Official UK procurement notice
Supply of white fleet vehicle spare parts, oils, lubricants, and associated tools for British Forces South Atlantic Islands
Authority: Ministry of Defence (Central government)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionBritish Forces South Atlantic Islands (BFSAI) operates a white fleet of light, specialist, heavy, and electric vehicles operating in remote environments (Falkland Islands and Ascension Island). In order to support the service and maintenance of these vehicles, BFSAI seeks suppliers to provide vehicle spare parts, oils, lubricants, ancillaries, and specialist tools.
The fleet includes - but is not limited to - vehicles from manufactures: INEOS, Ford, KIA, Mercedes, Nissan (EV), Maxus (EV), Yutong and Writebus.
BFSAI wishes to establish a catalogue-based agreement for the provision of OEM and approved non-OEM parts, oils, lubricants, ancillaries and specialist tools. Additionally, there is a requirement for support from Subject Matter Experts for support with diagnostics.
Suppliers will need to comply with all UK, EU and Falkland Islands standards and package products in compliance with Defence Logistics Policy.
CPV: Engines and engine parts · Lubricating oils and lubricating agents · Mechanical spare parts except engines and engine parts · Parts and accessories for vehicles and their engines · Spare parts for goods vehicles, vans and cars
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1PlannedRenewal
Pipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How Ministry of Defence buys Spare parts for goods vehicles, vans and cars (CPV 3433): 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: Spare parts for goods vehicles, vans and cars (CPV 3433) →
How the contest usually goes
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How often small and medium firms win.
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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 Falkland Islands, St Helena, 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 24 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.
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How many bids did past lots attract?
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How many bids past lots received.
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Past bids do not predict this tender.
1 bid25%
2–350%
4–625%
7+0%
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 estimate60%
Within ±2%22%
Above estimate18%
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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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No supplier is confirmed as a bidder.
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Lot #1Published estimate£1.7m
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Goods
- Notice status
- Planned procurement
- Procurement threshold
- Above threshold (FTS publication)
- 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
- 20 May 2026, 14:59 BST
- Last source update
- 20 May 2026, 14:59 BST
- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-046490- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area in notice
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-069db1Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
20 May 2026 → 1 Aug 2026 · 4 dates- Planning notice published162 days ago20 May 2026, 14:59 BST
- Tender notice expected129 days ago21 Jun 2026, 23:59 BST
- Market engagement129 days ago21 Jun 2026, 23:59 BST
Cyber and Specialist Operations Command (CSOC) Commercial invites engagement from potential suppliers to gauge interest and assess the market landscape. Key areas of engagement shall cover product range and availability, nature of subject matter expert support, logistical considerations with regards to delivery to Authority sites, and how potential suppliers may price for the availability of parts.
- Contract starts89 days ago1 Aug 2026, 00:00 BST
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Preliminary market engagement notice published20 May 2026, 14:59 BSTUK2
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 (1)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender