Official UK procurement notice
Solar PV Feasibility Study Consultancy for the Office and Residential Properties at the British High Commission Lusaka
Authority: Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (Central government)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionConsultancy services for the delivery of a comprehensive Solar PV Feasibility Study for the British High Commission Lusaka estate, including the Chancery, the High Commissioner's Residence and designated staff residential properties. The scope includes site assessments, energy demand analysis, solar PV generation modelling, battery storage and energy resilience assessment, financial and economic appraisal, options analysis, and the provision of a final feasibility report with recommendations to support future procurement and implementation of solar energy solutions. The contract value is £30,000 and the services are to be delivered in accordance with the requirements set out in the Request for Proposal.
CPV: Building consultancy services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · value publishedLot #1Published value£30,000
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How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
Evaluation split and conditions of participation as published; the tender pack may add morei
How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
Lot awarding rule: Tenders will be evaluated on the basis of the Most Advantageous Tender. Quality will be weighted at 60% and price at 40%. Bidders are required to achieve a minimum technical score of 30 out of 60 points to proceed to commercial evaluation. The contract will be awarded to the bidder achieving the highest compliant overall score
No conditions of participation were published on the notice; check the tender documents.
- Turnover usually expected at this size: about £60,000 (twice the annual value).
Turnover is an indicative market norm (≈2× annual value), not a published condition.
Competition analysis · published record, not a forecast of who will bid
How Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office buys Consultative engineering and construction services (CPV 7131): the notice lists a non-UK location
No market comparison: the notice lists a non-UK delivery location. Frameworks and DPS are left out: they draw different bid counts. Whole-market view: Consultative engineering and construction services (CPV 7131) →
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.
Local means the winner is registered in the region where that award was delivered.
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
The notice lists delivery in Zambia, so this procedure has no confirmed single UK region; the buyer’s figure reads its other awards, each against its own delivery region.
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How long buyers here take to decide after bids close.
Middle value in days from the bid deadline to the award date, on competitions that published both.
Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.
Half of these awards have an award date within 76 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.
The buyer’s share is a minimum: some awards have no bid count.
Thin markets produce this too; it is not proof of a tailored specification.
Missing bid counts may hide more single-bid awards. This share is a minimum.
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 bid14%
2–354%
4–625%
7+7%
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 estimate33%
Within ±2%35%
Above estimate33%
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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.
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Lot #1Published estimate£30k
This lot lists only non-UK delivery addresses. Supplier examples below come from UK award history and are not checked for this delivery area.
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How many bids this lot may attract.
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This lot has only non-UK delivery countries in its published addresses, so the UK model forecast is withheld.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
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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.
| Supplier | This buyer’s earlier contract | Lot | Award value | Why listed |
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| Satyanand MangrooLive contract | Provision of gardening and grounds maintenance services for the British High commission in Georgetown residenceruns to Jul 2029 | — | £32k | Matched as the earlier contract |
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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- Procedure method
- Below threshold - open competition
- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Open for tender
- 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
- 26 Oct 2026, 14:02 GMT
- Last source update
- 26 Oct 2026, 14:02 GMT
- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-101058- Latest notice
- Tender notice (UK4)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area in notice
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-07903dFind a Tender
How to participate & submission route
Official notice Submit via Jaggaer- Requests to participate (first stage)
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- Tender submission deadline
- 6 Nov 2026, 15:00 GMT
- Clarification deadline
- 2 Nov 2026, 15:00 GMT
- Submission channel
- Official e-sourcing portal
- Electronic submission
- Allowed
Suppliers should access the FCDO eSourcing portal (Jaggaer) to view and participate in the opportunity referenced in this notice. Suppliers who are not yet registered should complete the online registration process at fcdo.bravosolution.co.uk ↗.
All communications and clarification questions must be submitted through the messaging facility within the portal. Responses may be shared with all interested suppliers to ensure a fair and transparent process.
The information provided in this notice is indicative only and may be subject to change. The Authority reserves the right not to proceed with any procurement or contractual arrangement.
Timeline
26 Oct 2026 → 16 Nov 2026 · 4 dates- Tender notice publishedearlier today26 Oct 2026, 14:02 GMT
- Today26 Oct 2026
- Clarification questions byin 7 days2 Nov 2026, 15:00 GMT
- Submission deadlinein 11 days6 Nov 2026, 15:00 GMT
- Contract startsin 20 days16 Nov 2026
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Tender notice published26 Oct 2026, 14:02 GMTUK4
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Nothing awarded yet- 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
- Tender notice Tender notice on Find a Tender