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Published 11 Aug 2026, 13:51 BST

Official UK procurement notice

Preliminary Market Engagement for Consumables for Continuous Positive Airway Pressure (CPAP) and Adaptive Support Ventilation (ASV) Machines

Official notice Competition analysis

Authority: Regional Business Services Organisation Procurement and Logistics Service (Central government)

Framework agreementGoodsAbove threshold
Sectors: Medical Devices & Pharma (33) Delivery: Delivery location not published
Planned pipeline value£0pipeline notice, not a live tender
Tender notice expected Date not publishedfrom the planned procurement notice
Framework period 2 yrsends 31 May 2029 · starts 1 Jun 2027

What is being bought

Published requirement description

The purpose of this Preliminary Market Engagement (PME) exercise is to inform the market of our proposed procurement for the provision of Consumables for Continuous Positive Airway Pressure (CPAP) and Adaptive Servo-Ventilation (ASV) Machines across Northern Ireland.

CPAP and ASV therapies are used by Health and Social Care (HSC) Trust Sleep Services to support patients diagnosed with Obstructive Sleep Apnoea (OSA) and other sleep-related breathing disorders. The service includes patient assessment, diagnosis, provision of therapy equipment and the ongoing supply of consumables required to support effective treatment.

It is envisaged that the future procurement will establish a framework arrangement for the supply of CPAP and ASV consumables on behalf of HSCNI. The framework will support the continued availability of a broad range of consumables and brands, enabling clinicians to select the most clinically appropriate products and cater for legacy equipment. This will include but not be restricted to:

  1. Supply of CPAP and ASV Masks
  2. Supply of Associated Consumables and Accessories

We hope that the Preliminary Market Engagement (PME) will help encourage supplier interest in this tender. It will also help us understand any barriers to tendering that suppliers currently face so these can be considered when drafting the HSC tender

CPV: Gas-therapy and respiratory devices · Medical breathing devices · Medical consumables · Medical equipments · Medical equipments, pharmaceuticals and personal care products · Medical gas masks

How this framework works

From the published notice
Framework period
2 yrs from 1 Jun 2027

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published
Lot #1Planned 2 yrs
Contract period: 1 Jun 2027 – 31 May 2029 (2 yrs)
33000000 Medical equipments, pharmaceuticals and personal care products33100000 Medical equipments33140000 Medical consumables33157000 Gas-therapy and respiratory devices33157100 Medical gas masks33157400 Medical breathing devices

Who is likely to bid for this lot ↓

What it takes to win
i

How this buyer will score bids.

The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).

Evaluation split and conditions of participation as published; the tender pack may add more
What this means for your bid
  • “Preliminary Market Engagement for Consumables for Continuous Positive…” is a framework: the contest is a place on its panel, not a single contract.

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

How Regional Business Services Organisation Procurement and Logistics Service buys Radiotherapy, mechanotherapy, electrotherapy and physical therapy devices (CPV 3315), and who usually turns up

Regional Business Services Organisation Procurement and Logistics Service’s published record next to the market for the same work. Compared with other frameworks and DPS only. Whole-market view: Radiotherapy, mechanotherapy, electrotherapy and physical therapy devices (CPV 3315) →

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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 buyerRegional Business Services Organisation Procurement and Logistics Service · division 33
The marketRadiotherapy, mechanotherapy, electrotherapy and physical therapy devices (CPV 3315)
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: 16 of 116 known-size awards · market: division 33 · Northern Ireland (authority’s region), n=152
14%25%

Small firms have won here. Neither number says whether you qualify; it describes who has been winning. 152 known-size awards sit across 14 procurements, so one procurement can dominate this percentage.

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. The market figure counts awards delivered in Northern Ireland (authority’s region).

A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 4 of 44 known-location awards · market: division 33 · Northern Ireland (authority’s region), n=77
9%10%

Most of this buyer’s recorded winners were registered outside 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: 17 decided notices · market: division 33 · Northern Ireland (authority’s region), n=26
25 days35 days

Half of these awards have an award date within 25 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.

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

Last 36 months.

Buyer: exactly 0 of 5 procurements with awards had no recorded rival · market: division 33 · Northern Ireland (authority’s region), n=14
0%29%

Missing bid counts may hide more single-bid awards. This share is a minimum.

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 buyer159 lots with bid counts · broad CPV 33
4% had one bid
The market11 lots with bid counts · CPV 3315 · UK-wide
0% had one bid
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
1 bid4% / 0%
Buyer: 7 of 159 lots with published bid counts. Market: 0 of 11 lots with published bid counts.
2–319% / 18%
Buyer: 30 of 159 lots with published bid counts. Market: 2 of 11 lots with published bid counts.
4–625% / 18%
Buyer: 40 of 159 lots with published bid counts. Market: 2 of 11 lots with published bid counts.
7+52% / 64%
Buyer: 82 of 159 lots with published bid counts. Market: 7 of 11 lots with published bid counts.

How did awards compare with estimates?

i

Where winning prices landed against estimates.

Each colour shows awards below, close to or above the published estimate, one lot at a time.

On a framework or DPS, prices are agreed when work is called off.

Past prices are a guide, not a bid price.

Last 36 months.

Not comparable on a framework or DPS: the price is set later, on each call-off.

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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.

Open a lot for its forecast, this buyer’s previous supplier and possible competitors, from published award history, not a bid list

Lot #1CPV 3324 monthsNo real estimate

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 74 past lots.

A forecast, not a list of bidders.

—No model forecast yet3% chance of a single bid
Past bids on 74 similar lots
1 bid3%
2 of 74 similar past lots received 1 bid (3%).
2–37%
5 of 74 similar past lots received 2–3 (7%).
4–631%
23 of 74 similar past lots received 4–6 (31%).
7+59%
44 of 74 similar past lots received 7+ (59%).
Comparable past lots usually drew 8 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.

—Priced at call-off
On a framework or DPS the price is agreed on each call-off, so there is no award price to forecast here: the published figure is a ceiling.

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.

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.

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
Framework agreement
Who may use this agreement
Not stated in the notice; call-off rights may be limited to the establishing authority
Competition type
Competitive procedure
GPA / WTO covered
Unspecified in notice
Recurring procurement
Unspecified in notice
First published
11 Aug 2026, 13:51 BST
Last source update
11 Aug 2026, 13:51 BST
FTS notice number
2026/S 000-076235
Latest notice
Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
Classification (CPV)
Gas-therapy and respiratory devicesMedical breathing devicesMedical consumablesMedical equipmentsMedical equipments, pharmaceuticals and personal care productsMedical gas masks
Delivery area
Not published
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06e15a Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice
Appointment period ends
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Timeline

11 Aug 2026 → 1 Jun 2027 · 3 dates
  1. Planning notice published78 days ago
    11 Aug 2026, 13:51 BST
  2. Market engagement64 days ago
    25 Aug 2026, 23:59 BST

    The PME is an information-gathering exercise designed to help inform the development of the future framework. It includes:

    • CP12 - Preliminary Market Engagement Questionnaire
    • CP13 - Explanatory Document

    What you need to do now:

    1. If you are not registered on eTendersNI, please do so as soon as possible

    (etendersni.gov.uk ↗).

    1. Access the PME titled 'Preliminary Market Engagement for Consumables for Continuous Positive Airway Pressure (CPAP) and Adaptive Support Ventilation (ASV) Machines' via eTendersNI by searching for Resource ID / CfT Reference Number 6617066.
    2. Using the eTendersNI secure messaging service, please see a broadcasted copy of the CP12 PME Questionnaire and a copy of the CP13 PME Explanatory Document.

    All completed responses must be submitted via the secure eTendersNI messaging area of the CFT no later than 15:00, Tuesday 25th August 2026.

  3. Today
    29 Oct 2026
  4. Contract startsin 214 days
    1 Jun 2027, 00:00 BST

Notice history

1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender
  1. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    11 Aug 2026, 13:51 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

Business Services Organisation Procurement and Logistics Services

Contracting authorityPublic authority - central governmentNorthern Irish devolved regulations apply GB-PPON: PWNJ-1991-NGDW 77 Boucher Crescent, Belfast, Northern Ireland, BT12 6HUContact email

Official documents & specifications (1)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure