Official UK procurement notice
CPV Nimrod - Planned Maintenance and Safety Equipment Rectification
Authority: Home Office (Central government)
This is a Future Opportunity Notice to let potential bidders prepare themselves for the MSER of CPV Nimrod staring Monday 29th March 2027 through to Friday 16th April 2027. The Opportunity to bid for this competition will be December 2026 (exact date to be advised once docs are completed with BSC Maritime and BF Commercial) Annex B - Inspection, Testing and Certification of Safety Equipment. Please note that although the opportunity is currently listed as Any Region - the region that this work will be required will be based on operational activity and confirmed when the Tender Opportunity is launched.
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThis is a Future Opportunity Notice to let potential bidders prepare themselves for the MSER of CPV Nimrod staring Monday 29th March 2027 through to Friday 16th April 2027.
The Opportunity to bid for this competition will be December 2026 (exact date to be advised once docs are completed with BSC Maritime and BF Commercial)
The basic requirement will be:
Annex A - General Requirements of Work
Annex B - Inspection, Testing and Certification of Safety Equipment
Annex C - Vessel Maintenance Tasks
Annex D - Modifications and Defect Rectification
Technical Responses
The full requirement will be provided at Tender stage when full needs for the vessel are known.
Please note that although the opportunity is currently listed as Any Region - the region that this work will be required will be based on operational activity and confirmed when the Tender Opportunity is launched. A potential option to store the vessel out of the water for a period of time post contract may be included. This is also to be determined when the Tender is launched.
CPV: Marine patrol vessels · Vessel repair services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · value publishedLot #1PlannedPublished value£50,000
Pipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How Home Office buys Ships (CPV 3451), and who usually turns up
Home Office’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: Ships (CPV 3451) →
How the contest usually goes
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How often small and medium firms win.
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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 116 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.
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How many bids did past lots attract?
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How many bids past lots received.
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Past bids do not predict this tender.
1 bid11% / 27%
2–337% / 64%
4–641% / 0%
7+11% / 9%
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 estimate46% / 40%
Within ±2%34% / 40%
Above estimate20% / 20%
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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.
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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 3451Published estimate£50k
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How many bids this lot may attract.
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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 28 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid25%
2–343%
4–618%
7+14%
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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. Contracts Finder contracts appear on the Retender Radar, not yet in these figures.
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Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Procedure method
- Below threshold - open competition
- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Planned procurement
- Procurement threshold
- Below threshold
- 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
- 3 Nov 2026, 10:43 GMT
- Last source update
- 3 Nov 2026, 10:43 GMT
- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-104074- Latest notice
- Planned procurement notice (UK3)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Not published
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-079648Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
- 10 Feb 2027, 23:59 GMT
- Clarification deadline
- 3 Feb 2027, 23:59 GMT
Timeline
3 Nov 2026 → 29 Mar 2027 · 5 dates- Planning notice published21h ago3 Nov 2026, 10:43 GMT
- Today4 Nov 2026
- Tender notice expectedin 27 days1 Dec 2026, 23:59 GMT
- Clarification questions byin 91 days3 Feb 2027, 23:59 GMT
- Submission deadlinein 98 days10 Feb 2027, 23:59 GMT
- Contract startsin 144 days29 Mar 2027, 00:00 BST
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Planned procurement notice published3 Nov 2026, 10:43 GMTUK3
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 (1)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Planned procurement notice Planned procurement notice on Find a Tender