Official UK procurement notice
Strengthening Cultural Capability and Trauma Informed Care in Women’s Health
Authority: NHS England (Central government)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionStrengthening Cultural Capability and Trauma Informed Care in Women’s Health
The work has a specific focus on three linked problems: women not being listened to, the under recognition and normalisation of procedural pain, and the disproportionate impact of both on women from the Global Majority.
Aims and objectives:
- To improve how the women’s health workforce listens and responds to women, recognises and acts on pain, and delivers culturally competent care.
- To build lasting training capacity in every NHS England region rather than deliver a one off national course.
- To give integrated care boards practical guidance so they can sustain local delivery and commission further work in this area themselves.
- To ensure the programme is shaped by the experience of the workforce and by what women have told NHS England, including women from Global Majority communities and women from the Core20 population.
- To leave NHS England owning a complete and refreshable set of materials that can be updated as the capability framework develops.
The maximum financial envelope for the full duration of the Contract including all extensions this is £175,000.00 (Exclusive of VAT).
The initial contract term shall commence upon signing by the authority and conclude 31st March 2027. The Contract may be extended by election of the Contracting Authority, on such notice and for such periods as is specified by the Contract.
The Contracting Authority will enter into a contract with 1 provider.
The deadline for submission of completed ITT submissions is Friday 30th October 2026 at 12:00pm (midday).
Late submissions will not be accepted therefore, please submit in good time prior to the deadline date and time. All communications should be made via the messaging function on the e-Tendering portal during the tender exercise.
The Contracting Authority requests that all communications are channelled through the e-portal system and not with the Contracting Authority itself other than as expressly permitted within this ITT.
Further information relating to this project can be found at NHSE e-tendering portal at the link below. All clarification questions and submission bids must be received via this portal only. Registration is free of charge.
CPV: Education and training services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · value publishedLot #1RenewalPublished value£175,000
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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).
Lot awarding rule: Technical - 60% Social Value - 10% Commercial - 30%
No conditions of participation were published on the notice; check the tender documents.
- Turnover usually expected at this size: about £350,000 (twice the annual value).
Turnover is an indicative market norm (≈2× annual value), not a published condition.
Competition analysis · published record, not a forecast of who will bid
How NHS England buys Education and training services (CPV 80), and who usually turns up
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Small firms have won here. Neither number says whether you qualify; it describes who has been winning. Small firms win less of this buyer’s work than the market’s: 5% against 43%, n=710.
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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 38 days of the bid deadline.
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Past bids do not predict this tender.
1 bid21% / 14%
2–324% / 35%
4–631% / 31%
7+24% / 21%
How did awards compare with estimates?
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Where winning prices landed against estimates.
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Below estimate46% / 42%
Within ±2%51% / 37%
Above estimate2% / 21%
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No supplier is confirmed as a bidder.
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Lot #1CPV 80Published estimate£175k
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1 bid22%
2–321%
4–628%
7+29%
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Where the award price may land.
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Based on 181 comparable awards. Each lot reflects its own category; forecasts for different lots of the same notice are not comparative.
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Middle 50%£162k–£175k
Estimate£175k
Who has supplied this buyer on similar work? i
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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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| Race Equality FoundationWorked for this buyer | Ethnicity data coding and recording improvement training for frontline staffnotice published Oct 2026 | — | — | Similar wording and category |
| Georgina Craig Associated LimitedWorked for this buyer | Implementing Group Clinics to Enhance Community Nursing and Women’s Healthnotice published Feb 2026 | — | — | Similar wording and category |
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None is confirmed as a bidder.
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Who could compete for this lot?
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None is confirmed as a bidder.
| Supplier | Won in this category | Live contracts | Award vs estimate |
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| £7.8m5 awards in 36m · last 1 months ago | 1 live · £4.8m iPublic contracts this supplier still holds. Its awards whose published end date is still in the future, with their values. Many contracts publish no end date, so this is a floor, not the whole book. Unexpired says nothing about spare capacity. | no comparable pairs | |
| £190k2 awards in 36m · last 1 months ago | 1 live · £40k iPublic contracts this supplier still holds. Its awards whose published end date is still in the future, with their values. Many contracts publish no end date, so this is a floor, not the whole book. Unexpired says nothing about spare capacity. | 3% below n=1 | |
| £730m5 awards in 36m · last 7 months ago | None on file | no comparable pairs | |
| £62k1 awards in 36m · last 5 months ago | 1 live · £62k iPublic contracts this supplier still holds. Its awards whose published end date is still in the future, with their values. Many contracts publish no end date, so this is a floor, not the whole book. Unexpired says nothing about spare capacity. | no comparable pairs | |
MedLed LtdSME | £48k8 awards in 36m · last 7 months ago | 8 live · £48k iPublic contracts this supplier still holds. Its awards whose published end date is still in the future, with their values. Many contracts publish no end date, so this is a floor, not the whole book. Unexpired says nothing about spare capacity. | at estimate n=8 |
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.
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Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Procedure method
- Below threshold - open competition
- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Open for tender
- 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
- 9 Oct 2026, 11:32 BST
- Last source update
- 9 Oct 2026, 11:32 BST
- Authority reference
C476148- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-095571- Latest notice
- Tender notice (UK4)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Not published
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-07848aFind a Tender
How to participate & submission route
Official notice Submit via Atamis legacy domain (health-family.force.com)- Requests to participate (first stage)
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- Tender submission deadline
- 30 Oct 2026, 12:00 GMT
- Clarification deadline
- 19 Oct 2026, 12:00 BST
- Submission channel
- Official e-sourcing portal
- Electronic submission
- Allowed
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Timeline
9 Oct 2026 → 16 Nov 2026 · 4 dates- Tender notice published17 days ago9 Oct 2026, 11:32 BST
- Clarification questions by7 days ago19 Oct 2026, 12:00 BST
- Today26 Oct 2026
- Submission deadlinein 4 days30 Oct 2026, 12:00 GMT
- Contract startsin 20 days16 Nov 2026
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Tender notice published9 Oct 2026, 11:32 BSTUK4
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Nothing awarded yet- 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
- Tender notice Tender notice on Find a Tender