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ASSOCIATED BRITISH PORTS

South Wales Towage Services

TransportCPV 63727100
Value£10.0m
Deadline21 Aug 2026
Published10 Jul 2026
RegionNationwide
Timeline
Published 10 Jul 202628 days leftCloses 21 Aug 2026
Who to contact
procurement@abports.co.uk

The procurement contact named on the official notice.

How to submit
Open the submissions portal

The submission route named on the official notice.

Contract value in context
£10.0mtotal contract value
median £246k
this tender£0£11.8m

This is a large award for Supporting Transport & Travel Services — above three-quarters of comparable contracts. Based on 2,020 valued Supporting Transport & Travel Services tenders in our corpus.

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The brief

Dear Supplier You have been invited to tender for the provision of South Wales Towage Services.

Tender documents have been made available and can be accessed with the stage tab "ITT - Documents".

From there you can review the documentation supplied and upload your response as indicated.

Any questions relating to this tender should be made via correspondence on the website and can be addressed to the main contact as shown in the details above.

Key requirements

What the supplier must deliver

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Any questions relating to this tender should

Any questions relating to this tender should be made via correspondence on the website and can be addressed to the main contact as shown in the details above.

Derived from the notice text — always confirm against the original documents.

What it takes to bid this

4580 daysof bid-team effort
£30.8k£54.8kat typical UK bid-team rates
Compressed window — start the same week

Typical UK bid effort for the £10m+ band — an estimate, not a quote.

Qualify & bid/no-bid ~10% · SQ / PQQ ~20% · Written response ~55% · Review & presentation ~15%

Typical for this category — confirm against the ITT pack

  • Show at bidComparable references / case studies
  • Hold at bidFinancial standing (accounts, often ~2× contract value turnover)
  • Hold at bidInsurance cover (PL / EL, often PI)
  • Show at bidSocial value commitments

Hold at bid = pass/fail conditions of participation. Show at bid = scored in the quality response. Plan for delivery = contract obligations from day one.

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Source & provenance
OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06c8fc
Stage
tender · Open
Source
Find a Tender
Buyer ref
065365-2026
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