Find a TenderPlanned procurementPipeline notice
Published 3 Jun 2026, 14:48 BST

Official UK procurement notice

Delivery of a Data Centre and Associated Secure Works

Authority: NPL Management Limited (Public body)

Works
Planned pipeline value£8,000,000pipeline notice, not a live tender
Tender notice expected 4 Jun 2026from the planned procurement notice
Contract term 6 moends 31 Dec 2026 · starts 1 Jul 2026

What is being bought

Published requirement description

The core deliverable of this project is a fully operational, sovereign, high-assurance secure data centre environment.

CPV: Building installation work

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published
Lot #1Planned 6 mo
Contract period: 1 Jul 2026 – 31 Dec 2026 (6 mo)
Delivery: UK

Who is likely to bid for this lot ↓

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

How NPL Management Limited buys Building installation work (CPV 4530), and who usually turns up

NPL Management Limited’s own published record, next to the published market for the same work. Frameworks and DPS are kept out: they attract a different number of bids. Whole-market view: Building installation work (CPV 4530) →

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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 buyerNPL Management Limited · 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 4 known-size awards · market: no supplier sizes published
2 of 4—

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.

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

Last 36 months.

Buyer: no winner locations published · market: no winner locations published
——

No winner locations published for this authority. Local means a registered address in the delivery region.

How long to a decision?
i

How long buyers here take to decide after bids close.

Middle value in days from the deadline to the first award notice, on competitions that published both dates.

Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 4 decided notices · market: no decision dates published
48 days—

Half of these awards were announced within 48 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.

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.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: at least 1 of 5 procurements with awards had no recorded rival · market: no bid counts or routes published
20%—

Missing bid counts may hide more single-bid awards. This share is a minimum.

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Assess each lot
i

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 45306 monthsPublished estimate£8.0m
Expected competition
i

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 56 past lots.

A forecast, not a list of bidders.

—No model forecast yet20% chance of a single bid
Past bids on 56 similar lots
1 bid20%
11 of 56 similar past lots received 1 bid (20%).
2–323%
13 of 56 similar past lots received 2–3 (23%).
4–614%
8 of 56 similar past lots received 4–6 (14%).
7+43%
24 of 56 similar past lots received 7+ (43%).
Comparable past lots usually drew 4 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 £8.0m, 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.

SupplierThis buyer’s earlier contractLotAward valueWhy listed
Orostream International Contracts LimitedEarlier contractDelivery of a Data Centre and Associated Secure Worksstarted Jun 2026—£8.0mMatched as the earlier contract

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.

What this replaces
i

Who has done similar work for this buyer.

Past contracts are matched by buyer, title and type of work.

100% title match.

A past supplier may not bid again.

The prior contract this notice most likely re-tenders · matched by title and category (100% title match), the holder is not guaranteed to re-bid

Delivery of a Data Centre and Associated Secure Works — held by Orostream International Contracts Limited; no contract end date published.

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
Unspecified in notice
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
3 Jun 2026, 14:48 BST
Last source update
3 Jun 2026, 14:48 BST
FTS notice number
2026/S 000-052418
Latest notice
Pipeline notice (UK1)
Classification (CPV)
Building installation work
Delivery area
UK
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06ac9c Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice
Submission deadline
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Timeline

3 Jun 2026 → 1 Jul 2026 · 3 dates
  1. Planning notice published141 days ago
    3 Jun 2026, 14:48 BST
  2. Tender notice expected140 days ago
    4 Jun 2026, 23:59 BST
  3. Contract starts114 days ago
    1 Jul 2026, 00:00 BST

Notice history

1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender
  1. Pipeline notice published
    3 Jun 2026, 14:48 BST
    UK1

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

NPL Management Limited

Contracting authorityPublic undertaking GB-COH: 02937881 · GB-PPON: PYDB-8862-JBYM National Physical Laboratory, Teddington, London, TW11 0LWContact email

Official documents & specifications (1)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure

  • Pipeline notice planningPipeline noticeUK1Pipeline notice on Find a Tender