Official UK procurement notice
Futures Afloat · UK public procurement notice
Authority: Corporation of Trinity House (Central government)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThe Corporation of Trinity House ("the Authority") intends to launch a procurement for the ‘Futures Afloat’ programme, aimed at delivering two state-of-the-art new ships. The Authority undertook an industry engagement event on 12 February 2025, which can be viewed online for further information on the Authority and the programme at www.youtube.com/watch ↗. Prior to launching the procurement, the Authority seeks input from the market as described below.
Trinity House as part of its commitment to Transparency, Collaboration and Clarity is releasing, in advance of the formal procurement process a suite of documents in draft for review, to provide insights and feedback on.
The first document to be released is the draft contract.
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CPV: Repair and maintenance services of ships · Ships · Ships and boats · Upgrading services of ships
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedProcedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Past planning notice
- 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
- 12 Mar 2025, 16:05 GMT
- Last source update
- 12 Mar 2025, 16:05 GMT
- FTS notice number
2025/S 000-009059- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Not published
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-04ec57Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
12 Mar 2025 → 1 Oct 2025 · 3 dates- Planning notice published12 Mar 2025, 16:05 GMT
- Market engagement1 Apr 2025, 00:59 BST
This notice is to inform you that the first document, in draft, IS available for interested parties to review through our Delta etendering portal - login.bipsolutions.com/casDelta/login ↗
The first document to be released is the draft contract for the purchase of two new state of the art ships for Trinity House.
We ask that interested parties register through the Delta portal to access these documents.
The contract is subject to further amendment at the Authority’s sole discretion. Whilst the Authority is seeking feedback on the entire document, it has a specific interest in any “red flag” areas which may prevent suppliers from participating in the procurement, in their opinion. Feedback on such areas will particularly assist the Authority in developing its approach to the contractual documentation/procurement.
Feedback can be provided via a message on Delta, by 23:59 on 31 March 2025.
This is the first in a series of documents to be released and there will be no prejudice should no feedback be provided on this or other draft documents shared for comment. The Authority will review all feedback provided by the deadline, but does not guarantee that it will incorporate any of the feedback received into any contractual/procurement documentation or element of the procurement process.
- Contract starts391 days ago1 Oct 2025
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Preliminary market engagement notice published12 Mar 2025, 16:05 GMTUK2
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 (1)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender