Find a TenderPlanned procurement
Published 25 Sept 2026, 11:47 BST

Official UK procurement notice

Supplier Engagement Event for Out of Hours General Medical Services for Powys Teaching Health Board

Procurement agent: NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership-Procurement Services (hosted by Velindre University NHS Trust)·On behalf of: Powys Teaching Health Board

Services
Planned pipeline value£1pipeline notice, not a live tender
Tender notice expected 11 Jan 2027from the planned procurement notice

What is being bought

Published requirement description

Powys Teaching Health Board intends to undertake a competitive procurement process in early 2027 for the delivery of Out of Hours General Medical Services and medical cover for community hospitals across Powys. The procurement will provide interested suppliers with the opportunity to bid for the provision of these services under a new contractual arrangement, with commencement target date of 1st October 2027.

The Health Board is seeking a provider capable of delivering safe, high quality, sustainable and patient-centred services that meet the needs of the Powys population and support wider urgent and unscheduled care pathways. The procurement process will offer a transparent and equitable opportunity for suitably qualified providers to participate. Further information, including the service specification, procurement timetable and tender requirements, will be issued as part of the formal procurement process, and a Supplier Engagement Event will be held via Teams on 20th October 2026.

Interested parties should contact the co-ordinator of the event Monika.Rusiecka2@wales.nhs.uk

CPV: Medical practice and related services · Medical practice services · Medical specialist services · Services provided by medical personnel

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published

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

How Powys Teaching Health Board buys Medical practice and related services (CPV 8512), and who usually turns up

Powys Teaching Health 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: Medical practice and related services (CPV 8512) →

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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 buyerPowys Teaching Health Board · division 85
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: 23 of 25 known-size awards · market: CPV 8512 · Wales (Cymru), n=201
92%92%

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. The market figure counts awards delivered in Wales (Cymru).

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

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 4 of 12 known-location awards · market: CPV 8512 · Wales (Cymru), n=47
33%51%

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: no decision dates published · market: CPV 8512 · UK-wide, n=21
—51 days

Half of these awards have an award date within 51 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.

The market share is a minimum: some awards have no bid count.

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

Last 36 months.

Buyer: exactly 17 of 22 procurements with awards had no recorded rival · market: CPV 8512 · Wales (Cymru), n=69
77%86%

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.

Last 36 months.

This buyer11 lots with bid counts · broad CPV 85
27% had one bid
The market7 lots with bid counts · CPV 8512 · Wales (Cymru)
57% had one bid
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
1 bid27% / 57%
Buyer: 3 of 11 lots with published bid counts. Market: 4 of 7 lots with published bid counts.
2–373% / 29%
Buyer: 8 of 11 lots with published bid counts. Market: 2 of 7 lots with published bid counts.
4–60% / 14%
Buyer: 0 of 11 lots with published bid counts. Market: 1 of 7 lots with published bid counts.
7+0% / 0%
Buyer: 0 of 11 lots with published bid counts. Market: 0 of 7 lots with published bid counts.

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.

Last 36 months.

This buyer10 lots with estimate and award · all categories
40% below estimate
The market69 lots with estimate and award · CPV 8512 · UK-wide
25% below estimate
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
Below estimate40% / 25%
Buyer: 4 of 10 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 17 of 69 lots with an estimate and award.
Within ±2%40% / 68%
Buyer: 4 of 10 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 47 of 69 lots with an estimate and award.
Above estimate20% / 7%
Buyer: 2 of 10 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 5 of 69 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 #1CPV 8512No real estimate
Expected competition
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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 238 past lots.

A forecast, not a list of bidders.

—No model forecast yet33% chance of a single bid
Past bids on 238 similar lots
1 bid33%
78 of 238 similar past lots received 1 bid (33%).
2–340%
95 of 238 similar past lots received 2–3 (40%).
4–617%
41 of 238 similar past lots received 4–6 (17%).
7+10%
24 of 238 similar past lots received 7+ (10%).
Comparable past lots usually drew 2 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.

—No real estimate
The buyer published £1 as the estimate (a placeholder, not the contract’s value), so there is nothing to forecast against.

Who has supplied this buyer on similar work?
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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.

SupplierThis buyer’s earlier contractLotAward valueWhy listed
Shropshire Doctors Cooperative LtdEarlier contractGeneral Medical Services Out of Hours Services for Powys Teaching Health Boardnotice published Mar 2025—£542kMatched as the earlier contract

Who could compete for this lot?
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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.

What this replaces
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Who has done similar work for this buyer.

Past contracts are matched by buyer, title and type of work.

75% title match.

A past supplier may not bid again.

The prior contract this notice most likely re-tenders · matched by title and category (75% title match), the holder is not guaranteed to re-bid

General Medical Services Out of Hours Services for Powys Teaching Health Board — held by Shropshire Doctors Cooperative Ltd; no contract end date published.

Procedure terms & legal framework

From the official record · publisher note attached
Legal basis
CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
Procurement category
Services
Notice status
Planned procurement
Procurement threshold
Unspecified in notice
Regulatory regime
Standard
Commercial structure
Stand-alone contract (no framework)
Competition type
Competitive procedure
GPA / WTO covered
Yes (GPA)
Recurring procurement
Unspecified in notice
First published
25 Sept 2026, 11:47 BST
Last source update
25 Sept 2026, 11:47 BST
Authority reference
POW-CP-64332
FTS notice number
2026/S 000-090929
Classification (CPV)
Medical practice and related servicesMedical practice servicesMedical specialist servicesServices provided by medical personnel
Delivery area
Wales (UKL24)
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-077a61 Find a Tender

Publisher note: (WA Ref:170970)

How it was run

Official notice
Submission deadline
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Timeline

25 Sept 2026 → 11 Jan 2027 · 2 dates
  1. Notice published34 days ago
    25 Sept 2026, 11:47 BST
  2. Today
    29 Oct 2026
  3. Tender notice expectedin 73 days
    11 Jan 2027

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

2 public bodies on the notice

NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership-Procurement Services (hosted by Velindre University NHS Trust)

Procurement agentBody governed by public lawHealth 4-5 Charnwood Court,, Heol Billingsley, Parc Nantgarw, Cardiff, UK, CF15 7QZContact name, email, phone

Clients of the procurement agent

Official documents & specifications

Official links; attachments are not copied

No document links were published on the notice.