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Port of Dover - Planning Framework 2025 - 2029

Buyer: Dover Harbour Board →

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BuyerDover Harbour Board
StatusClosed
Deadline29 Sept 2025
Value£2,000,000
Published2 Sept 2025

What is being bought

The Port of Dover intends to renew its planning services for a period of 4 years, this role will serve as the single point of contact for all planning services across the Port of Dover, ensuring that projects and programmes are planned and controlled consistently, effectively, and in accordance with governance requirements, project controls, contractual obligations, and reporting standards. This service will serve as the single point of contact for all planning services across the Port of Dover, ensuring that projects and programmes are planned and controlled consistently, effectively, and in accordance with governance requirements, project controls, contractual obligations, and reporting standards. • The Planning Services, is expected to champion the integration of Project Management, PMO, and Quantity Surveying functions to deliver the "One Team" approach essential for Working Smarter Together. This will be a site based role for a lead Snr Planner with additional planners as required to fulfil the requirements of the role and; • Provide oversight and accountability for planning service provision • Provide strategic direction to planning resources, ensuring professional development and capability building • Ensure planning team competency in QCRA, QSRA, EVM, and selected planning tools • Deliver training and coaching on planning processes and tools • Manage the performance of planning resources • Foster a collaborative culture promoting the "One Team" approach • Leadership & Management Skills • Team Leadership: Proven experience managing senior stakeholders and inspiring collaborative teams • Strategic Thinking: Ability to translate objectives into effective planning strategies • Communication Excellence: Outstanding verbal and written communication skills • Stakeholder Management: Demonstrated ability to manage complex stakeholder relationships • Advanced Planning Expertise: Minimum experience as detailed in schedule of rates in developing and maintaining complex schedules for construction projects for lead • Planning Tools Mastery: Extensive experience with software (ideally Primavera P6 and MS Project) • Earned Value Management: Thorough understanding of EVM principles and practical application • Risk Analysis: Proven experience performing QSRA and QCRA on project schedules • Schedule Assurance: Experience in forensic analysis and contractor schedule review • Construction Industry Knowledge • Construction Planning: Extensive experience managing and planning construction projects • Contractor Management: Proven track record managing external contractors and consultants • NEC Contract Knowledge: Understanding of NEC contract management and commercial frameworks • Procurement Understanding: Knowledge of procurement models and their impact on project delivery • Benefits Management: Understanding of links between project plans and business case realisation

Delivery location

UKJ44, GB

Categories

Technical planning services 71356400

Lot details

Lot 1

No lot description published.

Statusactive
Value£2,000,000
Contract periodFrom 17 Oct 2025 to 17 Oct 2029
SME suitabilitySuitable for SMEs

Award criteria
Quality (60%)
Commercial (40%)

What is included

ItemCategoryQuantity
1Technical planning servicesNot published

Comparable-procurement analytics

Benchmarked against retained Find a Tender procedures with CPV division 71. The category anchor is Technical planning services (71356400); this is a deliberately broad market comparator. The comparison is shown at several levels rather than pretending one company or region is always the best benchmark.

Comparison setProceduresReported bids per procedureNamed award suppliersPrice evidence
Market: CPV division 716,6754 median · 31.6 average (2,418 of 6,675 with a bid count)4.2 average (2,685 of 6,675 with named award suppliers)Not published
Same buyer0Not publishedNot publishedNot published
Delivery region: UKJ44115.5 median · 8 average (4 of 11 with a bid count)1 average (4 of 11 with named award suppliers)Not published
Similar published value (0.5×–2×)4265.5 median · 12.8 average (4 of 426 with a bid count)6.8 average (4 of 426 with named award suppliers)Not published

“Reported bids” is an official aggregate, sometimes reported per lot; it is the closest available competition measure. “Named award suppliers” are winners, not all applicants.

Price-outcome signal

Not enough comparable procedures currently publish both a GBP tender value and a usable lowest-valid-bid value to calculate a responsible price-reduction benchmark. Tenderline deliberately does not infer a saving from named award suppliers or from missing award values.

Procurement strategy & market signals

Framework agreementYes
Dynamic purchasing systemNot published
Competitive procurementNot published
Recurring requirementNot published
Procurement method rationaleNot published
Rationale classificationsNot published
Special regimeutilities
Covered byNot published
Submission policyallowed
Selection criteriaNot published
Risk detailsNot published

Planning & early market engagement

BudgetNot published
No-engagement rationaleNot published
Planning documents0
Planning milestones0

No planning milestones published.

Related procurements

No linked framework, prior procurement or reprocurement published.

Documents & submission route

Source data inventory

Diagnostic view. “Not published” means this current release does not provide a value.

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Latest release ID053023-2025
Latest release timestampTue Sep 02 2025 09:08:26 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Sourcefind-a-tender
Official notice URLhttps://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/053023-2025
Tender statusactive
Procurement methodopen
Procurement method detailsOpen procedure
Main procurement categoryservices
Above thresholdYes
Legal basis2023/54
Tender period: startNot published
Tender period: end2025-09-29T09:00:00+01:00
Expression of interest deadlineNot published
Enquiry deadlineNot published
Award period: startNot published
Award period: end2025-10-03T23:59:59+01:00
Submission method detailsThe tender will be conducted via the Contracting Authority's procurement platform, for which any applicant must be registered. This is located here: https://in-tendhost.co.uk/portofdover/aspx/Home
Submission languagesen
Electronic catalogue policyNot published
Total tender value£2,000,000
Tender lots in source1
Tender items in source1
Tender documents in source2
Awards in latest release0
Contracts in latest release0
Parties in latest release1

Notice history

DateEventReference
2 Sept 2025tender053023-2025

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