Official UK procurement notice
North Northamptonshire Council call for Expressions of Interest (EOI) for the Provision of Occupational Health Service
Authority: North Northamptonshire Council (Local council)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionNorth Northamptonshire Council is a unitary authority responsible for delivering the full range of local government services. The council was formally established on 1 April 2021 following local government reorganisation, replacing the former Northamptonshire County Council and the district/borough councils of Corby, Kettering, Wellingborough, and East Northamptonshire
North Northamptonshire Council operates under the "Big 50 Vision", which looks ahead to 2050 and focuses on building:
- A Proud Place (strong communities and identity)
- A Prosperous Place (economic growth and regeneration)
- A Proactive Place (prevention, innovation, and inclusion).
Current priorities include SEND transformation, early help and family support, prevention led health approaches, workforce wellbeing, digital modernisation, and partnership working within the Integrated Care System.
North Northamptonshire Council employs circa 3,000 employees in a range of diverse roles. The service operates over multiples sites and venues across North Northamptonshire.
NNC is seeking an Occupational Health provider able to deliver the following services and standards:
Referral Volumes
- Manager OH referrals: approximately 15-20 per month
- Ill‑health early retirement referrals: approximately 2 per month
- HAVS assessments: approximately 10 per month
- Absence, Wellbeing & Mental Health
- Active referrals for stress or anxiety to be made within 4 weeks of the start of absence, including access to Employee Assist Programme.
- Psychology services where clinically appropriate
- Alcohol and drug testing provision
Assessments & Adjustments
- Pre‑employment health checks
- Neurodiversity workplace adjustment assessments
- Reasonable adjustment assessments (non‑neurodiverse), aligned to organisational policy
- Dyslexia assessments and support
- Night worker assessments
Appointments & Accessibility
- Face‑to‑face appointments within 15 miles radius of Corby or Kettering
- Double appointments to be justified on a clinical basis (e.g. multiple health conditions, complexity)
Reporting & Medical Evidence
- Employer‑focused, high‑quality Occupational reports
- Consideration of medical records, particularly for complex health cases
Prevention & Health Promotion
- Support with proactive and preventative health measures
- Health plan options (e.g. 24‑hour GP access, prescriptions, physio, eye care)
Governance
- Monthly client review meetings
- Quarterly data analysis reports.
CPV: Health and social work services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedPipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How North Northamptonshire Council buys Health and social work services (CPV 85), and who usually turns up
North Northamptonshire Council’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
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How often small and medium firms win.
Share of awards where the winner’s size is known.
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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 Midlands.
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 42 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.
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Past bids do not predict this tender.
1 bid8% / 18%
2–325% / 34%
4–658% / 24%
7+8% / 24%
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 estimate50% / 33%
Within ±2%50% / 59%
Above estimate0% / 8%
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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 85Estimate not published
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 213 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid18%
2–334%
4–624%
7+24%
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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.
| Supplier | This buyer’s earlier contract | Lot | Award value | Why listed |
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| Support NorthamptonshireEarlier contract | Expression Of Interest Healthwatch North Northamptonshire Council (NNC)notice published Apr 2025 | — | £480k | Matched as the earlier contract |
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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.
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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.
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Who has done similar work for this buyer.
Past contracts are matched by buyer, title and type of work.
51% title match.
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.
51% title match.
A past supplier may not bid again.
The prior contract this notice most likely re-tenders · matched by title and category (51% title match), the holder is not guaranteed to re-bid
Expression Of Interest Healthwatch North Northamptonshire Council (NNC) — held by Support Northamptonshire; no contract end date published.
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
- Below threshold
- 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
- 15 May 2026, 17:31 BST
- Last source update
- 15 May 2026, 17:31 BST
- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-045123- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-069a7fFind a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
15 May 2026 → 1 Jan 2027 · 3 dates- Planning notice published166 days ago15 May 2026, 17:31 BST
- Market engagement152 days ago29 May 2026, 23:59 BST
If your organisation would like to express interest, please contact North Northamptonshire Council by email at procurement@northnorthants.gov.uk by Friday, 29 May 2026, quoting 'Occupational Health Expression of Interest'.
- Today29 Oct 2026
- Contract startsin 63 days1 Jan 2027
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Preliminary market engagement notice published15 May 2026, 17:31 BSTUK2
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 (1)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender