The Coal Authority: tenders, sectors & how to win their contracts

The Coal Authority has published 76 tenders in United Kingdom.

Its buying spans 11 CPV divisions, most often architectural, construction, engineering and inspection services.

Across 27 awarded contracts the median value is £400k.

Its published awards total £98.1m.

How to win their contracts

Measured from The Coal Authority's own published record — no estimates, no generic advice.

Plan for about 32 days to prepare a bid — that is the median gap between publication and deadline across 24 of their tenders.
They publish about 1.6 tenders a month, measured over 47 months of history.
Half of their 27 awarded contracts are worth £400k or less — size your bid to that range.
Most of their buying falls in architectural, construction, engineering and inspection services, construction work, business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing, security.
Their most frequent suppliers are Anderson Strathern LLP (2) — expect to bid against incumbents who already know this buyer.

Tender	Winner	Tender closed	Contract Value
Surveying: Topographical & Building	Interlocks Surveys	20 July 2023	£200k
Environmental Data Management	Aquatic Informatics	18 October 2022	£498.2k
Dawdon Short Sea Outfall Repair Works	Southbay Civil Engineering Ltd	8 August 2022	£797.3k
Provision of Medicals	Bluecrest Health Screening	1 July 2022	£259.2k
Engineering Services Framework	AECOM Limited	21 June 2022	£6.5m
Hydrometry Framework	Environmental Monitoring Solutions Ltd	27 April 2022	£481.2k

Contracts are dated by the tender's closing date — award dates are not published in the source data.