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Published 22 Sept 2026, 16:15 BST

Official UK procurement notice

ITT - Recording techniques for climate-driven loss - UID 344

Authority: Historic England (Central government)

ServicesBelow threshold - open competitionBelow threshold
Published estimate£20,000£24,000 inc. VAT
Submission deadline 28 Oct 202609:30 GMT · 30h left
Clarification cut-off 26 Oct 202609:30 GMT · questions to the authority
Contract term 5 moends 31 Mar 2027 · starts 5 Nov 2026

What is being bought

Published requirement description

This project will support Historic England to develop guidance for asset owners and managers with different levels of expertise, capacity and resource looking to record and document change to heritage assets at risk from climate-driven impacts and loss.

The project will examine existing resources, case studies and information on different methods for recording, documenting and engaging with environmental and climate-driven change to heritage assets (e.g. through creative or community-led projects). The project will consult with a range of stakeholders and utilise existing Historic England internal user needs information to make recommendations for recording and documenting methods which would be appropriate for owners and managers with different levels of expertise, capacity and resource.

CPV: Environmental engineering consultancy services · Evaluation consultancy services · Natural resources management or conservation strategy planning services · Preservation services of historical sites and buildings · Research and development consultancy services · Research consultancy services

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · value published

What it takes to win
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How this buyer will score bids.

The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).

Evaluation split and conditions of participation as published; the tender pack may add more
How bids are scored

Lot awarding rule: Price Weighting 20% Quality Weighting 80%

No conditions of participation were published on the notice; check the tender documents.

What this means for your bid
  • Turnover usually expected at this size: about £40,000 (twice the annual value).

Turnover is an indicative market norm (≈2× annual value), not a published condition.

Competition analysis · published record, not a forecast of who will bid

How Historic England buys Environmental management (CPV 9071), and who usually turns up

Historic England’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: Environmental management (CPV 9071) →

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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 buyerHistoric England · all categories
The marketEnvironmental management (CPV 9071) · South West England (authority’s region)
What to do with it
How often do SMEs win?
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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.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 40 of 71 known-size awards · market: CPV 9071 · South West England (authority’s region), n=25
56%44%

Small firms have won here. Neither number says whether you qualify; it describes who has been winning.

How often do local suppliers win?
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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. The market figure counts awards delivered in South West England (authority’s region).

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

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 22 of 25 known-location awards · market: CPV 9071 · South West England (authority’s region), n=33
88%12%

Most of this buyer’s recorded winners were registered in 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: 8 decided notices · market: CPV 9071 · South West England (authority’s region), n=9
16 days35 days

Half of these awards have an award date within 16 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 59 of 121 procurements with awards had no recorded rival · market: CPV 9071 · South West England (authority’s region), n=39
49%41%

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 buyer13 lots with bid counts · all categories
31% had one bid
The market11 lots with bid counts · CPV 9071 · South West England (authority’s region)
18% had one bid
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
1 bid31% / 18%
Buyer: 4 of 13 lots with published bid counts. Market: 2 of 11 lots with published bid counts.
2–315% / 9%
Buyer: 2 of 13 lots with published bid counts. Market: 1 of 11 lots with published bid counts.
4–615% / 55%
Buyer: 2 of 13 lots with published bid counts. Market: 6 of 11 lots with published bid counts.
7+38% / 18%
Buyer: 5 of 13 lots with published bid counts. Market: 2 of 11 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 buyer43 lots with estimate and award · all categories
37% below estimate
The market9 lots with estimate and award · CPV 9071 · South West England (authority’s region)
44% below estimate
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
Below estimate37% / 44%
Buyer: 16 of 43 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 4 of 9 lots with an estimate and award.
Within ±2%53% / 33%
Buyer: 23 of 43 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 3 of 9 lots with an estimate and award.
Above estimate9% / 22%
Buyer: 4 of 43 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 2 of 9 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 90715 monthsPublished estimate£20k
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.

A forecast, not a list of bidders.

5expected bids34% chance of a single bid
similar past contests in this category: 14
Forecast chances for this lot
1 bid34%
Chance this lot gets 1 bid: 34%. This is a forecast.
2–322%
Chance this lot gets 2–3: 22%. This is a forecast.
4–614%
Chance this lot gets 4–6: 14%. This is a forecast.
7+30%
Chance this lot gets 7+: 30%. This is a forecast.
Commercial price forecast
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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.

Based on 9 comparable awards. Each lot reflects its own category; forecasts for different lots of the same notice are not comparative.

A statistical guide from past awards, not a price to bid.

£19k3% below estimate
9 comparable awards
Forecast compared with the buyer’s estimate
Middle 50%£19k–£20k
Half of likely prices fall between £18,704 and £19,909.
Estimate£20k
The buyer published an estimate of £20,000 for this lot.
A 19% chance the award lands exactly on the estimate.

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
Alice Cattermole Heritage ConsultancyWorked for this buyerHistoric Environment Record Researcher Pilot Schemenotice published Sept 2025——Similar wording and category
ButCH BureauWorked for this buyerExamination of heritage assets lost due to coastal erosion (UID 101)notice published Nov 2025——Similar wording and category

Who could compete for this lot?
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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.

SupplierWon in this categoryLive contractsAward vs estimate
2 panel places
£5.1m33 awards in 36m · last 1 month ago12 live · £1.2m
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Public contracts this supplier still holds.

Its awards whose published end date is still in the future, with their values. Many contracts publish no end date, so this is a floor, not the whole book.

Unexpired says nothing about spare capacity.

at estimate n=1
4 panel places
£1.7m26 awards in 36m · last 1 month ago9 live · £510k
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Public contracts this supplier still holds.

Its awards whose published end date is still in the future, with their values. Many contracts publish no end date, so this is a floor, not the whole book.

Unexpired says nothing about spare capacity.

6% below n=13
3 panel places
£45k3 awards in 36m · last 11 months ago1 live · £1.3m
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Public contracts this supplier still holds.

Its awards whose published end date is still in the future, with their values. Many contracts publish no end date, so this is a floor, not the whole book.

Unexpired says nothing about spare capacity.

no comparable pairs
£20k1 award in 36m · last 12 months agoNone on fileat estimate n=1
£18k1 award in 36m · last 15 months agoNone on fileno comparable pairs
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
Below threshold - open competition
Legal basis
UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
Procurement category
Services
Notice status
Open for tender
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
22 Sept 2026, 16:15 BST
Last source update
22 Sept 2026, 16:15 BST
Authority reference
PREF 00000613
FTS notice number
2026/S 000-089809
Latest notice
Tender notice (UK4)
Classification (CPV)
Environmental engineering consultancy servicesEvaluation consultancy servicesNatural resources management or conservation strategy planning servicesPreservation services of historical sites and buildingsResearch and development consultancy servicesResearch consultancy services
Delivery area
Not published
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-0777e7 Find a Tender

How to participate & submission route

Official notice Submit via In-tend
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Requests to participate (first stage)
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Tender submission deadline
28 Oct 2026, 09:30 GMT
Clarification deadline
26 Oct 2026, 09:30 GMT
Submission channel
Official e-sourcing portal
Electronic submission
Allowed
Detailed submission instructions & authority contactsFrom official release
Published estimate £20,000 excludes VAT (£24,000 including VAT).

Timeline

22 Sept 2026 → 5 Nov 2026 · 4 dates
  1. Tender notice published34 days ago
    22 Sept 2026, 16:15 BST
  2. Clarification questions by17h ago
    26 Oct 2026, 09:30 GMT
  3. Today
    27 Oct 2026
  4. Submission deadlinein 30h
    28 Oct 2026, 09:30 GMT
  5. Contract startsin 8 days
    5 Nov 2026

Notice history

1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender
  1. Tender notice published
    22 Sept 2026, 16:15 BST
    UK4

Commercial outcome & contract awards

Nothing awarded yet
Awards (0)
No award published
Contracts (0)
No contract published
Bid statistics
No aggregate bid statistics published

Contracting authority & participating public bodies

Historic England

Contracting authorityPublic authority - central government GB-PPON: PXLY-5862-RMML The Engine House, Swindon, South West, SN22EHContact name, email

Official documents & specifications (1)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure

  • Tender notice tenderTender noticeUK4Tender notice on Find a Tender