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Published 23 Feb 2026, 16:01 GMT

Official UK procurement notice

Weighing Scales · UK public procurement notice

Official notice Competition analysis

Authority: Defence Equipment and Support (Central government)

GoodsAbove thresholdSME suitable
Sectors: Laboratory, optical and precision equipments (excl. glasses) (38)Industrial machinery (42) Delivery: UK
Planned pipeline value£500,000pipeline notice, not a live tender
Tender notice expected 14 Aug 2028from the planned procurement notice
Contract term 4 yrsends 23 Aug 2032 · starts 21 Aug 2028

What is being bought

Published requirement description

The Ministry of Defence (MOD) has a requirement to procure a range of Commercial Off the Shelf (COTS) weighing scales. Equipment types and ranges as follows:

Bench 0-50 Kg

Crane 0-5000Kg

Hanging 0-2200Kg

Pallet 0-2500Kg

Floor 0-3000Kg

Platform 0-20000Kg

Equipment to be manufactured to UKCA/CE & BSEN 45501.

Please note, procurement dates and values in this notice are subject to governance and should not be viewed as a firm commitment.

CPV: Balances · Electronic analytical balances · Electronic technical balances · Scales · Weighing machinery

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published
Lot #1Planned 4 yrsSME
Contract period: 21 Aug 2028 – 23 Aug 2032 (4 yrs)
Delivery: UKEligibility: SME eligible
38311100 Electronic analytical balances38311200 Electronic technical balances42923100 Weighing machinery42923110 Balances42923200 Scales

Who is likely to bid for this lot ↓

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

How Defence Equipment and Support buys Machinery for cleaning bottles, packing and weighing and spraying machinery (CPV 4292), and who usually turns up

Defence Equipment and Support’s own published record, next to the published market for the same work. Frameworks and DPS are kept out: they attract a different number of bids. Whole-market view: Machinery for cleaning bottles, packing and weighing and spraying machinery (CPV 4292) →

1

How the contest usually goes

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

Question for the bid
This buyerDefence Equipment and Support · all categories
The marketMachinery for cleaning bottles, packing and weighing and spraying machinery (CPV 4292)
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: 39 of 115 known-size awards · market: no supplier sizes published
34%—

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.

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

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 13 of 105 known-location awards · market: no winner locations published
12%—

Most of this buyer’s recorded winners are registered outside the delivery region.

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: 20 decided notices · market: no decision dates published
75 days—

Half of these awards were announced within 75 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.

The buyer’s share is a minimum: 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 161 of 178 procurements with awards had no recorded rival · market: no bid counts or routes published
90%—

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?

i

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 buyer20 lots with bid counts · all categories
50% had one bid
The marketNo bid counts published
Buyer · select a colour for counts
1 bid50%
Buyer: 10 of 20 lots with published bid counts.
2–335%
Buyer: 7 of 20 lots with published bid counts.
4–610%
Buyer: 2 of 20 lots with published bid counts.
7+5%
Buyer: 1 of 20 lots with published bid counts.

How did awards compare with estimates?

i

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 buyer14 lots with estimate and award · all categories
43% below estimate
The marketNo estimate-and-award pairs published
Buyer · select a colour for counts
Below estimate43%
Buyer: 6 of 14 lots with an estimate and award.
Within ±2%36%
Buyer: 5 of 14 lots with an estimate and award.
Above estimate21%
Buyer: 3 of 14 lots with an estimate and award.
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Assess each lot
i

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 429248 monthsSME suitablePublished estimate£500k
Expected competition
i

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 29 past lots.

A forecast, not a list of bidders.

—No model forecast yet34% single-bid risk
Past bids on 29 similar lots
1 bid34%
10 of 29 similar past lots received 1 bid (34%).
2–334%
10 of 29 similar past lots received 2–3 (34%).
4–628%
8 of 29 similar past lots received 4–6 (28%).
7+3%
1 of 29 similar past lots received 7+ (3%).
Comparable past lots usually drew 3 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 £500k, 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.

No earlier contract of this buyer matches this lot on the published record.

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
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
23 Feb 2026, 16:01 GMT
Last source update
23 Mar 2026, 16:17 GMT
FTS notice number
2026/S 000-026437
Latest notice
Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
Classification (CPV)
BalancesElectronic analytical balancesElectronic technical balancesScalesWeighing machinery
Delivery area
UK
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-065a63 Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice
Submission deadline
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Timeline

23 Feb 2026 → 21 Aug 2028 · 5 dates
  1. Planning notice published240 days ago
    23 Feb 2026, 16:01 GMT
  2. Latest notice published212 days ago
    23 Mar 2026, 16:17 GMT
  3. Market engagement194 days ago
    10 Apr 2026, 23:59 BST

    Respondents should provide information in accordance with the format provided in Annex A in PDF, quoting the RFI reference on all documentation. Please provide your response via the Defence Sourcing Portal (DSP) or via [email protected]. The Authority may decide to contact you directly to clarify any points raised in your response. If you consider any further information is required to ensure you are able to bid in future, we invite you to submit comments within the response.

    Please note the deadline has been extended: all RFI submissions must be provided to the Authority :by 12:00 GMT on 10th April 2026. Please contact the Authority at your earliest opportunity should you encounter challenges with your submission.

    Please find link to Opportuntity Listing where you will find a copy of the RFI for your submission.

    contracts.mod.uk/esop/guest/go/opport… ↗

    Please contact the Authority at your earliest opportunity should you encounter challenges with your submission.

    This RFI is not a bidding opportunity, it is a means by which industry can provide information and does not constitute a commitment of an imminent procurement. All costs pertaining to the completion of this response are to be borne by the responders.

  4. Today
    22 Oct 2026
  5. Tender notice expected
    14 Aug 2028, 23:59 BST
  6. Contract starts
    21 Aug 2028, 00:00 BST

Notice history

2 events · 2 releases on Find a Tender · since 23 Feb 2026
  1. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    23 Feb 2026, 16:01 GMT
    UK2
  2. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    23 Mar 2026, 16:17 GMT
    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

DE&S Deca

Contracting authorityPublic authority - central government GB-PPON: PVRL-5831-GLMM Welsh Road, Deeside, Wales, CH5 2LSContact email

Official documents & specifications (2)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure