Find a TenderPlanned procurementPreliminary market engagement notice
Published 29 Sept 2026, 17:05 BST

Official UK procurement notice

ISO 9001 Certification and Audit Services

Authority: Maritime and Coastguard Agency (Central government)

ServicesBelow thresholdSME suitable
Sectors: Business Services & Consultancy (79) Delivery: Delivery location not published
Planned pipeline valueValue not publishedpipeline notice, not a live tender
Tender notice expected Date not publishedfrom the planned procurement notice
Contract term 3 yrsends 28 Aug 2030 · up to 29 Aug 2032 with extensions · starts 29 Aug 2027

What is being bought

Published requirement description

The Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) is undertaking early market engagement to understand supplier capability, delivery options and indicative costs for ISO 9001 certification and audit services.

The information received will help the MCA refine its requirements, assess market capacity and support the development of any future procurement approach.

CPV: Auditing services

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published
Lot #1PlannedRenewal 3 yrsSME
Contract period: 29 Aug 2027 – 28 Aug 2030 (3 yrs) · up to 29 Aug 2032 with extensions
Eligibility: SME eligible
Extensions: Extension options published

Who is likely to bid for this lot ↓

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

How Maritime and Coastguard Agency buys Accounting and auditing services (CPV 7921), and who usually turns up

Maritime and Coastguard Agency’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: Accounting and auditing services (CPV 7921) →

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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 buyerMaritime and Coastguard Agency · division 79
The marketAccounting and auditing services (CPV 7921) · South East England (authority’s region)
What to do with it
How often do SMEs win?
i

The counts under this question show how many awards have a known supplier size.

Buyer: 10 of 20 known-size awards · market: CPV 7921 · South East England (authority’s region), n=49
50%35%

Small firms have won here. Neither number says whether you qualify; it describes who has been winning.

How often do local suppliers win?
i

Local means the winner is registered in the region where that award was delivered. The market figure counts awards delivered in South East England (authority’s region).

Buyer: 0 of 0 known-location awards · market: CPV 7921 · South East England (authority’s region), n=51
0 of 016%

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
Buyer: no decision dates published · market: CPV 7921 · South East England (authority’s region), n=8
—64 days

Half of these awards have an award date within 64 days of the bid deadline.

How often single-bid or direct?
i

Both shares are minimums: some awards have no bid count.

Buyer: at least 23 of 25 procurements with awards had no recorded rival · market: CPV 7921 · South East England (authority’s region), n=57
92%44%

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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This buyer27 lots with bid counts · all categories
19% had one bid
The market11 lots with bid counts · CPV 7921 · South East England (authority’s region)
0% had one bid
% of lots with a published bid count: this buyer (27) / the market (11) · select a colour for counts
1 bid19% / 0%
Buyer: 5 of 27 lots with published bid counts. Market: 0 of 11 lots with published bid counts.
2–337% / 36%
Buyer: 10 of 27 lots with published bid counts. Market: 4 of 11 lots with published bid counts.
4–641% / 27%
Buyer: 11 of 27 lots with published bid counts. Market: 3 of 11 lots with published bid counts.
7+4% / 36%
Buyer: 1 of 27 lots with published bid counts. Market: 4 of 11 lots with published bid counts.

How did awards compare with estimates?

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This buyer9 lots with estimate and award · all categories
44% below estimate
The market10 lots with estimate and award · CPV 7921 · South East England (authority’s region)
40% below estimate
% of lots with an estimate and award: this buyer (9) / the market (10) · select a colour for counts
Below estimate44% / 40%
Buyer: 4 of 9 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 4 of 10 lots with an estimate and award.
Within ±2%44% / 20%
Buyer: 4 of 9 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 2 of 10 lots with an estimate and award.
Above estimate11% / 40%
Buyer: 1 of 9 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 4 of 10 lots with an estimate and award.
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Assess each lot
i

Open a lot for its forecast, this buyer’s previous supplier and possible competitors, from published award history, not a bid list

Lot #1CPV 792136 monthsSME suitableNo real estimate
Expected competition
i

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 11 past lots.

—No model forecast yet0% chance of a single bid
Past bids on 11 similar lots
1 bid0%
0 of 11 similar past lots received 1 bid (0%).
2–336%
4 of 11 similar past lots received 2–3 (36%).
4–627%
3 of 11 similar past lots received 4–6 (27%).
7+36%
4 of 11 similar past lots received 7+ (36%).
Comparable past lots usually drew 4 bids.
Commercial price forecast
i

No comparable awards for this lot yet.

—No real estimate
The buyer published £0 as the estimate (a placeholder, not the contract’s value), so there is nothing to forecast against.

Who has supplied this buyer on similar work?
i

No earlier contract of this buyer matches this lot on the published record.

Who could compete for this lot?
i

Candidate suppliers for this notice have not been worked out yet, so this is not a verdict that nobody fits.

About this data
  • Estimates, labelled. The price range, possible competitors and earlier-work matches are our estimates from past awards, not published facts, win chances or price advice. The buyer’s own record and the wider market are shown apart, never mixed.
  • Source. Official UK public procurement notices (Find a Tender and Contracts Finder), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0, updated through the day and rebuilt nightly. Not every figure uses both feeds, and each one shows how many records it rests on: see the methodology. Spotted something wrong? Tell us.

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Procedure terms & legal framework

From the official record
Legal basis
UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
Procurement category
Services
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
29 Sept 2026, 17:05 BST
Last source update
29 Sept 2026, 17:05 BST
FTS notice number
2026/S 000-092071
Latest notice
Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
Classification (CPV)
Auditing services
Delivery area
Not published
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-077ced Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice
Submission deadline
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Timeline

29 Sept 2026 → 29 Aug 2027 · 3 dates
  1. Planning notice published46 days ago
    29 Sept 2026, 17:05 BST
  2. Market engagement18 days ago
    27 Oct 2026, 23:59 GMT

    Market Consultation Questionnaire to be completed in the DfT eSourcing portal Jaggaer.

    Suppliers must register on the Department for Transport's (DfT) procurement portal (Jaggaer) in order to access the market consultation documents and respond to the questionnaire.

    dft.app.jaggaer.com/web/login.html ↗

    ***Once logged into Jaggaer navigate to: pqq_836 Early Market Engagement - ISO 9001 Certification and Audit Services***

  3. Today
    15 Nov 2026
  4. Contract startsin 286 days
    29 Aug 2027, 00:00 BST

Notice history

1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender
  1. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    29 Sept 2026, 17:05 BST
    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

Maritime and Coastguard Agency

Contracting authorityPublic authority - central government GB-PPON: PCWN-9665-QVMZ 105 Commercial Road, Southampton, South East, SO15 1EGContact email

Official documents & specifications (1)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure