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BuyerNHS SUFFOLK AND NORTH EAST ESSEX INTEGRATED CARE BOARD
StatustenderUpdate
DeadlineNot published
ValueValue not published
Published18 Dec 2025

What is being bought

The provider will deliver a community endoscopy service for patients who are referred by their GP. The provider must ensure that the service is planned and delivered in consultation with the commissioners, local acute gastroenterology services and GP practices. The following diagnostic investigations will be delivered: -Oesophago-gastro duodenoscopy (OGD) -Trans nasal endoscopy -Flexible sigmoidoscopy -Colonoscopy The service will be delivered from a site within the Ipswich and East Suffolk locality. The commissioners are looking to establish a contract for three (3) years with a potential extension period of up to two (2) years.

Categories

Health services 85100000

Comparable-procurement analytics

Benchmarked against retained Find a Tender procedures with CPV division 85. The category anchor is Health services (85100000); this is a deliberately broad market comparator. The comparison is shown at several levels rather than pretending one company or region is always the best benchmark.

Comparison setProceduresReported bids per procedureNamed award suppliersPrice evidence
Market: CPV division 8538,3731 median · 19.7 average (22,930 of 38,373 with a bid count)1.8 average (24,592 of 38,373 with named award suppliers)10 comparable price pairs
Same buyer1441 median · 3.2 average (31 of 144 with a bid count)1.1 average (60 of 144 with named award suppliers)Not published

“Reported bids” is an official aggregate, sometimes reported per lot; it is the closest available competition measure. “Named award suppliers” are winners, not all applicants.

Price-outcome signal

Not enough comparable procedures currently publish both a GBP tender value and a usable lowest-valid-bid value to calculate a responsible price-reduction benchmark. Tenderline deliberately does not infer a saving from named award suppliers or from missing award values.

Procurement strategy & market signals

Framework agreementNot published
Dynamic purchasing systemNot published
Competitive procurementNot published
Recurring requirementNot published
Procurement method rationaleNot published
Rationale classificationsNot published
Special regimeNot published
Covered byNot published
Submission policyNot published
Selection criteriaNot published
Risk detailsNot published

Planning & early market engagement

BudgetNot published
No-engagement rationaleNot published
Planning documents0
Planning milestones0

No planning milestones published.

Related procurements

No linked framework, prior procurement or reprocurement published.

Documents & submission route

No documents are published in the current source record.

Source data inventory

Diagnostic view. “Not published” means this current release does not provide a value.

OCIDocds-h6vhtk-04b6a5
Latest release ID084633-2025
Latest release timestampThu Dec 18 2025 17:24:31 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Sourcefind-a-tender
Official notice URLNot published
Tender statusNot published
Procurement methodNot published
Procurement method detailsNot published
Main procurement categoryservices
Above thresholdNot published
Legal basis32014L0024
Tender period: startNot published
Tender period: endNot published
Expression of interest deadlineNot published
Enquiry deadlineNot published
Award period: startNot published
Award period: endNot published
Submission method detailsNot published
Submission languagesNot published
Electronic catalogue policyNot published
Total tender valueNot published
Tender lots in source0
Tender items in source0
Tender documents in source0
Awards in latest release0
Contracts in latest release0
Parties in latest release1

Notice history

DateEventReference
18 Dec 2025tenderUpdate084633-2025
25 Sept 2025award, contract059532-2025
30 May 2025tender028804-2025
15 Nov 2024planning036934-2024

All source data

Unmodified official OCDS data retained by Tenderline for this procurement process.

Complete current OCDS release JSON
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Complete JSON history (4 releases)
18 Dec 2025 · 084633-2025 · tenderUpdate
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25 Sept 2025 · 059532-2025 · award, contract
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30 May 2025 · 028804-2025 · tender
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15 Nov 2024 · 036934-2024 · planning
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        "description": "Suffolk and North East Essex are currently assessing the market for potential providers of community endoscopy services to inform future procurement decisions.\nThe specification is highlighted below but a full copy of the draft specification can be provided upon request by emailing procurement@snee.nhs.uk.\nThe Provider will: - \n• Support patients to self-care and self-manage whilst supporting primary care in managing their patients, integrating fully with primary and acute care and offer an alternative to acute care for some patients\n• Pro-actively work with primary care to help upskill and educate in order to: -\n- ensure a right first time diagnosis is made to ensure accurate and well directed referrals\n- allow more complex patients to be managed in primary care\n- encourage the message of prevention and self-care\n• Signposting of patients as required to services such as: -\n- Mental Health services (NSFT, Suffolk Wellbeing)\n- Lifestyle services Weight Management, Fitness and Smoking Cessation etc\n- Third sector organisations such as the Coeliac society\n• The Provider must operate the same endoscopy software as the local acute provider (Scorpio - from Ascribe) or 100% compatible software in order to share and exchange key patient data\n• Practitioners from the Provider will be able to onward refer to secondary care if symptoms change or become concerning subject to agreement by the Strategic Partnership\n• Maintain JAG (Joint Advisory Group) accreditation and participate in the Global Rating Scale to ensure the service meets national required standards\n• Potentially flex their service and capacity to accommodate increases (direct or indirect) from the various bowel screening programmes\n• This service will work with the Public Health commissioned service such as \"Turning Point\" to support patients on detoxification programmes\n• Provide support to cancer Multi-Disciplinary Teams (MDTs) and 2 week wait suspected cancer pathways.\nThe provider will promote active relationships with partner agencies and signpost patients to the appropriate provider / service including the voluntary sector (for support groups etc.), lifestyle providers and to wellbeing support such as that provided by Norfolk & Suffolk Foundation Trust (NSFT). \nThe service will support patients to access a range of national and local sources of trusted and quality assured self-management /self-care information, reflecting that we are in the internet age and offering the latest clinical thinking. This is likely to include sources such as NHS Choices, Patient.co.uk and signposting patients to self-help groups or local clinics and services. For example, if a patient is following dietary advice, the service should point the patient to the tools to help monitor their intake - food tracking apps for example.\nIn summary: -\n• Assist with developing system wide pathways that promote and emphasise: -\n- supporting patients through health promotion and self-care, self- management of common but not clinically concerning Gastro illnesses\n- improve the adoption of public health preventative measures\n- assist with earlier detection and expansion of screening programs\n- offer care closer to home\n• Support increasing role of pharmacists to across all aspects of tier 1 e.g. signposting\n• Help link patients with existing resources such as disorder specific charities, support groups and expert patient programmes to promote self-management\n• Increase availability of patient wellbeing and self-care programs and reduce an overall reliance on primary and secondary care\n• Reduce patient's reliance on use of prescribed drugs\n• For those patients that have been identified through analysis of primary care data as returning to primary care for multiple appointments for symptom control, dietary advice and lifestyle support the Community Endoscopy Service will work with primary care to help empower those patients to self-manage.\nSupport for Primary Care\nThe Provider shall ensure that primary care is supported as far as practical in making an early diagnosis to ensure the patient is seen by the right person, in the right setting the first time. This would be for, but not limited to GPs and their practice staff (such as nurse practitioners) and Pharmacists and would be achieved by: -\n• Support primary care clinicians to arrive at a right first time diagnosis and to offer faster treatment\n• Support development and ongoing review of referral criteria and dataset checklists with primary care to ensure referrals are appropriate\n• Support the design, implementation and ongoing review of referral thresholds (e.g. Haemorrhoids) with primary care colleagues \n• Support the increasing role of pharmacists to in turn support all aspects of tier 2 care\n• Support and improve upon the on-going education needs of primary care teams such as GPs, Practice nurses and Pharmacists on managing Gastro disorders.\nThe closing date to express an interest in this opportunity is 1 December 2024. Any interested providers should email procurement@snee.nhs.uk. Please note that this is not a call for competition at this time. Additional information: This is a Provider Selection Regime (PSR) intended approach notice. The awarding of this contract is subject to the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023. For the avoidance of doubt, the provisions of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 do not apply to this award."
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          "description": "Ipswich and East Suffolk locality."
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    "title": "Community Endoscopy Service",
    "status": "planned",
    "legalBasis": {
      "id": "32014L0024",
      "scheme": "CELEX"
    },
    "description": "This service covers the provision of community endoscopy (colonoscopy, flexible sigmoidoscopy and gastroscopy) to patients who are with a Registered GP within Suffolk and North East Essex Integrated Care Board (SNEE ICB). \nThis will be a direct access service to available for GPs to refer patients into and will meet the 6-week diagnostic pathway target.",
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      "futureNoticeDate": "2025-02-01T00:00:00Z"
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      "description": "Health services"
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      "name": "NHS Suffolk and North East Essex ICB",
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      "address": {
        "region": "UKH34",
        "locality": "COLCHESTER",
        "postalCode": "CO49QR",
        "countryName": "United Kingdom",
        "streetAddress": "Aspen House, Stephenson Road"
      },
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        "legalName": "NHS Suffolk and North East Essex ICB"
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      "contactPoint": {
        "name": "Jane Garnett",
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  "language": "en",
  "description": "For avoidance of doubt the Award Decision Makers are NHS Suffolk and North East Essex Integrated Care Board, Aspen House, Stephenson Road, Severalls Business Park, Colchester, CO4 9QR.\nThe Authority may wish to introduce additional services during the lifetime of the contract (\"Contract modifications\"). Such contract modifications will be contemplated where additional requirements are similar and or complementary to the services already included in the Specification, at any given time. Such expansion would be by the addition of services commissioned by the Authority as named in the Contract Notice. To this end, the Bidder should be aware that after the award of contract, there is a possibility that the successful Bidder may be offered a variation to the contract in accordance with the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023.",
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