Official UK procurement notice
T26-137CRO Provision of Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)
Authority: Derry City and Strabane District Council (Local council)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionDerry City and Strabane District Council is committed to promoting and supporting the health, wellbeing and resilience of its workforce. The Council recognises that employee wellbeing is a key factor in maintaining attendance, supporting productivity, and ensuring the delivery of high-quality services to residents across the district. Derry City and Strabane District Council currently employs approximately 1000 staff including members of staff living in cross border areas. Council are seeking solutions that support early intervention, improve access to health and wellbeing services, encourage employee engagement, and contribute to a healthy, resilient workforce. This procurement is being undertaken with the objective of securing high-quality, accessible and cost-effective services that meet the diverse needs of employees. The Provider will be expected to demonstrate how their proposed solutions will maximise employee utilisation, provide an excellent user experience, deliver meaningful wellbeing outcomes and support the Council's ongoing commitment to employee health and wellbeing. Your submission must be submitted via eTendersNI, via this CFT. No other method of submissions will be accepted. Please refer to the CfT documents for further detail.
CPV: Administrative healthcare services · Health services · Medical insurance services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · value publishedLot #1RenewalPublished value£21,360
What it takes to wini
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 morei
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: Please refer to the CfT documents for further detail.
No conditions of participation were published on the notice; check the tender documents.
- Turnover usually expected at this size: about £42,603 (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 Derry City and Strabane District Council buys Health services (CPV 8510), and who usually turns up
Derry City and Strabane District Council’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: Health services (CPV 8510) →
How the contest usually goes
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How often small and medium firms win.
Share of awards where the winner’s size is known.
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Small firms have won here. Neither number says whether you qualify; it describes who has been winning.
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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.
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners were registered in the region where that award was delivered.
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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.
Half of these awards have an award date within 74 days of the bid deadline.
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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.
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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.
1 bid56% / 24%
2–336% / 33%
4–68% / 26%
7+0% / 17%
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.
Below estimate8% / 36%
Within ±2%90% / 58%
Above estimate2% / 6%
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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.
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What past awards tell you about each lot.
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Open a lot for its forecast, this buyer’s previous supplier and possible competitors, from published award history, not a bid list
Lot #1CPV 6651Published estimate£21k
This lot is listed as CPV 6651. The table above uses the notice category.
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How many bids this lot may attract.
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Each lot shows its own forecast based on its own category; forecasts for different lots of the same notice are not comparative.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid49%
2–345%
4–65%
7+1%
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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.
Based on 5 comparable awards. Each lot reflects its own category; forecasts for different lots of the same notice are not comparative.
A statistical guide from past awards, not a price to bid.
Middle 50%£19k–£21k
Estimate£21k
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.
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Optima Heath UK LtdWorked for this buyer | T26-043CRO Occupational Health Services for DCSDC Employeesruns to Aug 2029 | — | £101k | Similar wording and category |
| RAPID LtdWorked for this buyer | T25-193HCO Rural Community Development Support Servicesruns to Mar 2027 | — | £84k | Similar wording and category |
| THE KORAM CENTRE COUNSELLING PSYCHOTHERAPY AND PSYCHO SOCIAL SUPPORT LTD.Worked for this buyer | T24-137BUS PEACEPLUS Victims and Survivors Social Programmenotice published Feb 2025 | — | — | Similar wording and category |
| VERBAL ARTS CENTRE NORTHERN IRELAND LIMITED THEWorked for this buyer | T25-008BUS PEACEPLUS Ballyarnett Women’s Programme Reissuenotice published Jun 2025 | — | — | Similar wording and category |
| KINSHIP CARE NORTHERN IRELAND LTDWorked for this buyer | T24-015BUS PEACEPLUS Strabane Youth Programmenotice published Jul 2024 | — | — | Similar wording and category |
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.
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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.
| Supplier | Won in this category | Live contracts | Award vs estimate |
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| £273k3 awards in 36m · last 26 months ago | None on file | at estimate n=3 | |
| £1.3m3 awards in 36m · last 2 months ago | 2 live · £149k 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. | 18% below n=2 | |
| £402k1 awards in 36m · last 16 months ago | None on file | at estimate n=2 | |
| £95k1 awards in 36m · last 17 months ago | None on file | at estimate n=1 | |
Optima Heath UK LtdLarge | 1 awards in 36m · last 3 months ago | None on file | 28% below n=1 |
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.
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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
- 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
- 15 Oct 2026, 16:04 BST
- Last source update
- 15 Oct 2026, 16:04 BST
- Authority reference
T26-137CRO Provision of Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-097621- Latest notice
- Tender notice (UK4)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-0788d5Find a Tender
How to participate & submission route
Official notice- Requests to participate (first stage)
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- Tender submission deadline
- 6 Nov 2026, 12:00 GMT
- Clarification deadline
- 27 Oct 2026, 12:00 GMT
- Electronic submission
- Allowed
Timeline
15 Oct 2026 → 1 Dec 2026 · 4 dates- Tender notice published11 days ago15 Oct 2026, 16:04 BST
- Today26 Oct 2026
- Clarification questions byin 1 day27 Oct 2026, 12:00 GMT
- Submission deadlinein 11 days6 Nov 2026, 12:00 GMT
- Contract startsin 35 days1 Dec 2026
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Tender notice published15 Oct 2026, 16:04 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