Official UK procurement notice
Preliminary Market Engagement – Planning Advice for Hydrological Monitoring Instruments (FDRI)
Authority: UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH) (Central government)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThe UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH), through the Floods and Droughts Research Infrastructure (FDRI) Programme, is undertaking a Preliminary Market Engagement (PME) and Expression of Interest (EOI) exercise to identify suitably qualified town planning professionals or consultancies capable of providing ad-hoc planning advice in relation to the installation of small-scale hydrological monitoring instruments.
The FDRI Programme involves the deployment and operation of monitoring equipment across selected catchments, including the River Chess, Upper Severn and River Tweed.
The purpose of this engagement is to understand market capability, identify potential advisers with relevant local knowledge, and inform future commercial arrangements.
Services may include, but are not limited to:
- Initial assessments of planning permission requirements
- Advice on planning risks and statutory constraints
- Guidance on statutory consents and approvals
- Early engagement with Local Planning Authorities
- Review of outline proposals and site layouts
- Advice on environmental, landscape and heritage considerations
Any future engagement is expected to be delivered on a call-off basis under individual purchase orders, with no guaranteed volume of work.
This notice is issued for market engagement purposes only and does not constitute a commitment to undertake a formal procurement process or award any contract.
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CPV: Environmental engineering consultancy services · Environmental impact assessment for construction · Urban planning and landscape architectural services · Urban planning services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedPipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
Consultative engineering and construction services (CPV 7131) in South East England, and who usually turns up
UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH) has too little published record in this market to describe on its own. Published market evidence for the same work stands beside whatever it has. Frameworks and DPS are kept out: they attract a different number of bids. Whole-market view: Consultative engineering and construction services (CPV 7131) →
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No small-firm winners recorded among this authority’s published awards in this sample.
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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 East 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 East 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 56 days of the bid deadline.
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Missing bid counts may hide more single-bid awards. This share is a minimum.
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Past bids do not predict this tender.
1 bid12%
2–319%
4–619%
7+51%
How did awards compare with estimates?
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Where winning prices landed against estimates.
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Past prices are a guide, not a bid price.
Below estimate43%
Within ±2%43%
Above estimate15%
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No supplier is confirmed as a bidder.
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Lot #1CPV 7131Published estimate£15k
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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 59 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid12%
2–319%
4–619%
7+51%
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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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A past supplier may not bid again.
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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.
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None is confirmed as a bidder.
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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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Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Planned procurement
- Procurement threshold
- Below threshold
- 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 Feb 2026, 19:05 GMT
- Last source update
- 2 Feb 2026, 19:05 GMT
- Authority reference
SWCS_420_26- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-009211- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-0614cbFind a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
2 Feb 2026 → 1 Mar 2026 · 3 dates- Planning notice published260 days ago2 Feb 2026, 19:05 GMT
- Market engagement241 days ago20 Feb 2026, 23:59 GMT
This Preliminary Market Engagement (PME) is being undertaken through a written Expression of Interest (EOI) process.
Interested parties are invited to submit a short written response setting out their relevant experience, local knowledge, and indicative commercial information in accordance with the published EOI document.
Responses should be submitted by email to [email protected] and [email protected] by close of business on 20 February 2026.
UKCEH may use the information received to identify suitably qualified advisers for each catchment area and to inform future commercial arrangements.
Participation in this engagement does not constitute participation in a formal procurement process and will not confer any advantage in any subsequent competition.
- Contract starts233 days ago1 Mar 2026
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Preliminary market engagement notice published2 Feb 2026, 19:05 GMTUK2
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 (1)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender