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Northern Lighthouse Board

Ignition Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) Support

IT ServicesCPV 42961200
Value£152k
Deadline31 Aug 2026
Published12 Aug 2026
RegionNationwide
Timeline
Published 12 Aug 202612 days leftCloses 31 Aug 2026
Who to contact
Ruth Millan
Procurement@nlb.org.uk
0131 473 3104

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
£152ktotal contract value
median £120k
this tender£0£3.5m

This sits in the upper-middle of the IT Services band — a substantial contract for the sector. Based on 36,449 valued IT Services tenders in our corpus.

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Northern Lighthouse Board has published 10 IT Services notices, about every 3 months. On that rhythm the next one is expected around November 2026.

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The brief

Northern Lighthouse Board operates Ignition SCADA platform since 2021 to remotely monitor their AtoNs (Aid to Navigation) - lighthouses, buoys, AIS (Automatic Identification System), Racons (Radio Beacons) and few commercial AtoNs.

This is a critical system providing real-time and historical data from remote sites and thereby helping to respond to a breakdown or prepare for a preventative maintenance visit.

This specification outlines the requirements for a supplier to provide operation and maintenance support services for NLB’s Ignition SCADA system.

The selected supplier shall ensure high system availability, optimal performance, cybersecurity compliance, and continuous improvement of the NLB’s Ignition SCADA system over the 5-year contractual period from September 2026 to September 2031.

Included in Scope Support Software Updates & Lifecycle Management Screens, Databases, Connections & Scripts Maintenance/Fixes Cybersecurity & Compliance Documentation Support for Future Projects For more information about this opportunity, please visit the eSourcing portal at: https://nlb.delta-esourcing.com/tenders/UK-UK-Edinburgh:-Scada-or-equivalent-system./6HG4BK63KW To respond to this opportunity, please click here: https://nlb.delta-esourcing.com/respond/6HG4BK63KW

Requirements

What the notice asks for

01

This specification outlines the requirements for

This specification outlines the requirements for a supplier to provide operation and maintenance support services for NLB’s Ignition SCADA system.

02

The selected supplier shall ensure high system

The selected supplier shall ensure high system availability, optimal performance, cybersecurity compliance, and continuous improvement of the NLB’s Ignition SCADA system over the 5-year contractual period from September 2026 to September 2031.

03

Support for Future Projects

Support for Future Projects.

Sentences from the notice that state an obligation, surfaced automatically and shown in the order they appear. Not an exhaustive list — always confirm against the tender documents.

What it takes to bid this

1220 daysof bid-team effort
£8.2k£13.7kat typical UK bid-team rates
Compressed window — start the same week

Typical UK bid effort for the £100k–£1m 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

  • Hold at bidCyber Essentials Plus (often mandatory for gov IT)
  • Hold at bidISO 27001 (information security)
  • Plan for deliveryData protection / DPIA readiness
  • 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-06e229
Stage
tender · Open
Source
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Buyer ref
076578-2026
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Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source data © Crown copyright.

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