Official UK procurement notice
Calibration and Repair of Audiology and New Born Hearing Screening Equipment
Procurement agent: Regional Business Services Organisation Procurement and Logistics Service·On behalf of: Northern Health and Social Care Trust
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionBusiness Services Organisation (BSO), Procurement and Logistics Service (PaLS) seeks
to provide a Contract for Calibration and Repair of Audiology and New Born Hearing Screening Equipment to meet the requirements of the Health and Social Care (HSC) in Northern Ireland.
- The authority expects to re-tender this requirement around 31 Mar 2034, 23:59 BST.
- No preliminary market engagement: Preliminary Market Engagement has been carried out. Please note that the linking could not be completed correctly due to system restrictions within eTendersNI. Notice identifier: 2026/S 000-087798 Procurement identifier (OCID): ocds-h6vhtk-06fb37 Published 16 September 2026, 2:10pm
CPV: Calibration services · Miscellaneous repair and maintenance services · Repair and maintenance services · Repair and maintenance services of audio equipment · Repair and maintenance services of testing apparatus · Repair, maintenance and associated services related to personal computers, office equipment, telecommunications and audio-visual equipment
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · value publishedLot #1RenewalPublished value£2,254,825
What it takes to wini
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 morei
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).
- Award Criteria - Mandatory Quality Assessment: Pass/Fail as detailed in the Tender documentation
- Award Criteria - Scored - Social Value: 10% as detailed in the Tender documentation.
- Award Criteria - Price: 90% as detailed in the Tender documentation.
No conditions of participation were published on the notice; check the tender documents.
- Turnover usually expected at this size: about £900,943 (twice the annual value).
Turnover is an indicative market norm (≈2× annual value), not a published condition.
Competition analysis · published record, not a forecast of who will bid
How Northern Health and Social Care Trust buys Repair and maintenance services of audio-visual and optical equipment (CPV 5034), and who usually turns up
Northern Health and Social Care Trust’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: Repair and maintenance services of audio-visual and optical equipment (CPV 5034) →
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.
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners were registered outside 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 44 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 bid15%
2–334%
4–626%
7+25%
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 estimate17%
Within ±2%69%
Above estimate14%
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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.
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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 50Published estimate£2.3m
This lot lists more than one class in CPV 50. 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 115 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid15%
2–334%
4–626%
7+25%
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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- 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
- Yes · next expected 31 Mar 2034
- First published
- 2 Nov 2026, 15:22 GMT
- Last source update
- 2 Nov 2026, 15:22 GMT
- Award evaluation window
- Submission end – 15 Feb 2027
- Authority reference
5997080- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-103845- Latest notice
- Tender notice (UK4)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Not published
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-0795d4Find a Tender
How to participate & submission route
Official notice Submit via eTendersNI- Requests to participate (first stage)
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- Tender submission deadline
- 2 Dec 2026, 15:00 GMT
- Clarification deadline
- 25 Nov 2026, 15:00 GMT
- Submission channel
- Official e-sourcing portal
- Electronic submission
- Allowed
- Accepted languages
- en
Timeline
2 Nov 2026 → 1 Apr 2027 · 5 dates- Tender notice published3h ago2 Nov 2026, 15:22 GMT
- Today2 Nov 2026
- Clarification questions byin 22 days25 Nov 2026, 15:00 GMT
- Submission deadlinein 29 days2 Dec 2026, 15:00 GMT
- Award decision expected byin 105 days15 Feb 2027, 23:59 GMT
- Contract startsin 149 days1 Apr 2027, 00:00 BST
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Tender notice published2 Nov 2026, 15:22 GMTUK4
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Nothing awarded yet- Awards (0)
- No award published
- Contracts (0)
- No contract published
- Bid statistics
- No aggregate bid statistics published
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
6 public bodies on the noticeClients of the procurement agent
- Belfast Health and Social Care TrustProcuring entityParticipating Trust
- Northern Health and Social Care TrustProcuring entityParticipating Trust
- South Eastern Health and Social Care TrustProcuring entityParticipating Trust
- Southern Health and Social Care TrustProcuring entityParticipating Trust
- Western Health and Social Care TrustProcuring entityParticipating Trust
Official documents & specifications (1)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Tender notice Tender notice on Find a Tender