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Department for Business & Trade
Project_4971- Provision of Bill of Lading Shipping Data
Forecast: a planned procurement that is not yet at tender stage.
01/ The notice
Key facts
- Value
- £520,000Estimated value stated in the notice
- Deadline (UK time)
- No open deadlineA deadline does not apply to this forecast notice.
- Published
- 18 Aug 2025
- Region
- Not stated
02/ The brief
What the notice says
Not fully read: this is the notice text; attached documents are not read.
The Department for Business and Trade (DBT) is currently managing a Contract for the provision of Bill of Lading (or shipping instructions) data until November 2025.
Bill of Lading data is used by DBT to monitor container trade to and from the UK. DBT have been receiving Bill of Lading data for exports from the UK (where a container leaves from a UK port) and imports to the UK (where the container lands at a UK port or the container lands at a foreign port but with a final destination of the UK) under contract since 2021. The data that is provided under the current Contract is in the context of UK to World container trade, and World to UK container trade.
DBT is looking to engage with relevant suppliers in the market. DBT are seeking a 12 month contract with the option to extend the contract for a period of up to 12 months. The budget DBT have allocated to this need is £260,000 per year excluding VAT.
03/ Classification
CPV codes
Common Procurement Vocabulary codes, exactly as the notice lists them. No descriptions are added here.
- 72320000
04/ History
Releases of this notice
4 releases held, oldest first. Dates are UK time.
- 18 Aug 2025Planning notice
Planning notice published 18 August 2025.
Release 049538-2025
View this release on Find a Tender (opens in a new tab) - 18 Aug 2025Planning notice
Planning notice published 18 August 2025. The source does not state what changed.
Release 049540-2025
View this release on Find a Tender (opens in a new tab) - 18 Aug 2025Planning notice
Planning notice published 18 August 2025. The source does not state what changed.
Deadline in this release: Fri 31 Oct 2025, 23:59 GMT.
Release 049551-2025
View this release on Find a Tender (opens in a new tab) - 18 Aug 2025Planning notice update
Planning notice update published 18 August 2025. Stated change: Updated Scope.
Release 049636-2025
View this release on Find a Tender (opens in a new tab)
05/ Limits
What the source does not tell us
- None recorded for the fields above. Attached documents are not read, so this is not a full account of the tender.
06/ Questions
About this notice
07/ Related
Where to go next
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- Reference
- ocds-h6vhtk-0589e0
- Source
- Find a Tender
- Stage
- planning · Planning
- Last verified
- Mon 6 Apr 2026, 20:55 BST
- Read at
- Fri 16 Oct 2026, 22:11 BST
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