Official UK procurement notice
Pipelines - Support and Development
Authority: UK Hydrographic Office (Central government)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionUKHO requires a supplier to provide support, maintenance and development services for its Product Aggregation Pipeline systems. The successful supplier will support existing operational services, maintain legacy and cloud-based platforms, deliver system enhancements, and provide development capability to support the ongoing modernisation of UKHO's digital navigation product aggregation services.
The contract will be for 4 years with the option to extend.
For more information about this opportunity, please visit the eSourcing portal at:
https://ukho.delta-esourcing.com/tenders/UK-UK-Taunton:-IT-services:-consulting%2C-software-development%2C-Internet-and-support./293S97B3VX
To respond to this opportunity, please click here:
https://ukho.delta-esourcing.com/respond/293S97B3VX
- How the procedure runs: The process will consist of a 2 stage process: Participation stage ITT stage
CPV: IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · value publishedLot #1Lot 1RenewalPublished value£5,500,000
- Value
- £5,500,000 exc. VAT · £6,600,000 inc. VAT
- Extensions
- the authority reserves the right to extend by up to 5 years
What it takes to wini
How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
Evaluation split and conditions of participation as published — the tender pack may add morei
How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
Published sub-criteria (1)
- Weightings and criteria to be provided at the ITT stage — 100%
- Technical & professional abilitySupplier must be able to provide SC cleared Staff The supplier must have Maritime and Defence Experience The supplier must have experience in the skills and expertise in the areas outlined within the questionnaire.
Competition analysis · published record, not a forecast of who will bid
How UK Hydrographic Office buys IT services: consulting, software, internet (CPV 72) — and who usually turns up
UK Hydrographic Office’s own published record, next to the South West England market for the same work. Frameworks and DPS are kept out: they attract a different number of bids. Whole-market view: IT services: consulting, software, internet (CPV 72) →
How the contest usually goes
Left: this authority. Right: the market where the work is delivered. Bids and award-vs-estimate pairs are per lot, from contested contracts only — direct awards (including PA 2023 transparency notices) report one bid by definition and are left out. On Procurement Act 2023 notices the count is the tenders assessed at the final stage, not every submission received; pairs compare like with like (VAT-exclusive, or VAT-inclusive on both sides). Empty means nothing was published, not filled in from elsewhere.
UK Hydrographic Office
contract notices in 36 months: 11 in division 72 (4 without competition · 1 route not published) · 30 in all categories (4 without competition · 3 route not published)
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How many companies usually bid for work like this.
Middle value of published bid counts, one per lot, for this buyer or this region in the same sector.
Based on this buyer’s tenders in all categories, last 36 months: 4 lots. 2 lots are from Procurement Act 2023 notices (bids assessed, middle 2) and 2 from older notices (bids received, middle 9).
Nothing is filled in from UK-wide numbers. An empty tile means nothing usable was published.
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How often only one company bid.
Share of lots that received exactly one bid, on the same competitions as the bids figure.
Based on this buyer’s tenders in all categories, last 36 months: 4 lots.
High means a thin market or an incumbent that is hard to beat.
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Do awards for work like this land above or below the estimate.
Estimate against award per lot, for this buyer or this region in the same sector.
Based on this buyer’s tenders in all categories, last 36 months: 4 pairs.
A past pattern, not a price to bid.
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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.
Based on this buyer’s tenders in all categories, last 24 months: 5 notices.
Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.
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How often this buyer changes a notice after publishing it.
Middle number of amendments per notice. Deadline extensions and corrections both count.
Based on this buyer’s tenders in all categories, last 24 months: 59 notices.
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How often this buyer awards without a competition.
Direct or limited awards as a share of its notices that say which procedure was used. These routes are legal in defined cases. This is just the record.
Based on this buyer’s tenders in this industry (CPV 72), last 36 months: 10 notices.
South West England · IT services: consulting, software, internet (CPV 72)
contract notices delivered in South West England in 36 months: 553 in division 72 (245 competed, 121 route not published) · the notice publishes no delivery location, so the authority’s registered region is used
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How many companies usually bid for work like this.
Middle value of published bid counts, one per lot, for this buyer or this region in the same sector.
Based on this region’s tenders in this industry (CPV 72), last 36 months: 115 lots. 71 lots are from Procurement Act 2023 notices (bids assessed, middle 5) and 44 from older notices (bids received, middle 4).
Nothing is filled in from UK-wide numbers. An empty tile means nothing usable was published.
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How often only one company bid.
Share of lots that received exactly one bid, on the same competitions as the bids figure.
Based on this region’s tenders in this industry (CPV 72), last 36 months: 115 lots.
High means a thin market or an incumbent that is hard to beat.
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Do awards for work like this land above or below the estimate.
Estimate against award per lot, for this buyer or this region in the same sector.
Based on this region’s tenders in this industry (CPV 72), last 36 months: 71 pairs.
A past pattern, not a price to bid.
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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.
Based on this region’s tenders in this industry (CPV 72), last 36 months: 77 notices.
Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.
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How much of this market goes to small and medium firms.
SME bidders where buyers published the split, otherwise SME winners.
Based on this region’s tenders in this industry (CPV 72), last 36 months: 91 lots.
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How much work like this goes to companies based in the delivery region.
Awards in this category delivered here where the winner’s registered address is in the region.
Based on this region’s tenders in this industry (CPV 72), last 36 months: 245 awards.
Registered address, so a national firm with a local branch counts as outside.
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Where this tender’s estimate would land if the usual pattern repeats.
We apply the buyer’s usual movement between estimate and award (or the region’s) to the estimate on this notice.
Based on 4 lots, so only the direction is shown, not a pound figure.
A benchmark, not a price to bid.
Coverage and what to read with care
- Each tile explains itself. The on a figure says what it is, how it is counted and which scope this notice’s own record came from (class, division, all categories, or the authority’s 24-month row). The two columns are never blended and nothing is filled from a UK-wide figure; an empty tile means the source published nothing usable. Long form: Methodology.
- Coverage. Roughly 40 % of notices publish a bid count; about half publish an ITL1 delivery location, so the market column reads the authority’s registered region when the notice has none (labelled). About 30 % of award-vs-estimate pairs are exact matches — the buyer published the award at the estimate. n is on every figure; a thin sample is muted, never hidden.
- “Match” and “relevance” are model scores from the nightly matcher, not published facts. Find a Tender does not publish who is bidding. Never shown: contact details, payment behaviour, or a recommended price.
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
- Open for expressions of interest
- 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
- No (one-off requirement)
- First published
- 24 Sept 2026, 20:22 BST
- Last source update
- 24 Sept 2026, 20:22 BST
- Award evaluation window
- Submission end — 27 Jan 2027, 23:59 GMT
- Latest notice
- Tender notice (UK4)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Not published
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-0779feFind a Tender
- How it runs
- The process will consist of a 2 stage process: Participation stage ITT stage
How to participate & submission route
Official notice Submit via Delta eSourcing- Expression of interest (EOI)
- 19 Oct 2026, 17:00 BST
- Tender submission deadline
- 19 Oct 2026, 17:00 BST
- Clarification deadline
- 14 Oct 2026, 17:00 BST
- Submission channel
- Official e-sourcing portal
- Electronic submission
- Allowed
- Accepted languages
- en
Timeline
6 published dates · Europe/London- Tender notice publishedearlier today24 Sept 2026, 20:22 BST
- Clarification questions byin 20 days14 Oct 2026, 17:00 BST
- Expressions of interest byin 25 days19 Oct 2026, 17:00 BST
- Submission deadlinein 25 days19 Oct 2026, 17:00 BST
- Award decision expected byin 125 days27 Jan 2027, 23:59 GMT
- Contract startsin 218 days1 May 2027, 00:00 BST
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Nothing awarded yet- Awards (0)
- No award published
- Contracts (0)
- No contract published
- Bid statistics
- No aggregate bid statistics published
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Tender notice published24 Sept 2026, 20:22 BSTUK4
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Official documents & specifications (2)
Official links; attachments are not copiedTender pack and attachments
- Conflict of interest declarationNot published
Notices published for this procedure
- Tender notice Tender notice on Find a Tender