Official UK procurement notice
SAC-27-010 International Engagement Requirement
Authority: SATELLITE APPLICATIONS CATAPULT LIMITED (Public body)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThe Satellite Applications Catapult (the Catapult) is seeking to identify organisations with the capacity, expertise, and relevant international experience to support the development and delivery of its international engagement. The requirement is expected to focus on strengthening market insight, market push and priority country selection, overseas partner development, routes to market for UK companies, and practical implementation planning.
The Catapult is particularly interested in hearing from organisations that can provide one or more of the following capabilities:
International strategy, trade, and market-entry expertise: Organisations with experience helping technology, innovation, space, defence, or advanced engineering businesses understand overseas markets, identify routes to market, assess commercial demand, and prioritise countries based on evidence of opportunity and accessibility.
Space sector or technology commercialisation and development expertise: Organisations with a strong understanding of the space sector, space-enabled applications, innovation ecosystems, regional trade bodies, economic development organisations, and the role these networks can play in supporting business growth.
Market intelligence and company segmentation capability: Organisations able to assess different types of UK space businesses, including upstream, downstream, in-orbit services, communications, connectivity, ground segment, and space-enabled application companies, and identify which international markets are most relevant to each type of business.
Export, inward investment, and international business support experience: Organisations with experience supporting export development, international partnerships, soft-landing activity, inward investment qualification, business matchmaking, overseas missions, or engagement with public-sector trade and investment mechanisms.
International partner identification and relationship brokerage capability: Organisations with established knowledge of overseas partner networks, including trade agencies, economic development bodies, innovation agencies, overseas clusters, accelerators, anchor corporates, public buyers, systems integrators, research organisations, and relevant government or public-sector routes.
Competitive risk, retention, and ecosystem analysis expertise: Organisations able to assess where overseas ecosystems may present competitive risks to the UK space sector, including risks linked to business relocation, talent attraction, acquisition, intellectual property movement, investment pull, supply chain dependency, or capability leakage.
CPV: Business analysis consultancy services · Business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing and security · Development consultancy services · Project management consultancy services · Services specific to international organisations and bodies
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1PlannedRenewal
Pipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How SATELLITE APPLICATIONS CATAPULT LIMITED buys Systems and technical consultancy services (CPV 7222), and who usually turns up
SATELLITE APPLICATIONS CATAPULT LIMITED’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: Systems and technical consultancy services (CPV 7222) →
How the contest usually goes
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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 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 bid13%
2–333%
4–624%
7+30%
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 estimate41%
Within ±2%45%
Above estimate14%
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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 7222Published estimate£60k
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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 135 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid13%
2–333%
4–624%
7+30%
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
- 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 Jun 2026, 13:33 BST
- Last source update
- 21 Jul 2026, 11:27 BST
- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-068622- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06ba23Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
22 Jun 2026 → 1 Aug 2026 · 4 dates- Planning notice published128 days ago22 Jun 2026, 13:33 BST
- Market engagement99 days ago20 Jul 2026, 23:59 BST
The Satellite Applications Catapult (the Catapult) is seeking to identify organisations with the capacity, expertise, and relevant international experience to support the development and delivery of its international engagement. The requirement is expected to focus on strengthening market insight, market push and priority country selection, overseas partner development, routes to market for UK companies, and practical implementation planning.
The Catapult is particularly interested in hearing from organisations that can provide one or more of the following capabilities:
International strategy, trade, and market-entry expertise: Organisations with experience helping technology, innovation, space, defence, or advanced engineering businesses understand overseas markets, identify routes to market, assess commercial demand, and prioritise countries based on evidence of opportunity and accessibility.
Space sector or technology commercialisation and development expertise: Organisations with a strong understanding of the space sector, space-enabled applications, innovation ecosystems, regional trade bodies, economic development organisations, and the role these networks can play in supporting business growth.
Market intelligence and company segmentation capability: Organisations able to assess different types of UK space businesses, including upstream, downstream, in-orbit services, communications, connectivity, ground segment, and space-enabled application companies, and identify which international markets are most relevant to each type of business.
Export, inward investment, and international business support experience: Organisations with experience supporting export development, international partnerships, soft-landing activity, inward investment qualification, business matchmaking, overseas missions, or engagement with public-sector trade and investment mechanisms.
International partner identification and relationship brokerage capability: Organisations with established knowledge of overseas partner networks, including trade agencies, economic development bodies, innovation agencies, overseas clusters, accelerators, anchor corporates, public buyers, systems integrators, research organisations, and relevant government or public-sector routes.
Competitive risk, retention, and ecosystem analysis expertise: Organisations able to assess where overseas ecosystems may present competitive risks to the UK space sector, including risks linked to business relocation, talent attraction, acquisition, intellectual property movement, investment pull, supply chain dependency, or capability leakage.
The Catapult expects that suitable suppliers may include specialist international trade consultancies, space sector advisory firms, economic development and investment promotion specialists, innovation ecosystem organisations, cluster development experts, technology commercialisation advisers, market intelligence providers, or organisations with demonstrable experience supporting high-growth technology businesses into overseas markets.
We anticipate that this will be a below threshold requirement and any RFQ/s will be structured to allow organisations to bid for specific areas of the requirement where they can demonstrate relevant expertise, or to bid for an integrated programme where they can deliver the full scope.
- Latest notice published99 days ago21 Jul 2026, 11:27 BST
- Contract starts88 days ago1 Aug 2026, 00:00 BST
Notice history
2 events · 2 releases on Find a Tender · since 22 Jun 2026- Preliminary market engagement notice published22 Jun 2026, 13:33 BSTUK2
- Preliminary market engagement notice published21 Jul 2026, 11:27 BSTUK2
Published amendments (1)
The engagement period for this preliminary market engagement notice is now closed.
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
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender