Optician services: UK Tenders, Buyers & Competition
CPV 85160000·Services · class·in Health & Social Care
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Tenders you can still bid for.
Notices at tender stage whose deadline has not passed, counted the way the search counts them: a notice shows under every code and region it names.
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Notices published in the last 12 months.
Counted per tender, not per lot, against the 12 months before where shown.
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How many companies usually bid for a lot here.
The middle value of the bid counts that award notices publish, one per lot. Only real competitions count: direct awards and framework places are left out.
Based on 10 lots from 6 competitions run by 6 buyers, last 36 months. A buyer with many similar contests counts only up to a limit. All 10 lots are from older notices, which count bids received.
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What a contract here is usually worth.
Middle value of published award values, VAT excluded. Framework ceilings are left out because they are not real contract values.
Based on 116 awards with a usable value, last 36 months.
Published values, not actual spend.
Codes and neighbouring classes
The 8-digit CPV codes notices in this class actually use, and the other classes of the same division
85160000 Optician services163 notices · 95%- Health services 2,178 · 12m
- Social work services 974 · 12m
- Medical practice and related services 874 · 12m
- Miscellaneous health services 786 · 12m
- Hospital and related services 706 · 12m
- Social services 573 · 12m
- Social work and related services 478 · 12m
- Dental practice and related services 220 · 12m
- Medical imaging services 104 · 12m
- Veterinary services 19 · 12m
- All of Health & Social Care →
Who buysi
Which buyers publish the most notices here.
Buyers ranked by the number of notices, duplicate names merged.
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Which buyers publish the most notices here.
Buyers ranked by the number of notices, duplicate names merged.
All notices carrying this code · official UK_CA_TYPE where published (NHS bodies are central government authorities), else derived from the authority name
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What kinds of public bodies buy here.
Notices by the buyer’s type as published, otherwise by its name.
Central government91%(156 notices)
156 of 171 notices are Central government (91%).NHS & health5%(8 notices)
8 of 171 notices are NHS & health (5%).Local authorities2%(3 notices)
3 of 171 notices are Local authorities (2%).Education & universities2%(3 notices)
3 of 171 notices are Education & universities (2%).Other public bodies1%(1 notices)
1 of 171 notices are Other public bodies (1%).
| Contracting authority | Type | Notices | Last 12 months | Open now |
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| NHS South Yorkshire Integrated Care Board | Central government | 51 | 15 | 0 |
| NHS SUSSEX INTEGRATED CARE BOARD | Central government | 41 | 1 | 0 |
| NHS North East and North Cumbria Integrated Care Board | Central government | 20 | 0 | 0 |
| NHS STAFFORDSHIRE AND STOKE-ON-TRENT INTEGRATED CARE BOARD | Central government | 9 | 1 | 0 |
| NHS Derby & Derbyshire Integrated Care Board | Central government | 5 | 1 | 0 |
| NHS Dorset Integrated Care Board | Central government | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust | Central government | 3 | 2 | 0 |
| NHS Humber and North Yorkshire Integrated Care Board (ICB) | NHS & health | 3 | 1 | 0 |
| Department for Transport | Central government | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Ministry of Defence | Central government | 2 | 0 | 0 |
36 distinct authorities in total · the ten most active shown.
Where the work is deliveredi
Where the work on these notices is delivered.
Delivery regions published on the notices. A notice with several regions counts in each.
Where the work is, not where the buyer is based.
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Where the work on these notices is delivered.
Delivery regions published on the notices. A notice with several regions counts in each.
Where the work is, not where the buyer is based.
Delivery regions (ITL1) published on 166 of 171 notices · a notice covering several regions counts in each · competition columns: contracts awarded in the last 36 months, lots delivered in the region
| Region | Notices | Bids / lot | SME wins | Local wins |
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| Yorkshire and the Humber | — | 87% | 89% | |
| South East England | — | — | 96% | |
| West Midlands | — | — | 29% | |
| North East England | — | — | — | |
| East Midlands | — | — | — | |
| South West England | — | — | — | |
| North West England | — | — | — | |
| East of England | — | — | — | |
| Greater London | — | — | — | |
| Wales (Cymru) | — | — | — |
Local wins = the winner’s registered region is the delivery region. Dashes: fewer than ten observations.
How it is boughti
How work here is packaged.
Notices by commercial tool: a single contract, a framework, or a dynamic purchasing system.
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How work here is packaged.
Notices by commercial tool: a single contract, a framework, or a dynamic purchasing system.
Commercial tool, procedure route and threshold as published on the notice, not a legal-regime claim
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How work here is packaged.
Notices by commercial tool: a single contract, a framework, or a dynamic purchasing system.
Contract99%(170 notices)
170 of 171 notices are Contract (99%).Dynamic purchasing system1%(1 notices)
1 of 171 notices are Dynamic purchasing system (1%).
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Which procedures buyers here use.
Notices by the procedure they declare: open, selective, limited or direct. Open and selective are competitions; limited and direct are not.
Limited / restricted84%(144 notices)
144 of 171 notices are Limited / restricted (84%).Open8%(13 notices)
13 of 171 notices are Open (8%).Direct award4%(7 notices)
7 of 171 notices are Direct award (4%).Route not published3%(5 notices)
5 of 171 notices are Route not published (3%).Selective1%(2 notices)
2 of 171 notices are Selective (1%).
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How much of this market is above the legal threshold.
Notices by whether the buyer marked them above or below the threshold that triggers the full rules.
Above threshold100%(1 notices)
1 of 1 notices are Above threshold (100%).
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How long bidders get to respond.
Middle value in days from the tender notice to its deadline.
Competition
Contracts published in the last 36 months (160) · bid counts per lot from award notices · values are net contract awards, framework and DPS ceilings excluded · SME and local status as declared
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How many bids past lots received.
Each colour is a bid-count range. Only competed lots with a published count are included.
Past bids do not predict this tender.
1 bid10%(1)
1 of 10 lots fall in 1 bid (10%).2–360%(6)
6 of 10 lots fall in 2–3 (60%).4–630%(3)
3 of 10 lots fall in 4–6 (30%).7 or more0%(0)
0 of 10 lots fall in 7 or more (0%).
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The usual range of contract values here.
The middle half of published award values, VAT excluded, with the middle value marked. Framework ceilings are left out.
Published values, not actual spend.
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How many companies usually bid for a lot here.
The middle value of the bid counts that award notices publish, one per lot. Only real competitions count: direct awards and framework places are left out.
Based on 10 lots from 6 competitions run by 6 buyers, last 36 months. A buyer with many similar contests counts only up to a limit. All 10 lots are from older notices, which count bids received.
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How much of this market is actually put out to competition.
Notices run as an open or selective procedure, out of all notices that say which procedure was used. Direct awards count as not competed.
9 of 159 notices that state a procedure, last 36 months. 1 more give no procedure and are left out.
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What share of contracts go to small and medium firms.
Awards to a single supplier that declared its size. SME divided by all.
80 of 98 awards where the winner declared its size.
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How much work here goes to companies based in the region.
Contract awards where the winner’s registered address is in this region, out of awards where the address is known.
Registered address, so a national firm with a local branch counts as outside.
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How often a tender ends with no award.
Notices cancelled, withdrawn or marked unsuccessful, plus terminated ones that never got an award.
0 of 160 notices, last 36 months.
Only what buyers published. Tenders that quietly went nowhere are not counted.
Who winsi
Which suppliers win the most here.
Suppliers ranked by the number of tenders won, not by money. A supplier on one big framework with many call-offs does not outrank one that won many separate competitions.
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Which suppliers win the most here.
Suppliers ranked by the number of tenders won, not by money. A supplier on one big framework with many call-offs does not outrank one that won many separate competitions.
Ranked by distinct procedures won on notices carrying this code, then award records · 208 awards to 144 suppliers · the five most frequent winners hold 20% of contract awards in the last 36 months
| Supplier | Procedures | Awards | Last 12 months | Buyers |
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| Primary Eyecare Services | 20 | 20 | 0 | 8 |
| Specsavers Optical Superstores Limited | 6 | 6 | 2 | 4 |
| Boots Opticians Professional Services Limited | 6 | 6 | 1 | 3 |
| Asda Stores Ltd | 5 | 5 | 1 | 2 |
| ASE Corporate Eyecare Limited | 3 | 3 | 1 | 3 |
| Brumpton Opticians Ltd | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 |
| Hawley Optical Outlet Ltd | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 |
| O’Brien Fey Opticians | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 |
Where to submiti
Where bids for this work are submitted.
Notices by the portal in their submission link, where one is published.
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Where bids for this work are submitted.
Notices by the portal in their submission link, where one is published.
E-sourcing portals named in the submission address · 10 of 171 notices name one · each portal page explains registration
About this data
- Source. Official UK public procurement notices (Find a Tender), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0. New notices arrive through the day; the figures are rebuilt nightly.
- What counts here. Every notice with a CPV code starting 8516. A notice with several codes counts in each sector it names. Notices from 2022 to 13 Oct 2026.
- Competition. Bids and winners cover the last three years and count each lot as its own contest; frameworks and dynamic purchasing systems are shown apart from ordinary contracts.
- Why no total spend. Notice estimates often repeat a framework’s ceiling, so adding them up would overstate the market. Typical contract values are shown instead.
- Every figure shows what it rests on. Not every notice publishes a bid count, a value or a delivery region, so each figure carries the number of records behind it, and one built on few records is marked as such. The on a figure explains it; the counting rules are in the methodology. Spotted something wrong? Tell us.