Official UK procurement notice
Community Pain Services for NHS Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin Integrated Care Board - Market Engagement
Authority: NHS Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin Integrated Care Board (Central government)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThis is an advertisement for market testing to gauge market interest which will influence future commissioning and procurement direction, and to enable market input into the service specification. This advertisement is issued under the Provider Selection Regime (PSR) of the Healthcare Services Regulations 2023. NHS Shropshire Telford and Wrekin Integrated Care Board ICB (STW ICB) has not decided at this point whether a procurement will be undertaken or which PSR process best applies.
NHS Shropshire Telford and Wrekin Integrated Care Board (STW ICB) has a requirement for a community based, digitally enabled, multi-disciplinary team led Community Pain Service for adults (16+) with a confirmed diagnosis of persistent or chronic pain, delivering medicines optimisation, physiotherapy-led movement based interventions, mental health support, and CBT-informed coaching through flexible, integrated, and preventative care models.
STW ICB are seeking Expressions of Interest (EoIs) from potential providers that are suitably qualified and experienced in delivering Community Pain Services.
Any Provider wishing to express an interest in the delivery of Community Pain Services for the Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin (STW) area should register their interest and complete the questionnaire on the Atamis Health Family eCommercial System at health-family.force.com/s/Welcome ↗, Atamis reference C426009, no later than 16:00 hours on 07/04/2026.
CPV: Health services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1Planned
Pipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How NHS Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin Integrated Care Board buys Health services (CPV 8510), and who usually turns up
NHS Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin Integrated Care Board’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: Health services (CPV 8510) →
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.
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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. The market figure counts awards delivered in West Midlands.
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners were registered in 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 69 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.
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.
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 bid23%
2–331%
4–624%
7+22%
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 estimate51%
Within ±2%44%
Above estimate5%
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 8510Published estimate£5.8m
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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 87 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid23%
2–331%
4–624%
7+22%
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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.
| Supplier | This buyer’s earlier contract | Lot | Award value | Why listed |
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| Primary Eyecare ServicesEarlier contract | Optometry First Services for NHS Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin Integrated Care Boardnotice published Apr 2025 | Optometry First Services | £7.0m | Matched as the earlier contract |
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.
What this replaces i
Who has done similar work for this buyer.
Past contracts are matched by buyer, title and type of work.
59% title match.
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.
59% title match.
A past supplier may not bid again.
The prior contract this notice most likely re-tenders · matched by title and category (59% title match), the holder is not guaranteed to re-bid
Optometry First Services for NHS Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin Integrated Care Board — held by Primary Eyecare Services; no contract end date published.
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
- Services
- 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
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 11 Mar 2026, 15:53 GMT
- Last source update
- 11 Mar 2026, 15:53 GMT
- Authority reference
WHISP-414- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-021921- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06678bFind a Tender
Publisher note: It should be noted that this is not a procurement exercise at this stage and participating organisations are responsible for their own costs. All details provided by STW ICB are in draft format, and STW ICB reserves the right to change/amend any aspect of its requirement prior to any potential future procurement exercise. The ICB reserves the right not only to change/amend it's approach, but also reserves the right not to proceed with a procurement. The Commissioner reserves the right to contact any provider in reference their response, though the Commissioner is not committed to do so. To register your Expression of Interest (EOI) please complete the questionnaire on the Atamis Health Family eCommercial System https://health-family.force.com/s/Welcome, reference C426009. The closing date for expressions of interest is 16:00 hours on 07/04/2026. This is a Provider Selection Regime (PSR) market engagement notice. Should STW ICB award any contract subsequent to this request, it will be subject to the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023. For the avoidance of doubt, the provisions of the Procurement Act 2023 do not apply to this notice. STW ICB is not bound to act on any information generated from the questionnaire, and participation does not automatically guarantee any standing with regards to any future PSR process adopted by STW ICB.
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
11 Mar 2026 → 17 Jun 2026 · 2 dates- Notice published226 days ago11 Mar 2026, 15:53 GMT
- Tender notice expected129 days ago17 Jun 2026, 00:00 BST
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.