Official UK procurement notice
PROC 25-3165 EV Phase 2 – Design, DNO, Supply and Install
Authority: Scottish Police Authority (Central government)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionBackground/Overview of Overall Requirement
The Scottish Police Authority has a requirement to deliver Phase 2 of the EV Delivery Programme, which is a similar scale to the Phase 1 delivery which recently completed.
The requirements for Phase 2 include for EV Charger works design, Supply of chargers, DNO requirements for sites and Installation works across 50 locations (number of chargers AC/DC varies per site as will the electricity supply requirements) within mainland Scotland. The type of chargers will vary, a selection of fast AC, Rapid DC and Ultra-Rapid DC chargers dependent upon the number of vehicles and the role they carry out at each specific site.
This request is to carry out initial scoping of the market availability, Contract options (turnkey considerations as well as separate/partially bundled options), timescales and Contract types utilized. We would also value any suppliers views on what has worked well in the marketplace for them as well as their Client for works of a similar size/scale.
Note: Police Scotland have a single back-office provider, the successful company will require to work in partnership with them to ensure all new chargers are added to the system.
CPV: Battery chargers · Electric vehicles · Electrical equipment and apparatus · Electrical equipment for engines and vehicles · Electrical installation work · Electrical supplies and accessories · Electrical wiring and fitting work · Electricity distribution and control apparatus · Electricity supplies · Miscellaneous transport equipment and spare parts · Other electrical installation work · Parking lot construction work · +5 more
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1This is a scoping exercise to understand market views on this requirementPlanned
This is a scoping exercise to understand market views on this requirement.
Background/Overview of Overall Requirement
The Scottish Police Authority has a requirement to deliver Phase 2 of the EV Delivery Programme, which is a similar scale to the Phase 1 delivery which recently completed.
The requirements for Phase 2 include for EV Charger works design, Supply of chargers, DNO requirements for sites and Installation works across 50 locations (number of chargers AC/DC varies per site as will the electricity supply requirements) within mainland Scotland. The type of chargers will vary, a selection of fast AC, Rapid DC and Ultra-Rapid DC chargers dependent upon the number of vehicles and the role they carry out at each specific site.
This request is to carry out initial scoping of the market availability, Contract options (turnkey considerations as well as separate/partially bundled options), timescales and Contract types utilized. We would also value any suppliers views on what has worked well in the marketplace for them as well as their Client for works of a similar size/scale.
Note: Police Scotland have a single back-office provider, the successful company will require to work in partnership with them to ensure all new chargers are added to the system. Additional information: Further information is contained within the PIN.
Pipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How Scottish Police Authority buys Electrical equipment and apparatus (CPV 3160), and who usually turns up
Scottish Police 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: Electrical equipment and apparatus (CPV 3160) →
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.
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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 outside 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 28 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 bid24% / 43%
2–336% / 36%
4–618% / 21%
7+21% / 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 estimate27% / 25%
Within ±2%45% / 25%
Above estimate27% / 50%
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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 #1This is a scoping exercise to understand market views on this requirementCPV 3160Estimate not published
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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 11 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid9%
2–355%
4–627%
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.
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 · publisher note attached- 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
- Yes (GPA)
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 13 Nov 2025, 13:33 GMT
- Last source update
- 13 Nov 2025, 13:33 GMT
- Authority reference
PROC 25-3165- FTS notice number
2025/S 000-073537- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-05e06fFind a Tender
Publisher note: Please see attached PIN document. NOTE: To register your interest in this notice and obtain any additional information please visit the Public Contracts Scotland Web Site at https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/Search/Search_Switch.aspx?ID=815741. (SC Ref:815741)
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
13 Nov 2025 → 19 Jan 2026 · 2 dates- Notice published348 days ago13 Nov 2025, 13:33 GMT
- Tender notice expected281 days ago19 Jan 2026
Commercial outcome & contract awards
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- No award published
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- Bid statistics
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Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Official documents & specifications
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