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Published 7 Aug 2026, 15:07 BST

Official UK procurement notice

NI Water - Fleet Maintenance and Management Services

Official notice Competition analysis

Authority: Northern Ireland Water (Public body)·Consortium: 2 public authorities

ServicesCompetitive flexible procedureAbove thresholdUtilitiesSME suitable
Sectors: Repair & Maintenance (50) Delivery: Northern Ireland (UKN)
Planned pipeline valueValue not publishedpipeline notice, not a live tender
Tender notice expected 14 Dec 2026from the planned procurement notice
Contract term 3 yrsends 30 Sept 2030 · up to 30 Sept 2034 with extensions · starts 1 Oct 2027

What is being bought

Published requirement description

NI Water's current contract for Fleet Maintenance and Management services expires October 2027. In preparation for the re-tender NI Water wish to engage with the market to understand the level of capability and interest in providing the services required under a contract.

CPV: Repair and maintenance services

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published
Lot #1PlannedRenewal 3 yrsSME
Contract period: 1 Oct 2027 – 30 Sept 2030 (3 yrs) · up to 30 Sept 2034 with extensions
Delivery: Northern IrelandEligibility: SME eligible
Extensions: Contract period is anticipated to be for an initial period of three years, with optional extensions of four years in total, subject to acceptable contractor performance.
50000000 Repair and maintenance services

Who is likely to bid for this lot ↓

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

How NORTHERN IRELAND WATER LIMITED buys Repair and maintenance services (CPV 50), and who usually turns up

NORTHERN IRELAND WATER 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: Repair and maintenance services (CPV 50) →

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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 buyerNORTHERN IRELAND WATER LIMITED · division 50
The marketRepair and maintenance services (CPV 50) · Northern Ireland
What to do with it
How often do SMEs win?
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.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 4 of 5 known-size awards · market: division 50 · Northern Ireland, n=128
80%77%

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

How often do local suppliers win?
i

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 Northern Ireland.

A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 7 of 7 known-location awards · market: division 50 · Northern Ireland, n=80
100%63%

Most of this buyer’s recorded winners are registered in Northern Ireland.

How long to a decision?
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.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 5 decided notices · market: division 50 · Northern Ireland, n=19
107 days50 days

Half of these awards were announced within 107 days of the bid deadline.

How often single-bid or direct?
i

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.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: at least 1 of 6 procurements with awards had no recorded rival · market: division 50 · Northern Ireland, n=114
17%46%

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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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.

Last 36 months.

This buyer6 lots with bid counts · broad CPV 50
17% had one bid
The market131 lots with bid counts · division 50 · Northern Ireland
14% had one bid
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
1 bid17% / 14%
Buyer: 1 of 6 lots with published bid counts. Market: 18 of 131 lots with published bid counts.
2–350% / 27%
Buyer: 3 of 6 lots with published bid counts. Market: 35 of 131 lots with published bid counts.
4–633% / 28%
Buyer: 2 of 6 lots with published bid counts. Market: 37 of 131 lots with published bid counts.
7+0% / 31%
Buyer: 0 of 6 lots with published bid counts. Market: 41 of 131 lots with published bid counts.

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.

Last 36 months.

This buyer5 lots with estimate and award · broad CPV 50
20% below estimate
The market74 lots with estimate and award · division 50 · Northern Ireland
24% below estimate
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
Below estimate20% / 24%
Buyer: 1 of 5 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 18 of 74 lots with an estimate and award.
Within ±2%40% / 64%
Buyer: 2 of 5 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 47 of 74 lots with an estimate and award.
Above estimate40% / 12%
Buyer: 2 of 5 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 9 of 74 lots with an estimate and award.
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Assess each lot
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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 #136 monthsSME suitableEstimate not published
Expected competition
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 131 past lots.

A forecast, not a list of bidders.

—No model forecast yet14% single-bid risk
Past bids on 131 similar lots
1 bid14%
18 of 131 similar past lots received 1 bid (14%).
2–327%
35 of 131 similar past lots received 2–3 (27%).
4–628%
37 of 131 similar past lots received 4–6 (28%).
7+31%
41 of 131 similar past lots received 7+ (31%).
Comparable past lots usually drew 4 bids.
Commercial price forecast
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.

—Estimate not published
The buyer published no estimate for this lot, so there is nothing to forecast against. A price prediction here would be a number about a number we do not have.

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.

SupplierThis buyer’s earlier contractLotAward valueWhy listed
AJ Armstrong & Sons LtdLive contractT152 Plant and Machinery – Service, Maintenance and Repairruns to Sept 2029—£900kMatched as the earlier contract

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.

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
Procedure method
Competitive flexible procedure
Legal basis
UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
Procurement category
Services
Notice status
Planned procurement
Procurement threshold
Above threshold (FTS publication)
Regulatory regime
Utilities
Commercial structure
Stand-alone contract (no framework)
Competition type
Competitive procedure
GPA / WTO covered
Unspecified in notice
Recurring procurement
Unspecified in notice
First published
7 Aug 2026, 15:07 BST
Last source update
26 Aug 2026, 15:40 BST
Award evaluation window
Submission end – 1 Jun 2027
Authority reference
T191
FTS notice number
2026/S 000-081459
Latest notice
Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
Classification (CPV)
Repair and maintenance services
Delivery area
Northern Ireland (UKN)
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06df52 Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice
Submission deadline
15 Jan 2027, 23:59 GMT
Electronic submission
Allowed
Accepted languages
en

Timeline

7 Aug 2026 → 1 Oct 2027 · 7 dates
  1. Planning notice published74 days ago
    7 Aug 2026, 15:07 BST
  2. Latest notice published55 days ago
    26 Aug 2026, 15:40 BST
  3. Market engagement3 days ago
    17 Oct 2026, 23:59 BST

    Interested parties can view a copy of the Request for Information (RFI) document on eTendersNI, or request a copy from [email protected]

    Interested parties are asked to review the RFI document and associated slides, and provide feedback on the proposed process, contract structure and other areas as requested in the document.

    NI Water also plan on holding a Supplier Day, anticipated to be early October 2026 - further details will be provided in due course.

  4. Today
    20 Oct 2026
  5. Tender notice expectedin 55 days
    14 Dec 2026, 23:59 GMT
  6. Submission deadlinein 87 days
    15 Jan 2027, 23:59 GMT
  7. Award decision expected byin 224 days
    1 Jun 2027, 23:59 BST
  8. Contract startsin 345 days
    1 Oct 2027, 00:00 BST

Notice history

3 events · 2 releases on Find a Tender · since 7 Aug 2026
  1. Planned procurement notice published
    7 Aug 2026, 15:07 BST
    UK3
  2. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    26 Aug 2026, 15:40 BST
    UK2
  3. Buyer details updated
    26 Aug 2026, 15:40 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

2 public bodies on the notice

NORTHERN IRELAND WATER LIMITED

Contracting authorityPublic authority - sub-central governmentNorthern Irish devolved regulations apply GB-COH: NI054463 · GB-PPON: PCZH-7295-JJTZ Westland House, Belfast, Northern Ireland, BT14 6TEContact email

Official documents & specifications (2)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure