Official UK procurement notice
H3AT Conformity Assessment Body and Third Party Inspection Services
Authority: UK Atomic Energy Authority (Central government)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThe United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) requires the services of a Conformity Assessment Body accredited by UKAS, with the demonstrated capability to perform Regulatory Conformity Assessment under the UK regulatory framework, including the issuance of assessments and certifications supporting UKCA marking. The organisation shall also be capable of performing CE conformity assessments, supported by an appropriate and recognised accreditation equivalent to UKAS accreditation, such as appointment as an EU Notified Body or accreditation issued by an EU‑recognised national accreditation body, in order to ensure full compliance with the applicable European regulatory requirements. The Body shall further be capable of acting as a Third Party Inspection (TPI) organisation and of providing inspection services on behalf of UKAEA, including general inspections, technical evaluations, and the attendance and witnessing of Non‑Destructive Testing (NDT), pressure equipment, and welding activities, in accordance with the applicable UK and abroad regulations, standards, and certification schemes. The Inspection Agency shall be capable of mobilising personnel within geographical regions In UK, Europe, North America, Centre South America, Australia, Asia, Africa
CPV: Certification services · Industrial quality control services · Services furnished by professional organisations · Services furnished by specialist organisations · Technical inspection services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · value publishedLot #1PlannedRenewalPublished value£675,000
Pipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How UK Atomic Energy Authority buys Technical inspection and testing services (CPV 7163), and who usually turns up
UK Atomic Energy Authority’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: Technical inspection and testing services (CPV 7163) →
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.
Here, local means registered in South East England (authority’s region).
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners are registered outside South East England.
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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.
Half of these awards were announced within 24 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 bid24% / 8%
2–338% / 15%
4–616% / 31%
7+22% / 46%
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 estimate40% / 50%
Within ±2%37% / 0%
Above estimate23% / 50%
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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 7163Published estimate£675k
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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 13 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid8%
2–315%
4–631%
7+46%
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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
- Open procedure
- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Services
- 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
- 19 Oct 2026, 14:03 BST
- Last source update
- 19 Oct 2026, 14:03 BST
- Award evaluation window
- Submission end – 29 Jan 2027
- Authority reference
T/100EV/26- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-098513- Latest notice
- Planned procurement notice (UK3)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Not published
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-078acfFind a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
- 30 Nov 2026
- Clarification deadline
- 16 Nov 2026
- Submission channel
- Official e-sourcing portal
- Electronic submission
- Allowed
- Accepted languages
- en
The procurement documents for T/100EV/26 will be available for unrestricted and full direct access, free of charge, at: uk.eu-supply.com/ctm/Supplier/PublicT… ↗
Timeline
19 Oct 2026 → 1 Mar 2027 · 6 dates- Planning notice published1 day ago19 Oct 2026, 14:03 BST
- Today20 Oct 2026
- Tender notice expectedin 15 days3 Nov 2026, 23:59 GMT
- Clarification questions byin 27 days16 Nov 2026
- Submission deadlinein 41 days30 Nov 2026
- Award decision expected byin 102 days29 Jan 2027, 23:59 GMT
- Contract startsin 132 days1 Mar 2027
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Planned procurement notice published19 Oct 2026, 14:03 BSTUK3
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
- Planned procurement notice Planned procurement notice on Find a Tender