Official UK procurement notice
NHS CIOS and NHS Devon - WorkWell Central Hub - Market Engagement
Authority: NHS Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly Integrated Care Board (Central government)·On behalf of: NHS South Central and West
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionWorkWell is a national service commissioned across England by local Integrated Care Boards. It is an early-intervention work and health coaching and support service for people whose mental or physical health makes work a struggle. It offers light-touch, holistic, personalised coaching and support which is designed to prevent people from falling out of work because of health (or help them back quickly, before they become entrenched in health-related economic inactivity).
Cornwall & Isles of Scilly, acting also on behalf of Devon ICB, wishes to contract the hub service strand of WorkWell in the SW peninsula region, which will employ a core coaching team providing coaching and support to participants across the whole of the Cornwall, Devon & Isles of Scilly peninsula for the period April 2027 to March 2031.
CPV: Health and social work services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1PlannedRenewal
Pipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How NHS Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly Integrated Care Board buys Health and social work services (CPV 85), and who usually turns up
NHS Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly 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 and social work services (CPV 85) →
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. Small firms win more of this buyer’s work than the market’s: 82% against 45%, n=131.
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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 South West 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. More of this buyer’s work stays local than in this market: 83% against 49%, n=144.
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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 49 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 bid22%
2–337%
4–623%
7+18%
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 estimate32%
Within ±2%66%
Above estimate2%
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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.
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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 85Published estimate£1.5m
This lot lists more than one class in CPV 85. The comparison uses that group.
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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 241 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid22%
2–337%
4–623%
7+18%
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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
- 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
- 16 Sept 2026, 16:34 BST
- Last source update
- 23 Sept 2026, 16:48 BST
- Authority reference
C471989- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-090318- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-0773d3Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
16 Sept 2026 → 1 Apr 2027 · 4 dates- Planning notice published42 days ago16 Sept 2026, 16:34 BST
- Latest notice published35 days ago23 Sept 2026, 16:48 BST
- Market engagement26 days ago1 Oct 2026, 23:59 BST
NHS Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Integrated Care Board and NHS Devon Integrated Care Board ("the Commissioners") are commencing a Market Engagement stage inviting feedback from the market via an online questionnaire.
Interested providers will be able to view this opportunity via the live opportunities list on the 'Health Family' e-procurement system, Atamis. Click on 'View our Live Opportunities' from the home page, available on the following link: atamis-1928.my.site.com/s/Welcome ↗
Once you have found the opportunity (via the search function, using the title or reference number: C471989), to gain full access you will need to click on 'Register interest' - this will take you to the log-in page. You MUST complete your registration to access the draft specification and link to the Questionnaire via this opportunity.
- Today28 Oct 2026
- Contract startsin 154 days1 Apr 2027, 00:00 BST
Notice history
3 events · 3 releases on Find a Tender · since 16 Sept 2026- Preliminary market engagement notice published16 Sept 2026, 16:34 BSTUK2
- Preliminary market engagement notice published17 Sept 2026, 09:08 BSTUK2
- Preliminary market engagement notice published23 Sept 2026, 16:48 BSTUK2
Published amendments (1)
Update to Atamis Link to register interest
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
3 public bodies on the noticeConsortium members and other public bodies
- NHS DEVON INTEGRATED CARE BOARDContracting authorityPublic authority - central government
- NHS South Central and WestProcess contact pointProcuring entityProcurement Support
Official documents & specifications (3)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender