Official UK procurement notice
Capability Assets' Managed Service
Authority: Merseyside Fire and Rescue Authority (Police & fire)·Consortium: 2 public authorities
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionMerseyside Fire and Rescue Authority (The Authority) as Lead Authority for National Resilience, seeks to identify a Prime Contractor to provide a Capability Assets' Managed Service.
The requirements are for the maintenance, repair and servicing of the National Resilience fleet of vehicles and associated equipment.
The core requirements of this contract are to provide routine and unplanned maintenance, repair and servicing throughout the life of the contract.
The Authority deems that Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 2006 (TUPE) provisions may apply to this contract.
CPV: Auditing services · Call centre · Cargo handling and storage services · Customer services · Firefighting, rescue and safety equipment · Hire of goods-transport vehicles with driver · IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support · Parts and accessories for vehicles and their engines · Public road transport services · Repair and maintenance services of motor vehicles and associated equipment · Software package and information systems · Special-purpose road passenger-transport services · +1 more
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1PlannedRenewal
Pipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How Merseyside Fire and Rescue Authority buys Advertising and marketing services (CPV 7934), and who usually turns up
Merseyside Fire and Rescue Authority’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: Advertising and marketing services (CPV 7934) →
How the contest usually goes
Winner shares use published awards; bid and price charts use contested lots.
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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.
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.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners were registered in the region where that award was delivered.
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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 46 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.
Both shares are minimums: some awards have no bid count.
Thin markets produce this too; it is not proof of a tailored specification.
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.
1 bid17%
2–322%
4–628%
7+33%
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 estimate20%
Within ±2%66%
Above estimate14%
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.
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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 7934Published estimate£160m
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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 246 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid17%
2–322%
4–628%
7+33%
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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.
A statistical guide from past awards, not a price to bid.
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.
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.
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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.
- 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
- 7 May 2026, 14:33 BST
- Last source update
- 27 May 2026, 17:02 BST
- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-049946- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06938cFind a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
7 May 2026 → 1 Oct 2028 · 5 dates- Planning notice published172 days ago7 May 2026, 14:33 BST
- Latest notice published152 days ago27 May 2026, 17:02 BST
- Market engagement115 days ago3 Jul 2026, 23:59 BST
This procurement will be conducted utilising Procurement Act 2023.
The purpose of this Pre-Market engagement is to gauge the level of interest in this opportunity and obtain feedback from the market. It does not formally begin a procurement process or constitute any commitment by the Authority to undertake any procurement exercise.
Potential bidders will not be prejudiced by not responding to this pre-market engagement notification. Potential bidders must also note that a response to this notice does not guarantee an invitation to participate in this or in any future procurement that the Authority may conduct. Any costs involved in responding to this Pre-Market engagement will be borne by the responders.
Engagement deadline for expressing an interest
Initial stage of Pre-Market Engagement
The Authority is hosting an online meeting on 15th June 2026, 11.30am via Microsoft Teams.
If your organisation is interested in attending this event, you must register your expression of interest by 11th June 2026, 5pm via the following portal link;
If not registered, use the following link:
procontract.due-north.com/Register ↗
If already registered, search within Opportunities (filter by Merseyside Fire and Rescue Service) for project reference DN814453 Capability Assets' Managed Service
procontract.due-north.com/Opportunities/Index ↗
Registration onto the portal is free.
Please note that this event will be recorded. A copy of this recording will be available, upon request, up until the publication of the Invitation to Tender documents.
When your expression of interest is confirmed, an invite to the online meeting will be forwarded to you separately.
Second stage of Pre-Market Engagement
Following the online meeting, the Authority invites feedback from those who have expressed an interest, via an online Request for Information.
The feedback gained may assist in refining and shaping our future tender process. Your feedback is requested by Friday 3rd July 2026.
- Today27 Oct 2026
- Tender notice expectedin 76 days11 Jan 2027, 23:59 GMT
- Contract starts1 Oct 2028, 00:00 BST
Notice history
3 events · 2 releases on Find a Tender · since 7 May 2026- Pipeline notice published7 May 2026, 14:33 BSTUK1
- Preliminary market engagement notice published27 May 2026, 17:02 BSTUK2
- Buyer details updated27 May 2026, 17:02 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
2 public bodies on the noticeOfficial 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