Official UK procurement notice
CFM0548 - Supply & Delivery of Medical Equipment
Authority: Fife Council (Local council)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThis contract for the supply and delivery of medical equipment.
CPV: Medical equipments, pharmaceuticals and personal care products
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1Fife Council are seeking supplier to take part in a tender which shall cover the below…Planned
Fife Council are seeking supplier to take part in a tender which shall cover the below requirement:
Lots 1 to 16: Bathing Equipment
Lots 17 to 30: Beds & Accessories
Lots 31 to 63: Seating Equipment
Lots 64 to 70: Deaf & Hard of Hearing Equipment
Lots 71 to 82: Homecare Aids
Lots 83 to 113: Manual Handling Equipment
Lots 114 to 132: Pressure Care Equipment
Lots 133 to 142: Toileting Equipment
Lots 143 to 151: Wheelchairs
Lots 152 to 168: Walking Aids
Lots 169 to 185: Children & Young People (CYP) Toileting Equipment
Lots 186 to 187: CYP Beds & Accessories
Lots 188 to 192: CYP Moving & Handling Equipment
Lots 193 to 223: CYP Accessories
Lots 224 to 243: CYP Standers, Walkers & Positioning Equipment
Lots 244 to 258: CYP Seating Equipment
Please note Fife Council are looking for suppliers input to help shape this lotting structure. If you have any input on the lotting structure of this contract please note this as a question under this PIN.
Pipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How Fife Council buys Medical equipments, pharmaceuticals (CPV 33), and who usually turns up
Fife Council’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: Medical equipments, pharmaceuticals (CPV 33) →
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 Scotland.
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners are registered in Scotland.
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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 59 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 bid12% / 34%
2–335% / 21%
4–635% / 26%
7+18% / 18%
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 estimate44% / 31%
Within ±2%44% / 25%
Above estimate11% / 44%
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 #1Fife Council are seeking supplier to take part in a tender which shall cover the below…Published estimate£8.0m
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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 38 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid34%
2–321%
4–626%
7+18%
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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 · publisher note attached- Legal basis
- CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
- Procurement category
- Goods
- 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
- Yes (GPA)
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 20 Oct 2026, 10:21 BST
- Last source update
- 20 Oct 2026, 10:21 BST
- Authority reference
CFM0548- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-098815- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-078b76Find a Tender
Publisher note: NOTE: To register your interest in this notice and obtain any additional information please visit the Public Contracts Scotland Web Site at https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/Search/Search_Switch.aspx?ID=844182. (SC Ref:844182)
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
20 Oct 2026 → 30 Nov 2026 · 2 dates- Notice publishedearlier today20 Oct 2026, 10:21 BST
- Today20 Oct 2026
- Tender notice expectedin 40 days30 Nov 2026
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
Official links; attachments are not copiedNo document links were published on the notice.