Official UK procurement notice
SACC/00115 - In Service Support of the CSI Cabin - UK 2
Authority: Defence Equipment and Support (Central government)
What is being bought
Published requirement description20260210 - Preliminary Market Engagement – CSI Cabin
The Situational Awareness Command and Control (SACC) Team, part of the UK Ministry of Defence (“the Authority”), intends to undertake preliminary market engagement ahead of a planned competitive tender. The anticipated procurement will cover the support, maintenance, and assurance of the Control and Reporting Centre (CRC) Systems Interface (CSI) Remote Cabin.
The Authority seeks to understand market capability and capacity to deliver this requirement, refine the procurement strategy, and ensure an effective competition.
This notice is issued in accordance with Section 16(1)(d) of the Procurement Act 2023 to identify suppliers who may be able to meet the forthcoming requirement and to gauge interest in participating in early market engagement activities.
This is not a call for competition, and no contract will be awarded as a result of this notice.
The prospective contract is expected to cover a period of 5 years with 2 one-year options and has an estimated total contract value of approximately between £80,000 - £120,000 (ex VAT) including options. The scope is anticipated to include, but is not limited to, the following:
Support to the Link 16 Cabin, a metal ISO container (8000mm L x 3200mm W x 2800mm H) at RAF Boulmer.
- Preventive maintenance / serviceability checks for the Link 16 Cabin and equipment including;
- Air conditioning units
- Smoke Detectors
- Fire alarm system
- Intruder alarm
- Cabin power distribution and safety certification
o Cabin Earth, leakage circuit breakers and residual current circuit breakers (mechanical check)
o Lighting (Main and Emergency)
o Cabin and equipment rack earth bonding
- Floor coverings, walls and ceilings
- Weather protection covering all external surfaces, anchor points and patch panel ingress / egress points
- Main and emergency doors including locking mechanisms
- Testing/Certification of the Cabin to ensure design integrity, security, and electrical safety
- Provision of repair and emergency call-out service
- Provision of ad-hoc in-service support activities to the Cabin’s external connections and interfaces.
The contractor must hold at least UK Security Clearance to gain access and complete work.
CPV: Repair and maintenance services of electrical building installations · Technical building-inspection services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedPipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How Defence Equipment and Support buys Technical inspection and testing services (CPV 7163), and who usually turns up
Defence Equipment and Support’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: Technical inspection and testing services (CPV 7163) →
How the contest usually goes
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How often small and medium firms win.
Share of awards where the winner’s size is known.
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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 registered in South West England (authority’s region).
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners are registered outside South West England.
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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 75 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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Past bids do not predict this tender.
1 bid52% / 0%
2–333% / 43%
4–610% / 29%
7+5% / 29%
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 estimate43% / 43%
Within ±2%36% / 14%
Above estimate21% / 43%
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See the forecast, this buyer’s earlier suppliers and firms with relevant wins.
No supplier is confirmed as a bidder.
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Lot #1CPV 7163Published estimate£90k
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How many bids this lot may attract.
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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 102 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid12%
2–316%
4–625%
7+47%
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Where the award price may land.
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No comparable awards for this lot yet.
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Who has supplied this buyer on similar work? i
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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.
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Who could compete for this lot?
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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- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Services
- 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
- 12 Feb 2026, 16:59 GMT
- Last source update
- 12 Feb 2026, 16:59 GMT
- Authority reference
SACC/00115- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-013157- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Not published
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06534dFind a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
12 Feb 2026 → 13 Oct 2026 · 4 dates- Planning notice published252 days ago12 Feb 2026, 16:59 GMT
- Tender notice expected230 days ago5 Mar 2026, 23:59 GMT
- Market engagement230 days ago5 Mar 2026, 23:59 GMT
Please submit your expression of interest, including details of the services you can provide to meet the requirements set out in this Preliminary Market Engagement Notice, to [email protected] no later than 5 March 2026.
- Contract starts9 days ago13 Oct 2026, 00:00 BST
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Preliminary market engagement notice published12 Feb 2026, 16:59 GMTUK2
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 (1)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender