Official UK procurement notice
LSL/DC/0233 - The Supply & Fitting of Sports Bras
Authority: LEIDOS SUPPLY, LIMITED (Central government)·On behalf of: TVS SUPPLY CHAIN SOLUTIONS LIMITED
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionIn April 2015, the MOD signed a thirteen year contract with Leidos Europe Ltd to provide the procurement and inventory management of commodity items (as well as the storage and distribution services), that were historically provided in-house by the Logistic Commodities and Services Operating Centre.
Leidos, working with the MOD, will transform the way these services are delivered to ensure requirements continue to be met whilst providing best value for money for the department. The organisation delivering these services is known as Team Leidos.
Team Leidos would like to make markets aware that we are intending to consider approaches that could fulfill our requirements for the Supply and Fitting of Sports Bras to UK Armed Forces.
This Requirement is for the Fitting and Supply of a range of Commercial off the shelf (COTS) Sports Bras for the UK Armed Forces Recruits; to be delivered to 9 sites throughout the UK.
Sports bras will be used for high impact activities including running, intensive cross training, sports and recreational activities.
No bespoke design or custom manufacturing is required.
The range of sports bras must cover the following three support performance types:
Compression – Presses the breasts against the chest wall to minimise movement.
Encapsulation – Uses separate cups to support each breast individually and reduce movement.
Combination - Combines compression and encapsulation to provide both individual support and overall stabilisation.
Within in each construction type listed above we require:
- a range of styles/designs
- a range of strap designs including racer back and/or cross shoulder strap.
- Items must be available in black, white, and skin tone colours
Sizing range needs to be between 26A through to 38H.
While not every range needs to be available in every size, each type (i.e. Compression), will need to be available in each size.
All items are to conform to their relevant specifications as detailed in the tender documentation. The specification will detail the makeup of the garment, sizing, care label requirements and testing required.
It is the aim of this Preliminary Market Engagement Notice (PMEN) to encourage companies, suppliers, or manufacturers to make us aware and provide as much information as they are comfortable with, to help decide the future strategy for the range.
Team Leidos wishes to generate interest, information and views with other companies to understand the current market innovation and gain useful intelligence that can help our requirement.
To request the PMEN documents please contact:
Name and Email address:
Charlotte Beavan
In the email, request the documents related the Supply and Fitting of Sports Bras.
The documents will then be sent for completion and should be returned to the same email addresses before the deadline.
Responses are required as soon as possible to inform next steps, but the PMEN will remain open until 06/11/2026.
CPV: Brassieres · Clothing accessories · Special clothing and accessories · Sports goods and equipment · Sportswear · Tailoring services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedPipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How LEIDOS SUPPLY, LIMITED buys Brassieres (CPV 1832), and who usually turns up
LEIDOS SUPPLY, LIMITED’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: Brassieres (CPV 1832) →
How the contest usually goes
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How often small and medium firms win.
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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 West England (authority’s region).
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
No winner locations published for this authority. Local means a registered address in South West 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 143 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.
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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 bid43% / 9%
2–314% / 22%
4–60% / 28%
7+43% / 41%
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 estimate34%
Within ±2%53%
Above estimate14%
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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 #1Published estimate£3.7m
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How many bids this lot may attract.
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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 108 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid9%
2–322%
4–628%
7+41%
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Where the award price may land.
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No comparable awards for this lot yet.
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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.
| Supplier | This buyer’s earlier contract | Lot | Award value | Why listed |
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| T.W Kempton Corporate Clothing LimitedEarlier contract | LSL/DC/0202 - The Supply of Beretsstarted Sept 2026 | The Supply of Berets | — | Matched as the earlier contract |
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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.
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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.
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Who has done similar work for this buyer.
Past contracts are matched by buyer, title and type of work.
47% title match.
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.
47% title match.
A past supplier may not bid again.
The prior contract this notice most likely re-tenders · matched by title and category (47% title match), the holder is not guaranteed to re-bid
LSL/DC/0202 - The Supply of Berets — held by T.W Kempton Corporate Clothing Limited; no contract end date published.
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
- 2 Apr 2026, 08:06 BST
- Last source update
- 13 Oct 2026, 13:22 BST
- Authority reference
LSL/DC/0233- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-096543- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-067b52Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
2 Apr 2026 → 2 Oct 2027 · 5 dates- Planning notice published201 days ago2 Apr 2026, 08:06 BST
- Latest notice published7 days ago13 Oct 2026, 13:22 BST
- Today20 Oct 2026
- Market engagementin 17 days6 Nov 2026, 23:59 GMT
To request the PMEN documents please contact:
Name and Email address:
Charlotte Beavan ([email protected])
Request the documents related to the Supply & Fitting of Sports Bras. The documents will then be sent for completion and should be returned to the same email addresses before the deadline. Responses are required as soon as possible to inform next steps, but the PMEN will remain open until 06/11/2026.
- Tender notice expectedin 48 days7 Dec 2026, 23:59 GMT
- Contract startsin 346 days2 Oct 2027, 00:00 BST
Notice history
3 events · 2 releases on Find a Tender · since 2 Apr 2026- Preliminary market engagement notice published2 Apr 2026, 08:06 BSTUK2
- Preliminary market engagement notice published13 Oct 2026, 13:22 BSTUK2
- Published value updated to £3,700,00013 Oct 2026, 13:22 BSTwas £2,000,000
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
2 public bodies on the noticeOther public bodies
- TVS SUPPLY CHAIN SOLUTIONS LIMITEDProcuring entityConduct various parts of the evaluation
Official documents & specifications (2)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender