Official UK procurement notice
Grimsby River Terminal – Civils Package
Authority: Associated British Ports
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionABP is seeking to identify and shortlist suitably qualified and experienced contractors with the capability, capacity and resources required to deliver the Grimsby River Terminal (GRT) Civils Package. Through this PSQ stage, applicants will be assessed on their relevant experience, technical expertise, financial standing, health and safety performance, quality management arrangements, environmental credentials and organisational capability, with a particular focus on evidence from comparable large-scale port, marine and complex civil engineering projects. Applicants that successfully demonstrate compliance with the selection criteria and meet ABP's minimum requirements will be invited to participate in the subsequent Invitation to Tender (ITT) stage of the Competitive Flexible Procedure.
- How the procedure runs: Stage 1 = Conditions of Participation Stage 2 = Invitation to Tender
CPV: Concrete work · Construction work for water and sewage pipelines · Construction work for water projects · Foundation work · Harbour construction works · Marine construction works · Paving and asphalting works · Pile driving · Quay construction work · Road construction works
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · value publishedLot #1Lot 1Published valueAED 0
- Value
- AED 0 exc. VAT · AED 0 inc. VAT
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).
Published sub-criteria (1)
- Technical Assessment — 100%
Published award criteria (1)
- Technical Assessment — 100%
No conditions of participation were published on the notice; check the tender documents.
Competition analysis · published record, not a forecast of who will bid
How Associated British Ports buys Construction work for water projects (CPV 4524) — and who usually turns up
Associated British Ports’s own published record, next to the Yorkshire and the Humber market for the same work. Frameworks and DPS are kept out: they attract a different number of bids. Whole-market view: Construction work for water projects (CPV 4524) →
How the contest usually goes
Left: this authority. Right: the market where the work is delivered. Bids and award-vs-estimate pairs are per lot, from contested contracts only — direct awards (including PA 2023 transparency notices) report one bid by definition and are left out. On Procurement Act 2023 notices the count is the tenders assessed at the final stage, not every submission received; pairs compare like with like (VAT-exclusive, or VAT-inclusive on both sides). Empty means nothing was published, not filled in from elsewhere.
Associated British Ports
contract notices in 36 months: 3 in CPV 4524 (1 route not published) · 14 in division 45 (2 route not published) · 53 in all categories (4 route not published)
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How many companies usually bid for work like this.
Middle value of published bid counts, one per lot, for this buyer or this region in the same sector.
Nothing published for this buyer in this sector: no bid reports published.
Nothing is filled in from UK-wide numbers. An empty tile means nothing usable was published.
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How often only one company bid.
Share of lots that received exactly one bid, on the same competitions as the bids figure.
Nothing published for this buyer in this sector: no bid reports published.
High means a thin market or an incumbent that is hard to beat.
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Do awards for work like this land above or below the estimate.
Estimate against award per lot, for this buyer or this region in the same sector.
Nothing published for this buyer in this sector: no comparable estimate → award pairs.
A past pattern, not a price to bid.
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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.
Based on this buyer’s tenders in this industry (CPV 45), last 36 months: 3 notices.
Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.
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How often this buyer changes a notice after publishing it.
Middle number of amendments per notice. Deadline extensions and corrections both count.
Based on this buyer’s tenders in all categories, last 24 months: 48 notices.
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How often this buyer awards without a competition.
Direct or limited awards as a share of its notices that say which procedure was used. These routes are legal in defined cases. This is just the record.
Based on this buyer’s tenders in this industry (CPV 45), last 36 months: 12 notices.
Yorkshire and the Humber · Construction work for water projects (CPV 4524)
contract notices delivered in Yorkshire and the Humber in 36 months: 20 in CPV 4524 (16 competed, 1 route not published) · 1,384 in division 45 (1,023 competed, 247 route not published)
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How many companies usually bid for work like this.
Middle value of published bid counts, one per lot, for this buyer or this region in the same sector.
Based on this region’s tenders in this sector (CPV 4524), last 36 months: 5 lots. 4 lots are from Procurement Act 2023 notices (bids assessed, middle 5.5) and 1 from older notices (bids received, middle 7).
Nothing is filled in from UK-wide numbers. An empty tile means nothing usable was published.
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How often only one company bid.
Share of lots that received exactly one bid, on the same competitions as the bids figure.
Based on this region’s tenders in this sector (CPV 4524), last 36 months: 5 lots.
High means a thin market or an incumbent that is hard to beat.
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Do awards for work like this land above or below the estimate.
Estimate against award per lot, for this buyer or this region in the same sector.
Based on this region’s tenders in this sector (CPV 4524), last 36 months: 3 pairs.
A past pattern, not a price to bid.
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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.
Based on this region’s tenders in this sector (CPV 4524), last 36 months: 4 notices.
Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.
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How much of this market goes to small and medium firms.
SME bidders where buyers published the split, otherwise SME winners.
Based on this region’s tenders in this sector (CPV 4524), last 36 months: 4 lots.
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How much work like this goes to companies based in the delivery region.
Awards in this category delivered here where the winner’s registered address is in the region.
Based on this region’s tenders in this sector (CPV 4524), last 36 months: 10 awards.
Registered address, so a national firm with a local branch counts as outside.
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Where this tender’s estimate would land if the usual pattern repeats.
We apply the buyer’s usual movement between estimate and award (or the region’s) to the estimate on this notice.
Based on 3 lots, so only the direction is shown, not a pound figure.
A benchmark, not a price to bid.
Coverage and what to read with care
- Each tile explains itself. The on a figure says what it is, how it is counted and which scope this notice’s own record came from (class, division, all categories, or the authority’s 24-month row). The two columns are never blended and nothing is filled from a UK-wide figure; an empty tile means the source published nothing usable. Long form: Methodology.
- Coverage. Roughly 40 % of notices publish a bid count; about half publish an ITL1 delivery location, so the market column reads the authority’s registered region when the notice has none (labelled). About 30 % of award-vs-estimate pairs are exact matches — the buyer published the award at the estimate. n is on every figure; a thin sample is muted, never hidden.
- “Match” and “relevance” are model scores from the nightly matcher, not published facts. Find a Tender does not publish who is bidding. Never shown: contact details, payment behaviour, or a recommended price.
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
- Open for expressions of interest
- Procurement threshold
- Above threshold (FTS publication)
- Regulatory regime
- Utilities
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- No (one-off requirement)
- First published
- 5 Oct 2026, 14:35 BST
- Last source update
- 5 Oct 2026, 14:35 BST
- Award evaluation window
- Submission end — 30 Nov 2026, 23:59 GMT
- Authority reference
INF-HUM-GRM /26/1717- Latest notice
- Tender notice (UK4)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-0780e4Find a Tender
- How it runs
- Stage 1 = Conditions of Participation Stage 2 = Invitation to Tender
How to participate & submission route
Official notice Submit via In-tend- Expression of interest (EOI)
- 30 Oct 2026, 12:00 GMT
- Tender submission deadline
- 30 Oct 2026, 12:00 GMT
- Clarification deadline
- 30 Oct 2026, 12:00 GMT
- Submission channel
- Official e-sourcing portal
- Electronic submission
- Allowed
- Accepted languages
- en
Timeline
6 published dates · Europe/London- Tender notice publishedearlier today5 Oct 2026, 14:35 BST
- Clarification questions byin 25 days30 Oct 2026, 12:00 GMT
- Expressions of interest byin 25 days30 Oct 2026, 12:00 GMT
- Submission deadlinein 25 days30 Oct 2026, 12:00 GMT
- Award decision expected byin 56 days30 Nov 2026, 23:59 GMT
- Contract startsin 176 days31 Mar 2027, 00:00 BST
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Nothing awarded yet- Awards (0)
- No award published
- Contracts (0)
- No contract published
- Bid statistics
- No aggregate bid statistics published
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Tender notice published5 Oct 2026, 14:35 BSTUK4
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Official documents & specifications (3)
Official links; attachments are not copiedTender pack and attachments
- Bidding documents and specifications
- Conflict of interest declarationNot published
Notices published for this procedure
- Tender notice Tender notice on Find a Tender