Official UK procurement notice
HMC Valiant - MCA Load Line docking and inspection
Authority: Home Office (Central government)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThis is notice of a planned procurement opportunity to perform the MCA Load Line docking and equipment inspection on HMC Valiant.
The Cutter docking activities will take place early 2027 for a maximum of 3 weeks.
This notice is issued to enable potential bidders to prepare for, and express an interest in, this work.
The requirement will include dry docking the vessel, inspecting the underwater hull preservation, hull valves, anodes, removal and inspection of the shaft line, rudders and stabilisers. Also including the inspection of internal tanks throughout the Cutter.
The full requirement will be provided at Tender stage, expected to be inJanuary 2027.
The regional location for this opportunity will be based on operational activity and confirmed when the Tender Opportunity is launched.
The tender opportunity will be issued via the Home Office eSourcing Portal and bidders must therefore ensure they have registered: homeoffice.app.jaggaer.com ↗
Bidders will also need to be registered on the UK Government's Central Digital Platform (Find a Tender Service). This is known as GOV.UK One Login and can be accessed at signin.account.gov.uk/sign-in-or-create ↗
CPV: Dry-docking services · Marine patrol vessels · Reconditioning services of ships or boats
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · value publishedLot #1PlannedPublished value£140,000
Pipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How Home Office buys Repair, maintenance and associated services related to marine and other equipment (CPV 5024), 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: Repair, maintenance and associated services related to marine and other equipment (CPV 5024) →
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.
No winner locations published for this authority. Local means a registered address 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 29 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.
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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% / 33%
2–337% / 50%
4–641% / 17%
7+11% / 0%
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 estimate44% / 50%
Within ±2%11% / 17%
Above estimate44% / 33%
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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.
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Lot #1CPV 3451Published estimate£140k
This lot is listed as CPV 3451. The table above uses the notice category.
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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 11 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid27%
2–364%
4–60%
7+9%
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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.
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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.
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Who could compete for this lot?
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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- Procedure method
- Open procedure
- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Planned procurement
- Procurement threshold
- Above threshold (FTS publication)
- Regulatory regime
- Light touch regime
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 10 Aug 2026, 16:50 BST
- Last source update
- 21 Oct 2026, 15:45 BST
- Award evaluation window
- Submission end – 7 Apr 2027
- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-099628- Accelerated
- Light touch contract
- Latest notice
- Planned procurement notice (UK3)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06e09dFind a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
- 22 Jan 2027, 23:59 GMT
- Accepted languages
- en
Timeline
10 Aug 2026 → 19 Apr 2027 · 6 dates- Planning notice published78 days ago10 Aug 2026, 16:50 BST
- Latest notice published6 days ago21 Oct 2026, 15:45 BST
- Today28 Oct 2026
- Tender notice expectedin 68 days4 Jan 2027, 23:59 GMT
- Submission deadlinein 86 days22 Jan 2027, 23:59 GMT
- Award decision expected byin 161 days7 Apr 2027, 23:59 BST
- Contract startsin 172 days19 Apr 2027, 00:00 BST
Notice history
3 events · 2 releases on Find a Tender · since 10 Aug 2026- Planned procurement notice published10 Aug 2026, 16:50 BSTUK3
- Planned procurement notice published21 Oct 2026, 15:45 BSTUK3
- Deadline moved to 22 Jan 2027, 23:59 GMT21 Oct 2026, 15:45 BST+56 days · was 27 Nov 2026, 23:59 GMT
Published amendments (1)
Tender publication dates and requirement activity
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 (2)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Planned procurement notice Planned procurement notice on Find a Tender
- Planned procurement notice Planned procurement notice on Find a Tender