Official UK procurement notice
Lower Thames Crossing (LTC) Digital Geo-spatial Platform
Authority: National Highways Limited (Central government)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionNational Hhighways is seeking to procure, operate and maintain a digital geospatial platform that supports Health, Safety, Wellbeing and Security (HSW&S), operational delivery, emergency response, environmental protection, productivity improvement and programme assurance throughout the duration of the Works.
The platform shall provide real-time visibility of personnel, vehicles, plant and equipment and support the proactive identification, management and monitoring of risk through geospatially enabled monitoring, reporting, alerting and data analytics capabilities.
The platform shall have ability to communicate to contractor geo-spatial platforms and shall facilitate programme-wide visibility and information sharing.
CPV: Geographic information systems (GIS or equivalent) · Software package and information systems
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedPipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How National Highways Limited buys Geological prospecting apparatus (CPV 3822), and who usually turns up
National Highways Limited’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: Geological prospecting apparatus (CPV 3822) →
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.
Local means the winner is registered in the region where that award was delivered. The market figure counts awards delivered in Greater London.
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners were registered in the region where that award was delivered.
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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.
Half of these awards have an award date within 18 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.
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.
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 bid8% / 45%
2–346% / 27%
4–633% / 18%
7+13% / 9%
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 estimate27% / 29%
Within ±2%64% / 57%
Above estimate9% / 14%
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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 3822Published estimate£2.0m
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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 11 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid45%
2–327%
4–618%
7+9%
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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- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Goods
- 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
- 26 Aug 2026, 14:19 BST
- Last source update
- 26 Aug 2026, 14:19 BST
- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-081372- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06ecbfFind a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
26 Aug 2026 → 25 Jan 2027 · 4 dates- Planning notice published60 days ago26 Aug 2026, 14:19 BST
- Market engagement36 days ago18 Sept 2026, 23:59 BST
National Highways is undertaking preliminary market engagement in relation to this upcoming procurement associated with the Lower Thames Crossing Project.
The purpose of this supplier briefing session is to:
Provide an introduction to the Lower Thames Crossing Project.
Present an overview of the proposed requirement and draft scope of works.
Provide suppliers with an opportunity to ask questions and provide feedback to inform the procurement strategy.
Participation in this engagement exercise will not form part of any future evaluation process and will not provide any supplier with an advantage in any subsequent procurement.
Engagement Activity
Type of Engagement: Supplier Briefing Session
Date and Time:
04 September 2026, 2:00 PM (BST)
Location:
Microsoft Teams (virtual meeting)
Attendance
Suppliers wishing to attend should register by providing:
Name of attendee
Job title
Organisation name
Contact email address
How to Respond
Please confirm attendance by email to:
Suppliers should provide the details of attendees as outlined above.
Next Steps
Following registration, joining instructions and the Microsoft Teams meeting link will be issued to confirmed attendees.
Following the breifing a questionairre will be issued for suppliers to complete, a deadline of 2 weeks will be applied.
Feedback gathered during and following the engagement session may be used to help refine the procurement approach, scope of works, tender requirements and procurement timetable.
Additional Information
This notice is issued solely for the purposes of preliminary market engagement. It does not constitute a call for competition, a tender notice, or a commitment by National Highways to commence a procurement process or award any contract.
Interested suppliers should monitor Find a Tender and other relevant procurement portals for any future procurement opportunities related to this requirement.
- Today25 Oct 2026
- Tender notice expectedin 9 days2 Nov 2026, 23:59 GMT
- Contract startsin 92 days25 Jan 2027
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Preliminary market engagement notice published26 Aug 2026, 14:19 BSTUK2
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
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender