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Published 1 Jul 2026, 13:01 BST

Official UK procurement notice

021450 - Adults Weight Management - Trafford

Authority: Trafford Council (Local council)

ServicesOpen procedureAbove thresholdSME suitableVCSE suitable
Published estimate£320,000≈ £160k / year · £384,000 inc. VAT · 1 value update
Submission deadline 23 Nov 202612:00 GMT · 25 days left
Clarification cut-off 18 Nov 202612:00 GMT · questions to the authority
Contract term 2 yrsends 31 Mar 2029 · up to 31 Mar 2031 with extensions · starts 1 Apr 2027

What is being bought

Published requirement description

This procurement exercise is being undertaken in compliance with The Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023.

To improve health and wellbeing outcomes amongst adults most affected by healthy weight inequalities through delivery of a targeted, community-based healthy weight and wellbeing service. The service will be expected to:

  • Improve physical and mental wellbeing
  • Support sustainable behaviour change
  • Improve diet quality and physical activity levels
  • Increase confidence and self-management
  • Reduce social isolation
  • Improve access to support for residents experiencing barriers to engagement
  • Reduce healthy weight inequalities across Trafford

CPV: Health services

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · value published
Lot #1Renewal 2 yrsSMEVCSEPublished value£320,000
Contract period: 1 Apr 2027 – 31 Mar 2029 (2 yrs) · up to 31 Mar 2031 with extensionsValue: £320,000 exc. VAT · £384,000 inc. VAT
Delivery: North WestEligibility: SME eligibleVCSE eligibleTurnover guideline: ~£319,562/yr≈ 2× annual value
Extensions: 2 x 12 months extensions

Who is likely to bid for this lot ↓

What it takes to win
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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).

Evaluation split and conditions of participation as published; the tender pack may add more
How bids are scored
Quality: 100%
Published sub-criteria (1)
  • Key/basic Criteria Quality Questions: 100%
Published award criteria (1)
  • Key/basic Criteria Quality Questions

No conditions of participation were published on the notice; check the tender documents.

What this means for your bid
  • Turnover usually expected at this size: about £319,562 (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 Trafford Council buys Health services (CPV 8510), and who usually turns up

Trafford 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) →

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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 buyerTrafford Council · division 85
The marketHealth services (CPV 8510) · North West England
What to do with it
How often do SMEs win?
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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: 2 of 2 known-size awards · market: CPV 8510 · North West England, n=361
2 of 234%

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 North West England.

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

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 4 of 6 known-location awards · market: CPV 8510 · North West England, n=529
67%65%

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 8510 · North West England, n=20
—59 days

Half of these awards have an award date within 59 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 2 of 6 procurements with awards had no recorded rival · market: CPV 8510 · North West England, n=373
33%76%

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 · all categories
27% had one bid
The market65 lots with bid counts · CPV 8510 · North West England
14% had one bid
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
1 bid27% / 14%
Buyer: 3 of 11 lots with published bid counts. Market: 9 of 65 lots with published bid counts.
2–318% / 32%
Buyer: 2 of 11 lots with published bid counts. Market: 21 of 65 lots with published bid counts.
4–636% / 31%
Buyer: 4 of 11 lots with published bid counts. Market: 20 of 65 lots with published bid counts.
7+18% / 23%
Buyer: 2 of 11 lots with published bid counts. Market: 15 of 65 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 buyer6 lots with estimate and award · all categories
67% below estimate
The market49 lots with estimate and award · CPV 8510 · North West England
43% below estimate
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
Below estimate67% / 43%
Buyer: 4 of 6 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 21 of 49 lots with an estimate and award.
Within ±2%33% / 47%
Buyer: 2 of 6 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 23 of 49 lots with an estimate and award.
Above estimate0% / 10%
Buyer: 0 of 6 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 5 of 49 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 851024 monthsSME suitablePublished estimate£320k
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 65 past lots.

A forecast, not a list of bidders.

—No model forecast yet14% chance of a single bid
Past bids on 65 similar lots
1 bid14%
9 of 65 similar past lots received 1 bid (14%).
2–332%
21 of 65 similar past lots received 2–3 (32%).
4–631%
20 of 65 similar past lots received 4–6 (31%).
7+23%
15 of 65 similar past lots received 7+ (23%).
Comparable past lots usually drew 4 bids.
Commercial price forecast
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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.

No comparable awards for this lot yet.

A statistical guide from past awards, not a price to bid.

—No model forecast yet
No comparable awards on record for this lot’s category yet. The published estimate is £320k, and the forecast stays empty until the market has a record to read.

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.

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.

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
Open procedure
Legal basis
UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
Procurement category
Services
Notice status
Open for tender
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
1 Jul 2026, 13:01 BST
Last source update
28 Oct 2026, 10:58 GMT
Award evaluation window
Submission end – 14 Dec 2026
FTS notice number
2026/S 000-101934
Latest notice
Tender notice (UK4)
Classification (CPV)
Health services
Delivery area
North West (UKD)
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06c138 Find a Tender

How to participate & submission route

Official notice Submit via ProContract (Due North)
Submission portal named on this notice: ProContract (Due North) · Who buys & how to bid on ProContract
Supplier login requiredElectronic submission allowedLanguage: EN
Access & registration note: Free · short registration with manual review; public opportunity list
Requests to participate (first stage)
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Tender submission deadline
23 Nov 2026, 12:00 GMT
Clarification deadline
18 Nov 2026, 12:00 GMT
Submission channel
Official e-sourcing portal
Electronic submission
Allowed
Accepted languages
en
Detailed submission instructions & authority contactsFrom official release

This procurement exercise is being undertaken in compliance with The Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023.

The Chest Ref - DN834274

Link - procontract.due-north.com ↗

To improve health and wellbeing outcomes amongst adults most affected by healthy weight inequalities through delivery of a targeted, community-based healthy weight and wellbeing service. The service will be expected to:

  • Improve physical and mental wellbeing
  • Support sustainable behaviour change
  • Improve diet quality and physical activity levels
  • Increase confidence and self-management
  • Reduce social isolation
  • Improve access to support for residents experiencing barriers to engagement
  • Reduce healthy weight inequalities across Trafford
Published estimate £320,000 excludes VAT (£384,000 including VAT).

Timeline

1 Jul 2026 → 1 Apr 2027 · 7 dates
  1. Planning notice published119 days ago
    1 Jul 2026, 13:01 BST
  2. Market engagement107 days ago
    13 Jul 2026, 23:59 BST

    For further information go to www.the-chest.org.uk ↗ and:

    • register as a supplier
    • then login
    • go to find opportunities
    • under portals select The Chest
    • under organisations select Trafford Council
    • select DN820807
    • select register in this opportunity
    • select To View This RFQ Event Now Click Here
    • download documents
  3. Tender notice published16h ago
    28 Oct 2026, 10:58 GMT
  4. Today
    29 Oct 2026
  5. Clarification questions byin 20 days
    18 Nov 2026, 12:00 GMT
  6. Submission deadlinein 25 days
    23 Nov 2026, 12:00 GMT
  7. Award decision expected byin 46 days
    14 Dec 2026, 23:59 GMT
  8. Contract startsin 153 days
    1 Apr 2027, 00:00 BST

Notice history

6 events · 2 releases on Find a Tender · since 1 Jul 2026
  1. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    1 Jul 2026, 13:01 BST
    UK2
  2. Tender notice published
    28 Oct 2026, 10:58 GMT
    UK4
  3. Published value updated to £320,000
    28 Oct 2026, 10:58 GMT
    was £300,000
  4. Status changed to active
    28 Oct 2026, 10:58 GMT
  5. Procurement method changed
    28 Oct 2026, 10:58 GMT
  6. Deadline published: 23 Nov 2026, 12:00 GMT
    28 Oct 2026, 10:58 GMT

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

Trafford Council

Contracting authorityPublic authority - sub-central government GB-PPON: PGZW-1429-QQZQ Trafford Town Hall, Talbot Road, Manchester, North West, M32 0THContact email

Official documents & specifications (2)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure