Official UK procurement notice
Early Works - Civils, Infrastructure, Buildings & MEP and Earthworks
Authority: Great British Energy - Nuclear (Public body)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThis work package covers key enabling activities required to prepare the site for main construction. It includes the design (from RIBA 4 Stage) and delivery of, ground related enabling activities required to prepare the site for construction, including species relocation, remediation servies, site clearance, site establishment, construction utilities, and supporting infrastructure—such as drainage and haul roads to support bulk earthworks. Together, these early work establish correct ground levels, and create safe access rotes for subsequent phases, and will provide the foundational physical platform needed to de‑risk, mobilise, and accelerate the main works programme. GBE-N had previously considered spllitting these packages into two, but has decised to consolidate into one package to minimise interface risk.
*The positions and timelines presented are based on current information and assumptions. As programme maturity develops and further validation is undertaken, scope, dates, values and sequencing may change.*
Contract Value range: £730m-£1,100m
CPV: Architectural, construction, engineering and inspection services · Construction structures and materials; auxiliary products to construction (except electric apparatus) · Construction work · Engineering works and construction works · Machinery for mining, quarrying, construction equipment · Site preparation work · Works for complete or part construction and civil engineering work
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1PlannedRenewal
Pipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How Great British Energy - Nuclear buys Works for complete or part construction and civil engineering work (CPV 4520), and who usually turns up
Great British Energy - Nuclear’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: Works for complete or part construction and civil engineering work (CPV 4520) →
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 in 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.
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 bid13%
2–335%
4–635%
7+18%
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 estimate45%
Within ±2%43%
Above estimate13%
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.
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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 45No real estimate
This lot lists more than one class in CPV 45. The comparison uses that group.
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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 1,736 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid12%
2–327%
4–630%
7+31%
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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
- Competitive flexible procedure
- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Works
- Notice status
- Planned procurement
- Procurement threshold
- Above threshold (FTS publication)
- 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
- 21 May 2026, 15:51 BST
- Last source update
- 4 Sept 2026, 11:45 BST
- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-083841- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-069fb5Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
21 May 2026 → 1 Jun 2028 · 5 dates- Planning notice published156 days ago21 May 2026, 15:51 BST
- Market engagement51 days ago3 Sept 2026, 23:59 BST
Great British Energy – Nuclear (GBE-N) will hold a Preliminary Market Engagement (PME) webinar on Thursday 3rd September 2026 between the hours of 10am – 11:45am. The purpose of this webinar is to provide the market with an insight into the contracts to be procured under GBE-N’s Owner’s Scope (OS).
The OS will encompass the planning, licensing, design, and construction activities necessary to enable the Technology Partner (TP) to install and commission Small Modular Reactor (SMR) technology. Collectively, these activities constitute the OS and will comprise of the following procurement packages;
- Associated Developments;
- Early Works;
- Engineering Services – Engineering Partner;
- Main Works BOP/MEH & Civils; &
- Specialist Works – Marine Offloading Facility & Tunnelling.
This webinar will provide an overview of the Owner’s Scope with focus on the following package;
- Early Works - Covering the intended procurement approach, scope of works/services and the indicative contracting approach.
GBE-N may hold further engagement events prior to tender launch to cover each procurement package individually in the future.
The link and password for the recording of the webinar is below:
Password: GBE-N-OSM-marick-2026
If you would like a copy of the slides or the questionnaire issued, please email [email protected].
All further notices and information will be published via Jaggaer, which is GBE-N's e-Sourcing portal. All suppliers interested in this tender are advised to register on this platform.
Please see GBE-N's Linked In page (www.linkedin.com/company/great-britis… ↗) for further information, and email any queries to [email protected].
- Latest notice published50 days ago4 Sept 2026, 11:45 BST
- Today24 Oct 2026
- Tender notice expectedin 128 days1 Mar 2027, 23:59 GMT
- Contract starts1 Jun 2028, 00:00 BST
Notice history
4 events · 4 releases on Find a Tender · since 21 May 2026- Pipeline notice published21 May 2026, 15:51 BSTUK1
- Pipeline notice published19 Aug 2026, 17:13 BSTUK1
- Preliminary market engagement notice published20 Aug 2026, 16:05 BSTUK2
- Preliminary market engagement notice published4 Sept 2026, 11:45 BSTUK2
Published amendments (2)
Updating the pipeline notice in line with the pipeline published on https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/great-british-nuclear-commercial-pipeline. This reflects Early Works Earthworks and Civils being merged into one procurement package, with dates and value range updated accordingly. Please note that at this stage, dates, values and other information pertaining to procurement launch and …
This update is to provide access to the market engagement materials after the webinar event was run. The link and password for the recording of the webinar is below: https://vimeo.com/1223646192 Password: GBE-N-OSM-marick-2026 Please email the [email protected] inbox to request the slide deck and questionnaire issued.
Routine re-releases (4)
- 2026-05: 1 release · 21 May 2026
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Pipeline notice- Awards (0)
- No award published
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- No contract published
- Bid statistics
- No aggregate bid statistics published
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Official documents & specifications (4)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender
- Pipeline notice Pipeline notice on Find a Tender
- Pipeline notice Pipeline notice on Find a Tender