Official UK procurement notice
Provision of Security Services for the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom
Authority: Supreme Court of the United Kingdom
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThe buyer is seeking proposals for the security, guarding and operational service at the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom (UKSC). The service is in place to ensure the safety of Justices, staff, contractors, visitors, and the physical site itself, as well as ensuring the work of the Court, both at its main site and any other location where the work or activities of the Court take place, are done safely and securely.
CPV: Security services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1The UKSC is the United Kingdom's highest court of appealPlanned
The UKSC is the United Kingdom's highest court of appeal. It hears appeals on arguable points of law of general public importance, concentrating on cases of the greatest significance. The UKSC is the final court of appeal for all United Kingdom civil cases, and criminal cases from England, Wales and Northern Ireland and (in certain cases) Scotland. The Court plays an important role in the development of UK law. The impact of UKSC decisions extends far beyond the parties involved in any given case, helping to shape our society. Its judgments directly affect everyday lives.
The requirement of this contract is for guarding of the UKSC in Parliament Square for an initial period of three years from the commencement of service, and extendable at the discretion of the UKSC for a further two-year period of up to one year each (bringing the total maximum possible term of the contract up to five years).
The UKSC is located on Parliament Square and is therefore recognised to be within the Government Secure Zone. The Supplier will need to deploy an appropriate number of security officers, with relevant training and qualifications, to control access and guarding on a 24-hour basis, throughout the contract period to prevent unauthorised access to the premises or any harm to the premises, persons or assets therein.
The UKSC is both a non -ministerial government department and a fully operational court and educational destination for the Rule of Law. The Supplier has to ensure that officers and others working on this contract meet the operational and statutory requirements required which include, but are not limited to, the requirements of the SIA and the Security Officer requirements as set out in the Constitutional Reform Act 2025.
The site is open to the public Monday through to Friday between the hours of 08:30 and 17:30, but the building is also used for corporate and charitable events out of hours, where officers will be required to be on site.
Pipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How Supreme Court of the United Kingdom buys Security services (CPV 7971), and who usually turns up
Supreme Court of the United Kingdom has little published record in this market. Frameworks and DPS are left out: they draw different bid counts. Whole-market view: Security services (CPV 7971) →
How the contest usually goes
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Across this market, small firms won 47% of awards with a known supplier size.
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Across this market, 35% of winners were registered in the delivery region.
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How long buyers here take to decide after bids close.
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Half of these awards have an award date within 96 days of the bid deadline.
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Direct awards and tenders where every published lot count shows one bid.
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Across this market, at least 51% of awarded procurements had no recorded rival.
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Past bids do not predict this tender.
1 bid0%
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Below estimate50%
Within ±2%17%
Above estimate33%
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No supplier is confirmed as a bidder.
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Lot #1The UKSC is the United Kingdom's highest court of appealCPV 7971Published estimate£4.2m
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1 bid0%
2–350%
4–622%
7+28%
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No comparable awards for this lot yet.
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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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Who could compete for this lot?
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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
- CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Planned procurement
- Procurement threshold
- Unspecified in notice
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Yes (GPA)
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 26 Aug 2026, 21:54 BST
- Last source update
- 11 Sept 2026, 17:51 BST
- Authority reference
CCZI26A21- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-086651- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06ed13Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
11 Sept 2026 → 30 Oct 2026 · 2 dates- Notice published43 days ago11 Sept 2026, 17:51 BST
- Today25 Oct 2026
- Tender notice expectedin 5 days30 Oct 2026
Notice history
2 releases on Find a TenderPublished amendments (1 · 0 deadline changes)
| When | What | Before | After | Shift |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | TextVI.3 | None | This notice was published in error and is a duplicate of FTS Notice ID 2026/S 000-086633. This duplicate notice is now cancelled and withdrawn. |
This notice was published in error and is a duplicate of FTS Notice ID 2026/S 000-086633. This duplicate notice is now cancelled and withdrawn.
Commercial outcome & contract awards
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- No award published
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- No contract published
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Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Official documents & specifications
Official links; attachments are not copiedNo document links were published on the notice.