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Published 1 Oct 2026, 15:29 BST

Official UK procurement notice

Athlete Medical Scheme (AMS)

Official notice Competition analysis

Authority: THE UNITED KINGDOM SPORTS COUNCIL (Central government)

ServicesOpen procedureAbove threshold
Sectors: Financial and insurance services (66) Delivery: UK
Published estimate£11,500,000≈ £3.8m / year · £11,500,000 inc. VAT
Submission deadline 2 Nov 202615:00 GMT · 31d 23h left
Clarification cut-off 9 Oct 202615:00 BST · questions to the authority
Contract term 3 yrsup to 4 yrs with extensions · starts 1 Apr 2027
Bids per lot · the market 3CPV 6651 · n=49 · competition analysis ↓

What is being bought

Published requirement description

UK Sport is seeking a suitably qualified supplier to deliver its Athlete Medical Scheme, providing timely, high-quality healthcare to eligible funded athletes. Tenderers may propose a fully insured model, a trust-based model, or both. The contract will cover the administration and management of the scheme, access to an appropriate healthcare provider network, claims handling, management information and performance reporting. The contract will commence on 1 April 2027 for an initial three-year term, with the option to extend for a further year.

Please see more detail in the ITT.

CPV: Health insurance services · Medical insurance services

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · value published
Lot #1Lot 1Renewal 3 yrsPublished value£11,500,000
Contract period: 1 Apr 2027 — 31 Mar 2030 (3 yrs) · up to 4 yrs with extensionsDelivery: UKTurnover guideline: ~£7,659,672/yr≈ 2× annual value
Value
£11,500,000 exc. VAT · £11,500,000 inc. VAT
Extensions
The contract will be for 3 years with the option for an additional 1 year extension. No conditions attached to the 1 year extension period.
66512200 Health insurance services66512220 Medical insurance services

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: 65%Price: 25%Environmental: 10%
Published sub-criteria (4)
  • Quality of services — 55%
  • Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (ED&I) — 10%
  • Pricing — 25%
  • Environmental Sustainability — 10%
Published award criteria (4)
  • Pricing — Please see ITT
  • Quality of services — Please see ITT
  • Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (ED&I) — Please see ITT
  • Environmental Sustainability — Please see ITT
Conditions of participation2
  • Economic & financial standing
    Please see ITT
  • Technical & professional ability
    Please see ITT

Competition analysis · published record, not a forecast of who will bid

How THE UNITED KINGDOM SPORTS COUNCIL buys Insurance services (CPV 6651) — and who usually turns up

THE UNITED KINGDOM SPORTS COUNCIL’s own published record, next to the Greater London market for the same work. Frameworks and DPS are kept out: they attract a different number of bids. Whole-market view: Insurance services (CPV 6651) →

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How the contest usually goes

Left: this authority. Right: the market where the work is delivered. Bids and award-vs-estimate pairs are per lot, from contested contracts only — direct awards (including PA 2023 transparency notices) report one bid by definition and are left out. On Procurement Act 2023 notices the count is the tenders assessed at the final stage, not every submission received; pairs compare like with like (VAT-exclusive, or VAT-inclusive on both sides). Empty means nothing was published, not filled in from elsewhere.

This authority

THE UNITED KINGDOM SPORTS COUNCIL

contract notices in 36 months: 1 in CPV 6651 · 1 in division 66 · 6 in all categories

Bids per lot
i

How many companies usually bid for work like this.

Middle value of published bid counts, one per lot, for this buyer or this region in the same sector.

Based on this buyer’s tenders in all categories, last 36 months: 1 lots. All 1 lots are from Procurement Act 2023 notices, which count bids assessed. Small sample.

Nothing is filled in from UK-wide numbers. An empty tile means nothing usable was published.

5all categories · 36m · n=1 lots
Single-bid lots
i

How often only one company bid.

Share of lots that received exactly one bid, on the same competitions as the bids figure.

Based on this buyer’s tenders in all categories, last 36 months: 1 lots. Small sample.

High means a thin market or an incumbent that is hard to beat.

0%all categories · 36m · n=1 lots
Award vs estimate
i

Do awards for work like this land above or below the estimate.

Estimate against award per lot, for this buyer or this region in the same sector.

Based on this buyer’s tenders in all categories, last 36 months: 4 pairs.

A past pattern, not a price to bid.

3% belowall categories · 36m · n=4 pairs
Deadline → award date
i

How long buyers here take to decide after bids close.

Middle value in days from the deadline to the first award notice, on competitions that published both dates.

Based on this buyer’s tenders in all categories, last 36 months: 1 notices. Small sample.

Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.

Last 36 months.

87dall categories · 36m · n=1 notices
Notice updates
i

How often this buyer changes a notice after publishing it.

Middle number of amendments per notice. Deadline extensions and corrections both count.

Based on this buyer’s tenders in all categories, last 24 months: 26 notices.

Last 24 months.

0all categories · 24m · n=26 notices
Awarded without competition
i

How often this buyer awards without a competition.

Direct or limited awards as a share of its notices that say which procedure was used. These routes are legal in defined cases. This is just the record.

Based on this buyer’s tenders in all categories, last 36 months: 6 notices.

Last 36 months.

0%all categories · 36m · n=6 notices
Winning award vs estimate moderate · n=4
i

How often winners come in below, near or above the estimate.

Each lot with both an estimate and an award is placed by how far the award sat from the estimate.

Based on 4 lot pairs · all categories, last 36 months.

A past pattern, not a price to bid.

  • Below estimate 50%
  • Within ±2% 50%
  • Above estimate 0%

4 lot pairs · all categories.

How procedures are run robust · n=6
i

Which procedures buyers here use.

Notices by the procedure they declare: open, selective, limited or direct. Open and selective are competitions; limited and direct are not.

Based on 6 notices · all categories, last 36 months.

  • Open 100%
  • Selective 0%
  • Limited 0%
  • Direct 0%

6 notices · all categories. Open and selective are competed (they feed the bid and price figures above); limited and direct are not; notices publishing no route are outside all four.

The market · authority’s region

Greater London · Insurance services (CPV 6651)

contract notices delivered in Greater London in 36 months: 61 in CPV 6651 (42 competed, 10 route not published) · 194 in division 66 (118 competed, 39 route not published) · the notice publishes no delivery location, so the authority’s registered region is used

Bids per lot
i

How many companies usually bid for work like this.

Middle value of published bid counts, one per lot, for this buyer or this region in the same sector.

Based on this region’s tenders in this sector (CPV 6651), last 36 months: 49 lots. 31 lots are from Procurement Act 2023 notices (bids assessed, middle 3) and 18 from older notices (bids received, middle 2).

Nothing is filled in from UK-wide numbers. An empty tile means nothing usable was published.

3CPV 6651 · 36m · n=49 lots
Single-bid lots
i

How often only one company bid.

Share of lots that received exactly one bid, on the same competitions as the bids figure.

Based on this region’s tenders in this sector (CPV 6651), last 36 months: 49 lots.

High means a thin market or an incumbent that is hard to beat.

18%CPV 6651 · 36m · n=49 lots
Award vs estimate
i

Do awards for work like this land above or below the estimate.

Estimate against award per lot, for this buyer or this region in the same sector.

Based on this region’s tenders in this sector (CPV 6651), last 36 months: 16 pairs.

A past pattern, not a price to bid.

23% belowCPV 6651 · 36m · n=16 pairs
Deadline → award date
i

How long buyers here take to decide after bids close.

Middle value in days from the deadline to the first award notice, on competitions that published both dates.

Based on this region’s tenders in this sector (CPV 6651), last 36 months: 11 notices.

Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.

Last 36 months.

64dCPV 6651 · 36m · n=11 notices
SME bidders
i

How much of this market goes to small and medium firms.

SME bidders where buyers published the split, otherwise SME winners.

Based on this region’s tenders in this sector (CPV 6651), last 36 months: 33 lots.

Last 36 months.

9%CPV 6651 · 36m · n=33 lots
Winners based in the region
i

How much work like this goes to companies based in the delivery region.

Awards in this category delivered here where the winner’s registered address is in the region.

Based on this region’s tenders in this sector (CPV 6651), last 36 months: 46 awards.

Registered address, so a national firm with a local branch counts as outside.

Last 36 months.

78%CPV 6651 · 36m · n=46 awards
Bids per lot robust · n=49
i

How the number of bidders is spread across lots.

Each lot with a published bid count is put in a band: one bid, two to three, four to six, seven or more. Real competitions only.

Based on 49 lots on 18 contested notices · CPV 6651, last 36 months.

  • 1 bid 18%
  • 2–3 51%
  • 4–6 31%
  • 7+ 0%

Middle value 3 · 49 lots on 18 contested notices · CPV 6651.

Winning award vs estimate robust · n=16
i

How often winners come in below, near or above the estimate.

Each lot with both an estimate and an award is placed by how far the award sat from the estimate.

Based on 16 lot pairs · CPV 6651, last 36 months.

A past pattern, not a price to bid.

  • Below estimate 56%
  • Within ±2% 19%
  • Above estimate 25%

16 lot pairs · CPV 6651.

moderate · n=4
i

Where this tender’s estimate would land if the usual pattern repeats.

We apply the buyer’s usual movement between estimate and award (or the region’s) to the estimate on this notice.

Based on 4 lots, so only the direction is shown, not a pound figure.

A benchmark, not a price to bid.

The middle award in THE UNITED KINGDOM SPORTS COUNCIL (all categories, n=4 pairs) lands 3% below. Too few pairs to turn into a pound figure with any confidence — read the percentage as a rough direction, not this notice’s estimate converted.
Coverage and what to read with care
  • Each tile explains itself. The on a figure says what it is, how it is counted and which scope this notice’s own record came from (class, division, all categories, or the authority’s 24-month row). The two columns are never blended and nothing is filled from a UK-wide figure; an empty tile means the source published nothing usable. Long form: Methodology.
  • Coverage. Roughly 40 % of notices publish a bid count; about half publish an ITL1 delivery location, so the market column reads the authority’s registered region when the notice has none (labelled). About 30 % of award-vs-estimate pairs are exact matches — the buyer published the award at the estimate. n is on every figure; a thin sample is muted, never hidden.
  • “Match” and “relevance” are model scores from the nightly matcher, not published facts. Find a Tender does not publish who is bidding. Never shown: contact details, payment behaviour, or a recommended price.

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
No (one-off requirement)
First published
1 Oct 2026, 15:29 BST
Last source update
1 Oct 2026, 15:29 BST
Award evaluation window
Submission end — 7 Dec 2026, 23:59 GMT
Latest notice
Tender notice (UK4)
Classification (CPV)
Health insurance servicesMedical insurance services
Delivery area
UK
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-077ee1 Find a Tender

How to participate & submission route

Official notice Submit via portal
Submission portal named on this notice: portal not identified
Electronic submission allowedLanguage: EN
Expression of interest (EOI)
—
Tender submission deadline
2 Nov 2026, 15:00 GMT
Clarification deadline
9 Oct 2026, 15:00 BST
Submission channel
Official e-sourcing portal
Electronic submission
Allowed
Accepted languages
en
Detailed submission instructions & authority contactsFrom official release
Please submit all tenders to [email protected]. www.uksport.gov.uk/about-us/tenders ↗
Published estimate £11,500,000 excludes VAT (£11,500,000 including VAT).

Timeline

5 published dates · Europe/London
  1. Tender notice publishedjust passed
    1 Oct 2026, 15:29 BST
  2. Clarification questions byin 8 days
    9 Oct 2026, 15:00 BST
  3. Submission deadlinein 32 days
    2 Nov 2026, 15:00 GMT
  4. Award decision expected byin 67 days
    7 Dec 2026, 23:59 GMT
  5. Contract startsin 181 days
    1 Apr 2027, 00:00 BST

Commercial outcome & contract awards

Nothing awarded yet
Awards (0)
No award published
Contracts (0)
No contract published
Bid statistics
No aggregate bid statistics published

Notice history

1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender
  1. Tender notice published
    1 Oct 2026, 15:29 BSTUK4

Contracting authority & participating public bodies

THE UNITED KINGDOM SPORTS COUNCIL

Contracting authorityPublic authority - central government GB-COH: RC000765 · GB-PPON: PDHV-6143-RRMX 10 South Colonnade, LONDON, London, E14 4PU [email protected]

Official documents & specifications (3)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Tender pack and attachments

Notices published for this procedure

  • Tender notice tenderTender noticeUK4Tender notice on Find a Tender