The Crown Estate

How to win their contracts

Measured from The Crown Estate's own published record — no estimates, no generic advice.

• Plan for about 46 days to prepare a bid — that is the median gap between publication and deadline across 38 of their tenders.
• They publish about 8.5 tenders a month, measured over 11 months of history.
• Half of the tenders where they publish a value are estimated at £3.2m or less.
• Most of their buying falls in architectural, construction, engineering and inspection services, business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing, security, construction work.
• Their most frequent suppliers are Lymington Harbour Commissioners (2), BENIFEX LIMITED (2), SAVILLS (UK) LIMITED (2) — expect to bid against incumbents who already know this buyer.