Official UK procurement notice
UK public contract notice
Authority: Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (Central government)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThe UK is a contracting party to the Convention for the Protection of the Marine Environment of the North- East Atlantic (the ‘OSPAR Convention’). Under the OSPAR Convention the UK is required to submit this data on an annual basis. This requirement is contained within the OSPAR Radioactive Substances Strategy where it commits the OSPAR Commission to annually collect data on Concentration of Radionuclides in the Marine Environment. The UK is signed up to the OSPAR Convention (North-East Atlantic Environment 2030), NEAES2030 and so regular reporting is required in order to review progress towards the targets of the Radioactive Substances Strategy.
The programme of radiological surveillance work provides the source data (sample collection, analysis, and annual reporting) and therefore, the means to monitor and make an assessment of progress in line with the UK’s commitments towards OSPAR’s Radioactive Substances Strategy. This provides a framework for preventing and eliminating pollution in the North-East Atlantic, including the seas around the UK.
The work specified here forms part of a wider programme of work under OSPAR and is managed by The Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ).
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As part of the tender response Bidders will need to provide a more detailed breakdown of timings; suggested dates and timescales for different aspects of the project such as indicative dates of progress review meetings, submission of progress notes, timings for information collation and writing of the report etc.
Helpful links are listed below:
• OSPAR Radioactive Substances Strategy (covers nuclear and non-nuclear discharges): https://www.ospar.org/convention/strategy
• UK Strategy for Radioactive Discharges: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/uk-strategy-for-radioactive-discharges-2018-review-of-the-2009-strategy
The requirement is currently being developed with a view to conduct market engagement on Tuesday 30th April 2024. This procurement will be competed via open procurement. If you are interested in this requirement and wish to be kept up-to-date, please register on the Department's Procurement Platform; Jaggaer - https:beisgroup.ukp.app.jaggaer.com/go/.
To sign up for the market engagement on 30th April 2024 please email: [email protected] with the name of your organisation and contact details of attendees by 12PM on 29th April 2024.
CPV: Nuclear safety services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1The UK is a contracting party to the Convention for the Protection of the Marine Environment of the North- East Atlantic (the ‘OSPAR Convention’)
What it takes to wini
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 morei
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).
- Staff
- Names and qualifications of delivery staff must be submitted
Pipeline intelligence · planning stage — how this market runs before the tender is published
Competition for Services furnished by business, professional and specialist organisations (CPV 9811) — and who usually turns up
Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy has too little published record in this market to describe on its own; no delivery region is published, so no market column stands beside whatever it has. Frameworks and DPS are kept out: they attract a different number of bids. Whole-market view: Services furnished by business, professional and specialist organisations (CPV 9811) →
How the contest usually goes
Left: the procurement agent running this notice. Right: the market where the work is delivered. Bids and award-vs-estimate pairs are per lot, from contested contracts only — direct awards (including PA 2023 transparency notices) report one bid by definition and are left out. On Procurement Act 2023 notices the count is the tenders assessed at the final stage, not every submission received; pairs compare like with like (VAT-exclusive, or VAT-inclusive on both sides). Empty means nothing was published, not filled in from elsewhere.
Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy
Runs tenders for other bodies; the client is named in the notice, not in this record. contract notices in 36 months: 8 in all categories (6 without competition)
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How many companies usually bid for work like this.
Middle value of published bid counts, one per lot, for this buyer or this region in the same sector.
Nothing published for this buyer in this sector: no bid reports published.
Nothing is filled in from UK-wide numbers. An empty tile means nothing usable was published.
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How often only one company bid.
Share of lots that received exactly one bid, on the same competitions as the bids figure.
Nothing published for this buyer in this sector: no bid reports published.
High means a thin market or an incumbent that is hard to beat.
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Do awards for work like this land above or below the estimate.
Estimate against award per lot, for this buyer or this region in the same sector.
Nothing published for this buyer in this sector: no comparable estimate → award pairs.
A past pattern, not a price to bid.
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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.
Nothing published for this buyer in this sector: no award dates published.
Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.
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How often this buyer changes a notice after publishing it.
Middle number of amendments per notice. Deadline extensions and corrections both count.
Nothing published for this buyer in this sector: no amendment history.
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How often this buyer awards without a competition.
Direct or limited awards as a share of its notices that say which procedure was used. These routes are legal in defined cases. This is just the record.
Based on this buyer’s tenders in all categories, last 36 months: 8 notices.
No delivery region published
The notice publishes no ITL1 delivery location and the authority has no registered region, so there is no regional market to compare against. UK-wide figures are deliberately not shown.
No regional market to compare against.
Who you are likely to meet i
Who you may be up against.
Suppliers on this buyer’s earlier similar contracts, and suppliers whose record fits this tender.
A guess from the record. Buyers do not publish who is bidding.
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Who you may be up against.
Suppliers on this buyer’s earlier similar contracts, and suppliers whose record fits this tender.
A guess from the record. Buyers do not publish who is bidding.
Suppliers on this authority’s earlier similar contracts, then suppliers with a matching track record — from published award history, not a bid list
Suppliers with a similar track record — and how they price i
Suppliers with a similar track record, and how they price.
Suppliers matched on wins in this category, history with this buyer, location and size. Their award vs estimate is from their own past wins.
A guess from the record, not a bidder list.
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Suppliers with a similar track record, and how they price.
Suppliers matched on wins in this category, history with this buyer, location and size. Their award vs estimate is from their own past wins.
A guess from the record, not a bidder list.
| Supplier | Evidence | Last award | Their award vs estimate | Relevance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Frazer-Nash Consultancy Limited Large | 8 class wins · 2 lots for this buyer | this month | at estimate n=1 | 60% |
| Sirius Analysis Limited SME | 4 class wins · 1 lots for this buyer | 2 months ago | no comparable pairs | 59% |
| MMI Engineering Limited (Trading as Thornton Tomasetti) SME | 3 class wins | 2 months ago | no comparable pairs | 56% |
| Mott MacDonald Large | 5 class wins · 2 lots for this buyer | this month | 6% below n=17 | 56% |
| AtkinsRéalis UK Ltd Large | 12 class wins · 2 lots for this buyer | this month | at estimate n=14 | 55% |
Matched by the nightly worker on class wins, buyer history, delivery geography, scale and notice text; relevance is a 0–100% heuristic score, not a probability of bidding. “Their award vs estimate” is that supplier’s middle value on its own comparable single-supplier wins, CPV 9811 first. Nobody here is known to be bidding.
Coverage and what to read with care
- Each tile 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 columns are never blended and nothing is filled from a UK-wide figure; an empty tile means the source published nothing usable. Long form: Methodology.
- Coverage. Roughly 40 % of notices publish a bid count; about half publish an ITL1 delivery location, so the market column reads the authority’s registered region when the notice has none (labelled). About 30 % of award-vs-estimate pairs are exact matches — the buyer published the award at the estimate. n is on every figure; a thin sample is muted, never hidden.
- “Match” and “relevance” are model scores from the nightly matcher, not published facts. 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 procedure with negotiation
- Legal basis
- CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Planned procurement
- Procurement threshold
- Unspecified in notice
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Yes (GPA)
- Recurring procurement
- No (one-off requirement)
- First published
- 17 Apr 2024, 14:56 BST
- Last source update
- 17 Apr 2024, 14:56 BST
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-04530b
- Electronic trading
- e-invoicing allowed · electronic ordering · electronic payment
How it was run
- Submission deadline
- 10 May 2024, 01:00 BST
- Submission channel
- {"electronicSubmission","written"}
- Accepted languages
- en
Timeline
2 published dates · Europe/London- Notice published17 Apr 2024, 14:56 BST
- Submission deadline10 May 2024, 01:00 BST
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
Dispute resolution & review bodies
- Not applicableReview body
Official documents & specifications (2)
Official links; attachments are not copiedTender pack and attachments
- Economic and financial selection criteria
- Technical selection criteria