Official UK procurement notice
0-5 Health Visiting Service Market Engagement
Authority: Norfolk County Council (Local council)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThis is a voluntary preliminary market engagement notice for a health service that falls under the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023. This market engagement notice relates to the provision of a Health Visiting Service for children aged 0-5 years. This is a community public health service which forms part of the wider Healthy Child Programme within Norfolk County Council (The Council). The service will provide a universal public health nursing offer for all families from pregnancy until a child's fifth birthday, with additional targeted and specialist support where higher levels of need, vulnerability or risk are identified.
CPV: Community health services · Health services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedPipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How Norfolk County Council buys Health services (CPV 8510), and who usually turns up
Norfolk County 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
Winner shares use published awards; bid and price charts use contested lots.
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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.
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 East of England.
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 42 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.
Both shares are minimums: some awards have no bid count.
Thin markets produce this too; it is not proof of a tailored specification.
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.
1 bid11% / 15%
2–311% / 35%
4–658% / 38%
7+21% / 12%
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 estimate36% / 41%
Within ±2%59% / 53%
Above estimate5% / 5%
Assess each lot i
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.
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 85Published estimate£119m
This lot lists more than one class in CPV 85. The comparison uses that group.
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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 268 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid19%
2–329%
4–629%
7+22%
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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.
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.
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.
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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.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Planned procurement
- 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
- 9 Jan 2026, 15:14 GMT
- Last source update
- 12 Jan 2026, 12:36 GMT
- Authority reference
NCCT43330- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-002248- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-060310Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
9 Jan 2026 → 1 Oct 2026 · 4 dates- Planning notice published292 days ago9 Jan 2026, 15:14 GMT
- Latest notice published289 days ago12 Jan 2026, 12:36 GMT
- Market engagement270 days ago30 Jan 2026, 23:59 GMT
Norfolk County Council is seeking to engage with providers who have experience of delivering a 0-5 Health Visiting Service through a soft market testing questionnaire in preparation for a potential procurement under the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023.
The purpose of this soft market testing exercise is to understand the provider landscape and potential providers who are capable of delivering this service within the context of Norfolk. The questionnaire is open to any provider.
The outcome of the soft market testing will assist the Council to develop and maintain sufficiently detailed knowledge of the provider landscape. This will help NCC to put in place services that best meet the needs of the population and to select the appropriate award process.
Please note that this exercise is solely for information-gathering purposes; none of the details provided will be used in the evaluation of any future procurement submissions.
Participation or non-participation in this soft market testing shall not prevent any supplier participating in any potential future procurement, nor is it intended that any information supplied as part of this process shall place any supplier at an advantage in any potential procurement process. Participation in the soft market testing process will be at each supplier's own cost. No expense in responding to this process will be reimbursed by the Council.
The Council wishes to provide fixed points of contact for this soft market testing exercise and interested parties are requested not to contact any other individual or team at the Council or any of its other advisors. Any enquiries and responses should be sent via the messaging function within In-Tend.
Providers that are interested in participating in this exercise are asked to register on In-Tend at:
in-tendhost.co.uk/norfolkcc/aspx/Home ↗
This is free to do, just log in and express an interest. The Questionnaire will be available for you to download and complete within the 'clarification' tab.
Once completed, please return via the In-Tend 'correspondence' tab. The deadline for responses is no later than 2:00pm on 30th January 2026.
- Contract starts28 days ago1 Oct 2026, 00:00 BST
Notice history
2 events · 2 releases on Find a Tender · since 9 Jan 2026- Preliminary market engagement notice published9 Jan 2026, 15:14 GMTUK2
- Preliminary market engagement notice published12 Jan 2026, 12:36 GMTUK2
Published amendments (1)
The link to in-tend has been updated as it was not working.
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
Official documents & specifications (2)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender