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Find a Tender Service (UK Cabinet Office / Crown Commercial Service) verified 4 hours ago Contract notice

Confined Spaces Principal Inspections

Open United Kingdom Architecture & engineering services

Buyer VIA EAST MIDLANDS LIMITED

25 days left

Key facts

Closes
11:00 (UTC)
Estimated value
€70,561
converted from GBP
Procedure
Open procedure
  1. Published
  2. Today
  3. Deadline open for 25 days
  4. Awarded pending

Bidding window

24 days from publication to deadline

Usual length

Notices of this kind (United Kingdom, open procedure, below the EU threshold) give a median of 26 days, half of them between 19 and 31 days, based on 2,111 notices of the last two years.

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Summary

Machine-generated summary

The works consist of Principal Inspections of highway structures carried out in accordance with DMRB CS 450 and the Inspection Manual for Highway Structures. This includes identifying and recording defects, assessing condition and collecting data to support Bridge Condition Indicator assessments. The structures involved are predominantly brick arch culverts, masonry arch culverts, concrete culverts, associated headwalls and wing walls, inlet and outlet structures, and related drainage and scour protection features. The subcontractor must supply all labour, plant, equipment, supervision, traffic management, confined space and access equipment, vegetation clearance and other resources needed to complete the inspections and associated reporting.

Description

The works comprise the Principal Inspection of highway structures in accordance with DMRB CS 450 Inspection of Highway Structures and the Inspection Manual for Highway Structures (IMHS), including the identification and recording of defects, condition assessment and the collection of data necessary to support Bridge Condition Indicator (BCI) assessments. The structures included within this commission are predominantly: • Brick arch culverts. • Masonry arch culverts. • Concrete culverts. • Associated headwalls and wing walls. • Inlet and outlet structures. • Associated drainage and scour protection features. The Subcontractor shall provide all labour, plant, equipment, supervision, traffic management, confined space equipment, access equipment, vegetation clearance and associated resources necessary to complete the inspections and reporting.

Bid or no-bid?

Six questions before you commit a team. Under each one, what the register holds on it. The answers are yours.

  1. In your favour:

    Do we meet every eligibility criterion?

    Open procedure: any interested supplier may submit a bid.

  2. Your call:

    Can we deliver this with the team we have?

    Estimated at €70,561.

  3. Your call:

    Do we have two comparable references?

    Comparable work is in Architecture & engineering services.

  4. In your favour:

    Is the deadline realistic for a proper offer?

    25 days left, 20 of them working days.

  5. Your call:

    Is there a margin at the likely winning price?

    In this country this kind of contract is usually awarded for between €57,771 and €251,019.

  6. Your call:

    Do we know this buyer?

    The buyer has 22 notices in the register and no pattern of winners yet.

Can I bid?

  • Open procedure: any interested supplier may submit a bid.
  • Documents in English.

Official source

Source: Find a Tender Service (UK Cabinet Office / Crown Commercial Service)

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What this market pays

The buyer has too few awards of its own in this sector, so this is the range of the last 724 awards for Architecture & engineering services in United Kingdom.

This notice
€70,561
Median award
€111,411
Middle half of past awards
€57,771 to €251,019

The estimate sits inside the usual range.

Award values as published by the official sources. Use them as a guide, not a rule: scope, lots and duration differ between contracts.

VIA EAST MIDLANDS LIMITED

United Kingdom

notices in the register
22
awards
17
awarded in total
€192,414

Who wins its contracts

Many suppliers
different companies won its awards
17
of the awards went to the three most frequent winners
18%

Based on 17 awards with a named winner over the last 3 years. Counted by award, not by value, because lot and framework amounts are not comparable. Concentrated means the three most frequent winners took 65% or more of the awards; many suppliers, under 35% with at least ten different winners.

One dot per award, on the day it was signed, sized by its value. A ring is an award with no published value.

This buyer has no award history in this sector yet. Usual winners, Architecture & engineering services - United Kingdom

Company Wins Total awarded Last win
WSP UK LIMITED 33 €13.6M Sep 2026
Aecom Limited 18 €5.4M Sep 2026
ARCADIS CONSULTING (UK) LIMITED 16 €1.1M Sep 2026
OVE ARUP & PARTNERS LIMITED 13 €7.2M Sep 2026
Stantec UK Ltd 13 €3.4M Aug 2026

Based on 836 awards with a linked company profile over the last 2 years.

2 open tenders right now

Market context

Larger than 14% of the open notices in Architecture & engineering services across Europe.

open now in Architecture & engineering services
20,529
median open notice
€491,965

Who wins in this market

Many suppliers

United Kingdom · Architecture & engineering services

different companies won awards here
503
of the awards went to the three most frequent winners
8%
buyers awarded contracts here
301

Based on 836 awards with a named winner over the last 3 years. Counted by award, not by value, because lot and framework amounts are not comparable. Concentrated means the three most frequent winners took 65% or more of the awards; many suppliers, under 35% with at least ten different winners.

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