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Find a Tender Service (UK Cabinet Office / Crown Commercial Service) verified 5 days ago Contract notice

UKRI-6358 Testing and Evaluation of Counter-UAS (Drone)

Open United Kingdom Research & development

Buyer UK Research & Innovation (UKRI)

21 days left

Key facts

Closes
11:00 (UTC)
Estimated value
€94,453
converted from GBP
Procedure
Open procedure
  1. Published
  2. Today
  3. Deadline open for 28 days
  4. Awarded pending

Bidding window

27 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 20 and 30 days, based on 2,307 notices of the last two years.

This buyer usually gives 29 days (median of its last 20 calls for tender). It extended the deadline on 2 of the 10 calls we followed from publication (20%).

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Description

UKRI are looking to procure a supplier to assist in the testing and evaluation of the Counter-UAS demonstrations in Prison Environments competition. The supplier must provide all the required test facilities, personnel and equipment, including a variety of drones to test the C-UAS units against, and one, or more, qualified pilot(s) to fly them.

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 €94,453.

  3. Your call:

    Do we have two comparable references?

    Comparable work is in Research & development.

  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 €56,498 and €313,321.

  6. Your call:

    Do we know this buyer?

    The buyer has 181 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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Last verified against Find a Tender Service (UK Cabinet Office / Crown Commercial Service) 5 days ago

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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 248 awards for Research & development in United Kingdom.

This notice
€94,453
Median award
€117,149
Middle half of past awards
€56,498 to €313,321

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.

UK Research & Innovation (UKRI)

United Kingdom

notices in the register
181
awards
139

Who wins its contracts

Many suppliers
different companies won its awards
115
of the awards went to the three most frequent winners
5%
of its calls state an estimated value
100%

Based on 122 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, Research & development - United Kingdom

Company Wins Total awarded Last win
IPSOS (MARKET RESEARCH) LTD 12 €30.8M Sep 2026
IFF Research Limited 8 €5.6M Sep 2026
Ove Arup 8 €4.6M Oct 2026
AtkinsRéalis Jacobs Joint Venture 8 €1.8M Oct 2026
WSP UK LIMITED 6 €5.9M Sep 2026

Based on 301 awards with a linked company profile over the last 2 years.

18 open tenders right now

Market context

Larger than 26% of the open notices in Research & development across Europe.

open now in Research & development
430
median open notice
€292,344

Who wins in this market

Many suppliers

United Kingdom · Research & development

different companies won awards here
204
of the awards went to the three most frequent winners
9%
buyers awarded contracts here
104

Based on 301 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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