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Request for Information Replacement and maintenance of Site Electronic Access Systems NI Water Ltd.

Buyer: NORTHERN IRELAND WATER LIMITED →

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BuyerNORTHERN IRELAND WATER LIMITED
StatusClosed
Deadline21 Nov 2025
Value£3,600,000
Published12 Nov 2025

What is being bought

Please note this is a request for information only and relates to Preliminary market engagement notice - Procurement Act 2023 2025/S 000-059654. The replacement electronic access system will be required to be rolled out across a number of NI Water’s sites. The currently installed electromechanical padlock system has approximately 5500 electronic padlocks on front gates and kiosks, comprising of Grade 3, Grade 4 and Grade 5 padlocks. In addition, there are currently 3500 mechanical padlocks, 1300 electronic door cylinders/cam locks, 120 mechanical door cylinders, with 4000 electronic keys and 71 gate access systems, installed at 22 no. of sites. Any successful supplier should be able to provide services over the full geographical coverage of Northern Ireland. This will include the ongoing maintenance, repair, like for like replacement and supply of spare parts over the period of the contract. See CFT documents for a copy of the RFI. Please note this is a re-issue of the previous RFI to the market; we have provided additional information on the scope of our requirements.

Categories

Electronic, electromechanical and electrotechnical supplies 31700000Electromechanical equipment 31720000Miscellaneous repair and maintenance services 50800000

Lot details

Lot 1

No lot description published.

Statusactive
Value£3,600,000
Contract periodFrom 1 Jan 2029 to 31 Dec 2034

Award criteria
Please refer to RFI document — Please refer to Request for Information

What is included

ItemCategoryQuantity
1Electromechanical equipment, Electronic, electromechanical and electrotechnical supplies, Miscellaneous repair and maintenance servicesNot published

Comparable-procurement analytics

Benchmarked against retained Find a Tender procedures with CPV division 31. The category anchor is Electronic, electromechanical and electrotechnical supplies (31700000); this is a deliberately broad market comparator. The comparison is shown at several levels rather than pretending one company or region is always the best benchmark.

Comparison setProceduresReported bids per procedureNamed award suppliersPrice evidence
Market: CPV division 311,1825 median · 79 average (295 of 1,182 with a bid count)6.4 average (345 of 1,182 with named award suppliers)Not published
Same buyer2Not publishedNot publishedNot published
Similar published value (0.5×–2×)898 median · 8 average (1 of 89 with a bid count)3 average (1 of 89 with named award suppliers)Not published

“Reported bids” is an official aggregate, sometimes reported per lot; it is the closest available competition measure. “Named award suppliers” are winners, not all applicants.

Price-outcome signal

Not enough comparable procedures currently publish both a GBP tender value and a usable lowest-valid-bid value to calculate a responsible price-reduction benchmark. Tenderline deliberately does not infer a saving from named award suppliers or from missing award values.

Procurement strategy & market signals

Framework agreementNot published
Dynamic purchasing systemNot published
Competitive procurementNot published
Recurring requirementNot published
Procurement method rationaleNot published
Rationale classificationsNot published
Special regimeutilities
Covered byNot published
Submission policyallowed
Selection criteriaNot published
Risk detailsNot published

Planning & early market engagement

BudgetValue not published
No-engagement rationalePME Notice 2025/S 000-059654
Planning documents0
Planning milestones0

No planning milestones published.

Related procurements

No linked framework, prior procurement or reprocurement published.

Documents & submission route

Source data inventory

Diagnostic view. “Not published” means this current release does not provide a value.

OCIDocds-h6vhtk-05df67
Latest release ID073112-2025
Latest release timestampWed Nov 12 2025 11:44:39 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Sourcefind-a-tender
Official notice URLhttps://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/073112-2025
Tender statusactive
Procurement methodselective
Procurement method detailsCompetitive flexible procedure
Main procurement categorygoods
Above thresholdYes
Legal basis2023/54
Tender period: startNot published
Tender period: endNot published
Expression of interest deadline2025-11-21T23:59:59+00:00
Enquiry deadline2025-11-21T23:59:59+00:00
Award period: startNot published
Award period: end2027-11-30T23:59:59+00:00
Submission method detailsVia etenders to send to sourcing@niwater.com or via https://etendersni.gov.uk/
Submission languagesen
Electronic catalogue policyNot published
Total tender value£3,600,000
Tender lots in source1
Tender items in source1
Tender documents in source2
Awards in latest release0
Contracts in latest release0
Parties in latest release1

Notice history

DateEventReference
12 Nov 2025tender073112-2025

All source data

Unmodified official OCDS data retained by Tenderline for this procurement process.

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