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Published 13 Nov 2026, 10:11 GMT

Official UK procurement notice

Life and Disability Insurance Services for the BE Paris

Official notice
Competition analysis

Authority: Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (Central government)

ServicesOpen procedureAbove threshold
Sectors: Financial and insurance services (66) Delivery: Delivery location not published
Published estimate£499,500≈ £250k / year · £499,500 inc. VAT
Submission deadline 14 Dec 202617:00 GMT · 31 days left
Clarification cut-off 7 Dec 202617:00 GMT · questions to the authority
Contract term 2 yrsends 31 Dec 2028 · up to 31 Dec 2031 with extensions · starts 1 Jan 2027
Notice summaryFrom the published notice

Life, Disability and Occupational Healthcare Insurance.

What is being bought

Published requirement description

Life, Disability and Occupational Healthcare Insurance

  • The authority expects to re-tender this requirement around 30 Jun 2031, 23:59 BST.
  • No preliminary market engagement: A preliminary market engagement notice was not published because the required market intelligence had already been obtained through a broker-led market exercise involving several insurers. This provided sufficient evidence of supplier appetite, available insurance solutions and pricing to inform the procurement strategy, and additional preliminary market engagement was therefore not considered proportionate.

CPV: Insurance services

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The lotProcurement structure

single lot · value published
Lot #1Renewal 2 yrsPublished value£499,500
Contract period: 1 Jan 2027 – 31 Dec 2028 (2 yrs) · up to 31 Dec 2031 with extensionsValue: £499,500 exc. VAT · £499,500 inc. VAT
Turnover guideline: ~£498,817/yr≈ 2× annual value
Extensions: Three optional one-year extensions
66510000 Insurance services

Who is likely to bid for this lot ↓

What it takes to win
i

Evaluation split and conditions of participation as published; the tender pack may add more
How bids are scored
Quality: 60%Price: 40%
Published award criteria (2)
  • Quality
  • Price

No conditions of participation were published on the notice; check the tender documents.

What this means for your bid
  • Price carries 40 of 100 points: a 10% discount moves about 4 points. The method statement decides this lot, not the discount.
  • Turnover usually expected at this size: about £498,817 (twice the annual value).

Price arithmetic assumes straight proportional scoring; the tender pack may use another formula. Turnover is an indicative market norm (≈2× annual value), not a published condition.

Competition analysis · published record, not a forecast of who will bid

How Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office buys Insurance services (CPV 6651), and who usually turns up

Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office’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: Insurance services (CPV 6651) →

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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 buyerForeign, Commonwealth and Development Office · all categories
The marketInsurance services (CPV 6651) · Greater London (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: 182 of 557 known-size awards · market: CPV 6651 · Greater London (authority’s region), n=103
33%7%

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 Greater London (authority’s region).

Buyer: 1 of 2 known-location awards · market: CPV 6651 · Greater London (authority’s region), n=80
1 of 245%

Most of this buyer’s recorded winners were registered in the region where that award was delivered.

How long to a decision?
i
Buyer: 102 decided notices · market: CPV 6651 · Greater London (authority’s region), n=15
68 days79 days

Half of these awards have an award date within 68 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 79 of 477 procurements with awards had no recorded rival · market: CPV 6651 · Greater London (authority’s region), n=88
17%40%

Missing bid counts may hide more single-bid awards. This share is a minimum.

How many bids did past lots attract?

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This buyer140 lots with bid counts · all categories
14% had one bid
The market63 lots with bid counts · CPV 6651 · Greater London (authority’s region)
21% had one bid
% of lots with a published bid count: this buyer (140) / the market (63) · select a colour for counts
1 bid14% / 21%
Buyer: 20 of 140 lots with published bid counts. Market: 13 of 63 lots with published bid counts.
2–354% / 48%
Buyer: 75 of 140 lots with published bid counts. Market: 30 of 63 lots with published bid counts.
4–625% / 32%
Buyer: 35 of 140 lots with published bid counts. Market: 20 of 63 lots with published bid counts.
7+7% / 0%
Buyer: 10 of 140 lots with published bid counts. Market: 0 of 63 lots with published bid counts.

How did awards compare with estimates?

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This buyer89 lots with estimate and award · all categories
40% below estimate
The market23 lots with estimate and award · CPV 6651 · Greater London (authority’s region)
57% below estimate
% of lots with an estimate and award: this buyer (89) / the market (23) · select a colour for counts
Below estimate40% / 57%
Buyer: 36 of 89 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 13 of 23 lots with an estimate and award.
Within ±2%34% / 17%
Buyer: 30 of 89 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 4 of 23 lots with an estimate and award.
Above estimate26% / 26%
Buyer: 23 of 89 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 6 of 23 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 665124 monthsPublished estimate£500k
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 63 past lots.

—No model forecast yet21% chance of a single bid
Past bids on 63 similar lots
1 bid21%
13 of 63 similar past lots received 1 bid (21%).
2–348%
30 of 63 similar past lots received 2–3 (48%).
4–632%
20 of 63 similar past lots received 4–6 (32%).
7+0%
0 of 63 similar past lots received 7+ (0%).
Comparable past lots usually drew 3 bids.
Commercial price forecast
i

No comparable awards for this lot yet.

—No model forecast yet
No comparable awards on record for this lot’s category yet. The published estimate is £500k, and the forecast stays empty until the market has a record to read.

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.

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
Open for tender
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
Yes · next expected 30 Jun 2031
First published
13 Nov 2026, 10:11 GMT
Last source update
13 Nov 2026, 10:11 GMT
Award evaluation window
Submission end – 23 Dec 2026
FTS notice number
2026/S 000-107850
Latest notice
Tender notice (UK4)
Classification (CPV)
Insurance services
Delivery area
Not published
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-07bb42 Find a Tender

How to participate & submission route

Official notice
Requests to participate (first stage)
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Tender submission deadline
14 Dec 2026, 17:00 GMT
Clarification deadline
7 Dec 2026, 17:00 GMT
Electronic submission
Not allowed
Accepted languages
en
Detailed submission instructions & authority contactsFrom official release

The tenders have to be submitted directly to MIA broker company.

Published estimate £499,500 excludes VAT (£499,500 including VAT).

Timeline

13 Nov 2026 → 1 Jan 2027 · 5 dates
  1. Tender notice published1h ago
    13 Nov 2026, 10:11 GMT
  2. Today
    13 Nov 2026
  3. Clarification questions byin 24 days
    7 Dec 2026, 17:00 GMT
  4. Submission deadlinein 31 days
    14 Dec 2026, 17:00 GMT
  5. Award decision expected byin 40 days
    23 Dec 2026, 23:59 GMT
  6. Contract startsin 48 days
    1 Jan 2027

Notice history

1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender
  1. Tender notice published
    13 Nov 2026, 10:11 GMT
    UK4

Commercial outcome & contract awards

Nothing awarded yet
Awards (0)
No award published
Contracts (0)
No contract published
Bid statistics
No aggregate bid statistics published

Contracting authority & participating public bodies

Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Contracting authorityPublic authority - central government GB-PPON: PXRR-8771-PHVX King Charles Street, London, London, SW1A 2AHContact email

Official documents & specifications (1)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure

  • Tender notice tenderTender noticeUK4Tender notice on Find a Tender