Find a TenderPast planning noticePreliminary market engagement notice
Published 20 Mar 2025, 11:42 GMT

Official UK procurement notice

Supply of Nutritional Products

Official notice

Authority: NHS England (Central government)

GoodsAbove thresholdSME suitableVCSE suitable
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
Contract term Ends 31 Mar 2026starts 20 Mar 2026

What is being bought

Published requirement description

Interested suppliers are asked to complete a Request for Information (RFI) This RFI seeks to improve our understanding about the market and focuses on 4 key areas: 1. UK nutrition market overview 2. UK nutrition market and current commercial model 3. Future market options 4. Implementing change Please note the following general conditions:

  • This RFI will help us to refine the requirements.
  • Nothing within this document or the broader market engagement exercise shall constitute a commitment to proceeding to procurement.
  • Any and all costs associated with the production of such a response to this RFI must be borne by the Supplier. We will not contribute in any way to meeting production costs of any response.
  • We expect that all responses to this RFI will be provided by companies in good faith to the best of their ability in the light of information available at the time of their response.
  • No information provided by a Supplier in response to this RFI will be carried forward, used or acknowledged in any way for the purpose of evaluating the Supplier in any subsequent formal procurement process.   All questions are optional and any feedback received will be used for information purposes only. Feedback will not be evaluated or scored and it will have no bearing on any potential future contract award. Please note: This may or may not lead to a full procurement process/contract, therefore contract start and finish dates are estimated only.

CPV: Pharmaceutical products

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published
Lot #1PlannedSMEVCSE
Contract period: 20 Mar 2026 – 31 Mar 2026
Eligibility: SME eligibleVCSE eligible

Procedure terms & legal framework

From the official record
Legal basis
UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
Procurement category
Goods
Notice status
Past planning notice
Procurement threshold
Above threshold (FTS publication)
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
20 Mar 2025, 11:42 GMT
Last source update
20 Mar 2025, 11:42 GMT
Authority reference
C347855
FTS notice number
2025/S 000-010362
Latest notice
Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
Classification (CPV)
Pharmaceutical products
Delivery area
Not published
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-04ef98 Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice
Submission deadline
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Timeline

20 Mar 2025 → 20 Mar 2026 · 3 dates
  1. Planning notice published
    20 Mar 2025, 11:42 GMT
  2. Market engagement
    17 Apr 2025, 23:59 BST

    Market Engagement

  3. Contract starts222 days ago
    20 Mar 2026

Notice history

1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender
  1. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    20 Mar 2025, 11:42 GMT
    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

NHS England, Leeds

Contracting authorityPublic authority - central government GB-PPON: PDPT-3135-BWWY 7&8 Wellington Place, Leeds, Yorkshire & Humber, LS1 4APContact email

Official documents & specifications (1)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure