Find a TenderOpen for expressions of interest Tender notice
Published 7 Oct 2026, 12:17 BST

Official UK procurement notice

Supply and Delivery of Fire Doorsets

Authority: Northern Ireland Housing Executive (Central government)

Two-stageGoodsCompetitive flexible procedureAbove threshold
Sectors: Construction Materials & Prefab (44) Delivery: Delivery location not published
Published estimate£950,000≈ £475k / year · £1,140,000 inc. VAT
Submission deadline 2 Nov 202615:00 GMT · 26d 2h left
Clarification cut-off 27 Oct 202615:00 GMT · questions to the authority
Contract term 2 yrsup to 3 yrs with extensions · starts 1 Dec 2026

What is being bought

Published requirement description

Housing Executive Direct requires a contract for the supply and delivery of fire doorsets. Please see the Tender Documentation for all requirements.

  • The authority expects to re-tender this requirement around 24 Sept 2029, 23:59 BST.
  • How the procedure runs: See Tender Documentation

CPV: Construction structures and materials; auxiliary products to construction (except electric apparatus)

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · value published
Lot #1Renewal 2 yrsPublished value£950,000
Contract period: 1 Dec 2026 — 30 Nov 2028 (2 yrs) · up to 3 yrs with extensionsTurnover guideline: ~£948,700/yr≈ 2× annual value
Value
£950,000 exc. VAT · £1,140,000 inc. VAT
Extensions
See Tender Documentation · 24 month initial contract period with the option to extend for 12 months or part thereof.
44000000 Construction structures and materials; auxiliary products to construction (except electric apparatus)

Who is likely to bid for this lot ↓

What it takes to win
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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 more
How bids are scored
Price: 100%
Published sub-criteria (1)
  • Cost — 100%
Published award criteria (1)
  • Cost — See Tender Documentation

No conditions of participation were published on the notice; check the tender documents.

What this means for your bid
  • Price carries 100 of 100 points — a 10% discount moves about 10 points. This one is won on the number — sharpen the price before polishing the prose.
  • Turnover usually expected at this size: about £948,700 (twice the annual value).

Price arithmetic assumes straight proportional scoring — the tender pack may use another formula. 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 Northern Ireland Housing Executive buys Construction structures and materials (CPV 44) — and who usually turns up

Northern Ireland Housing Executive’s own published record, next to the Northern Ireland market for the same work. Frameworks and DPS are kept out: they attract a different number of bids. Whole-market view: Construction structures and materials (CPV 44) →

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How the contest usually goes

This buyer’s published record next to the market where the work is delivered — contested contracts only, counted per lot

Question for the bid
This buyerNorthern Ireland Housing Executive · all categories
The marketConstruction structures and materials (CPV 44) · Northern Ireland (authority’s region)
What to do with it
How often do SMEs win?
i

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.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 127 of 158 known-size awards · market: division 44, n=89
80%67%

Small firms have won here. Neither number says whether you qualify; it describes who has been winning.

How often do local suppliers win?
i

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 Northern Ireland.

A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 58 of 70 known-location awards · market: division 44, n=23
83%74%

Most of this buyer’s recorded winners are registered in Northern Ireland.

How long to a decision?
i

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.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 31 decided notices · market: n=16
50 days49 days

Half of these awards were announced within 50 days of the bid deadline.

How often single-bid or direct?
i

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.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: at least 12 of 81 awarded contracts without a rival · market: n=49
15%16%

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.

Last 36 months.

This buyer169 lots with bid counts · all categories
10% had one bid
The market101 lots with bid counts · broad CPV 44
15% had one bid
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
1 bid10% / 15%
Buyer: 17 of 169 lots with published bid counts. Market: 15 of 101 lots with published bid counts.
2–320% / 35%
Buyer: 33 of 169 lots with published bid counts. Market: 35 of 101 lots with published bid counts.
4–642% / 26%
Buyer: 71 of 169 lots with published bid counts. Market: 26 of 101 lots with published bid counts.
7+28% / 25%
Buyer: 48 of 169 lots with published bid counts. Market: 25 of 101 lots with published bid counts.

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.

Last 36 months.

This buyer114 lots with estimate and award · all categories
30% below estimate
The market39 lots with estimate and award · broad CPV 44
23% below estimate
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
Below estimate30% / 23%
Buyer: 34 of 114 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 9 of 39 lots with an estimate and award.
Within ±2%25% / 41%
Buyer: 28 of 114 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 16 of 39 lots with an estimate and award.
Above estimate46% / 36%
Buyer: 52 of 114 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 14 of 39 lots with an estimate and award.
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Assess each lot
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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 #1 24 monthsPublished value£950,000
Expected competition
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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.

The bar shows 101 past lots.

A forecast, not a list of bidders.

—15% single-bid risk
Past bids on 101 similar lots
1 bid15%
15 of 101 similar past lots received 1 bid (15%).
2–335%
35 of 101 similar past lots received 2–3 (35%).
4–626%
26 of 101 similar past lots received 4–6 (26%).
7+25%
25 of 101 similar past lots received 7+ (25%).
Comparable past lots usually drew 4 bids.
Commercial price forecast
i

Where the winning 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 guide, not a price to bid.

—No model forecast yet
No comparable awards on record for this lot’s category yet — the published estimate is £950k, and the forecast stays empty until the market has a record to read.

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.

SupplierThis buyer’s earlier contractLotAward valueMatch
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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.

Restricted route (Stage 2 ITT / Shortlist): Bidding is restricted to invited candidates who qualified at Stage 1. Uninvited suppliers cannot participate in this round.
SupplierWon in this categoryLive contractsAward vs estimate
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Coverage and what to read with care
  • Each figure explains itself. The on a figure says what it is, how it is counted and which scope this notice’s own record came from (class, division, all categories, or the authority’s 24-month row). The two sides are never blended. A lot’s own market is read at its delivery region where the lot names one; where it names several, or none that can be resolved, the chart falls back to the UK-wide record for the same category and says so under the bar. An empty cell means the source published nothing usable. Long form: Methodology.
  • When we call out a difference. A buyer figure is only flagged against the market when the sample is large enough that the gap is unlikely to be chance; at most two callouts appear, always phrased as a comparison with both numbers and the sample size.
  • Coverage (re-measured 5 Oct on the live record, 94,497 awarded procedures of the last three years). 51 % publish a bid count and 72 % a delivery region, so the market column reads the authority’s registered region when the notice names none, labelled. Of the 17,687 award-vs-estimate pairs, 34 % sit exactly on the estimate — the buyer published the award at the figure it advertised. n is on every figure; a thin sample is muted, never hidden, and a distribution is not drawn as percentages below ten observations.
  • “Match”, text similarity, the expected-bid figure and the distribution drawn beneath it are model outputs, not published facts or win probabilities. Find a Tender does not publish who is bidding. Never shown: contact details, payment behaviour, or a recommended price.

Procedure terms & legal framework

From the official record
Procedure method
Competitive flexible procedure
Legal basis
UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
Procurement category
Goods
Notice status
Open for expressions of interest
Procurement threshold
Above threshold (FTS publication)
Regulatory regime
Standard
Commercial structure
Stand-alone contract (no framework)
Competition type
Competitive procedure
GPA / WTO covered
Yes (GPA)
Recurring procurement
Yes · next expected 24 Sept 2029
First published
7 Oct 2026, 12:17 BST
Last source update
7 Oct 2026, 12:17 BST
Award evaluation window
Submission end — 20 Nov 2026, 23:59 GMT
Authority reference
P1213
Latest notice
Tender notice (UK4)
Classification (CPV)
Construction structures and materials; auxiliary products to construction (except electric apparatus)
Delivery area
Not published
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-078294 Find a Tender
How it runs
See Tender Documentation

How to participate & submission route

Official notice
Expression of interest (EOI)
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Tender submission deadline
2 Nov 2026, 15:00 GMT
Clarification deadline
27 Oct 2026, 15:00 GMT
Electronic submission
Allowed
Accepted languages
en
Detailed submission instructions & authority contactsFrom official release
Published estimate £950,000 excludes VAT (£1,140,000 including VAT).

Timeline

5 published dates · Europe/London
  1. Tender notice publishedearlier today
    7 Oct 2026, 12:17 BST
  2. Clarification questions byin 20 days
    27 Oct 2026, 15:00 GMT
  3. Submission deadlinein 26 days
    2 Nov 2026, 15:00 GMT
  4. Award decision expected byin 44 days
    20 Nov 2026, 23:59 GMT
  5. Contract startsin 54 days
    1 Dec 2026, 00:00 GMT

Commercial outcome & contract awards

Nothing awarded yet
Awards (0)
No award published
Contracts (0)
No contract published
Bid statistics
No aggregate bid statistics published

Notice history

1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender
  1. Tender notice published
    7 Oct 2026, 12:17 BSTUK4

Contracting authority & participating public bodies

Northern Ireland Housing Executive

Contracting authorityPublic authority - central government GB-PPON: PTYV-8666-PQQY 2 Adelaide Street, Belfast, Northern Ireland, BT2 8PB

Official documents & specifications (2)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Tender pack and attachments

  • Conflict of interest declarationtenderConflict of interest declarationNot published

Notices published for this procedure

  • Tender notice tenderTender noticeUK4Tender notice on Find a Tender