Official UK procurement notice
Requirement for Production Partner for Device 6820
Authority: Mayor's Office For Policing And Crime (Central government)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThe Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) is seeking a commercial & production partner for providing advice and production support on an in house designed product called Device 6820. The scope of the requirements will include recommendations on the most effective methods of manufacture, prototyping and assembly of the Device 6820 to enable it to be qualitatively and efficiently produced in larger quantities by the appointed production partner. In order to be considered for Phase 2 - Tender Stage, suppliers must Express an Interest in the requirement by 5pm on 11th September 2026 by providing the information set out in the procurement documents. To receive the procurement documents a Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA) will be required to be signed by the supplier. To request the NDA, please email [email protected]
CPV: Electrical equipment and apparatus · Electronic, electromechanical and electrotechnical supplies
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · value publishedLot #1PlannedRenewalPublished value£170,000
Pipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How Mayor's Office for Policing and Crime buys Electrical equipment and apparatus (CPV 3160), and who usually turns up
Mayor's Office for Policing and Crime’s own published record, next to the published market for the same work. Frameworks and DPS are kept out: they attract a different number of bids. Whole-market view: Electrical equipment and apparatus (CPV 3160) →
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.
Here, local means the winner is registered in the region where that contract was delivered.
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners are registered in Greater London.
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How long buyers here take to decide after bids close.
Middle value in days from the deadline to the first award notice, on competitions that published both dates.
Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.
Half of these awards were announced within 51 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.
Both shares are minimums: some awards have no bid count.
Thin markets produce this too; it is not proof of a tailored specification.
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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 bid30% / 43%
2–337% / 36%
4–626% / 21%
7+7% / 0%
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 estimate6% / 25%
Within ±2%89% / 25%
Above estimate6% / 50%
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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.
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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 3160Published estimate£170k
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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 20 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid5%
2–345%
4–635%
7+15%
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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.
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.
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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.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Procedure method
- Below threshold - open competition
- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Goods
- Notice status
- Planned procurement
- Procurement threshold
- Below threshold
- 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
- 16 Jul 2026, 10:10 BST
- Last source update
- 3 Aug 2026, 15:05 BST
- Authority reference
6561- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-073273- Latest notice
- Planned procurement notice (UK3)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06cc80Find a Tender
- Reserved participation area
- K02000001
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
- 23 Oct 2026, 17:00 BST
- Clarification deadline
- 11 Sept 2026, 17:00 BST
- Electronic submission
- Allowed
Timeline
16 Jul 2026 → 16 Nov 2026 · 7 dates- Planning notice published98 days ago16 Jul 2026, 10:10 BST
- Market engagement85 days ago29 Jul 2026, 23:59 BST
Important - Supplier Engagement and Participation in this PME
Suppliers wishing to participate in this Preliminary Market Engagement exercise are required to register their interest by 29th July 2026 by emailing: -
Please ensure the email subject line includes the following text exactly: -
"Preliminary Market Engagement - Requirement for Production Partner"
The registration email must include the following information:
Supplier trading name, registered address, company number
A nominated lead contact and email address and contact number to enable further liaison with the MPS
Upon receipt of a registration email, the nominated lead contact will be issued with the NDA for signing and then further details of the requirement will be provided.
- Latest notice published80 days ago3 Aug 2026, 15:05 BST
- Clarification questions by41 days ago11 Sept 2026, 17:00 BST
- Tender notice expected31 days ago21 Sept 2026, 23:59 BST
- Today22 Oct 2026
- Submission deadlinein 1 day23 Oct 2026, 17:00 BST
- Contract startsin 24 days16 Nov 2026
Notice history
5 events · 2 releases on Find a Tender · since 16 Jul 2026- Preliminary market engagement notice published16 Jul 2026, 10:10 BSTUK2
- Planned procurement notice published3 Aug 2026, 15:05 BSTUK3
- Status changed to planned3 Aug 2026, 15:05 BST
- Procurement method changed3 Aug 2026, 15:05 BST
- Deadline published: 23 Oct 2026, 17:00 BST3 Aug 2026, 15:05 BST
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
Official documents & specifications (2)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Planned procurement notice Planned procurement notice on Find a Tender
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender