Official UK procurement notice
Custom Phosphoramidites and Succinates
Authority: CENTRE FOR PROCESS INNOVATION LIMITED (Public body)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionCPI is a UK technology innovation centre and the process element of the Government’s High Value Manufacturing Catapult. We use applied knowledge in science and engineering combined with state-of-the-art facilities to enable our clients to develop, prove, prototype and scale-up the next generation of products and processes.
CPI is installing equipment for the pilot scale manufacturing of oligonucleotides via a novel process at Medicines Manufacturing Innovation Centre (MMIC) site for the GC3 project. To support this work, we are seeking reliable suppliers capable of supplying custom phosphoramidite and succinate materials, for research and development use, on a scale of 10g to 1kg.
CPV: Basic organic chemicals · Chemical reagents
How this framework works
From the published notice- Type
- Closed framework
- Call-offs
- call-offs may be awarded directly or by further competition
- Places
- up to 2 suppliers
- Framework period
- 3 yrs from 24 Dec 2026
Published description of the framework
CPI will establish a Multi supplier framework agreement, against which we will reserve the right to direct award without further competition.
Suppliers will be in a ranked order of 1st, 2nd and 3rd etc. according to their scores against the evaluation criteria set out
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · value publishedLot #1Published value£173,000
What it takes to wini
How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
Evaluation split and conditions of participation as published; the tender pack may add morei
How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
Lot awarding rule: Will be ascertained by the combined scores out of 100% (see Award Criteria Ratio) as to whom is successfully awarded. Quality & Service Response 60% Price 40% TOTAL 100%
- “Custom Phosphoramidites and Succinates” is a framework: the contest is a place on its panel, up to 2 suppliers, not a single contract: call-offs may be direct or by further competition.
Competition analysis · published record, not a forecast of who will bid
How CENTRE FOR PROCESS INNOVATION LIMITED buys Various medicinal products (CPV 3369), and who usually turns up
CENTRE FOR PROCESS INNOVATION LIMITED’s published record next to the market for the same work. Compared with other frameworks and DPS only. Whole-market view: Various medicinal products (CPV 3369) →
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.
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 76 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.
Both shares are minimums: 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 bid20% / 100%
2–358% / 0%
4–619% / 0%
7+3% / 0%
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.
On a framework or DPS, prices are agreed when work is called off.
Past prices are a guide, not a bid price.
Not comparable on a framework or DPS: the price is set later, on each call-off.
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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 #1CPV 3369Published estimate£173k
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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 19 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid53%
2–35%
4–65%
7+37%
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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- Procedure method
- Below threshold - open competition
- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Goods
- Notice status
- Open admission
- Procurement threshold
- Below threshold
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Framework agreement
- Who may use this agreement
- Not stated in the notice; call-off rights may be limited to the establishing authority
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 26 Oct 2026, 08:59 GMT
- Last source update
- 26 Oct 2026, 08:59 GMT
- Authority reference
4024- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-100810- Latest notice
- Tender notice (UK4)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Not published
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-078fb9Find a Tender
How to participate & submission route
Official notice Apply via In-tend- Requests to participate (first stage)
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- Appointment period ends
- 16 Nov 2026, 12:00 GMT
- Clarification deadline
- 9 Nov 2026, 12:00 GMT
- Submission channel
- Official e-sourcing portal
- Electronic submission
- Allowed
Your response must be electronically uploaded to the website as stated in the link below only, to arrive in good time, no later than the Bid Return Date:
12 noon Monday, 16 November 2026
Electronic Address for Document Access and Receipt of Bids:
in-tendhost.co.uk/uk-cpi/aspx/Home ↗
Bidders will have to register on the above site to not only access the tender (Bid) documents, but also to enable their Bid return (tender submission) electronically in order for their Bid to be evaluated after the closing date and time. Please see the Information for Bidders document.
Timeline
26 Oct 2026 → 24 Dec 2026 · 4 dates- Tender notice publishedearlier today26 Oct 2026, 08:59 GMT
- Today26 Oct 2026
- Clarification questions byin 14 days9 Nov 2026, 12:00 GMT
- Admission / appointment period endsin 21 days · period end, not a bid countdown16 Nov 2026, 12:00 GMT
- Contract startsin 58 days24 Dec 2026
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Tender notice published26 Oct 2026, 08:59 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