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Published 30 Apr 2026, 15:51 BST

Official UK procurement notice

UKRI-6033 Building Regulations Advisor Services

Authority: UK Research and Innovation (Central government)

ServicesAbove thresholdSME suitable
Sectors: Architecture & Engineering (71) Delivery: UK
Planned pipeline value£2,500,000pipeline notice, not a live tender
Tender notice expected 3 Jul 2026from the planned procurement notice
Contract term 4 yrsends 23 Sept 2030 · up to 23 Sept 2031 with extensions · starts 24 Sept 2026

What is being bought

Published requirement description

UKRI STFC Estates and Projects is seeking to appoint a provider of non-statutory Building Regulations advisory services to support a range of estate projects across STFC sites in England.

Projects may include new construction, refurbishment, alteration works and specialist facilities associated with research and laboratory environments.

The services will support UKRI and its project teams in planning, documenting and evidencing compliance with the Building Regulations.

Services will be instructed under the contract and may be further defined by project-specific instruction, purchase order, scope, programme, deliverables and fees.

CPV: Building consultancy services

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published
Lot #1PlannedRenewal 4 yrsSME
Contract period: 24 Sept 2026 – 23 Sept 2030 (4 yrs) · up to 23 Sept 2031 with extensions
Delivery: UKEligibility: SME eligible
Extensions: Extension options published

Who is likely to bid for this lot ↓

Pipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published

How UK Research and Innovation buys Consultative engineering and construction services (CPV 7131), and who usually turns up

UK Research and Innovation’s published record next to the market for the same work. Frameworks and DPS are left out: they draw different bid counts. Whole-market view: Consultative engineering and construction services (CPV 7131) →

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How the contest usually goes

Winner shares use published awards; bid and price charts use contested lots.

Question for the bid
This buyerUK Research and Innovation · division 71
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: 29 of 76 known-size awards · market: CPV 7131 · UK-wide, n=1,191
38%57%

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.

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.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 14 of 30 known-location awards · market: CPV 7131 · UK-wide, n=1,147
47%51%

Most of this buyer’s recorded winners were registered outside the region where that award was delivered.

How long to a decision?
i

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.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 4 decided notices · market: CPV 7131 · UK-wide, n=225
41 days48 days

Half of these awards have an award date within 41 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 81 of 121 procurements with awards had no recorded rival · market: CPV 7131 · UK-wide, n=1,668
67%42%

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.

Last 36 months.

This buyer7 lots with bid counts · broad CPV 71
14% had one bid
The market451 lots with bid counts · CPV 7131 · UK-wide
14% had one bid
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
1 bid14% / 14%
Buyer: 1 of 7 lots with published bid counts. Market: 64 of 451 lots with published bid counts.
2–314% / 24%
Buyer: 1 of 7 lots with published bid counts. Market: 106 of 451 lots with published bid counts.
4–629% / 29%
Buyer: 2 of 7 lots with published bid counts. Market: 133 of 451 lots with published bid counts.
7+43% / 33%
Buyer: 3 of 7 lots with published bid counts. Market: 148 of 451 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 buyer5 lots with estimate and award · broad CPV 71
40% below estimate
The market313 lots with estimate and award · CPV 7131 · UK-wide
42% below estimate
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
Below estimate40% / 42%
Buyer: 2 of 5 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 133 of 313 lots with an estimate and award.
Within ±2%40% / 42%
Buyer: 2 of 5 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 131 of 313 lots with an estimate and award.
Above estimate20% / 16%
Buyer: 1 of 5 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 49 of 313 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 #1CPV 713148 monthsSME suitablePublished estimate£2.5m
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.

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 451 past lots.

A forecast, not a list of bidders.

—No model forecast yet14% chance of a single bid
Past bids on 451 similar lots
1 bid14%
64 of 451 similar past lots received 1 bid (14%).
2–324%
106 of 451 similar past lots received 2–3 (24%).
4–629%
133 of 451 similar past lots received 4–6 (29%).
7+33%
148 of 451 similar past lots received 7+ (33%).
Comparable past lots usually drew 5 bids.
Commercial price forecast
i

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.

—No model forecast yet
No comparable awards on record for this lot’s category yet. The published estimate is £2.5m, and the forecast stays empty until the market has a record to read.

Who has supplied this buyer on similar work?
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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.

SupplierThis buyer’s earlier contractLotAward valueWhy listed
CARTER JONAS LLPLive contractUKRI-4936 Planning Advisory Servicesruns to Jan 2030UKRI-4936 Planning Advisor Services£600kMatched as the earlier contract
David Lock AssociatesLive contractUKRI-4936 Planning Advisory Servicesruns to Jan 2030UKRI-4936 Planning Advisor Services£600kMatched as the earlier contract

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.

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
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
30 Apr 2026, 15:51 BST
Last source update
30 Apr 2026, 15:51 BST
Authority reference
UKRI-6033
FTS notice number
2026/S 000-040072
Latest notice
Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
Classification (CPV)
Building consultancy services
Delivery area
UK
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-068f94 Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice
Submission deadline
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Timeline

30 Apr 2026 → 24 Sept 2026 · 4 dates
  1. Planning notice published177 days ago
    30 Apr 2026, 15:51 BST
  2. Market engagement142 days ago
    4 Jun 2026, 23:59 BST

    UKRI STFC will be holding a virtual Market Engagement Event on Thursday 21 May 2026 at 11am. The event will last no longer than an hour.

    The event will provide an overview of the requirement and offer suppliers the opportunity to ask questions.

    If you are interested in attending, please email the below details to [email protected], quoting the UKRI reference number (UKRI-6033 Building Regulations Advisor Services ) by Tuesday 19 May 2026 at 17:30 BST.

    Details for Registration:

    Attendee Name

    Company

    Email Address

    Please note that only two people per organisation may sign up to the webinar.

    If you would like an overview of the scope before signing up to the webinar, please email [email protected] with “UKRI‑6033 EOI Information” as the subject line.

  3. Tender notice expected113 days ago
    3 Jul 2026, 23:59 BST
  4. Contract starts31 days ago
    24 Sept 2026, 00:00 BST

Notice history

1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender
  1. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    30 Apr 2026, 15:51 BST
    UK2

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

UK Research & Innovation (UKRI)

Contracting authorityPublic authority - central government GB-PPON: PDQJ-7126-JDHG Polaris House, Swindon, Wiltshire, South West, SN2 1FLContact email

Official documents & specifications (1)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure