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SONI069 Environmental & Planning Services

Buyer: SONI Ltd →

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BuyerSONI Ltd
StatusClosed
Deadline25 Mar 2026
Value£8,900,000
Published25 Feb 2026

What is being bought

SONI wishes to appoint appropriately qualified and experienced consultants to provide Public Planning, Ecology and Environmental services, primarily pursuant to SONI’s statutory functions in the area of Grid Development and SONI’s Framework for Grid Development. Prefer refer to the documents Scope of Requirements

Delivery location

UK, GB

Categories

Environmental engineering consultancy services 71313000

Lot details

Lot 1

No lot description published.

Statusactive
Value£8,900,000
Contract periodFrom 1 Sept 2026 to 31 Aug 2031
SME suitabilitySuitable for SMEs

Award criteria
Candidate Capacity — Candidates are required to demonstrate, that in principle they have at their disposal sufficient manpower (of relevant and appropriate expertise and experience) and other resources necessary to deliver contracts of this nature. (35%)
Previous Experience — Candidates are required to demonstrate that they have sufficient recent and relevant experience to deliver contracts of this nature. (65%)

What is included

ItemCategoryQuantity
1Environmental engineering consultancy servicesNot published

Comparable-procurement analytics

Benchmarked against retained Find a Tender procedures with CPV division 71. The category anchor is Environmental engineering consultancy services (71313000); 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 714,6344 median · 30.3 average (1,438 of 4,634 with a bid count)4 average (1,583 of 4,634 with named award suppliers)Not published
Same buyer2Not publishedNot publishedNot published
Delivery region: UK1,0593 median · 68.5 average (324 of 1,059 with a bid count)6.6 average (373 of 1,059 with named award suppliers)Not published
Similar published value (0.5×–2×)3005.5 median · 17.8 average (4 of 300 with a bid count)8.8 average (4 of 300 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 agreementYes
Dynamic purchasing systemNot published
Competitive procurementNot published
Recurring requirementYes
Procurement method rationaleNot published
Rationale classificationsNot published
Special regimeutilities
Covered byGPA
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-065c9c
Latest release ID017114-2026
Latest release timestampWed Feb 25 2026 17:28:27 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Sourcefind-a-tender
Official notice URLhttps://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/017114-2026
Tender statusactive
Procurement methodselective
Procurement method detailsCompetitive flexible procedure
Main procurement categoryservices
Above thresholdYes
Legal basis2023/54
Tender period: startNot published
Tender period: endNot published
Expression of interest deadline2026-03-25T12:00:00+00:00
Enquiry deadline2026-03-10T12:00:00+00:00
Award period: startNot published
Award period: end2026-07-31T23:59:59+01:00
Submission method detailswww.mytenders.co.uk
Submission languagesen
Electronic catalogue policyNot published
Total tender value£8,900,000
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
25 Feb 2026tender017114-2026

All source data

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

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Complete JSON history (1 releases)
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