Official UK procurement notice
National Space Operations Centre: Monitoring and Evaluation 2026-2030
Authority: UK Space Agency (Central government)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThe National Space Operations Centre (NSpOC) is led by the UK Space Agency (UKSA) and UK Space Command in partnership with the Met Office.
NSpOC combines and coordinates civil and military space domain awareness capabilities to enable UK space operations and protect our interests in space and on Earth from space related threats, risks, and hazards. The space domain represents a rapidly evolving and strategically significant operational environment, characterised by continuous advancements in global capabilities, technologies, policy frameworks, and mission priorities. In alignment with the UK Government's broader objectives for national security, resilience, and innovation in space, the National Space Operations Centre (NSpOC) has been operating under its current model for the past year.
NSpOC requires an independent monitoring and evaluation contractor to scrutinise its performance against benefits and objectives set out in its approved business case, which covers the period to 31st March 2030. UKSA is offering this contract on a 2+2 basis until 31st March 2028 with an option to extend to 31st March 2030 to ensure continuity of provision.
**UKSA intends to launch this tender for competition in April 2026 and will be issuing via the Research and Insights Dynamic Purchasing System: it will only be open to bidders who are registered on the DPS and who meet the relevant filter criteria**
CPV: Evaluation consultancy services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1This Monitoring and Evaluation Contract will include 9 core work packages and one…Planned
This Monitoring and Evaluation Contract will include 9 core work packages and one optional work package, with full details set out in the specification. The core work packages are:
- WP1: Review of Existing Monitoring and Evaluation Plans
- WP2: Benefits Monitoring Reporting
- WP3: Process Evaluation
- WP4: Literature Review
- WP5: Impact Evaluation
- WP6: Economic Evaluation
- WP7: Monthly benefits reporting
- WP8: Benefits Management Strategy
- WP9: Project Management and Reporting
Optional WP10 is a Delivery Model Assessment. Please note these work packages are indicative and subject to change in the final requirement.
Pipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How UK Space Agency buys Business and management consultancy services (CPV 7941), and who usually turns up
UK Space Agency’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: Business and management consultancy services (CPV 7941) →
How the contest usually goes
Winner shares use published awards; bid and price charts use contested lots.
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.
Small firms have won here. Neither number says whether you qualify; it describes who has been winning.
i
How often local firms win similar work.
Winners with a registered address in the delivery region, out of awards with a known address.
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners are registered in the delivery region.
i
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 36 days of the bid deadline.
i
How often work is awarded with no recorded rival.
Direct awards and tenders where every published lot count shows one bid.
The buyer’s 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?
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.
1 bid13%
2–325%
4–625%
7+38%
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.
Assess each lot i
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.
i
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 #1This Monitoring and Evaluation Contract will include 9 core work packages and one…CPV 7941Published estimate£1.0m
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 278 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid15%
2–320%
4–624%
7+40%
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.
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.
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.
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
- CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Planned procurement
- Procurement threshold
- Unspecified in notice
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Yes (GPA)
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 12 Mar 2026, 13:27 GMT
- Last source update
- 12 Mar 2026, 13:27 GMT
- Authority reference
UKSAC26_0027- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-022323- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06685cFind a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
- —
- Participation fee
- document
Timeline
12 Mar 2026 → 18 Jun 2026 · 2 dates- Notice published225 days ago12 Mar 2026, 13:27 GMT
- Tender notice expected127 days ago18 Jun 2026, 00:00 BST
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
Official links; attachments are not copiedNo document links were published on the notice.