Official UK procurement notice
Professional Services to deliver the Beijing New Embassy Project
Authority: Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (Central government)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThe Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office ("FCDO") has a Project to build a New British Embassy, Ambassador's Residence and staff accommodation in Beijing (the "Project"). The FCDO intends to engage the market in relation to this Project as part of preliminary market engagement.
The purpose of this preliminary market engagement is to invite Expressions of Interest from Professional Services Providers who may be interested in delivering the Project and for responses to inform the development of our requirements. The FCDO is developing its strategy for engagement of Professional Services Providers to deliver the Project.
Key requirements include:
- Project Management Office offering a full suite of services including governance, assurance, planning, risk management, budgeting, document management and capable of managing, tracking and reporting on all workstreams. It will offer senior leadership confidence on all aspects of delivery and support decision making.
- NEC4 PSC Service Manager for a PSC Design Services contract
- NEC4 ECC Project Manager for ECC Main Works Contract
- Quantity Surveying / Cost Management Services
- Health and Safety advice and audit
FCDO is interested in understanding suppliers' experience of operating in China or a similar overseas environment and the market's ability to provide personnel capable of obtaining the security clearances required for delivery. Please note that it is acknowledged that certain services can be delivered from the UK, however some may require a permanent presence on site.
The FCDO is undertaking preliminary market engagement to inform the development of the delivery model, procurement strategy and commercial approach. The scope described in this notice represents the services that FCDO would like to explore with the market, however they may not all be included within our final scope of work. Nothing contained within this notice shall be taken as a commitment to commence a procurement. Consequently, the estimated contract value and procurement timetable have not yet been established.
CPV: Construction management services · Construction project management services · Health and safety consultancy services · Project management consultancy services · Quantity surveying services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedPipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office buys Consultative engineering and construction services (CPV 7131), and who usually turns up
The market side is the UK-wide market, including every region. The notice also lists overseas delivery. Frameworks and DPS are left out: they draw different bid counts. Whole-market view: Consultative engineering and construction services (CPV 7131) →
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.
The counts under this question show how many awards have a known supplier size.
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 48 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 bid38% / 14%
2–338% / 23%
4–625% / 29%
7+0% / 33%
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 estimate17% / 42%
Within ±2%67% / 43%
Above estimate17% / 15%
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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 7131Estimate not published
The notice lists UK and non-UK delivery areas for this lot. The figures below use UK market history and may not describe competition across every area.
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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. Published delivery includes UK and non-UK areas, so the UK model may not describe every area. The bar shows 453 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid14%
2–323%
4–629%
7+33%
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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- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Planned procurement
- Procurement threshold
- Above threshold (FTS publication)
- 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
- 17 Jul 2026, 15:13 BST
- Last source update
- 17 Jul 2026, 15:13 BST
- Authority reference
Estates-14191-2026- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-067908- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area in notice
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06ce15Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
17 Jul 2026 → 7 Aug 2026 · 3 dates- Contract starts103 days ago17 Jul 2026, 00:00 BST
- Planning notice published103 days ago17 Jul 2026, 15:13 BST
- Market engagement81 days ago7 Aug 2026, 23:59 BST
This preliminary market engagement is intended to:
- Engage with and inform the market of the FCDO's potential requirements
- Understand the availability and capability of professional service providers and supply chains operating in China and with the required security clearances
- Seek feedback on the proposed requirements and delivery model
Engagement is expected to include one or more of the following:
- PME Expression of Interest Questionnaire - see below
- Virtual or in person supplier briefings;
- One-to-one engagement sessions (where appropriate);
No supplier will be excluded from future procurement opportunities based on participation or non-participation in this PME. Suppliers are invited to complete the PME Expression of Interest Questionnaire, which can be found at:
forms.office.com/e/GrA5WYz75x ↗
If this opportunity is of interest, please complete the PME Expression of Interest Questionnaire and email beijingcommercial@fcdo.gov.uk with your response by 7th August 2026. Responses may be used to inform FCDO's procurement strategy and commercial approach.
Details and dates of virtual and one-to-one engagement session activities will be communicated at a later date. It is expected that sessions will take place in August/September 2026.
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Preliminary market engagement notice published17 Jul 2026, 15:13 BSTUK2
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
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender