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Published 6 Nov 2025, 16:15 GMT

Official UK procurement notice

ID 6152832 - PSNI - Managed Uniform Service - Preliminary Market Engagement (PME) Exercise

Official notice Competition analysis

Authority: Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) (Central government)·On behalf of: CPD - Supplies and Services Division

GoodsBelow thresholdSME suitable
Sectors: Clothing, footwear, luggage articles and accessories (18)Security, fire-fighting, police and defence equipment (35) Delivery: Delivery location not published
Planned pipeline value£9,000,000pipeline notice, not a live tender
Tender notice expected 26 Feb 2026from the planned procurement notice
Contract term 9 yrs 9 moends 30 Jun 2037 · up to 30 Jun 2039 with extensions · starts 1 Oct 2027

What is being bought

Published requirement description

The Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) is currently preparing to initiate a

procurement process to establish a contract with a Supplier for the provision of a

comprehensive Managed Uniform Service. To inform same, the PSNI is undertaking this

Preliminary Market Engagement (PME) exercise.

CPV: Clothing, footwear, luggage articles and accessories · Occupational clothing, special workwear and accessories · Outerwear · Security, fire-fighting, police and defence equipment · Special clothing and accessories

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published
Lot #1PlannedRenewal 9 yrs 9 moSME
Contract period: 1 Oct 2027 – 30 Jun 2037 (9 yrs 9 mo) · up to 30 Jun 2039 with extensions
Eligibility: SME eligible
Extensions: Extension options published
18000000 Clothing, footwear, luggage articles and accessories18100000 Occupational clothing, special workwear and accessories18200000 Outerwear18400000 Special clothing and accessories35000000 Security, fire-fighting, police and defence equipment

Who is likely to bid for this lot ↓

Pipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published

How Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) buys Occupational clothing, special workwear and accessories (CPV 1810), and who usually turns up

Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) has little published record in this market. Frameworks and DPS are left out: they draw different bid counts. Whole-market view: Occupational clothing, special workwear and accessories (CPV 1810) →

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How the contest usually goes

Winner shares use published awards; bid and price charts use contested lots.

Question for the bid
This buyerPolice Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) · this authority
The marketOccupational clothing, special workwear and accessories (CPV 1810)
What to do with it
How often do SMEs win?
i

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.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: no supplier sizes published · market: CPV 1810 · Northern Ireland (authority’s region), n=9
—89%

No supplier sizes published for this authority.

How often do local suppliers win?
i

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.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: no winner locations published · market: CPV 1810 · UK-wide, n=27
—44%

No winner locations published for this authority. Local means a registered address in the region where that award was delivered.

How long to a decision?
i

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.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: no decision dates published · market: CPV 1810 · UK-wide, n=8
—63 days

Half of these awards have an award date within 63 days of the bid deadline.

How often single-bid or direct?
i

How often work is awarded with no recorded rival.

Direct awards and tenders where every published lot count shows one bid.

The market share is a minimum: some awards have no bid count.

Thin markets produce this too; it is not proof of a tailored specification.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: no awards on record · market: CPV 1810 · UK-wide, n=45
—38%

No awards recorded for this authority in this market.

How many bids did past lots attract?

i

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.

Last 36 months.

This buyer8 lots with bid counts · all categories
25% had one bid
The market10 lots with bid counts · CPV 1810 · Northern Ireland (authority’s region)
0% had one bid
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
1 bid25% / 0%
Buyer: 2 of 8 lots with published bid counts. Market: 0 of 10 lots with published bid counts.
2–350% / 20%
Buyer: 4 of 8 lots with published bid counts. Market: 2 of 10 lots with published bid counts.
4–625% / 0%
Buyer: 2 of 8 lots with published bid counts. Market: 0 of 10 lots with published bid counts.
7+0% / 80%
Buyer: 0 of 8 lots with published bid counts. Market: 8 of 10 lots with published bid counts.

How did awards compare with estimates?

i

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.

Last 36 months.

This buyer8 lots with estimate and award · all categories
25% below estimate
The market15 lots with estimate and award · CPV 1810 · UK-wide
27% below estimate
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
Below estimate25% / 27%
Buyer: 2 of 8 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 4 of 15 lots with an estimate and award.
Within ±2%25% / 47%
Buyer: 2 of 8 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 7 of 15 lots with an estimate and award.
Above estimate50% / 27%
Buyer: 4 of 8 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 4 of 15 lots with an estimate and award.
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Assess each lot
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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 18117 monthsSME suitablePublished estimate£9.0m

This lot lists more than one class in CPV 18. The comparison uses that group.

Expected competition
i

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 32 past lots.

A forecast, not a list of bidders.

—No model forecast yet3% chance of a single bid
Past bids on 32 similar lots
1 bid3%
1 of 32 similar past lots received 1 bid (3%).
2–322%
7 of 32 similar past lots received 2–3 (22%).
4–613%
4 of 32 similar past lots received 4–6 (13%).
7+63%
20 of 32 similar past lots received 7+ (63%).
Comparable past lots usually drew 10.5 bids.
Commercial price forecast
i

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.

—No model forecast yet
No comparable awards on record for this lot’s category yet. The published estimate is £9.0m, and the forecast stays empty until the market has a record to read.

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.

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.

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
UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
Procurement category
Goods
Notice status
Planned procurement
Procurement threshold
Below threshold
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
6 Nov 2025, 16:15 GMT
Last source update
6 Nov 2025, 16:15 GMT
Authority reference
ID 6152832
FTS notice number
2025/S 000-071771
Latest notice
Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
Classification (CPV)
Clothing, footwear, luggage articles and accessoriesOccupational clothing, special workwear and accessoriesOuterwearSecurity, fire-fighting, police and defence equipmentSpecial clothing and accessories
Delivery area
Not published
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-05dc27 Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice
Submission deadline
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Timeline

6 Nov 2025 → 1 Oct 2027 · 4 dates
  1. Planning notice published356 days ago
    6 Nov 2025, 16:15 GMT
  2. Market engagement334 days ago
    28 Nov 2025, 23:59 GMT

    Any Suppliers wishing to participate in the Contracting Authority's Preliminary Market Engagement for this requirement, must complete the questionnaire available via eTendersNI under ID 6152832.

    The questionnaire must be completed and submitted via TendersNI by the engagement deadline date and time detailed above.

    Please note a supplier information day will be held on 20 November 2025 information on this is contained in the above mentioned document.

  3. Tender notice expected244 days ago
    26 Feb 2026, 23:59 GMT
  4. Today
    29 Oct 2026
  5. Contract startsin 336 days
    1 Oct 2027, 00:00 BST

Notice history

1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender
  1. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    6 Nov 2025, 16:15 GMT
    UK2

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

3 public bodies on the notice

Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI)

Contracting authorityPublic authority - central governmentNorthern Irish devolved regulations apply GB-PPON: PJGZ-5912-BTWQ 65 Knock Road, Belfast, Northern Ireland, BT5 6LEContact email

Other public bodies

  • CPD - Supplies and Services DivisionBeneficiary authority
  • CPD - Suppliers & Services DivisionProcess contact pointProcuring entityConstruction and Procurement Delivery - Supplies and Services Division, is a Centre of Procurement Expertise and provides a central procurement function for central government in Northern Ireland.GB-PPON: PVWG-8426-YWXV Belfast, Northern IrelandContact email

Official documents & specifications (1)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure