Official UK procurement notice
0–19 Public Health Nursing Service (PHNS) Healthy Child Programme
Authority: Shropshire Council (Local council)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThis early market engagement to support decisions for Shropshire Council’s future commissioning intentions for the 0–19 Public Health Nursing Service (PHNS), including health visiting, school nursing, and the Family Nurse Partnership, and up to age 25 for children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND).
It provides potential providers with background information on the service requirements, the current policy context, local needs, and the key lines of enquiry commissioners want to explore through market engagement.
This is not the start of a formal procurement process. The Council is seeking market views to inform service design, delivery expectations, affordability, and future commissioning.
The commissioned service includes health visiting, school nursing, and the Family Nurse Partnership, providing universal, targeted, and specialist public health nursing support across the 0–19 pathway and up to age 25, where relevant, for young people with SEND. The service is expected to deliver the mandated elements of the Healthy Child Programme and associated public health requirements, while also contributing to wider local priorities and integrated pathways.
Commissioners’ preference is for a provider that can deliver the whole service, rather than separate elements of it. Commissioners will expect any future model to demonstrate how it will safely and consistently deliver, monitor and evaluate core programme requirements; respond proportionately to need; support early identification and intervention; contribute to safeguarding and early help pathways; improve access and outcomes for vulnerable groups; use population data to target support; and work effectively within Shropshire’s locality and family hub model.
Providers will also need to demonstrate a clear workforce model, strong governance and clinical leadership, effective partnership working, and a practical approach to digital access, estates, rural delivery, and performance reporting.
As part of the pre-market engagement, Commissioners are seeking input from providers on the following:
•How to deliver a safe, equitable, and sustainable 0–19 public health nursing offer across a large rural county
•Workforce availability, recruitment, retention, supervision, and skill mix in the context of national shortages
•How the refreshed Healthy Child Programme guidance can be implemented in a practical, outcomes-focused way
•The role of locality delivery, open-access models, digital approaches, and family hub integration
•How providers would work with partners across maternity, primary care, education, early help, safeguarding, and the voluntary sector
•How services can reduce inequalities and meet the needs of vulnerable groups, including children with SEND, rural communities, and families with more complex needs
•Data, outcomes, performance monitoring, and how providers would demonstrate impact and effectiveness
•The affordability and financial assumptions needed to support a viable model, including estate and mobilisation requirements
•How the voice of the child will be embedded and systematically captured.
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CPV: Community health services · Health services · Services provided by nurses
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedPipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How Shropshire Council buys Health services (CPV 8510), and who usually turns up
Shropshire Council’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: Health services (CPV 8510) →
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Most of this buyer’s recorded winners were registered in the region where that award was delivered.
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Half of these awards have an award date within 23 days of the bid deadline.
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1 bid33% / 22%
2–333% / 31%
4–633% / 24%
7+0% / 22%
How did awards compare with estimates?
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Where winning prices landed against estimates.
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Below estimate14% / 50%
Within ±2%86% / 45%
Above estimate0% / 5%
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Lot #1CPV 85Published estimate£25m
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1 bid22%
2–330%
4–622%
7+26%
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Where the award price may land.
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Who has done similar work for this buyer.
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A past supplier may not bid again.
| Supplier | This buyer’s earlier contract | Lot | Award value | Why listed |
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| Shropshire Community NHS Trust, Shropshire Community NHS TrustEarlier contract | PMCV 028 - Public Health Nursing Servicenotice published Mar 2026 | — | £7.4m | Matched as the earlier contract |
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Who could compete for this lot?
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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.
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Who has done similar work for this buyer.
Past contracts are matched by buyer, title and type of work.
49% title match.
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.
49% title match.
A past supplier may not bid again.
The prior contract this notice most likely re-tenders · matched by title and category (49% title match), the holder is not guaranteed to re-bid
PMCV 028 - Public Health Nursing Service — held by Shropshire Community NHS Trust, Shropshire Community NHS Trust; no contract end date published.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Planned procurement
- Procurement threshold
- Above threshold (FTS publication)
- Regulatory regime
- Light touch regime
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 24 Jun 2026, 12:29 BST
- Last source update
- 24 Jun 2026, 12:29 BST
- Authority reference
PMCV 028- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-059377- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06bc0eFind a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
24 Jun 2026 → 1 Oct 2027 · 3 dates- Planning notice published126 days ago24 Jun 2026, 12:29 BST
- Market engagement104 days ago15 Jul 2026, 23:59 BST
This engagement exercise is for information gathering purposes only and does not constitute a formal procurement. Participation in this engagement will not advantage or disadvantage any organisation in any subsequent procurement. Commissioners will take appropriate measures to ensure that competition is not distorted by participation in this engagement. Information provided may be used to inform Shropshire Council’s requirements and procurement approach and may be shared, in anonymised or aggregated form, with other potential providers. Providers should clearly identify any information they consider to be commercially sensitive.
This engagement is intended to inform the Council’s understanding of the market and future commissioning options. It does not commit the Council to any specific commissioning route or procurement process, and information shared during engagement will not be used to assess providers in any future procurement. Providers are encouraged to share views openly on opportunities, risks, innovation, delivery models, and market constraints.
Engagement process description
Interested providers are invited to respond to the pre-market engagement questions attached.
Responses must be submitted via our electronic tender portal www.delta-esourcing.com ↗
by 17:00 on Wednesday 15 July 2026. Pre-market engagement provider meetings will be held virtually between 12 and 19 August 2026.
- Today28 Oct 2026
- Contract startsin 337 days1 Oct 2027, 00:00 BST
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Preliminary market engagement notice published24 Jun 2026, 12:29 BSTUK2
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
Official documents & specifications (1)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender