Official UK procurement notice
Standing Joint Command (SJC) Integrated Physical Security Capability
Authority: Ministry of Defence (Central government)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThe Authority intends to engage with the market to inform the potential procurement of an integrated physical security capability.
The Ministry of Defence (MOD) relies on a diverse and often legacy set of physical security technologies—including access control systems, CCTV, intrusion detection, and perimeter security solutions—to protect personnel, infrastructure, and sensitive assets across a wide and geographically dispersed estate. The current technology landscape is fragmented, with a variety of systems installed over time without consistent standards, interoperability, or integration.
This fragmentation creates several critical issues:
- Limited interoperability and integration: Existing systems typically operate in isolation, preventing real-time data sharing and a unified operational view of security across sites. This reduces situational awareness and slows decision-making during incidents.
- Reliance on legacy infrastructure: Many systems are outdated, difficult to maintain or upgrade, increasing operational risk and lifecycle costs while reducing resilience against evolving threats.
- Inconsistent capability across the estate: Variation in technology deployment results in uneven levels of protection
- Inefficient use of personnel: Limited automation and integration places significant reliance on workforce-intensive processes, reducing efficiency and increasing the burden on already stretched security personnel.
- Data underutilisation: Security data is collected but not effectively aggregated or analysed, limiting the MOD’s ability to derive insights, predict threats, and optimise resource allocation.
As threats become more complex, hybrid, and technologically advanced, the current physical security technology solution is not adequately positioned to deliver a coherent, scalable, and future-ready defence posture. We need an intelligent, standardised approach to deliver site specific, scalable, threat driven security system that enables national situational awareness, interoperability, resilience and efficiency across the MOD estate.
The Authority is seeking market insight to help shape future requirements, delivery models and commercial strategy for a more coherent, integrated, technology-enabled and threat-led security capability.
This preliminary market engagement is being conducted to:
- Test and refine the problem definition and scope of solution
- Understand market capability, innovation and interest
- Inform the development of the Statement of Requirements and Outline Business Case
- Shape the commercial approach, including cost modelling and scalability of solution
CPV: Alarm systems · Alarm-monitoring services · Closed-circuit surveillance system · Development of security equipment · Hardware integration consultancy services · Patrol services · Repair and maintenance services of security and defence materials · Repair and maintenance services of security equipment · Security cameras · Security equipment · Security services · Security software development services · +6 more
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedPipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How Ministry of Defence buys Surveillance and security systems and devices (CPV 3512), and who usually turns up
Ministry of Defence’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: Surveillance and security systems and devices (CPV 3512) →
How the contest usually goes
Winner shares use published awards; bid and price charts use contested lots.
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How often small and medium firms win.
Share of awards where the winner’s size is known.
The counts under this question show how many awards have a known supplier size.
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 East England.
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners are registered in South East 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 50 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.
Direct awards or one recorded bid are common here. Check the route before spending time on a bid.
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 bid62% / 14%
2–314% / 43%
4–65% / 21%
7+19% / 21%
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 estimate80% / 42%
Within ±2%20% / 42%
Above estimate0% / 16%
Assess each lot i
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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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.
Open a lot for its forecast, this buyer’s previous supplier and possible competitors, from published award history, not a bid list
Lot #1CPV 3512Estimate not published
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How many bids this lot may attract.
The forecast uses similar past competitions. The bar shows either that forecast or past bid counts; the line below says which.
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 12 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid25%
2–350%
4–617%
7+8%
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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.
No earlier contract of this buyer matches this lot on the published record.
Who could compete for this lot? i
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.
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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
- Defence & security
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 9 Jun 2026, 15:48 BST
- Last source update
- 10 Jun 2026, 14:15 BST
- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-054775- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06b114Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
9 Jun 2026 → 1 Jul 2026 · 3 dates- Planning notice published133 days ago9 Jun 2026, 15:48 BST
- Market engagement120 days ago22 Jun 2026, 23:59 BST
The Authority will deliver an in-person Market Engagement event on the 1st of July.
The session is designed to ensure suppliers have a shared understanding of the strategic context, problem definition and high-level requirements, while creating space for initial engagement ahead of deeper interaction.
Preliminary Agenda
- Event Introduction
- Strategic landscape and context
- Problem statement and ISM Strategy
- Programme Overview
- High-level requirements/capability needs
- Constraints and assumptions
- Interactive Engagement
The agenda is subject to refinement and additional detail will be shared with attendees.
Supplier Suitability Statement
Interested suppliers are invited to submit a short suitability statement (up to 300 words) outlining:
- Relevant experience and capability in areas such as:
o Complex integrated security systems (physical + digital convergence if relevant)
o Multi-agency / multi-site environments
o Command & control platforms or operational integration
o System interoperability / integration frameworks
o Modernisation of ageing infrastructure
o Threat-led or intelligence-driven security models
- Confirmation of security clearance
Submissions will be assessed based on relevance of experience, demonstrated capability, and compliance with the requirements outlined above. Please return all responses via the Microsoft Form available at: forms.office.com/e/nSjw3h0HZk ↗. The deadline for submissions is 22/06/2026 18:00. Attendance to the event must be in person on 01/07/2026 and it will be held in Aldershot GU11. Full details will be shared with invited Suppliers.
Attendance is limited; the Authority reserves the right to select participants based on suitability and availability.
After the event all Suppliers that submitted a suitability statement will have an opportunity to share feedback and insights via an industry facing front door.
This notice is not a call for competition. It is a pre-procurement market engagement exercise conducted by the Ministry of Defence (MOD) for information-gathering purposes and does not constitute the commencement of a procurement under the Procurement Act 2023, nor any commitment to undertake a future procurement.
Participation in this event, including submission of a suitability statement and any subsequent engagement, will not confer any preferential treatment or unfair advantage in any future procurement. The MOD will ensure compliance with the principles of the Procurement Act 2023, including transparency, equal treatment, non-discrimination, and integrity.
The Authority reserves the right to consider supplier engagement with this notice when developing any future procurement and associated selection criteria
- Contract starts112 days ago1 Jul 2026, 00:00 BST
Notice history
2 events · 2 releases on Find a Tender · since 9 Jun 2026- Preliminary market engagement notice published9 Jun 2026, 15:48 BSTUK2
- Preliminary market engagement notice published10 Jun 2026, 14:15 BSTUK2
Published amendments (1)
Update to submission of suitability statement process.
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 (2)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender