Find a TenderPlanned procurementPlanned procurement notice
Published 18 Sept 2026, 10:42 BST

Official UK procurement notice

Staff & Visitor Cakes/Confectionary

Authority: Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust (Central government)

2 lotsGoodsBelow threshold - open competitionBelow thresholdReserved for SMEs and VCSEsReserved: E11000006SME suitableVCSE suitable
Planned pipeline value£90,000total for 2 lots · pipeline notice, not a live tender
Tender notice expected 2 Nov 2026from the planned procurement notice
Lots 2see the lot list below
Contract term 3 yrsends 31 Mar 2030 · up to 31 Mar 2032 with extensions · starts 1 Apr 2027

What is being bought2 lots · detail below

Published requirement description

Portioned Premium Baked Cakes for Resale

Individual or whole portioned premium baked cakes

Retail sale to customers, including NHS staff, visitors and, where appropriate, patients

CPV: Cakes · Catering services

Lots and requirements (2)Procurement structure

2 lots · no lot values published
Lot #1Cafe Retail OutletsPlannedRenewal 3 yrsSMEVCSE

Cakes and Confectionary for retail sale within Trust Cafe locations

Contract period: 1 Apr 2027 – 31 Mar 2030 (3 yrs) · up to 31 Mar 2032 with extensions
Delivery: Yorkshire & HumberEligibility: SME eligibleVCSE eligible
Extensions: Times 2 12 month periods

Who is likely to bid for this lot ↓

Lot #2Retail sale Staff & Visitor Dining RoomPlannedRenewal 3 yrsSMEVCSE

Cakes and confectionary for retail sale in Staff and visitor dining rooms trust wide

Contract period: 1 Apr 2027 – 31 Mar 2030 (3 yrs) · up to 31 Mar 2032 with extensions
Delivery: Yorkshire & HumberEligibility: SME eligibleVCSE eligible
Extensions: Times 2 12 month periods

Who is likely to bid for this lot ↓

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

How Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust buys Bread products, fresh pastry goods and cakes (CPV 1581), and who usually turns up

Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust’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: Bread products, fresh pastry goods and cakes (CPV 1581) →

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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 buyerMid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust · all categories
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: 8 of 12 known-size awards · market: CPV 1581 · UK-wide, n=15
67%67%

Small firms have won here. Neither number says whether you qualify; it describes who has been winning.

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.

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

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 11 of 13 known-location awards · market: CPV 1581 · UK-wide, n=20
85%55%

Most of this buyer’s recorded winners were registered in 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: no decision dates published · market: CPV 1581 · UK-wide, n=6
—35 days

Half of these awards have an award date within 35 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.

Both shares are minimums: some awards have no bid count.

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

Last 36 months.

Buyer: at least 12 of 22 procurements with awards had no recorded rival · market: CPV 1581 · Yorkshire and the Humber, n=5
55%40%

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?

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 buyer8 lots with bid counts · all categories
0% had one bid
The market18 lots with bid counts · CPV 1581 · UK-wide
17% had one bid
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
1 bid0% / 17%
Buyer: 0 of 8 lots with published bid counts. Market: 3 of 18 lots with published bid counts.
2–325% / 56%
Buyer: 2 of 8 lots with published bid counts. Market: 10 of 18 lots with published bid counts.
4–638% / 17%
Buyer: 3 of 8 lots with published bid counts. Market: 3 of 18 lots with published bid counts.
7+38% / 11%
Buyer: 3 of 8 lots with published bid counts. Market: 2 of 18 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.

Past prices are a guide, not a bid price.

Last 36 months.

This buyerToo few to chart: 3 lots with estimate and award, 5 needed · all categories
The market17 lots with estimate and award · CPV 1581 · UK-wide
24% below estimate
Market · select a colour for counts
Below estimate24%
Market: 4 of 17 lots with an estimate and award.
Within ±2%47%
Market: 8 of 17 lots with an estimate and award.
Above estimate29%
Market: 5 of 17 lots with an estimate and award.
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Assess each lot
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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 #1Cafe Retail OutletsCPV 158136 monthsSME suitableEstimate not published
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 19 past lots.

A forecast, not a list of bidders.

—No model forecast yet26% chance of a single bid
Past bids on 19 similar lots
1 bid26%
5 of 19 similar past lots received 1 bid (26%).
2–326%
5 of 19 similar past lots received 2–3 (26%).
4–632%
6 of 19 similar past lots received 4–6 (32%).
7+16%
3 of 19 similar past lots received 7+ (16%).
Comparable past lots usually drew 3 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.

—Estimate not published
The buyer published no estimate for this lot, so there is nothing to forecast against. A price prediction here would be a number about a number we do not have.

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.

Reserved for SMEs and VCSEs: only small and medium-sized firms and voluntary, community and social enterprises can take part. Firms labelled Large are listed last.

Candidate suppliers for this notice have not been worked out yet, so this is not a verdict that nobody fits.

Lot #2Retail sale Staff & Visitor Dining RoomCPV 158136 monthsSME suitableEstimate not published
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 19 past lots.

A forecast, not a list of bidders.

—No model forecast yet26% chance of a single bid
Past bids on 19 similar lots
1 bid26%
5 of 19 similar past lots received 1 bid (26%).
2–326%
5 of 19 similar past lots received 2–3 (26%).
4–632%
6 of 19 similar past lots received 4–6 (32%).
7+16%
3 of 19 similar past lots received 7+ (16%).
Comparable past lots usually drew 3 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.

—Estimate not published
The buyer published no estimate for this lot, so there is nothing to forecast against. A price prediction here would be a number about a number we do not have.

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.

Reserved for SMEs and VCSEs: only small and medium-sized firms and voluntary, community and social enterprises can take part. Firms labelled Large are listed last.

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
Procedure method
Below threshold - open competition
Legal basis
UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
Procurement category
Goods
Notice status
Planned procurement
Procurement threshold
Below threshold
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, 10:42 BST
Last source update
18 Sept 2026, 10:42 BST
FTS notice number
2026/S 000-088534
Latest notice
Planned procurement notice (UK3)
Classification (CPV)
CakesCatering services
Delivery area
Yorkshire & Humber (UKE45)
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-07751f Find a Tender
Contract terms
Reserved participation area
E11000006

How it was run

Official notice
Run through: Atamis (Health Family) · Who buys & how to bid on Atamis
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Submission deadline
2 Dec 2026, 12:00 GMT
Clarification deadline
13 Nov 2026, 12:00 GMT
Submission channel
Official e-sourcing portal
Electronic submission
Allowed
Detailed submission instructions & authority contactsFrom official release

Timeline

18 Sept 2026 → 1 Apr 2027 · 5 dates
  1. Planning notice published39 days ago
    18 Sept 2026, 10:42 BST
  2. Today
    27 Oct 2026
  3. Tender notice expectedin 6 days
    2 Nov 2026, 23:59 GMT
  4. Clarification questions byin 16 days
    13 Nov 2026, 12:00 GMT
  5. Submission deadlinein 35 days
    2 Dec 2026, 12:00 GMT
  6. Contract startsin 155 days
    1 Apr 2027, 00:00 BST

Notice history

1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender
  1. Planned procurement notice published
    18 Sept 2026, 10:42 BST
    UK3

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

Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust

Contracting authorityPublic authority - central government GB-PPON: PTPB-4248-VJQT Trust HQ and education Centre, Aberford Road , Wakefeld, Yorkshire & Humber, WF1 4DGContact name, email, phone

Official documents & specifications (1)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure