Official UK procurement notice
Barber/hairdressing Services · UK public procurement notice
Authority: Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust (Central government)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionExpression of Interest (EOI)
Barbering / Hairdressing Services - NHS Adult Secure Services
Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust is seeking expressions of interest from suitably experienced barber or hairdresser to provide a sessional barbering / hairdressing service within our male adult secure inpatient services.
This EOI is being issued to understand market interest and identify potential providers. It is not a formal tender.
Service Overview
The service will provide basic barbering / hairdressing (e.g. haircuts and trims) to male adult inpatient service users within a secure NHS setting.
Due to the nature of secure mental health services, patient attendance can vary, and sessions may be affected by clinical need.
Proposed Service Model
- Provision of a once monthly session
- Session length to be agreed (e.g. half day)
- Sessional payment at a fixed rate, paid regardless of patient attendance
(not paid per haircut)
- Location: NHS adult secure inpatient setting (The Humber Centre, Willerby Hill business park).
Provider Requirements (Indicative)
Providers would be expected to:
- Have relevant experience providing barbering or hairdressing services
- Be willing to work within a secure healthcare environment (The Humber Centre, Willerby Hill business park)
- Hold appropriate insurance cover
- Be able to meet NHS pre engagement checks, including DBS and site induction
(support will be provided through this process)
Contractual Arrangements
- Invoicing and payment through standard NHS processes
- Contract length and session details to be agreed following engagement
How to Respond
Interested providers are invited to submit a short expression of interest (by email to [email protected]) confirming:
- Business name and contact details
- Brief description of experience
- Confirmation of interest in providing a once monthly session in a secure setting at the above mentioned location
- Any initial questions or constraints
Responses should be no more than 1 page.
Next Steps
Following review of EOIs, the Trust may:
- Contact interested providers for informal discussion
- Invite one or more providers to proceed to a direct award or further negotiation
Submitting an EOI does not guarantee progression to a contract.
EOI responses to be sent to:
Closing date: 06/05/2026
CPV: Hairdressing services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedPipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust buys Hairdressing and beauty treatment services (CPV 9832), and who usually turns up
Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust’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: Hairdressing and beauty treatment services (CPV 9832) →
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.
Here, local means registered in Yorkshire and the Humber.
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners are registered in Yorkshire and the Humber.
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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.
Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.
Half of these awards were announced within 35 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 bid29%
2–337%
4–631%
7+3%
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 estimate27%
Within ±2%58%
Above estimate15%
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 9832Estimate not published
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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 35 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid29%
2–337%
4–631%
7+3%
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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
- 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
- 15 Apr 2026, 15:45 BST
- Last source update
- 15 Apr 2026, 15:45 BST
- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-034346- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-068356Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
15 Apr 2026 → 1 Jun 2026 · 3 dates- Planning notice published188 days ago15 Apr 2026, 15:45 BST
- Market engagement167 days ago6 May 2026, 23:59 BST
Expression of Interest (EOI)
Barbering / Hairdressing Services - NHS Adult Secure Services
Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust is seeking expressions of interest from suitably experienced barber or hairdresser to provide a sessional barbering / hairdressing service within our male adult secure inpatient services.
This EOI is being issued to understand market interest and identify potential providers. It is not a formal tender.
Service Overview
The service will provide basic barbering / hairdressing (e.g. haircuts and trims) to male adult inpatient service users within a secure NHS setting.
Due to the nature of secure mental health services, patient attendance can vary, and sessions may be affected by clinical need.
Proposed Service Model
- Provision of a once monthly session
- Session length to be agreed (e.g. half day)
- Sessional payment at a fixed rate, paid regardless of patient attendance
(not paid per haircut)
- Location: NHS adult secure inpatient setting (The Humber Centre, Willerby Hill business park).
Provider Requirements (Indicative)
Providers would be expected to:
- Have relevant experience providing barbering or hairdressing services
- Be willing to work within a secure healthcare environment (The Humber Centre, Willerby Hill business park)
- Hold appropriate insurance cover
- Be able to meet NHS pre engagement checks, including DBS and site induction
(support will be provided through this process)
Contractual Arrangements
- Invoicing and payment through standard NHS processes
- Contract length and session details to be agreed following engagement
How to Respond
Interested providers are invited to submit a short expression of interest (by email to [email protected]) confirming:
- Business name and contact details
- Brief description of experience
- Confirmation of interest in providing a once monthly session in a secure setting at the above mentioned location
- Any initial questions or constraints
Responses should be no more than 1 page.
Next Steps
Following review of EOIs, the Trust may:
- Contact interested providers for informal discussion
- Invite one or more providers to proceed to a direct award or further negotiation
Submitting an EOI does not guarantee progression to a contract.
EOI responses to be sent to:
Closing date: 06/05/2026
- Contract starts142 days ago1 Jun 2026, 00:00 BST
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Preliminary market engagement notice published15 Apr 2026, 15:45 BSTUK2
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 (1)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender