Find a TenderPlanned procurement
Published 19 Mar 2026, 10:20 GMT

Official UK procurement notice

Joint C-UAS Office (JCO) Security Briefing Day Request for Information (RFI)

Authority: Ministry of Defence (Central government)

Goods
Planned pipeline valueValue not publishedpipeline notice, not a live tender
Tender notice expected 19 Mar 2026from the planned procurement notice

What is being bought

Published requirement description

The intent of this RFI is to provide notification of a planned SECRET UK EYES ONLY (SUKEO) Security Briefing Day which will outline and advise Industry Partners on UAS/C-UAS activity on Ops and within the UK Homeland.

This RFI does not constitute the start of any procurement activity or resultant contract - it is for information only, to inform Industry on the latest C-UAS developments.

CPV: Command, control, communication and computer systems · Electronic warfare systems and counter measures · Intelligence, surveillance, target acquisition and reconnaissance · Military electronic systems

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published
Lot #1The Briefing is scheduled to be held at RAF High Wycombe, Thursday 23 April 26, within…Planned

The Briefing is scheduled to be held at RAF High Wycombe, Thursday 23 April 26, within the Spitfire Auditorium located on Site 1. It is planned to start at 13:00, consisting of several briefs with time for questions and discussion as required. The planned dates are subject to change, further briefings beyond this date will be arranged at the discretion of the Authority.

This RFI will be utilised by the Authority to collect Expressions of Interest from potential providers who wish to take part in the Security Briefing.

Interested parties wishing to attend the event on Thursday 23 April 26 should respond no later than Fri 3 April 26; any response received post this deadline will not be accepted. Industry attendance is limited to one attendee per company on an enterprise basis with the requirement for confirmation of extant Security Clearance. To attend the Security Brief, all personnel will require Security Clearance at SC and have no restrictions attached to their clearance.

When expressing an interest, the below information must be provided to ensure relevant passes can be requested by the host and must to be sent to Air-Joint-CUAS-Office@mod.gov.uk by the date stated above. Please use ‘JCO Security Briefing Day’ as the Subject to ensure that correspondence is allocated correctly from the shared inbox:

  • Title/Rank (as applicable)
  • Full Name
  • Company
  • Nationality
  • Security Clearance details including Date of Birth (to be provided by the Company Security Officer)
  • Email address of attendee (for pre-briefing correspondence)
  • Vehicle Make, Model, Colour and VRN (if visiting via car)
  • Following feedback from previous Security Briefing Days, a summary (approx. 100-200 words) of your company/organisation. These will be collated into a ‘Who’s Who’ of attendees to enable collaboration. (Optional)

Following completion of the Expression of Interest period, the Security Briefing agenda, arrival instructions and attendee requirements will be issued. The final discretion for any attendees at the briefing event will rest with the Authority and due to the limit on numbers, Expression of Interest does not automatically guarantee a place.

For any interested parties without extant Security Clearance that wish to attend either this or subsequent events the Authority may be able to offer an alternative briefing at a classification of Official. Any parties requiring advice on this matter should contact Air-Joint-CUAS-Office@mod.gov.uk giving brief details of previously held clearances (if any) and further guidance will be provided. This will be at the Authority's discretion. Additional information: This advertised Security Brief does not indicate any formal intention by the Authority to enter into a tender/bid process and does not represent any formal commitment. All costs associated with attending the Briefings are the sole responsibility of the respondent.

Delivery: UK

Who is likely to bid for this lot ↓

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

How Ministry of Defence buys Military electronic systems (CPV 3570), and who usually turns up

Ministry of Defence’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: Military electronic systems (CPV 3570) →

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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 buyerMinistry of Defence · division 35
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: 27 of 79 known-size awards · market: division 35 · UK-wide, n=334
34%60%

Small firms have won here. Neither number says whether you qualify; it describes who has been winning. Small firms win less of this buyer’s work than the market’s: 34% against 60%, n=79.

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.

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.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 10 of 17 known-location awards · market: division 35 · UK-wide, n=286
59%35%

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: no decision dates published · market: division 35 · UK-wide, n=53
—58 days

Half of these awards have an award date within 58 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 39 of 76 procurements with awards had no recorded rival · market: division 35 · UK-wide, n=514
51%58%

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 buyer19 lots with bid counts · broad CPV 35
63% had one bid
The market129 lots with bid counts · division 35 · UK-wide
19% had one bid
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
1 bid63% / 19%
Buyer: 12 of 19 lots with published bid counts. Market: 24 of 129 lots with published bid counts.
2–316% / 38%
Buyer: 3 of 19 lots with published bid counts. Market: 49 of 129 lots with published bid counts.
4–65% / 30%
Buyer: 1 of 19 lots with published bid counts. Market: 39 of 129 lots with published bid counts.
7+16% / 13%
Buyer: 3 of 19 lots with published bid counts. Market: 17 of 129 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 buyer5 lots with estimate and award · broad CPV 35
80% below estimate
The market62 lots with estimate and award · division 35 · UK-wide
48% below estimate
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
Below estimate80% / 48%
Buyer: 4 of 5 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 30 of 62 lots with an estimate and award.
Within ±2%20% / 37%
Buyer: 1 of 5 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 23 of 62 lots with an estimate and award.
Above estimate0% / 15%
Buyer: 0 of 5 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 9 of 62 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 #1The Briefing is scheduled to be held at RAF High Wycombe, Thursday 23 April 26, within…CPV 3570Estimate not published
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. The bar shows 129 past lots.

A forecast, not a list of bidders.

—No model forecast yet19% chance of a single bid
Past bids on 129 similar lots
1 bid19%
24 of 129 similar past lots received 1 bid (19%).
2–338%
49 of 129 similar past lots received 2–3 (38%).
4–630%
39 of 129 similar past lots received 4–6 (30%).
7+13%
17 of 129 similar past lots received 7+ (13%).
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.

—Estimate not published
The buyer published no estimate for this lot, so there is nothing to forecast against. A price prediction here would be a number about a number we do not have.

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
CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
Procurement category
Goods
Notice status
Planned procurement
Procurement threshold
Unspecified in notice
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
19 Mar 2026, 10:20 GMT
Last source update
19 Mar 2026, 10:20 GMT
FTS notice number
2026/S 000-024999
Classification (CPV)
Command, control, communication and computer systemsElectronic warfare systems and counter measuresIntelligence, surveillance, target acquisition and reconnaissanceMilitary electronic systems
Delivery area
UK
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-066e83 Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice
Submission deadline
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Timeline

19 Mar 2026 → 19 Mar 2026 · 2 dates
  1. Tender notice expected223 days ago
    19 Mar 2026
  2. Notice published222 days ago
    19 Mar 2026, 10:20 GMT

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

Ministry of Defence

Contracting authorityCentral GovernmentMinistry or any other national or federal authority, including their regional or local subdivisionsDefence Bristol, UKContact email

Official documents & specifications

Official links; attachments are not copied

No document links were published on the notice.