Official UK procurement notice
Assisted Conception Service · UK public procurement notice
Authority: NHS Black Country Integrated Care Board (Central government)
What is being bought
Published requirement description***THIS NOTICE IS FOR A MARKET ENGAGEMENT EVENT ONLY***<br/><br/>NHS Arden and Greater East Midlands Commissioning Support Unit on behalf of NHS Black Country ICB are seeking expressions of interest from suitably experienced providers for the provision of a Assisted Conception Service<br/><br/>The provider must have at least one site within the Black Country geographical area where all aspects of the service pathway described in this specification are delivered. <br/><br/>Contract Length is expected to be for a period of 3 years with the Commissioner having the option to extend the Contract for up to a further 3 years.<br/><br/>The indicative annual contract value is expected to be £251,956.<br/><br/>The Contract to be entered into will be in accordance with the general NHS Standard Contract issued by the Commissioner(s), which can be found at: www.england.nhs.uk/nhs-standard-contract/ ↗<br/><br/>Further details are provided in II.2.4 below.
CPV: Health services · In vitro fertilisation services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1***THIS NOTICE IS FOR A MARKET ENGAGEMENT EVENT ONLY***Planned
***THIS NOTICE IS FOR A MARKET ENGAGEMENT EVENT ONLY***<br/><br/>The aim of the service is to:<br/><br/>
- Increase the pregnancy and subsequent live birth rate for those patients wishing to have a child, who meet the criteria to access licensed treatment. <br/>
- Gametes stored as per HFEA guidance. The ICB does not fund for storage of embryos resulting from IVF / ICSI. The clinic / Provider will offer storage for the first year free of charge. After the first year, if any embryos remain in storage, the provider will contact the patient. If they wish to continue the storage, the patient will be invoiced the agreed annual fee. They will self-fund this annually until used or perished or up to ten years, (see cryopreservation policy and gamete policy for further details).<br/>
- Providing a quality, safe, cost-effective Assisted Conception Service ensuring that the risk of infection and other complications such as Ovarian Hyperstimulation Syndrome (OHSS) and multiple pregnancy to service users is minimised. <br/>
- Provide a personal service sensitive to the physical, psychological and emotional needs of service users. Including that patients will be offered counselling with a Specialist Fertility counsellor in line with the HFEA Code of Practice. <br/>
- To develop and implement data collection and monitoring processes which provide intelligence to support the future commissioning of fertility services/ policy development. <br/><br/>The objectives of the service are to: <br/><br/>
- Increase incidence of live births<br/>
- Increase rates of singleton births<br/>
- Reduce rates of multiple births<br/>
- Contribute to reducing the incidence of anxiety and/or depression. Additional information: ***THIS NOTICE IS FOR A MARKET ENGAGEMENT EVENT ONLY***<br/><br/>Interested parties should express an interest in attending by completing a short questionnaire which can be found on the Atamis Health Family portal (atamis-1928.my.site.com/s/Welcome ↗ and search for project C454400. A link to the event can be accessed via the invitation located within the Documents area of the Atamis project.<br/><br/>Please ensure that you have registered your interest in attending the market engagement event by 13th July 2026 at 12 noon.<br/><br/>Please note that this notice does not bind either AGEM CSU or the Commissioner to any act, including but not limited to carrying out a procurement for the services described in this notice or in any accompanying documentation which may be made available to the market at this time. In the event that a procurement process is pursued following this notice, providers should note that it will be carried out under the requirements of the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023. Furthermore, the requirements of the Procurement Act 2023, save for those requirements detailed in regulation 28 of the Procurement Act 2023 (Consequential and Other Amendments) Regulations 2025, do not apply.
Pipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How NHS Black Country Integrated Care Board buys Health services (CPV 8510), and who usually turns up
NHS Black Country Integrated Care Board’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 local firms win similar work.
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Local means the winner is registered in the region where that award was delivered. The market figure counts awards delivered in West Midlands.
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 69 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.
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How many bids did past lots attract?
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Past bids do not predict this tender.
1 bid50% / 23%
2–325% / 31%
4–60% / 24%
7+25% / 22%
How did awards compare with estimates?
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Where winning prices landed against estimates.
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Past prices are a guide, not a bid price.
Below estimate51%
Within ±2%44%
Above estimate5%
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No supplier is confirmed as a bidder.
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Lot #1***THIS NOTICE IS FOR A MARKET ENGAGEMENT EVENT ONLY***CPV 8510Published estimate£1.5m
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A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid23%
2–331%
4–624%
7+22%
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Where the award price may land.
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No comparable awards for this lot yet.
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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.
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Who could compete for this lot?
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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.
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Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record · publisher note attached- Legal basis
- CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Planned procurement
- Procurement threshold
- Unspecified in notice
- 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, 15:52 BST
- Last source update
- 1 Jul 2026, 15:52 BST
- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-061899- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06c1a2Find a Tender
Publisher note: This is a Provider Selection Regime (PSR) Contract Notice. The awarding of this contract is subject to the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023. For the avoidance of doubt, the provisions of the Procurement Act 2023 do not apply to this award. In addition, neither the placement of this notice nor any subsequent notice shall bind the Commissioner to the award of any contract.
How it was run
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- Submission deadline
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Timeline
1 Jul 2026 → 1 Sept 2026 · 2 dates- Notice published115 days ago1 Jul 2026, 15:52 BST
- Tender notice expected53 days ago1 Sept 2026, 00:00 BST
Commercial outcome & contract awards
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Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Official documents & specifications
Official links; attachments are not copiedNo document links were published on the notice.