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RFI- Market interest and capability in procuring and processing (wet milling) magnetite Oct 25

Buyer: NORTHERN IRELAND WATER LIMITED →

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BuyerNORTHERN IRELAND WATER LIMITED
StatusClosed
Deadline28 Oct 2025
Value£3,600,000
Published2 Oct 2025

What is being bought

Northern Ireland Water requires the information sought in this document to assess interest and capability of the market to support NI Water in procuring and processing (wet milling) magnetite to NIW’s required specifications. NI Water would also like to hear from suppliers who would be interested in visiting the current manufacturer, located in Norway, to better understand the current manufacturing process. These visits would be at the suppliers own cost and interested parties should note that there is no guarantee that this process will result in a procurement exercise.

Categories

Mining, basic metals and related products 14000000Metal ores and alloys 14600000Basic metals 14700000Chemical products 24000000Machinery for mining, quarrying, construction equipment 43000000

Lot details

Lot 1

No lot description published.

Statusactive
Value£3,600,000
Contract periodFrom 1 Jan 2029 to 1 Jan 2032

Award criteria
Yet To be confirmed

What is included

ItemCategoryQuantity
1Chemical products, Mining, basic metals and related products, Metal ores and alloys, Basic metals, Machinery for mining, quarrying, construction equipmentNot published

Comparable-procurement analytics

Benchmarked against retained Find a Tender procedures with CPV division 14. The category anchor is Mining, basic metals and related products (14000000); 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 141554 median · 15 average (47 of 155 with a bid count)4.7 average (52 of 155 with named award suppliers)Not published
Same buyer1Not publishedNot publishedNot published
Similar published value (0.5×–2×)13Not publishedNot publishedNot 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

BudgetNot published
No-engagement rationaleNot published
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-05a755
Latest release ID061918-2025
Latest release timestampThu Oct 02 2025 16:08:39 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Sourcefind-a-tender
Official notice URLhttps://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/061918-2025
Tender statusactive
Procurement methodopen
Procurement method detailsOpen procedure
Main procurement categorygoods
Above thresholdYes
Legal basis2023/54
Tender period: startNot published
Tender period: end2025-10-28T12:00:00+01:00
Expression of interest deadlineNot published
Enquiry deadline2025-10-10T23:59:59+01:00
Award period: startNot published
Award period: end2028-12-31T23:59:59+00:00
Submission method detailshttps://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
2 Oct 2025tender061918-2025

All source data

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

Complete current OCDS release JSON
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Complete JSON history (1 releases)
2 Oct 2025 · 061918-2025 · tender
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