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Find a Tender Service (UK Cabinet Office / Crown Commercial Service) verified 13 hours ago Contract notice

Light Measurement Data Acquisition hardware Replacement

Open United Kingdom IT services

Buyer THE CORPORATION OF TRINITY HOUSE OF DEPTFORD STROND

15 days left

Key facts

Closes
12:00 (UTC+1)
Estimated value
€70,688
converted from GBP
Procedure
Open procedure
  1. Published
  2. Today
  3. Deadline open for 16 days
  4. Awarded pending

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15 days from publication to deadline

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Summary

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The General Lighthouse Authorities of the UK and Ireland (GLA) are seeking to replace data acquisition hardware used in a light measurement facility based at Trinity House in Harwich. The facility, operated by GRAD, tests marine aids-to-navigation lights on behalf of the GLA and maintains a unique database of performance measurements for lights in optical systems installed at lighthouses. The existing data acquisition hardware, which is central to all measurement systems and processes and forms part of a sophisticated semi-automatic light measurement process, is no longer supported by its manufacturer. A replacement is therefore required for this fundamental piece of equipment servicing all facilities.

Description

Based within Trinity House in Harwich, GRAD has been operating a light measurement facility for the purpose of testing marine aids-to-navigation lights for the General Lighthouse Authorities of the UK and Ireland (GLA) for many decades. The facility provides the GLA with the ability to independently determine the suitability of lights for aids-to-navigation purposes, as well as building a unique database of performance measurements of lights in optical systems installed at lighthouses. The measurement systems and processes employed are relatively simple, but working together, they form a sophisticated semi-automatic light measurement process. The data acquisition hardware at the heart of the measurement processes is the same for all facilities, but it is no longer supported by the manufacturer. This is a fundamental piece of equipment in the measurement process and a replacement is needed.

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    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 €70,688.

  3. Your call:

    Do we have two comparable references?

    Comparable work is in IT services.

  4. In your favour:

    Is the deadline realistic for a proper offer?

    15 days left, 11 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 €81,656 and €583,231.

  6. Your call:

    Do we know this buyer?

    The buyer has 6 notices in the register and no pattern of winners yet.

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

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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 1,019 awards for IT services in United Kingdom.

This notice
€70,688
Median award
€175,452
Middle half of past awards
€81,656 to €583,231

The estimate is smaller than three in four past awards.

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

The buyer

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THE CORPORATION OF TRINITY HOUSE OF DEPTFORD STROND

United Kingdom

notices in the register
6
awards
4
awarded in total
€493,225

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

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PHOENIX SOFTWARE LIMITED 23 €54.1M Sep 2026
Insight Direct (UK) Ltd 22 €4.4M Sep 2026

Based on 1150 awards with a linked company profile over the last 2 years.

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Market context

Larger than 11% of the open notices in IT services across Europe.

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median open notice
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different companies won awards here
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of the awards went to the three most frequent winners
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buyers awarded contracts here
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Based on 1,150 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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