Official UK procurement notice
The Delivery of Level 3 Military Engineering Construction Technician (L3 MECT) Apprenticeship (ST0414) Apprenticeship Assessment (AA)
Authority: Ministry of Defence (Central government)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThe British Army is hereby advising the market of an upcoming contracting opportunity for Apprenticeship Assessment Organisations (AAO) to tender to deliver AA to the Royal Engineers (RE) for the L3 MECT Apprenticeship Standard, over a five-year period, commencing in January 2027, through to January 2033. The existing contract for AA provision of the L3 MECT Apprenticeship Standard ends in January 2028. As such, this contract is to be in place by June 2027, to allow for AAs to commence from January 2028.
The L3 MECT Apprenticeship Standard covers the following five pathway options, all of which the AAO will be required to support:
Carpenter & Joiner.
Bricklayer & Concreter.
Building & Structural Finisher.
Plumbing & Heating Engineer.
Plant Operator Mechanic.
AAO will be required to support all pathways.
The value of the contract is estimated to be worth up to £2,650,000 (Ex VAT) over 5 years.
In addition to delivery of AAs, the AAO will be responsible for management of AA facility locations at Brompton Barracks, Chatham, Kent, and Wainscott Camp, near Rochester, Kent. Such facility management responsibilities are likely to include the following:
- Day to day management of both AA facility locations.
- The AAO may wish to use Military Assessors for some or all the assessment plans.
- Training and supervision of all Military Assessors. Up to three per specialisation / pathway.
- Assessment Waste segregation.
- Maintenance, servicing, and replacement of assessment related tools.
- Provision of all assessment related trade and building materials.
- Provision of all IT for AA staff and assessment purposes.
- Provision of Wi-Fi connectivity.
- Provision of all office and classroom furniture.
AAO will be required to be registered with Skills England for L3 MECT before submission of tender.
Specialisation
CPV: Education and training services
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 Education and training services (CPV 80), and who usually turns up
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How often local firms win similar work.
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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.
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Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.
Half of these awards were announced within 56 days of the bid deadline.
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Past bids do not predict this tender.
1 bid40% / 33%
2–335% / 28%
4–621% / 24%
7+4% / 16%
How did awards compare with estimates?
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Where winning prices landed against estimates.
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Past prices are a guide, not a bid price.
Below estimate56% / 31%
Within ±2%32% / 58%
Above estimate12% / 12%
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No supplier is confirmed as a bidder.
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Lot #1Published estimate£2.6m
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1 bid33%
2–328%
4–624%
7+16%
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Where the award price may land.
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A past supplier may not bid again.
| Supplier | This buyer’s earlier contract | Lot | Award value | Why listed |
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| JGA LimitedEarlier contract | Provision of End Point Assessment for the Royal Engineers Level 3 Military Engineering Construction Technician (MECT) Apprenticeship Standard (ST0414)notice published May 2021 | — | £2.8m | Matched as the earlier contract |
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None is confirmed as a bidder.
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Who could compete for this lot?
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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.
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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
- 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
- 14 May 2026, 11:23 BST
- Last source update
- 14 May 2026, 12:04 BST
- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-044320- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Not published
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06988fFind a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
14 May 2026 → 19 Jan 2028 · 4 dates- Planning notice published159 days ago14 May 2026, 11:23 BST
- Market engagement128 days ago14 Jun 2026, 23:59 BST
We are seeking feedback from the market to inform the design of a proportionate, deliverable, and commercially balanced procurement under the Procurement Act 2023 (PA23).
The current intention is that the procurement will be conducted using the Open Procedure, with a single-stage tender process.
The Authority retains the right to change its approach to the planned procurement process should this be required.
This preliminary market engagement (PME) does not constitute a call for competition.
Any future procurement will be advertised via the relevant UK e-notification service in accordance with the requirements of the Procurement Act 2023.
A formal Invitation to Tender, with full Statement of Requirement, will be issued on the Defence Sourcing Portal (DSP) in December 2027.
To aid the Authority in gauging the level of market interest, interested parties are requested to formally register their interest in taking part in this procurement by 17:00 hrs on 14th June 2026, by sending an email to [email protected].
Failure to register interest by the aforementioned time will not result in the tenderer being excluded from the ITT process.
Upon expiration of the Engagement Period of the 14th of June 2026, it is the Authority’s intention to host an Online Tender Briefing (OTB) where futher information on the requirment will be provided. All suppliers who have formally registered their interest in taking part in the procurement competition will be invited to attend the OTB.
- Today20 Oct 2026
- Tender notice expectedin 55 days14 Dec 2026, 23:59 GMT
- Contract starts19 Jan 2028
Notice history
2 events · 2 releases on Find a Tender · since 14 May 2026- Pipeline notice published14 May 2026, 11:23 BSTUK1
- Preliminary market engagement notice published14 May 2026, 12:04 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 (2)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender
- Pipeline notice Pipeline notice on Find a Tender