Official UK procurement notice
0-19 Health Visiting and School Nursing services
Authority: The Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames (Local council)·Consortium: 2 public authorities
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThe Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames is initiating a procurement process for a 0-19 Health Visiting and School Nursing service.This procurement is being conducted under the Provider Selection Regime (PSR) Competitive Process, with the new contract scheduled to commence on 1st April 2027.
CPV: Health services · Social work and related services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · value publishedLot #1The Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames is initiating a procurement process for a…RenewalPublished value£29,700,000
The Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames is initiating a procurement process for a 0-19 Health Visiting and School Nursing service. This procurement is being conducted under the Provider Selection Regime (PSR) Competitive Process, with the new contract scheduled to commence on 1st April 2027.
What it takes to wini
How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
Evaluation split and conditions of participation as published; the tender pack may add morei
How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
Published sub-criteria (2)
- Key Selection Criteria: 70%
- price: 30%
Published award criteria (2)
- Key Selection Criteria: 70
- Price: 30
- Suitability
CQC registration is a requirement.
- Price carries 30 of 100 points: a 10% discount moves about 3 points. The method statement decides this lot, not the discount.
Price arithmetic assumes straight proportional scoring; the tender pack may use another formula.
Pipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How The Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames buys Social work and related services (CPV 8530), and who usually turns up
The Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames’s published record next to the market for the same work. Frameworks and DPS are left out: they draw different bid counts. Whole-market view: Social work and related services (CPV 8530) →
How the contest usually goes
Winner shares use published awards; bid and price charts use contested lots.
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How often small and medium firms win.
Share of awards where the winner’s size is known.
The counts under this question show how many awards have a known supplier size.
Small firms have won here. Neither number says whether you qualify; it describes who has been winning.
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How often local firms win similar work.
Winners with a registered address in the delivery region, out of awards with a known address.
Local means the winner is registered in the region where that award was delivered. The market figure counts awards delivered in Greater London.
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners were registered outside the region where that award was delivered.
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How long buyers here take to decide after bids close.
Middle value in days from the bid deadline to the award date, on competitions that published both.
Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.
Half of these awards have an award date within 65 days of the bid deadline.
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How often work is awarded with no recorded rival.
Direct awards and tenders where every published lot count shows one bid.
Both shares are minimums: some awards have no bid count.
Thin markets produce this too; it is not proof of a tailored specification.
Direct awards or one recorded bid are common here. Check the route before spending time on a bid.
How many bids did past lots attract?
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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 bid43% / 22%
2–343% / 30%
4–60% / 32%
7+14% / 16%
How did awards compare with estimates?
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Where winning prices landed against estimates.
Each colour shows awards below, close to or above the published estimate, one lot at a time.
Past prices are a guide, not a bid price.
Below estimate40% / 42%
Within ±2%60% / 53%
Above estimate0% / 5%
Assess each lot i
What past awards tell you about each lot.
See the forecast, this buyer’s earlier suppliers and firms with relevant wins.
No supplier is confirmed as a bidder.
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What past awards tell you about each lot.
See the forecast, this buyer’s earlier suppliers and firms with relevant wins.
No supplier is confirmed as a bidder.
Open a lot for its forecast, this buyer’s previous supplier and possible competitors, from published award history, not a bid list
Lot #1The Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames is initiating a procurement process for a…CPV 8530Published estimate£30m
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How many bids this lot may attract.
The forecast uses similar past competitions. The bar shows either that forecast or past bid counts; the line below says which.
Each lot shows its own forecast based on its own category; forecasts for different lots of the same notice are not comparative. The bar shows 37 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid22%
2–330%
4–632%
7+16%
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Where the award price may land.
The forecast uses similar awards and the buyer’s estimate. The band covers the middle half of likely prices.
No comparable awards for this lot yet.
A statistical guide from past awards, not a price to bid.
Who has supplied this buyer on similar work? i
Who has done similar work for this buyer.
Past contracts are matched by buyer, title and type of work.
A past supplier may not bid again.
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Who has done similar work for this buyer.
Past contracts are matched by buyer, title and type of work.
A past supplier may not bid again.
No earlier contract of this buyer matches this lot on the published record.
Who could compete for this lot? i
Who could compete for this lot?
Firms with relevant past wins. On a framework, we show firms on that agreement.
None is confirmed as a bidder.
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Who could compete for this lot?
Firms with relevant past wins. On a framework, we show firms on that agreement.
None is confirmed as a bidder.
Candidate suppliers for this notice have not been worked out yet, so this is not a verdict that nobody fits.
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.
- Two views, kept apart. The authority’s own track record and the wider market for the same kind of work sit side by side and are never mixed. Where the local picture is too thin, a figure widens to a broader market and says which one it used.
- Forecasts are labelled. The price forecast and its range, possible competitors and the earlier-work matches are our estimates from past awards: not published facts, not win chances and not price advice. Official notices do not say who is bidding.
- 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.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record · publisher note attached- Procedure method
- Open procedure
- Legal basis
- CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Planned procurement
- Procurement threshold
- Above threshold (FTS publication)
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Yes (GPA)
- Recurring procurement
- Yes
- First published
- 15 Dec 2025, 08:51 GMT
- Last source update
- 7 Jul 2026, 17:28 BST
- Award evaluation window
- 5 Aug 2026 – …
- Authority reference
DN795475- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-063865- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-05f550Find a Tender
Publisher note: This is a Provider Selection Regime (PSR) contract notice; the award of this contract is subject to the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023. For the avoidance of doubt, the provisions of the Procurement Act 2023 do not apply to this award, except where adopted by PSR Bids must be submitted electronically via the ProContract London Tenders Portal https://www.londontenders.org/. Appendices D through J and Appendices 1 through 6 must be completed in accordance with the guidelines provided in each document and the instructions set out in Appendix A. The key selection criteria are weighted as follows: 60% Quality, 10% Social Value, and 30% Price. All bidders will have to pass the Basic selection criteria and conditions of the participation stage to advance to the key selection criteria evaluation stage.
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
- 5 Aug 2026, 12:00 BST
- Submission channel
- {"electronicSubmission"}
- Accepted languages
- en
- Bids opened
- 5 Aug 2026, 12:00 BST
Timeline
15 Dec 2025 → 1 Apr 2027 · 6 dates- Planning notice published317 days ago15 Dec 2025, 08:51 GMT
- Market engagement295 days ago5 Jan 2026, 23:59 GMT
The Royal Borough of Kingston Upon Thames (RBK) is seeking to engage service providers of 0-19 Health Visiting and School Health through a soft market testing questionnaire. Organisations that are interested in participating in this exercise are asked to register on the London Tenders Portal. This is free to do, just log in and express an interest. Organisations can then download the soft market testing questionnaire. The soft market testing questionnaire return is also via the London Tenders Portal. The deadline for responses is no later than 10:00 am on Monday 05 January 2026.
- Latest notice published112 days ago7 Jul 2026, 17:28 BST
- Submission deadline84 days ago5 Aug 2026, 12:00 BST
- Bids opened84 days ago5 Aug 2026, 12:00 BST
- Today28 Oct 2026
- Contract startsin 154 days1 Apr 2027, 00:00 BST
Notice history
7 events · 3 releases on Find a Tender · since 15 Dec 2025- Preliminary market engagement notice published15 Dec 2025, 08:51 GMTUK2
- Preliminary market engagement notice published15 Dec 2025, 14:42 GMTUK2
- Published value updated to £29,700,0007 Jul 2026, 17:28 BSTwas £25,200,000
- Status changed to active7 Jul 2026, 17:28 BST
- Procurement method changed7 Jul 2026, 17:28 BST
- Deadline published: 5 Aug 2026, 12:00 BST7 Jul 2026, 17:28 BST
- Buyer details updated7 Jul 2026, 17:28 BST
Published amendments (1)
The return deadline for the soft market testing questionnaire is now 10am on the 5th January 2026. This is to allow the market more time in lieu of the time taken to successfully publish the notice.
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Pipeline notice- Awards (0)
- No award published
- Contracts (0)
- No contract published
- Bid statistics
- No aggregate bid statistics published
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
2 public bodies on the noticeConsortium members and other public bodies
- The Royal Borough of Kingston upon ThamesContracting authorityRegional or local authorityGeneral public services
Official documents & specifications (4)
Official links; attachments are not copiedTender pack and attachments
- Economic and financial selection criteria
- Technical selection criteria
Notices published for this procedure
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender