Official UK procurement notice
Market Engagement Event for East ofEngland prisons
Authority: NHS England (Central government)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionNHS England (East of England) intends to undertake a procurement for healthcare services across the following prisons:<br/><br/>HMP Chelmsford<br/>HMP The Mount<br/>HMP Highpoint,<br/>HMP Hollesley Bay<br/>HMP Warren Hill<br/>HMP Norwich<br/>HMP Wayland<br/>HMP Bure
CPV: Health and social work services · Miscellaneous health services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1NHS England (East of England) intends to undertake a procurement for healthcare…Planned
NHS England (East of England) intends to undertake a procurement for healthcare services across the following prisons:<br/><br/>HMP Chelmsford <br/>HMP The Mount <br/>HMP Highpoint, <br/>HMP Hollesley Bay <br/>HMP Warren Hill <br/>HMP Norwich<br/>HMP Wayland<br/>HMP Bure<br/><br/>and the Commissioners would like to seek the providers’ views on how the service could be configured including lotting approach.<br/><br/>This is purely a market assessment exercise. Any subsequent procurement will be advertised separately, and all organisations wishing to participate will need to respond to the procurement opportunity if and when it is published.<br/><br/>The aim of the market engagement exercise is to inform potential providers of the opportunity and to assist the commissioner in deciding on the most appropriate strategy including lotting approach for the future procurement.<br/><br/>The publication of this Pre-Market Engagement Questionnaire shall in no way commit or oblige NHS England to conduct any future procurement procedure or take any further steps in relation to such procurement procedure. Respondents should not rely on any information or indication given during this engagement exercise as a commitment by the Commissioners to procure services in a particular manner, to follow a particular provider selection process or to implement any specific model of service delivery. Any future decisions will be taken in accordance with the applicable legal and regulatory framework, including the Provider Selection Regime.<br/><br/>If you wish to attend the market engagement event (please note that this event is held in person at Capital Park, Fulbourn, Cambridge, CB21 5XB ) please register on the Atamis website healthfamily.force.com/s/Welcomeand ↗ complete the questionnaire.<br/><br/>The project reference is C469545-Market Engagement Event for Healthcare services in the East of England.<br/>Organisations who wish to attend the Market engagement event need to submit the questionnaire by 12 noon on 18th September 2026. Please note that no more than three individuals pre organisation can attend the event.
Pipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How NHS England buys Miscellaneous health services (CPV 8514), and who usually turns up
NHS England’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: Miscellaneous health services (CPV 8514) →
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 East of England.
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners were registered in 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 24 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 bid26% / 14%
2–341% / 29%
4–615% / 36%
7+17% / 21%
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 estimate37% / 38%
Within ±2%52% / 63%
Above estimate11% / 0%
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 #1NHS England (East of England) intends to undertake a procurement for healthcare…CPV 8514No real estimate
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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 14 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid14%
2–329%
4–636%
7+21%
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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- Legal basis
- CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Planned procurement
- Procurement threshold
- Unspecified in notice
- 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
- 11 Sept 2026, 15:36 BST
- Last source update
- 11 Sept 2026, 15:36 BST
- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-086565- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06f86bFind a Tender
How it was run
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- Submission deadline
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Timeline
11 Sept 2026 → 26 Oct 2026 · 2 dates- Notice published45 days ago11 Sept 2026, 15:36 BST
- Tender notice expected1 day ago26 Oct 2026
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
Official links; attachments are not copiedNo document links were published on the notice.