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Contracts Finder (UK Cabinet Office) verified 4 hours ago Contract notice

Non-Planar Surface Characterisation and Swabbing Using the Spot Robot

Open United Kingdom IT services

Buyer UK Atomic Energy Authority

21 days left

Key facts

Closes
12:00 (UTC)
Procedure
Open procedure
  1. Published
  2. Today
  3. Deadline open for 21 days
  4. Awarded pending

Bidding window

20 days from publication to deadline

Shorter than usual

Notices of this kind (United Kingdom, open procedure) give a median of 30 days, half of them between 24 and 34 days, based on 492 notices of the last two years. Fewer days than three in four comparable notices. Check the documents early and ask questions before the clarification deadline.

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Summary

Machine-generated summary

The contractor must design, develop, functionally demonstrate, and deliver the Spot software suite for surface characterisation and swabbing, including all required testing, verification, and documentation. The scope covers software enabling the Spot robot to characterise non-planar surfaces and perform swabbing tasks, delivered as a complete, tested, and documented package.

Description

The Contractor's scope shall include the design, development, functional demonstration, and delivery (including all required testing, verification, and documentation) of the Spot software suite for surface characterisation and swabbing.

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?

    The register holds nothing on this. The official documents will.

  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?

    21 days left, 16 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 €81,640 and €583,714.

  6. Your call:

    Do we know this buyer?

    The buyer has 51 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.

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Source: Contracts Finder (UK Cabinet Office)

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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 1,015 awards for IT services in United Kingdom.

Median award
€175,730
Middle half of past awards
€81,640 to €583,714

Contracts Finder (UK Cabinet Office) publishes no value for this notice, so it has no mark on the scale. The official documents may state one.

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

UK Atomic Energy Authority

United Kingdom

notices in the register
51
awards
24
awarded in total
€39.0M

Who wins its contracts

Many suppliers
different companies won its awards
19
of the awards went to the three most frequent winners
20%
of its calls state an estimated value
75%

Based on 20 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, IT services - United Kingdom

Company Wins Total awarded Last win
Computacenter 44 €12.2M Oct 2026
COMPUTACENTER (UK) LIMITED 43 €9.0M Oct 2026
SOFTCAT PLC 41 €97.4M Oct 2026
PHOENIX SOFTWARE LIMITED 23 €54.1M Sep 2026
Insight Direct (UK) Ltd 22 €4.4M Sep 2026

Based on 1146 awards with a linked company profile over the last 2 years.

5 open tenders right now

Market context

Contracts Finder (UK Cabinet Office) publishes no value for this notice, so it cannot be placed among the open notices of its sector. The official documents may state one.

open now in IT services
7,179
median open notice
€897,255

Who wins in this market

Many suppliers

United Kingdom · IT services

different companies won awards here
662
of the awards went to the three most frequent winners
11%
buyers awarded contracts here
363

Based on 1,139 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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