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Published 14 Sept 2026, 17:33 BST

Official UK procurement notice

Concession Contract for Publishing, Selling and Marketing of the British Pharmacopoeia

Official notice Competition analysis

Authority: MHRA (Central government)

ServicesCompetitive flexible procedureAbove thresholdConcessionSME suitable
Sectors: IT Services & Software (72)Business Services & Consultancy (79) Delivery: UK
Concession value (operator's revenue)£39,810,000operator revenue, not the authority's budget
Tender notice expected 23 Dec 2026from the planned procurement notice
Contract term 5 yrsends 31 Mar 2032 · up to 31 Mar 2034 with extensions · starts 31 Mar 2027

What is being bought

Published requirement description

Concession Contract for Publishing, Selling and Marketing of the British Pharmacopoeia 2029-2035 editions

  • How the procedure runs: 2 stage competitive flexible, more details to be made available in pre market engagement webinars

CPV: Marketing services · Publishing services · World wide web (www) site design services

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · value published
Lot #1PlannedRenewal 5 yrsSMEPublished value£39,810,000
Contract period: 31 Mar 2027 – 31 Mar 2032 (5 yrs) · up to 31 Mar 2034 with extensionsValue: £39,810,000 exc. VAT · £47,772,000 inc. VAT
Delivery: UKEligibility: SME eligible
Extensions: 2 x 12 months
72413000 World wide web (www) site design services79342000 Marketing services79970000 Publishing services

Who is likely to bid for this lot ↓

Pipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published

How MHRA buys Publishing services (CPV 7997), and who usually turns up

MHRA’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: Publishing services (CPV 7997) →

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How the contest usually goes

Winner shares use published awards; bid and price charts use contested lots.

Question for the bid
This buyerMHRA · division 79
The marketPublishing services (CPV 7997) · UK-wide
What to do with it
How often do SMEs win?
i

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.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 1 of 7 known-size awards · market: CPV 7997 · UK-wide, n=26
14%35%

Small firms have won here. Neither number says whether you qualify; it describes who has been winning.

How often do local suppliers win?
i

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.

A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 1 of 1 known-location awards · market: CPV 7997 · UK-wide, n=7
1 of 157%

Most of this buyer’s recorded winners were registered in the region where that award was delivered.

How long to a decision?
i

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.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: no decision dates published · market: division 79 · UK-wide, n=957
—42 days

Half of these awards have an award date within 42 days of the bid deadline.

How often single-bid or direct?
i

How often work is awarded with no recorded rival.

Direct awards and tenders where every published lot count shows one bid.

The market share is a minimum: some awards have no bid count.

Thin markets produce this too; it is not proof of a tailored specification.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: exactly 12 of 12 procurements with awards had no recorded rival · market: CPV 7997 · UK-wide, n=33
100%52%

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?

i

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.

Last 36 months.

This buyer21 lots with bid counts · all categories
43% had one bid
The market1,819 lots with bid counts · division 79 · UK-wide
15% had one bid
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
1 bid43% / 15%
Buyer: 9 of 21 lots with published bid counts. Market: 271 of 1,819 lots with published bid counts.
2–324% / 24%
Buyer: 5 of 21 lots with published bid counts. Market: 441 of 1,819 lots with published bid counts.
4–624% / 28%
Buyer: 5 of 21 lots with published bid counts. Market: 507 of 1,819 lots with published bid counts.
7+10% / 33%
Buyer: 2 of 21 lots with published bid counts. Market: 600 of 1,819 lots with published bid counts.

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.

Last 36 months.

This buyer11 lots with estimate and award · all categories
45% below estimate
The market1,354 lots with estimate and award · division 79 · UK-wide
34% below estimate
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
Below estimate45% / 34%
Buyer: 5 of 11 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 466 of 1,354 lots with an estimate and award.
Within ±2%18% / 51%
Buyer: 2 of 11 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 694 of 1,354 lots with an estimate and award.
Above estimate36% / 14%
Buyer: 4 of 11 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 194 of 1,354 lots with an estimate and award.
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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.

Open a lot for its forecast, this buyer’s previous supplier and possible competitors, from published award history, not a bid list

Lot #1CPV 724160 monthsSME suitablePublished estimate£40m

This lot is listed as CPV 7241. The table above uses the notice category.

Expected competition
i

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 35 past lots.

A forecast, not a list of bidders.

—No model forecast yet14% chance of a single bid
Past bids on 35 similar lots
1 bid14%
5 of 35 similar past lots received 1 bid (14%).
2–337%
13 of 35 similar past lots received 2–3 (37%).
4–69%
3 of 35 similar past lots received 4–6 (9%).
7+40%
14 of 35 similar past lots received 7+ (40%).
Comparable past lots usually drew 3 bids.
Commercial price forecast
i

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.

—No model forecast yet
No comparable awards on record for this lot’s category yet. The published estimate is £40m, and the forecast stays empty until the market has a record to read.

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.

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.

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
Procedure method
Competitive flexible procedure
Legal basis
UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
Procurement category
Services
Notice status
Planned procurement
Procurement threshold
Above threshold (FTS publication)
Regulatory regime
Concession
Commercial structure
Stand-alone contract (no framework)
Competition type
Competitive procedure
GPA / WTO covered
Unspecified in notice
Recurring procurement
Unspecified in notice
First published
14 Sept 2026, 17:33 BST
Last source update
6 Oct 2026, 12:25 BST
Award evaluation window
Submission end – 31 Mar 2027
Authority reference
C448502
FTS notice number
2026/S 000-094219
Latest notice
Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
Classification (CPV)
Marketing servicesPublishing servicesWorld wide web (www) site design services
Delivery area
UK
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06f990 Find a Tender
How it runs

2 stage competitive flexible, more details to be made available in pre market engagement webinars

How it was run

Official notice
Run through: Atamis (Health Family) · Who buys & how to bid on Atamis
Supplier login requiredElectronic submission allowedLanguage: EN
Access & registration note: Free · one account PER buying organisation portal · password resets come "from Salesforce.com" (check spam)
Submission deadline
29 Jan 2027, 12:00 GMT
Clarification deadline
23 Dec 2026, 12:00 GMT
Submission channel
Official e-sourcing portal
Electronic submission
Allowed
Accepted languages
en
Detailed submission instructions & authority contactsFrom official release

To be made available in UK 04 Tender Notice atamis-1928.my.site.com/s/Welcome ↗

Timeline

14 Sept 2026 → 31 Mar 2027 · 8 dates
  1. Planning notice published44 days ago
    14 Sept 2026, 17:33 BST
  2. Latest notice published23 days ago
    6 Oct 2026, 12:25 BST
  3. Today
    29 Oct 2026
  4. Market engagementin 6 days
    4 Nov 2026, 23:59 GMT

    The purpose is to notify the market of our up coming procurement and to gain more understanding of the market and how our requirement fits into market segments.

    Webinar 2 to take place 4th November and will cover detail about the commercial process including our proposed evaluation criteria, deeper dive into the specification and pricing model.

    Please email Commercial@mhra.gov.uk to sign up to our mailing list FAO Imogen Pether, for all future communications regarding this pre-market engagement.

    The MHRA wants to open this opportunity to as many suppliers as possible, and we encourage the participation of all suppliers including Small and Medium Enterprises. This procurement is suitable for partnerships and consortia bids where MHRA would work primarily with a single organisation, so we urge you to attend the session to find out more information.

    We also welcome feedback from attendees and a questionnaire will be issued all attendees after each webinar.

  5. Clarification questions byin 54 days
    23 Dec 2026, 12:00 GMT
  6. Tender notice expectedin 55 days
    23 Dec 2026, 23:59 GMT
  7. Submission deadlinein 91 days
    29 Jan 2027, 12:00 GMT
  8. Contract startsin 152 days
    31 Mar 2027, 00:00 BST
  9. Award decision expected byin 153 days
    31 Mar 2027, 23:59 BST

Notice history

6 events · 3 releases on Find a Tender · since 14 Sept 2026
  1. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    14 Sept 2026, 17:33 BST
    UK2
  2. Planned procurement notice published
    14 Sept 2026, 17:35 BST
    UK3
  3. Status changed to planned
    14 Sept 2026, 17:35 BST
  4. Procurement method changed
    14 Sept 2026, 17:35 BST
  5. Deadline published: 29 Jan 2027, 12:00 GMT
    14 Sept 2026, 17:35 BST
  6. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    6 Oct 2026, 12:25 BST
    UK2

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

MHRA

Contracting authorityPublic authority - central government GB-PPON: PJLJ-9824-VXPG 10 South Colonnade, Canary Wharf, London, London, E14 4PUContact name, email

Official documents & specifications (3)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure