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Published 22 May 2025, 12:38 BST

Official UK procurement notice

Programme Sedgewick Main works construction

Authority: Defence Infrastructure Organisation - Ministry of Defence (Central government)

WorksAbove threshold
Planned pipeline value£141,666,666pipeline notice, not a live tender
Tender notice expected 1 Jul 2029from the planned procurement notice
Contract term 5 yrsends 21 Oct 2034 · starts 21 Oct 2029

What is being bought

Published requirement description

Main works contractor to replace heating and hotwater systems at HMS Collingwood, and to refurbish up to 1300 bed spaces.

CPV: Construction work

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published
Lot #1Planned 5 yrs
Contract period: 21 Oct 2029 – 21 Oct 2034 (5 yrs)
Delivery: South East

Who is likely to bid for this lot ↓

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

How Defence Infrastructure Organisation - Ministry of Defence buys Construction work (CPV 45), and who usually turns up

Defence Infrastructure Organisation - Ministry of Defence’s published record next to the market for the same work. Frameworks and DPS are left out: they draw different bid counts. Whole-market view: Construction work (CPV 45) →

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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
The marketConstruction work (CPV 45) · South East England
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: 6 of 12 known-size awards · market: division 45 · South East England, n=909
50%76%

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.

Local means the winner is registered in the region where that award was delivered. The market figure counts awards delivered in South East England.

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

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 1 of 1 known-location awards · market: division 45 · South East England, n=1,371
1 of 142%

Most of this buyer’s recorded winners were registered in the region where that award was delivered.

How long to a decision?
i

How long buyers here take to decide after bids close.

Middle value in days from the bid deadline to the award date, on competitions that published both.

Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: no decision dates published · market: division 45 · South East England, n=276
—42 days

Half of these awards have an award date within 42 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 15 of 21 procurements with awards had no recorded rival · market: division 45 · South East England, n=1,517
71%30%

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.

Last 36 months.

This buyerToo few to chart: 2 lots with bid counts, 5 needed · all categories
The market313 lots with bid counts · division 45 · South East England
12% had one bid
Market · select a colour for counts
1 bid12%
Market: 38 of 313 lots with published bid counts.
2–323%
Market: 71 of 313 lots with published bid counts.
4–629%
Market: 90 of 313 lots with published bid counts.
7+36%
Market: 114 of 313 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 buyerToo few to chart: 1 lot with estimate and award, 5 needed · broad CPV 45
The market294 lots with estimate and award · division 45 · South East England
44% below estimate
Market · select a colour for counts
Below estimate44%
Market: 129 of 294 lots with an estimate and award.
Within ±2%27%
Market: 80 of 294 lots with an estimate and award.
Above estimate29%
Market: 85 of 294 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 #1CPV 4560 monthsPublished estimate£142m

This lot lists more than one class in CPV 45. The comparison uses that group.

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 313 past lots.

A forecast, not a list of bidders.

—No model forecast yet12% chance of a single bid
Past bids on 313 similar lots
1 bid12%
38 of 313 similar past lots received 1 bid (12%).
2–323%
71 of 313 similar past lots received 2–3 (23%).
4–629%
90 of 313 similar past lots received 4–6 (29%).
7+36%
114 of 313 similar past lots received 7+ (36%).
Comparable past lots usually drew 5 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.

—No model forecast yet
No comparable awards on record for this lot’s category yet. The published estimate is £142m, and the forecast stays empty until the market has a record to read.

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.

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.

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
UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
Procurement category
Works
Notice status
Planned procurement
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
Unspecified in notice
First published
22 May 2025, 12:38 BST
Last source update
22 May 2025, 12:38 BST
Authority reference
714921450
FTS notice number
2025/S 000-024747
Latest notice
Pipeline notice (UK1)
Classification (CPV)
Construction work
Delivery area
South East (UKJ3)
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-051d71 Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice
Submission deadline
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Timeline

22 May 2025 → 21 Oct 2029 · 3 dates
  1. Planning notice published
    22 May 2025, 12:38 BST
  2. Today
    23 Oct 2026
  3. Tender notice expected
    1 Jul 2029, 23:59 BST
  4. Contract starts
    21 Oct 2029, 00:00 BST

Notice history

1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender
  1. Pipeline notice published
    22 May 2025, 12:38 BST
    UK1

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

Defence Infrastructure Organisation

Contracting authorityPublic authority - central government GB-PPON: PPWG-8368-RJMG St George's House, DMS Whittington, Lichfield, West Midlands, WS149PYContact email

Official documents & specifications (1)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure

  • Pipeline notice planningPipeline noticeUK1Pipeline notice on Find a Tender