Official UK procurement notice
Provision of Security Guarding Services at British High Commission Office & Residence, Singapore
Authority: Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (Central government)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThe provision of security services for the British High Commission (BHC) Singapore is critical to the FCDO's operational capability.
The BHC Singapore requires a reliable, professional and resilient security guarding service to protect its people, premises, operations and assets. The service will operate within a diplomatic environment and must be capable of responding to a varied and evolving threat context while maintaining appropriate standards of discretion, customer service and operational readiness. The requirement is expected to include routine guarding and access-control duties, effective incident response, support for official events and visits, and the ability to provide additional personnel at short notice.
CPV: Guard services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1PlannedRenewal
Pipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office buys Security services (CPV 7971): the notice lists a non-UK location
No market comparison: the notice lists a non-UK delivery location. Frameworks and DPS are left out: they draw different bid counts. Whole-market view: Security services (CPV 7971) →
How the contest usually goes
Winner shares use published awards; bid and price charts use contested lots.
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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.
Small firms have won here. Neither number says whether you qualify; it describes who has been winning.
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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.
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.
The notice lists delivery in Singapore, so this procedure has no confirmed single UK region; the buyer’s figure reads its other awards, each against its own delivery region.
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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.
Half of these awards have an award date within 97 days of the bid deadline.
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How often work is awarded with no recorded rival.
Direct awards and tenders where every published lot count shows one bid.
The buyer’s share is a minimum: some awards have no bid count.
Thin markets produce this too; it is not proof of a tailored specification.
Missing bid counts may hide more single-bid awards. This share is a minimum.
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.
1 bid13%
2–362%
4–621%
7+5%
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.
Below estimate29%
Within ±2%29%
Above estimate43%
Assess each lot i
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.
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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 #1Published estimate£3.9m
This lot lists only non-UK delivery addresses. Supplier examples below come from UK award history and are not checked for this delivery area.
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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.
This lot has only non-UK delivery countries in its published addresses, so the UK model forecast is withheld.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
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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.
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.
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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.
| Supplier | This buyer’s earlier contract | Lot | Award value | Why listed |
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| Pilgrims Security LtdEarlier contract | Provision of Security Guarding Services at British High Commission Victorianotice published Apr 2025 | — | £231k | Matched as the earlier contract |
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.
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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.
What this replaces i
Who has done similar work for this buyer.
Past contracts are matched by buyer, title and type of work.
68% title match.
A past supplier may not bid again.
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Who has done similar work for this buyer.
Past contracts are matched by buyer, title and type of work.
68% title match.
A past supplier may not bid again.
The prior contract this notice most likely re-tenders · matched by title and category (68% title match), the holder is not guaranteed to re-bid
Provision of Security Guarding Services at British High Commission Victoria — held by Pilgrims Security Ltd; no contract end date published.
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
- Light touch regime
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 30 Oct 2026, 16:26 GMT
- Last source update
- 30 Oct 2026, 16:26 GMT
- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-103416- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area in notice
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-079501Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
30 Oct 2026 → 1 Sept 2027 · 4 dates- Planning notice published22h ago30 Oct 2026, 16:26 GMT
- Today31 Oct 2026
- Market engagementin 30 days30 Nov 2026, 23:59 GMT
The Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) will hold an initial online-only information event for its Security Guarding Services for BHC Singapore procurement on 05 November 2026, from 16:00-17:00 Singapore time (08:00 GMT).
Suppliers are invited to express their interest in attending by completing and submitting the Preliminary Market Engagement Questionnaire at:
forms.cloud.microsoft/e/EW1ruNkgFH ↗
by 12 noon UK time on Wednesday 04 November 2026.
Please note: You cannot attend the online event if you are not registered.
Following the information event, the FCDO will host interested suppliers at the BHC in Singapore for a 1:1 meeting w/c 16/11/2026. The format of the 1:1 will be shared with suppliers who book a 1:1 slot. You do not need to have attended the information event in order to attend a 1:1 with the FCDO.
Suppliers are also reminded:
- If you are not already registered on the Central Digital Platform (CDP), you must do so to obtain a unique supplier identifier number, which is required to bid for FCDO contracts under the Procurement Act 2023.
- The FCDO Jaggaer portal will be used to submit your actual bid, and it will require the ID obtained from the CDP.
- Registration on Jaggaer is free and takes approximately 5 minutes.
We strongly encourage suppliers to register on both platforms (CDP and Jaggaer) early to avoid delays or disappointment when procurement documents become available.
This notice is for information only.
- Tender notice expectedin 72 days11 Jan 2027, 23:59 GMT
- Contract startsin 304 days1 Sept 2027, 00:00 BST
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Preliminary market engagement notice published30 Oct 2026, 16:26 GMTUK2
Commercial outcome & contract awards
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- No award published
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- 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