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Find a Tender Service (UK Cabinet Office / Crown Commercial Service) verified 1 hour ago Contract notice

Mooring Ropes and Thimbles

Open United Kingdom Transport equipment & vehicles

Buyer Met Office

35 days left

Key facts

Closes
12:00 (UTC)
Estimated value
€705,608
converted from GBP
Procedure
Open procedure
  1. Published
  2. Today
  3. Deadline open for 35 days
  4. Awarded pending

Bidding window

35 days from publication to deadline

Usual length

Notices of this kind (United Kingdom, open procedure, above the EU threshold) give a median of 30 days, half of them between 26 and 36 days, based on 1,713 notices of the last two years.

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Summary

Machine-generated summary

The Met Office requires the supply of mooring ropes and thimbles configuration suitable for use with deep sea buoy moorings. Ropes must be provided at various lengths, individually configurable to the requirements of each buoy, and must come encapsulated and fitted with K2-C thimbles with master-links. The contract will be awarded as a framework agreement running for 3 years, with the possibility of extending for a further 12 months.

Description

The Met office requires the supply of a mooring ropes and thimbles configuration for suitable for use with our deep sea buoys moorings. This will require the provision of ropes at various lengths need to individually configurable to requirements of each buoy and must come encapsulated and provided with K2-C thimbles with master-links. The Met Office is looking to award framework contract for 3 years with the possibility of extending for a further 12 months.

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 €705,608.

  3. Your call:

    Do we have two comparable references?

    Comparable work is in Transport equipment & vehicles.

  4. In your favour:

    Is the deadline realistic for a proper offer?

    35 days left, 26 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 €42,980 and €303,225.

  6. Your call:

    Do we know this buyer?

    The buyer has 72 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 422 awards for Transport equipment & vehicles in United Kingdom.

This notice
€705,608
Median award
€124,599
Middle half of past awards
€42,980 to €303,225

The estimate is larger 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.

Met Office

United Kingdom

notices in the register
72
awards
67
awarded in total
€4.9M

Who wins its contracts

Many suppliers
different companies won its awards
51
of the awards went to the three most frequent winners
20%
of its calls state an estimated value
100%

Based on 66 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, Transport equipment & vehicles - United Kingdom

Company Wins Total awarded Last win
FORD MOTOR COMPANY LIMITED 28 €4.1M Sep 2026
Toyota (GB) PLC 16 €3.9M Sep 2026
NORTHUMBRIA HEALTHCARE NHS FOUNDATION TRUST 15 €530,114 Sep 2026
Balfour Beatty Construction Limited 13 €3.8M Sep 2026
Volkswagen Group UK Limited 8 €635,007 Sep 2026

Based on 466 awards with a linked company profile over the last 2 years.

2 open tenders right now

Market context

Larger than 61% of the open notices in Transport equipment & vehicles across Europe.

open now in Transport equipment & vehicles
6,105
median open notice
€325,000

Who wins in this market

Many suppliers

United Kingdom · Transport equipment & vehicles

different companies won awards here
243
of the awards went to the three most frequent winners
13%
buyers awarded contracts here
151

Based on 465 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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