Official UK procurement notice
Adult and Paediatric Enteral Feeds and Associated Equipment/Consumables, including a Home Enteral Feeding Service
Authority: Business Services Organisation Procurement and Logistics Service (Central government)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionHealth and Social Care in Northern Ireland (HSCNI) has identified scope for improvement to the current arrangements for ordering and supply of adult and paediatric enteral feeds and the equipment required for their administration. An executive summary of the Thematic Review of Ordering and Supply Arrangements for Home Enteral Tube Feeds and Equipment has been provided for background information. This document will help provide context to the considerations HSCNI has to make in order to progress this service change/redesign (Nb. target implementation/go-live date for proposed redesigned service is early-mid 2027). It is important to note that current figures indicate approx. 745 home adult and 625 home paediatric patients regionally require to avail of a home enteral feeding service, in addition to a current maximum of 420 adult in-patients and 65 paediatric in-patients regionally requiring to be enterally fed on a daily basis, although it should be acknowledged that there is a growing trend in terms of patient numbers. Trust-by-Trust breakdown of current patient numbers is presented in the Supplier Brief accessible via PME CfT reference 6375145. It is envisaged that the HSCNI region will be split in two geographically (likely a three-Trust / two-Trust split, but still TBA), with a different supplier awarded the business in each of the sub-regions and required to meet the needs of both home and in-patient, and adult and paediatric patients managed by the HSCNI Trusts making up the assigned sub-region.
CPV: Administration sets · Dietetic products · Enteral feeds · Homedelivery of provisions · Nutritional pumps · Special nutritional products
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedPipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How Business Services Organisation Procurement and Logistics Service buys Various medicinal products (CPV 3369), and who usually turns up
Business Services Organisation Procurement and Logistics Service’s own published record, next to the published market for the same work. Frameworks and DPS are kept out: they attract a different number of bids. Whole-market view: Various medicinal products (CPV 3369) →
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Most of this buyer’s recorded winners are registered in Northern Ireland.
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Half of these awards were announced within 66 days of the bid deadline.
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1 bid40% / 14%
2–320% / 14%
4–60% / 71%
7+40% / 0%
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Below estimate80% / 40%
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Above estimate0% / 40%
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Lot #1CPV 3369No real estimate
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1 bid27%
2–327%
4–615%
7+31%
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None is confirmed as a bidder.
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About this data
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Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Goods
- Notice status
- Planned procurement
- 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
- 29 Jan 2026, 16:34 GMT
- Last source update
- 29 Jan 2026, 16:34 GMT
- Authority reference
5858243- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-008215- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-061268Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
29 Jan 2026 → 1 Mar 2027 · 4 dates- Planning notice published266 days ago29 Jan 2026, 16:34 GMT
- Market engagement246 days ago18 Feb 2026, 23:59 GMT
Interested economic operators are first requested to provide a written response to the questions as listed in the ‘Specific Goods or Services’ tab of the PME Questionnaire accessible via CfT reference [6375145]. As a second stage of this PME opportunity, economic operators who express an interest in engaging face-to-face will be invited to attend a virtual individual supplier engagement session. Economic operators interested in attending a virtual individual supplier engagement session should email [email protected] by 3pm on Wednesday 18th February 2026 with the words 'PME Expression of Interest' appearing in the subject line of the email. Economic operators, whose participation in this second stage of PME is requested and subsequently confirmed by BSO PaLS, are asked to prepare a 45-minute (max.) presentation which touches upon, as a minimum, the written responses to the questions as included in the 'Specific Goods or Services' tab of the PME Questionnaire accessible via CfT reference [6375145], in addition to addressing any other areas deemed relevant to the potential scope and specification of the contract to be awarded (Nb. following the 45-minute (max.) presentation time, there will be a 15-minute (max.) window during which Tender Assessment Panel (TAP) representatives in attendance may ask for further clarification or responses to questions/queries which arise during the course of the presentation).
Previous Prior Information Notice (PIN) reference applicable to this exercise: 2023/S 000-036931
Economic operators should note that any interest expressed in participating in this PME opportunity does not constitute a commitment to participate in any future tendering exercise.
- Tender notice expected143 days ago1 Jun 2026, 23:59 BST
- Today22 Oct 2026
- Contract startsin 129 days1 Mar 2027
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Preliminary market engagement notice published29 Jan 2026, 16:34 GMTUK2
Commercial outcome & contract awards
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Official documents & specifications (1)
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- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender