Official UK procurement notice
Newham Community Diagnostic Centre (CDC 5) - Market Engagement Event
Authority: NHS North East London Integrated Care Board (Central government)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionNHS North East London (hereafter referred to as "The Authority") invites interested, suitably qualified and experienced providers to attend a Market Engagement Event prior to the publication of tender opportunity for the provision of community diagnostic services in Newham.
Market Engagement event details:
Date: Thursday 15 October 2026
Time: 13.00 - 15.30
Location: Microsoft Teams
Market Engagement:
To assist the Commissioners with testing their assumptions and proposed service requirements, a market engagement event via MS teams will take place to explore the market's feedback on the following areas:
- Outline of service requirements and key outcomes;
- Timescales for procurement and mobilisation of the new contract;
- Proposed contract duration and financial model;
- Procurement tips;
- Networking opportunity with providers.
Please note that the market engagement event will not be recorded, and attendees are not permitted to make any audio, video, or other recordings of the session. Attendees must not use, introduce, or enable any third-party recording or AI-powered transcription tools (including virtual meeting assistants, note-takers, or similar applications) during the event.
The Authority will transcribe the session solely for internal note-taking and the preparation of engagement outputs. Any transcript generated will be for internal use only, will not be shared with providers, and will not form part of the procurement documentation.
Market Engagement Registration:
Please complete the Market Engagement Event Registration Form by no later than 17:00 on Monday 12 October 2026, if you are interested to attend the event:
CPV: Health services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1Community Diagnostic Centres deliver additional, digitally connected, diagnostic…Planned
Community Diagnostic Centres deliver additional, digitally connected, diagnostic capacity in England, providing all patients with a co-ordinated set of diagnostic tests in the community and in as few visits as possible, enabling an accurate and fast diagnosis on a range of clinical pathways. CDCs provide a broad range of elective diagnostics away from acute facilities, reducing pressure on hospitals and giving patients quicker and more convenient access to tests. CDCs co-ordinate all the diagnostic tests a patient requires and, wherever possible, provide them under one roof in a single visit. More information on the core policy behind the creation of CDCs is available at: www.england.nhs.uk/long-read/community-… ↗
The general aims of the CDC programme are:
- improved population health outcomes
- increased diagnostic capacity
- improved productivity and efficiency
- reduction in health inequalities
- improved patient experience
- support for the integration of care
- make every contact count and support health promotion
- act as test sites for quality improvement, research and innovation
- contribute to NHS net zero ambitions
- share learning across CDCS and systems
- act as anchor institutions
We currently have 3 CDCs operating within NEL, standard full scope CDCs in Mile End and Barking and a spoke (smaller) CDC in St George's HWBC. Between them, the network of NEL CDCs is on track to deliver, c. 225,000 tests this year and we are looking to build on this success with a further wave of CDC development, including opening a location in Newham.
We are seeking a provider to build, develop and run this new CDC location that will fit into our wider system of diagnostics provision including acute and community partners in Newham and across NEL more widely. In order to support the correct flow of patients to the most appropriate location for testing, as close to their home as possible, this CDC location will be expected to work collaboratively with other CDCs in North East London and primary, secondary and community care providers as appropriate in the area.
The provider will be expected to build and run the centre, including booking, provision of fully staffed and quality-accreditation-compliant testing and the provision of full reports returned to the relevant referrers. This centre is envisaged to be located near Stratford and to be a similar size and scale to other standard model CDCs in NEL and across the country. Additional information: NHS London Commercial Hub (LCH), hosted by NHS North East London ICB (Part of North East London Health and Care Partnership) is managing the Market Engagement process on behalf of the Authority.
Pipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How NHS North East London Integrated Care Board buys Health services (CPV 8510), and who usually turns up
NHS North East London Integrated Care Board’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 86 days of the bid deadline.
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1 bid24% / 32%
2–333% / 32%
4–621% / 23%
7+21% / 13%
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Below estimate12% / 39%
Within ±2%84% / 54%
Above estimate4% / 7%
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Lot #1Community Diagnostic Centres deliver additional, digitally connected, diagnostic…CPV 8510Estimate not published
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1 bid32%
2–332%
4–623%
7+13%
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None is confirmed as a bidder.
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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
- 18 Sept 2026, 12:29 BST
- Last source update
- 18 Sept 2026, 12:29 BST
- Authority reference
PRJ-2287- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-088650- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-07755dFind a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
18 Sept 2026 → 21 Dec 2026 · 2 dates- Notice published40 days ago18 Sept 2026, 12:29 BST
- Today28 Oct 2026
- Tender notice expectedin 53 days21 Dec 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.