Find a TenderPlanned procurementPreliminary market engagement notice
Published 6 Oct 2026, 13:28 BST

Official UK procurement notice

LSL/MED/0253 The Supply of Nalaxone and Atropine

Authority: LEIDOS SUPPLY, LIMITED (Central government)·On behalf of: TVS SUPPLY CHAIN SOLUTIONS LIMITED

GoodsAbove thresholdSME suitable
Sectors: Medical Devices & Pharma (33) Delivery: UK
Planned pipeline value£400,000pipeline notice, not a live tender
Tender notice expected 1 Feb 2027from the planned procurement notice
Contract term 4 yrsends 30 Aug 2031 · starts 1 Sept 2027

What is being bought

Published requirement description

In April 2015 the MOD signed a thirteen year contract with Leidos Europe Ltd to provide the procurement and inventory management of commodity items (as well as the storage and distribution services) historically provided in-house by the Logistic Commodities and Services Operating Centre. Leidos, working with the MOD, will transform the way these services are delivered to ensure requirements continue to be met whilst providing best value for money for the department. The organisation delivering these services is known as Team Leidos.

Team Leidos would like to make markets aware that we are intending to investigate innovative approaches to fill our Supply of Naloxone and Atropine requirements. We are interested in the following:

Atropine: Preferred product would be 2mg/mL in a 50mL vial, but the key requirement is the 100mg of drug in one vial.

Naloxone: Preferred product would be 2mg/mL in a 20mL vial. However, would accept 2mg/ml in 50ml vial (total dose of 100mg per vial).

It is the aim of this Preliminary Market Engagement Notice (PMEN) to encourage companies, suppliers, or manufacturers to make us aware and provide as much information as they are comfortable with, to help decide the future strategy for the range.

Team Leidos wishes to generate interest, information and views with other companies to understand the current market innovation and gain useful intelligence that can help our requirement.

To request the PMEN documents please contact:

Name and Email address

Macy Johnson

Macy.johnson248@teamleidos.mod.uk

In the email request the documents related the Supply of Naloxone and Atropine. The documents will then be sent for completion and should be returned to the same email addresses before the deadline. Responses are required as soon as possible to inform next steps, but the PMEN will remain open until 06/11/2026

CPV: Medical consumables · Medical equipments, pharmaceuticals and personal care products · Pharmaceutical products

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published

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

How LEIDOS SUPPLY, LIMITED buys Medical consumables (CPV 3314), and who usually turns up

LEIDOS SUPPLY, LIMITED’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: Medical consumables (CPV 3314) →

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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 buyerLEIDOS SUPPLY, LIMITED · division 33
The marketMedical consumables (CPV 3314) · 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: 2 of 4 known-size awards · market: CPV 3314 · UK-wide, n=201
2 of 441%

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: no winner locations published · market: CPV 3314 · UK-wide, n=123
—28%

No winner locations published for this authority. Local means a registered address 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: CPV 3314 · UK-wide, n=13
—73 days

Half of these awards have an award date within 73 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.

Both shares are minimums: some awards have no bid count.

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

Last 36 months.

Buyer: at least 5 of 9 procurements with awards had no recorded rival · market: CPV 3314 · UK-wide, n=299
56%74%

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 buyer7 lots with bid counts · all categories
43% had one bid
The market48 lots with bid counts · CPV 3314 · UK-wide
13% had one bid
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
1 bid43% / 13%
Buyer: 3 of 7 lots with published bid counts. Market: 6 of 48 lots with published bid counts.
2–314% / 17%
Buyer: 1 of 7 lots with published bid counts. Market: 8 of 48 lots with published bid counts.
4–60% / 23%
Buyer: 0 of 7 lots with published bid counts. Market: 11 of 48 lots with published bid counts.
7+43% / 48%
Buyer: 3 of 7 lots with published bid counts. Market: 23 of 48 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 buyerToo few to chart: 2 lots with estimate and award, 5 needed · broad CPV 33
The market19 lots with estimate and award · CPV 3314 · UK-wide
53% below estimate
Market · select a colour for counts
Below estimate53%
Market: 10 of 19 lots with an estimate and award.
Within ±2%26%
Market: 5 of 19 lots with an estimate and award.
Above estimate21%
Market: 4 of 19 lots with an estimate and award.
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Assess each lot
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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 #1CPV 3348 monthsSME suitablePublished estimate£400k

This lot lists more than one class in CPV 33. The comparison uses that group.

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 251 past lots.

A forecast, not a list of bidders.

—No model forecast yet24% chance of a single bid
Past bids on 251 similar lots
1 bid24%
59 of 251 similar past lots received 1 bid (24%).
2–335%
87 of 251 similar past lots received 2–3 (35%).
4–621%
52 of 251 similar past lots received 4–6 (21%).
7+21%
53 of 251 similar past lots received 7+ (21%).
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 £400k, 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.

SupplierThis buyer’s earlier contractLotAward valueWhy listed
Ferno (UK) LimitedLive contractLSL/MED/0216 - The Supply and Support of Scoop Stretchers & C-Spine Immobilisationruns to Aug 2029—£500kMatched as the earlier contract

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
Legal basis
UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
Procurement category
Goods
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
Unspecified in notice
Recurring procurement
Unspecified in notice
First published
6 Oct 2026, 13:28 BST
Last source update
6 Oct 2026, 13:28 BST
Authority reference
LSL/MED/0253
FTS notice number
2026/S 000-094265
Latest notice
Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
Classification (CPV)
Medical consumablesMedical equipments, pharmaceuticals and personal care productsPharmaceutical products
Delivery area
UK
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-0781ab Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice
Submission deadline
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Timeline

6 Oct 2026 → 1 Sept 2027 · 4 dates
  1. Planning notice published23 days ago
    6 Oct 2026, 13:28 BST
  2. Today
    29 Oct 2026
  3. Market engagementin 8 days
    6 Nov 2026, 23:59 GMT

    To request the PMEN documents please contact:

    Name and Email address

    Macy Johnson

    Macy.johnson248@teamleidos.mod.uk

    Request the documents related to the Supply of Naloxone and Atropine. The documents will then be sent for completion and should be returned to the same email addresses before the deadline. Responses are required as soon as possible to inform next steps, but the PMEN will remain open until 06/11/2026

  4. Tender notice expectedin 95 days
    1 Feb 2027, 23:59 GMT
  5. Contract startsin 306 days
    1 Sept 2027, 00:00 BST

Notice history

1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender
  1. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    6 Oct 2026, 13:28 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

2 public bodies on the notice

LEIDOS SUPPLY, LIMITED

Contracting authorityPublic authority - central government GB-COH: 09353172 8 Monarch Court The Brooms, Bristol, South West, BS16 7FHContact email

Other public bodies

Official documents & specifications (1)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure