Official UK procurement notice
Satellite-Enabled Heat and Humidity Risk Management for NHS Estates
Authority: Department for Science, Innovation & Technology (Central government)
The UK Space Agency's Unlocking Space for Government programme has funding available for research and development to address overheating in NHS estates. The funding will support the creation of innovative, satellite-enabled products and services that help NHS Estates teams identify, prioritise, and mitigate heat and humidity risks across their trusts.
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThe UK Space Agency's Unlocking Space for Government programme has funding available for research and development to address overheating in NHS estates. The funding will support the creation of innovative, satellite-enabled products and services that help NHS Estates teams identify, prioritise, and mitigate heat and humidity risks across their trusts. A Contract for Innovation is one of the routes being considered for delivering this funding. We invite suppliers, researchers, and other interested organisations to join this market engagement webinar to learn more about this opportunity and to help shape it.
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Our understanding of the operational challenges and available capabilities is shaped by close collaboration with NHS stakeholders, the Satellite Applications Catapult, and relevant suppliers. We are aware of established commercial capabilities in environmental heat mapping, climate risk analytics, and building performance modelling and monitoring. Our findings indicate that satellite-enabled technology and data, along with data from the NHS and relevant suppliers, can innovate existing methods of heat analysis and thermal modelling; this is where targeted research and development funding can add the most value. This webinar forms part of our pre-funding call market engagement under the Procurement Act 2023. It gives the wider market an open opportunity to engage with and test this understanding before the scope and route to market are finalised.
In this webinar, the UK Space Agency, the NHS and the Satellite Applications Catapult will present:
- An introduction to the Unlocking Space for Government programme
- Our current understanding of the market and existing capabilities · The challenges regarding overheating for NHS teams and patients · An overview of the proposed funding route, including indicative timescales, scope, and expectations
- How to share information on existing capabilities, products and services, including any available through government frameworks such as Space-Enabled and Geospatial Services (RM6235), and your views on research and development priorities
Please join us to learn more about this opportunity and the challenge faced by NHS trusts across the country, as well as meet potential partners and get any needed clarification ahead of any funding competition launch.
Attendees will be invited to share information including on existing capabilities and research and development priorities. Responses will inform the final scope of the opportunity and the decision on the most appropriate route to market.
Please register using the Register link. Registration helps us plan for numbers and share follow-up materials. Registration also includes two short, optional multiple-choice questions, which will help us tailor the session to attendees’ interests.
Date: Tuesday 10 November 2026, 11:00 to 12:00 (UK time), online via Microsoft Teams
CPV: Data-processing services · Environmental services · Software package and information systems · Spacecraft, satellites and launch vehicles
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedPipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How Department for Science, Innovation & Technology buys Helicopters, aeroplanes, spacecraft and other powered aircraft (CPV 3471), and who usually turns up
Department for Science, Innovation & Technology’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: Helicopters, aeroplanes, spacecraft and other powered aircraft (CPV 3471) →
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Most of this buyer’s recorded winners were registered in the region where that award was delivered.
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How long buyers here take to decide after bids close.
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Half of these awards have an award date within 23 days of the bid deadline.
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Past bids do not predict this tender.
1 bid4% / 24%
2–316% / 45%
4–628% / 25%
7+52% / 6%
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 estimate64% / 34%
Within ±2%36% / 42%
Above estimate0% / 24%
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See the forecast, this buyer’s earlier suppliers and firms with relevant wins.
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Lot #1CPV 3471Published estimate£1.2m
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1 bid24%
2–345%
4–625%
7+6%
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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
- 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
- 3 Nov 2026, 11:50 GMT
- Last source update
- 3 Nov 2026, 11:50 GMT
- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-104136- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-07966aFind a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
1 Jan 2026 → 10 Nov 2026 · 3 dates- Contract starts306 days ago1 Jan 2026
- Planning notice published6h ago3 Nov 2026, 11:50 GMT
- Today3 Nov 2026
- Market engagementin 7 days10 Nov 2026, 23:59 GMT
Please join us to learn more about this opportunity and the challenge faced by NHS trusts across the country, as well as meet potential partners and get any needed clarification ahead of any funding competition launch.
Attendees will be invited to share information including on existing capabilities and research and development priorities. Responses will inform the final scope of the opportunity and the decision on the most appropriate route to market.
Please register using the Register link. Registration helps us plan for numbers and share follow-up materials. Registration also includes two short, optional multiple-choice questions, which will help us tailor the session to attendees’ interests.
Date: Tuesday 10 November 2026, 11:00 to 12:00 (UK time), online via Microsoft Teams
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Preliminary market engagement notice published3 Nov 2026, 11:50 GMTUK2
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Pipeline notice- Awards (0)
- No award published
- Contracts (0)
- No contract published
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- 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