Find a TenderPlanned procurementPreliminary market engagement notice
Published 28 Oct 2026, 09:57 GMT

Official UK procurement notice

Provision of Electronic Security (CCTV) & Access Control Systems Installation, Servicing and Response Maintenance to Include recovery of CCTV Footage

Authority: Radius Housing Association (Housing)

ServicesAbove thresholdSME suitableVCSE suitable
Planned pipeline valueValue not publishedpipeline notice, not a live tender
Tender notice expected Date not publishedfrom the planned procurement notice
Contract term 3 yrsends 1 Apr 2030 · up to 1 Apr 2032 with extensions · starts 1 Apr 2027

What is being bought

Published requirement description

Radius Housing wishes to appoint one suitably qualified and experienced firm for the provision of Electronic Security & Access Control Systems Installation, Servicing and Response Maintenance to Include Physical Download of CCTV Footage at Radius Housing sites within Northern Ireland.

The scope of services is to include:

CCTV Maintenance/ Downloading

  • Full understanding of CCTV system operations for download purposes
  • Downloading of CCTV from offices or schemes across Northern Ireland
  • Working with statutory organisations for the purpose of providing CCTV footage for legal or Police requirements
  • Supply and fit of CCTV systems for a range of housing and office locations as and when required in Northern Ireland including remote access and night vision
  • Upgrade of analogue CCTV systems to digital
  • Design of CCTV systems for new build construction projects
  • Work as part of anti-crime project teams to design out crime in area of high anti-social behaviour levels
  • Work with multi agencies for legal and evidence-based requirements

Suitable economic operators must provider their own hard drives for downloading CCTV and pass the footage to the association for viewing or transporting to a range of organisations such as insurance companies, police or legal representatives.

Entrance Barrier Maintenance

The required economic operator must have experience in repairing the following entrance barrier types including:

  • Roller shutter doors
  • Vertical rising arm barrier systems
  • Sliding gate barrier systems
  • Pneumatic arm gate contols
  • Key access bollard access control systems
  • Door release magnetic entrance systems

The successful economic operator will be required to obtain and programme a range of remote control access management controllers for the association including;

  • Fobs
  • Swipe cards
  • Electronic button push
  • Digital card readers

The successful economic operator will be required to provide a 30-minute response time period when requested by the association carry out a CCTV download or carry out maintenance to any of the access control barriers shown above in any location in Northern Ireland.

Full, suitable and sufficient Risk Assessments and Procedural Instructions will be required on award of any contract.

Further details relating to the full scope and requirement of this contract can be found in Appendix A- Draft Service Information.

CPV: Access gates · Barrier components · Closed-circuit surveillance system · Installation of gates · Repair and maintenance services · Road barriers · Surveillance services

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published
Lot #1PlannedRenewal 3 yrsSMEVCSE
Contract period: 1 Apr 2027 – 1 Apr 2030 (3 yrs) · up to 1 Apr 2032 with extensions
Delivery: Northern IrelandEligibility: SME eligibleVCSE eligible
Extensions: Extension options published

Who is likely to bid for this lot ↓

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

How Radius Housing Association buys Radio transmission apparatus with reception apparatus (CPV 3223), and who usually turns up

Radius Housing Association’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: Radio transmission apparatus with reception apparatus (CPV 3223) →

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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 buyerRadius Housing Association · all categories
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: 3 of 6 known-size awards · market: CPV 3223 · UK-wide, n=32
50%47%

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.

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

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 9 of 11 known-location awards · market: CPV 3223 · UK-wide, n=28
82%36%

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: 10 decided notices · market: CPV 3223 · UK-wide, n=6
51 days52 days

Half of these awards have an award date within 51 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.

The market share is a minimum: some awards have no bid count.

Thin markets produce this too; it is not proof of a tailored specification.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: exactly 4 of 10 procurements with awards had no recorded rival · market: CPV 3223 · UK-wide, n=44
40%50%

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?

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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 buyer11 lots with bid counts · all categories
45% had one bid
The market8 lots with bid counts · CPV 3223 · UK-wide
13% had one bid
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
1 bid45% / 13%
Buyer: 5 of 11 lots with published bid counts. Market: 1 of 8 lots with published bid counts.
2–318% / 38%
Buyer: 2 of 11 lots with published bid counts. Market: 3 of 8 lots with published bid counts.
4–618% / 25%
Buyer: 2 of 11 lots with published bid counts. Market: 2 of 8 lots with published bid counts.
7+18% / 25%
Buyer: 2 of 11 lots with published bid counts. Market: 2 of 8 lots with published bid counts.

How did awards compare with estimates?

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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 buyer9 lots with estimate and award · all categories
22% below estimate
The market7 lots with estimate and award · CPV 3223 · UK-wide
71% below estimate
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
Below estimate22% / 71%
Buyer: 2 of 9 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 5 of 7 lots with an estimate and award.
Within ±2%56% / 14%
Buyer: 5 of 9 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 1 of 7 lots with an estimate and award.
Above estimate22% / 14%
Buyer: 2 of 9 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 1 of 7 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 454236 monthsSME suitableEstimate not published

This lot is listed as CPV 4542. The table above uses the notice category.

Expected competition
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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 96 past lots.

A forecast, not a list of bidders.

—No model forecast yet23% chance of a single bid
Past bids on 96 similar lots
1 bid23%
22 of 96 similar past lots received 1 bid (23%).
2–326%
25 of 96 similar past lots received 2–3 (26%).
4–625%
24 of 96 similar past lots received 4–6 (25%).
7+26%
25 of 96 similar past lots received 7+ (26%).
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.

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
Services
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
28 Oct 2026, 09:57 GMT
Last source update
28 Oct 2026, 09:57 GMT
Authority reference
RAD192
FTS notice number
2026/S 000-101883
Latest notice
Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
Classification (CPV)
Access gatesBarrier componentsClosed-circuit surveillance systemInstallation of gatesRepair and maintenance servicesRoad barriersSurveillance services
Delivery area
Northern Ireland (UKN)
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-0791ff Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice
Submission deadline
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Timeline

28 Oct 2026 → 1 Apr 2027 · 3 dates
  1. Planning notice published19h ago
    28 Oct 2026, 09:57 GMT
  2. Today
    29 Oct 2026
  3. Market engagementin 21 days
    19 Nov 2026, 23:59 GMT

    Radius Housing wishes to engage with the market to seek their views on establishing a robust, value for money contract for the provision of Electronic Security (CCTV) and Access Control Systems Installation, Servicing and Response Maintenance to Include Recovery of CCTV Footage. Any information gathered through this market consultation exercise will inform internal business planning and any possible subsequent procurement process and will NOT be appraised in any future tender evaluation exercise. Please note that participation or non-participation in this preliminary market consultation exercise shall not prevent any supplier from participating in any potential procurement process, nor is it intended that any information supplied shall place any supplier at an advantage or disadvantage in any forthcoming procurement process. For the avoidance of doubt, this is the scoping phase of the project and is not part of a formal procurement process. Suppliers who wish to participate in the market engagement exercise should complete the pre-market engagement questionnaire. Further information including the questionnaire can be downloaded from CfT documents. The Questionnaire must be completed and PME Document signed and returned via the Messaging function of eTendersNI by no later than 3pm on Thursday 19th of November 2026 (deadline) in accordance with the instructions detailed in the PME Questionnaire document. There are no formal tender documents to be completed other than the questionnaire.

  4. Contract startsin 153 days
    1 Apr 2027

Notice history

1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender
  1. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    28 Oct 2026, 09:57 GMT
    UK2

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

RADIUS HOUSING ASSOCIATION LIMITED

Contracting authorityPublic authority - sub-central government GB-COH: NP000169 · GB-PPON: PQTY-5785-DJHJ 3 - 7 Redburn Square, Holywood, Northern Ireland, BT18 9HZContact email

Official documents & specifications (1)

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Notices published for this procedure