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Published 26 May 2026, 15:38 BST

Official UK procurement notice

COMIT4 - ICT Solutions · UK public procurement notice

Authority: Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust (Central government)·On behalf of: HealthTrust Europe LLP

Framework agreementServicesOpen procedureAbove thresholdSME suitable
Planned pipeline value£6,000,000,000pipeline notice, not a live tender
Tender notice expected 30 Apr 2027from the planned procurement notice
Framework period 2 yrsends 14 Sept 2029 · up to 12 Sept 2031 with extensions · starts 17 Sept 2027

What is being bought

Published requirement description

HealthTrust Europe (HTE) is launching the ComIT 4 - ICT Solutions Framework, designed to provide public sector organisations with the most cost-effective and straightforward route to market for ICT and digitisation requirements.

The single-lot framework covers enterprise-level solutions across core categories, including but not limited to - Hardware, Software, Security, Technology Assisted Services, Computer Science.

These categories encompass end-to-end digital requirements including hardware, audio visual, cloud, cyber security, AI, automation, robotics, managed services, consultancy, support and associated services, whether procured as individual items or combined solutions.

Awarded suppliers are to be vendor-agnostic Value-Added Resellers (VARs) with extensive supply partnerships, logistics capabilities, and relevant accreditations. Suppliers leverage in-house expertise alongside established vendor and manufacturer relationships to deliver tailored, innovative solutions of any scale.

Contracting authorities will be able to procure via direct award and further competition (including e-auctions, mini-competitions and hybrid mini-competitions). All procurement routes are fully supported by HTE's procurement experts to ensure compliance, value, and timely delivery.

Benefits are to include but not be limited to:

  • Access to the complete IT vendor and reseller landscape
  • Enterprise-level pricing with value-added service wraps
  • Flexible purchasing options including Device as a Service (DaaS), leasing, configuration, storage and logistics
  • Support for emerging technologies including IoT, telehealth, AI, and cloud
  • Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and Social Value commitments from suppliers

The bodies to whom the use of this framework will be open include all contracting authorities in the United Kingdom as defined in Section 1 of the Procurement Act 2023.

In particular, the entities in the UK (especially those of a health and/or social care nature) listed in the downloadable spreadsheet at the following link are envisaged as framework users: www.ons.gov.uk/methodology/classifi… ↗

This list includes each organisation’s successors and assigns, any equivalent organisations, and associated organisations created due to any organisational changes.

This framework will be open to:

Any bodies or organisations operating in the UK of a health and/or social care nature;

Any organisations with similar procurement needs;

Any UK-based central government authority listed in Annex I of Directive 2014/24/EU, to the extent still relevant under retained EU law and consistent with the Procurement Act 2023.

CPV: Accumulators, primary cells and primary batteries · Added-value database services · Architectural and related services · Architectural, construction, engineering and inspection services · Business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing and security · Business transaction and personal business software package · Communication and multimedia software package · Computer audit and testing services · Computer back-up and catalogue conversion services · Computer equipment and supplies · Computer hardware acceptance testing consultancy services · Computer network services · +83 more

How this framework works

From the published notice
Framework period
2 yrs · up to 4 yrs from 17 Sept 2027

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published

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
What this means for your bid
  • “COMIT4 - ICT Solutions” is a framework: the contest is a place on its panel, not a single contract.

Pipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published

How Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust buys Telecommunications equipment and supplies (CPV 3250), and who usually turns up

Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust’s own published record, next to the published market for the same work. This notice is a framework or DPS, so only frameworks and DPS are compared. Whole-market view: Telecommunications equipment and supplies (CPV 3250) →

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How the contest usually goes

Winner shares use published awards; bid and price charts use contested lots.

Question for the bid
This buyerMid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust · all categories
What to do with it
How often do SMEs win?
i

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.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 5 of 7 known-size awards · market: division 32 · UK-wide, n=53
71%36%

Small firms have won here. Neither number says whether you qualify; it describes who has been winning.

How often do local suppliers win?
i

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 the winner is registered in the region where that contract was delivered.

A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 1 of 16 known-location awards · market: division 32 · UK-wide, n=44
6%43%

Most of this buyer’s recorded winners are registered outside East of England.

How long to a decision?
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.

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

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 3 decided notices · market: division 32 · UK-wide, n=12
18 days55 days

Half of these awards were announced within 18 days of the bid deadline.

How often single-bid or direct?
i

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.

Thin markets produce this too; it is not proof of a tailored specification.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: exactly 0 of 3 procurements with awards had no recorded rival · market: division 32 · UK-wide, n=24
0 of 338%

Missing bid counts may hide more single-bid awards. This share is a minimum.

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.

Last 36 months.

This buyer12 lots with bid counts · all categories
25% had one bid
The market5 lots with bid counts · CPV 3250 · UK-wide
0% had one bid
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
1 bid25% / 0%
Buyer: 3 of 12 lots with published bid counts. Market: 0 of 5 lots with published bid counts.
2–333% / 0%
Buyer: 4 of 12 lots with published bid counts. Market: 0 of 5 lots with published bid counts.
4–617% / 20%
Buyer: 2 of 12 lots with published bid counts. Market: 1 of 5 lots with published bid counts.
7+25% / 80%
Buyer: 3 of 12 lots with published bid counts. Market: 4 of 5 lots with published bid counts.

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.

On a framework or DPS, prices are agreed when work is called off.

Past prices are a guide, not a bid price.

Last 36 months.

Not comparable on a framework or DPS. The notice sets up a supplier panel and a ceiling value; what the work actually costs is agreed later, on each call-off or mini-competition, and those publish as contract notices of their own. The award-vs-estimate record of this market therefore sits on the call-offs; this page shows it on the contracts, not on the panel that frames them.

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Assess each lot
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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 325024 monthsSME suitablePublished estimate£6.0bn
Expected competition
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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 56 past lots.

A forecast, not a list of bidders.

—No model forecast yet7% single-bid risk
Past bids on 56 similar lots
1 bid7%
4 of 56 similar past lots received 1 bid (7%).
2–316%
9 of 56 similar past lots received 2–3 (16%).
4–629%
16 of 56 similar past lots received 4–6 (29%).
7+48%
27 of 56 similar past lots received 7+ (48%).
Comparable past lots usually drew 5.5 bids.
Commercial price forecast
i

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.

—Priced at call-off
On a framework or DPS the price is agreed on each call-off, so there is no award price to forecast here: the published figure is a ceiling.

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.

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.

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
Planned procurement
Procurement threshold
Above threshold (FTS publication)
Regulatory regime
Standard
Commercial structure
Framework agreement
Who may use this agreement
Not stated in the notice; call-off rights may be limited to the establishing authority
Competition type
Competitive procedure
GPA / WTO covered
Unspecified in notice
Recurring procurement
Unspecified in notice
First published
26 May 2026, 15:38 BST
Last source update
26 May 2026, 15:38 BST
Authority reference
SF053902
FTS notice number
2026/S 000-048949
Latest notice
Pipeline notice (UK1)
Classification (CPV)
Accumulators, primary cells and primary batteriesAdded-value database servicesArchitectural and related servicesArchitectural, construction, engineering and inspection servicesBusiness services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing and securityBusiness transaction and personal business software packageCommunication and multimedia software packageComputer audit and testing servicesComputer back-up and catalogue conversion servicesComputer equipment and supplies
+85 moreComputer hardware acceptance testing consultancy servicesComputer network services
Delivery area
UK
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06a40b Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice
Appointment period ends
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Timeline

26 May 2026 → 17 Sept 2027 · 3 dates
  1. Planning notice published148 days ago
    26 May 2026, 15:38 BST
  2. Today
    21 Oct 2026
  3. Tender notice expectedin 191 days
    30 Apr 2027, 23:59 BST
  4. Contract startsin 330 days
    17 Sept 2027, 00:00 BST

Notice history

1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender
  1. Pipeline notice published
    26 May 2026, 15:38 BST
    UK1

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

2 public bodies on the notice

Mid South Essex NHS Foundation Trust

Contracting authorityPublic authority - central government GB-NHS: RAJ Nether Mayne, Basildon, East of England, SS16 5NLContact name, email, phone

Other public bodies

  • HealthTrust Europe LLPProcess contact pointProcuring entityOn 11th August 2021, Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust (MSE) published a contract notice for procurement partner services. HealthTrust Europe LLP (HTE) was selected to provide these services under the MSE Framework, including access to HTE's public sector frameworks. HTE is now conducting this procurement exercise as part of its services to the Customers under the MSE Framework.GB-COH: OC358224 Birmingham, West MidlandsContact name, email, phone

Official documents & specifications (1)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure

  • Pipeline notice planningPipeline noticeUK1Pipeline notice on Find a Tender