Official UK procurement notice
Demand Plan 2026 Direct Team
Authority: GNI (UK) LIMITED (Public body)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionGas Networks Ireland ("GNI") intends to undertake a range of procurements during 2026 to support its operational, maintenance, and infrastructure development programmes. This PIN provides an indicative list of categories that may be advertised during the year. Indicative categories include (but are not limited to): Supply of High pressure Bends and Fittings Quantity Surveying and Commercial Management Services Polyethylene Pipe, Fittings and Valves Provision of Engineering, Procurement and Construction Services for South West Scotland Onshore System (SWSOS) Provision of telecommunication equipment buildings and ancillary equipment Provision of Offshore, Nearshore and Unplanned Inspection Surveys Provision Of Electric Drive Compressor Packages Innovation Qualification System South West Scotland Onshore System Operations and Maintenance Services Technical Subsea Consultancy Contract Threaded Ball Valves Provision of Engineering Support and Preventative Maintenance Services for Gas Networks Ireland (GNI) and GNI(UK) Limited Station Control Systems Maintenance and Support Services Contract for Gas Analysers River Crossing Surveys Packaged Boiler Units Pressure Reduction Systems and Filtering and Metering System Civils Design, Build and Maintenance Services Engineering Services for GNI UK Agricultural Remediation Copper Pipe Provision of Colocation Module Maintenance Services Inspection, Overhaul and Refurbishment of Compressors including Bearings, Dry Gas Seals Steel and PE transition fittings Telecommunications Fibre Installation and Maintenance Works Construction Supervisor Submerged Arc Welded (SAW) Linepipe High Frequency Welded Induction (HFWI) Linepipe Seamless Linepipe Transmission Ball Valves Offshore and or Nearshore Inspection Survey Electrical Power Systems and associated installation and commissioning services. Provision of Telemetry, Instrumentation, Metering and Analytical equipment Gas Quality Analysis, Validation of Gas Analysers, Supply of Primary Reference Material (PRM) and Certified Reference Material (CRM) gases and Gas Quality, Metering and Technical Support Supply and Maintenance of Calibration and Gas Detection Equipment Supply and Rental of Cylinder Gases Shape Additional Information This notice does not constitute a call for competition. Interested parties should review eTenders regularly for advertised Qualification Systems and tender opportunities. For further information, please contact GNI via [email protected].
CPV: Analysers · Batteries · Bends, tees and pipe fittings · Boiler installations · Calibration services · Command and control system · Compressors · Construction work for gas pipelines · Construction work for oil and gas pipelines · Engineering design services · Engineering-related scientific and technical services · Gas chromatographs · +20 more
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedPipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
Competition for Pipeline, piping, pipes, casing, tubing and related items (CPV 4416), and who usually turns up
GNI (UK) LIMITED has too little published record in this market to describe on its own. No delivery region is published, so no market column stands beside whatever it has. Frameworks and DPS are kept out: they attract a different number of bids. Whole-market view: Pipeline, piping, pipes, casing, tubing and related items (CPV 4416) →
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.
No small-firm winners recorded among this authority’s published awards in this sample.
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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.
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
No winner locations published for this authority. Local means a registered address in the delivery region.
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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.
No decision dates published to compare.
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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.
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.
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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 4416Estimate not published
This lot lists only non-UK delivery addresses. Supplier examples below come from UK award history and are not checked for this delivery area.
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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.
This lot has only non-UK delivery countries in its published addresses, so the UK model forecast is withheld.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
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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- Legal basis
- CELEX · 32014L0025 Utilities Contracts Regulations 2016 (Directive 2014/25/EU)
- Procurement category
- Goods
- 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
- 21 Apr 2026, 09:29 BST
- Last source update
- 21 Apr 2026, 09:29 BST
- Authority reference
Demand Plan 2026 Direct Team- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-035887- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-0686e7Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
- 6 May 2026
- Accepted languages
- en
Timeline
21 Apr 2026 → 31 Dec 2026 · 3 dates- Notice published182 days ago21 Apr 2026, 09:29 BST
- Submission deadline168 days ago6 May 2026
- Today20 Oct 2026
- Tender notice expectedin 71 days31 Dec 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.