buyer’s recorded winners were registered outside the region where that award was delivered.

How long to a decision?
i

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.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: no decision dates published · market: CPV 4526 · UK-wide, n=104
—46 days

Half of these awards have an award date within 46 days of the bid deadline.

How often single-bid or direct?
i

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.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: at least 9 of 12 procurements with awards had no recorded rival · market: CPV 4526 · UK-wide, n=904
75%28%

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.

Last 36 months.

This buyer38 lots with bid counts · all categories
24% had one bid
The market166 lots with bid counts · CPV 4526 · UK-wide
8% had one bid
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
1 bid24% / 8%
Buyer: 9 of 38 lots with published bid counts. Market: 13 of 166 lots with published bid counts.
2–337% / 25%
Buyer: 14 of 38 lots with published bid counts. Market: 41 of 166 lots with published bid counts.
4–616% / 27%
Buyer: 6 of 38 lots with published bid counts. Market: 44 of 166 lots with published bid counts.
7+24% / 41%
Buyer: 9 of 38 lots with published bid counts. Market: 68 of 166 lots with published bid counts.

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.

Last 36 months.

This buyer30 lots with estimate and award · all categories
40% below estimate
The market158 lots with estimate and award · CPV 4526 · UK-wide
41% below estimate
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
Below estimate40% / 41%
Buyer: 12 of 30 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 65 of 158 lots with an estimate and award.
Within ±2%37% / 36%
Buyer: 11 of 30 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 57 of 158 lots with an estimate and award.
Above estimate23% / 23%
Buyer: 7 of 30 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 36 of 158 lots with an estimate and award.
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Assess each lot
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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 452611 monthsSME suitablePublished estimate£167k
Expected competition
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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 166 past lots.

A forecast, not a list of bidders.

—No model forecast yet8% chance of a single bid
Past bids on 166 similar lots
1 bid8%
13 of 166 similar past lots received 1 bid (8%).
2–325%
41 of 166 similar past lots received 2–3 (25%).
4–627%
44 of 166 similar past lots received 4–6 (27%).
7+41%
68 of 166 similar past lots received 7+ (41%).
Comparable past lots usually drew 5 bids.
Commercial price forecast
i

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.

—No model forecast yet
No comparable awards on record for this lot’s category yet. The published estimate is £167k, and the forecast stays empty until the market has a record to read.

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.

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.

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
Works
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
13 Nov 2025, 17:00 GMT
Last source update
13 Nov 2025, 17:00 GMT
Authority reference
T/CAB115/25
FTS notice number
2025/S 000-073725
Latest notice
Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
Classification (CPV)
Blast cleaning work for building exteriorsConcrete repair workMachine tools for working concreteRoof works and other special trade construction works
Delivery area
UK
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-05e0e2 Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice
Submission deadline
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Timeline

13 Nov 2025 → 23 Jan 2026 · 4 dates
  1. Planning notice published347 days ago
    13 Nov 2025, 17:00 GMT
  2. Market engagement329 days ago
    1 Dec 2025, 23:59 GMT
  3. Tender notice expected293 days ago
    6 Jan 2026, 23:59 GMT
  4. Contract starts277 days ago
    23 Jan 2026

Notice history

1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender
  1. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    13 Nov 2025, 17:00 GMT
    UK2

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

UK Atomic Energy Authority

Contracting authorityPublic authority - central government GB-PPON: PLJV-1169-JTDD Culham Science Centre, Oxfordshire, South East, OX14 3DBContact name, email

Official documents & specifications (1)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure