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Shipyard Detailed Design and Build Contract “Freight Flex” Ro-Pax Vessels

Buyer: Caledonian Maritime Assets Ltd (Utility) →

BuyerCaledonian Maritime Assets Ltd (Utility)
StatusAwarded
DeadlineNot published
ValueValue not published
Published8 Jun 2026

What is being bought

CMAL wish to appoint a sole supplier in respect of Shipyard Detailed Design and Build Contract for two (2) “Freight Flex” RoPax Vessels

Delivery location

UKM65 · UKM66 · UKM5

Categories

Ships 34510000Ships and similar vessels for the transport of persons or goods 34512000Ferry boats 34512100Ships and boats 34500000

Lot details

Lot 1

The contract will be for the detailed design and build for two (2) passenger and freight vessels to operate on the Northern Isles Ferry Service routes.

Statuscancelled

Award criteria
Quality — 70
price — 30

What is included

ItemCategoryQuantity
1Ships, Ships and similar vessels for the transport of persons or goods, Ferry boatsNot published

Comparable-procurement analytics

Benchmarked against retained Find a Tender procedures with CPV division 34. The category anchor is Ships (34510000); 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 342,1343 median · 23.2 average (670 of 2,134 with a bid count)3.5 average (734 of 2,134 with named award suppliers)Not published
Same buyer73.5 median · 6 average (6 of 7 with a bid count)1 average (6 of 7 with named award suppliers)Not published
Delivery region: UKM6553 median · 3 average (2 of 5 with a bid count)1 average (2 of 5 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 regimeNot published
Covered byGPA
Submission policyNot published
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.

Awards

Contracts

053596-2026-CMAL0336-1

Statusactive
Value£175,000,000

Documents & submission route

No documents are published in the current source record.

Source data inventory

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

OCIDocds-h6vhtk-0542f4
Latest release ID053596-2026
Latest release timestampMon Jun 08 2026 08:21:02 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Sourcefind-a-tender
Official notice URLNot published
Tender statuscomplete
Procurement methodselective
Procurement method detailsRestricted procedure
Main procurement categorygoods
Above thresholdNot published
Legal basis32014L0024
Tender period: startNot published
Tender period: endNot published
Expression of interest deadlineNot published
Enquiry deadlineNot published
Award period: startNot published
Award period: endNot published
Submission method detailsNot published
Submission languagesNot published
Electronic catalogue policyNot published
Total tender valueNot published
Tender lots in source1
Tender items in source1
Tender documents in source0
Awards in latest release1
Contracts in latest release1
Parties in latest release3

Notice history

DateEventReference
8 Jun 2026award, contract053596-2026
4 Jun 2025tender029978-2025

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 (2 releases)
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