Find a TenderPlanned procurementPreliminary market engagement notice
Published 27 Oct 2026, 16:33 GMT

Official UK procurement notice

Radon Detection and Monitoring

Authority: the Education Authority (Central government)

ServicesAbove thresholdSME suitable
Planned pipeline value£1,500,000pipeline notice, not a live tender
Tender notice expected Date not publishedfrom the planned procurement notice
Contract term 5 yrsends 1 Sept 2032 · up to 1 Sept 2033 with extensions · starts 1 Sept 2027

What is being bought

Published requirement description

Education Authority Northern Ireland (EANI) is currently preparing to initiate a procurement process to award a Contract for the provision of Radon Detection and Monitoring Services for the Education Authority throughout Northern Ireland. EANI wishes to engage with the market at this stage to establish the level of market interest and to gather information that will be beneficial in the retendering 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 of CfT 6819532. The questionnaire must be completed and submitted no later than 3 pm on the closing date detailed. There are no formal documents to be completed other than the questionnaire. Any information gathered will NOT be considered in any future tender evaluation exercise. Participation or non-participation in this preprocurement market engagement shall not prevent any supplier/provider from participating in a potential procurement process nor is it intended that any information supplied shall place any supplier/ provider at an advantage in any forthcoming procurement process. For the avoidance of doubt, this stage of the project is not part of a formal procurement process and there is no commitment, at this stage to carrying out such a process.

CPV: Apparatus for measuring radiation · Gas-analysis apparatus · Gas-detection apparatus · Gas-detection equipment · Instruments for measuring flow, level and pressure of liquids and gases · Non-medical equipment based on the use of radiations · Radiation protection services · Services related to air pollution

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published

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

How the Education Authority buys Instruments for measuring quantities (CPV 3834), and who usually turns up

the Education Authority’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: Instruments for measuring quantities (CPV 3834) →

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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 buyerthe Education Authority · 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: 135 of 185 known-size awards · market: CPV 3834 · UK-wide, n=28
73%29%

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: 136 of 160 known-location awards · market: CPV 3834 · UK-wide, n=16
85%13%

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: 19 decided notices · market: division 38 · Northern Ireland, n=19
43 days37 days

Half of these awards have an award date within 43 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 19 of 151 procurements with awards had no recorded rival · market: CPV 3834 · UK-wide, n=57
13%63%

Missing bid counts may hide more single-bid awards. This share is a minimum.

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 buyer75 lots with bid counts · all categories
17% had one bid
The market14 lots with bid counts · CPV 3834 · UK-wide
36% had one bid
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
1 bid17% / 36%
Buyer: 13 of 75 lots with published bid counts. Market: 5 of 14 lots with published bid counts.
2–319% / 50%
Buyer: 14 of 75 lots with published bid counts. Market: 7 of 14 lots with published bid counts.
4–623% / 7%
Buyer: 17 of 75 lots with published bid counts. Market: 1 of 14 lots with published bid counts.
7+41% / 7%
Buyer: 31 of 75 lots with published bid counts. Market: 1 of 14 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 buyer57 lots with estimate and award · all categories
35% below estimate
The market6 lots with estimate and award · CPV 3834 · UK-wide
17% below estimate
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
Below estimate35% / 17%
Buyer: 20 of 57 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 1 of 6 lots with an estimate and award.
Within ±2%53% / 33%
Buyer: 30 of 57 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 2 of 6 lots with an estimate and award.
Above estimate12% / 50%
Buyer: 7 of 57 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 3 of 6 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 384360 monthsSME suitablePublished estimate£1.5m

This lot is listed as CPV 3843. The table above uses the notice category.

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 16 past lots.

A forecast, not a list of bidders.

—No model forecast yet38% chance of a single bid
Past bids on 16 similar lots
1 bid38%
6 of 16 similar past lots received 1 bid (38%).
2–356%
9 of 16 similar past lots received 2–3 (56%).
4–60%
0 of 16 similar past lots received 4–6 (0%).
7+6%
1 of 16 similar past lots received 7+ (6%).
Comparable past lots usually drew 2 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 £1.5m, 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
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
27 Oct 2026, 16:33 GMT
Last source update
27 Oct 2026, 16:33 GMT
Authority reference
FMM-26-004
FTS notice number
2026/S 000-101746
Latest notice
Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
Classification (CPV)
Apparatus for measuring radiationGas-analysis apparatusGas-detection apparatusGas-detection equipmentInstruments for measuring flow, level and pressure of liquids and gasesNon-medical equipment based on the use of radiationsRadiation protection servicesServices related to air pollution
Delivery area
Northern Ireland (UKN)
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-0791b4 Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice
Submission deadline
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Timeline

27 Oct 2026 → 1 Sept 2027 · 3 dates
  1. Planning notice published22h ago
    27 Oct 2026, 16:33 GMT
  2. Today
    28 Oct 2026
  3. Market engagementin 20 days
    17 Nov 2026, 23:59 GMT

    Pre Market Enagement Questionnaire (PME) for the provision of Radon Detection and Monitoring services for the Education Authority and NI Educational Bodies.

    Interested Suppliers are asked to complete and return the questionnaire via eTendersNI messaging portal by no later than 15:00 hours on 17 November 2026.

  4. Contract startsin 307 days
    1 Sept 2027

Notice history

1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender
  1. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    27 Oct 2026, 16:33 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

the Education Authority

Contracting authorityPublic authority - central government GB-PPON: PPHJ-6982-JPXY 40 Academy Street, Belfast, Northern Ireland, BT1 2NQContact email

Official documents & specifications (1)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure