Official UK procurement notice
Community Specialist Stop Smoking Service
Authority: Newcastle City Council (Local council)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionNCC will be recommissioning the Stop Smoking Service.
CPV: Community health services · Health services · Miscellaneous health services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · value publishedLot #1Fixed price PSR Competitive Contract for ServicesPublished value£1,659,000
- Extensions
- This contract includes the additional 1 x 12 months option to extend. Totalling a possible 42 months.
- Variant bids
- not allowed
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).
- SuitabilitySee ITT Documentation
Competition analysis · published record, not a forecast of who will bid
How Newcastle City Council buys Social services (CPV 8532) — and who usually turns up
Newcastle City Council’s own published record, next to the North East England market for the same work. Frameworks and DPS are kept out: they attract a different number of bids. Whole-market view: Social services (CPV 8532) →
How the contest usually goes
Left: this authority. Right: the market where the work is delivered. Bids and award-vs-estimate pairs are per lot, from contested contracts only — direct awards (including PA 2023 transparency notices) report one bid by definition and are left out. On Procurement Act 2023 notices the count is the tenders assessed at the final stage, not every submission received; pairs compare like with like (VAT-exclusive, or VAT-inclusive on both sides). Empty means nothing was published, not filled in from elsewhere.
Newcastle City Council
contract notices in 36 months: 2 in CPV 8532 · 62 in division 85 (10 without competition · 8 route not published) · 215 in all categories (23 without competition · 16 route not published)
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How many companies usually bid for work like this.
Middle value of published bid counts, one per lot, for this buyer or this region in the same sector.
Based on this buyer’s tenders in this industry (CPV 85), last 36 months: 24 lots. 2 lots are from Procurement Act 2023 notices (bids assessed, middle 3) and 22 from older notices (bids received, middle 4).
Nothing is filled in from UK-wide numbers. An empty tile means nothing usable was published.
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How often only one company bid.
Share of lots that received exactly one bid, on the same competitions as the bids figure.
Based on this buyer’s tenders in this industry (CPV 85), last 36 months: 24 lots.
High means a thin market or an incumbent that is hard to beat.
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Do awards for work like this land above or below the estimate.
Estimate against award per lot, for this buyer or this region in the same sector.
Based on this buyer’s tenders in this industry (CPV 85), last 36 months: 10 pairs.
A past pattern, not a price to bid.
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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.
Based on this buyer’s tenders in this industry (CPV 85), last 36 months: 6 notices.
Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.
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How often this buyer changes a notice after publishing it.
Middle number of amendments per notice. Deadline extensions and corrections both count.
Based on this buyer’s tenders in all categories, last 24 months: 351 notices.
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How often this buyer awards without a competition.
Direct or limited awards as a share of its notices that say which procedure was used. These routes are legal in defined cases. This is just the record.
Based on this buyer’s tenders in this industry (CPV 85), last 36 months: 54 notices.
North East England · Social services (CPV 8532)
contract notices delivered in North East England in 36 months: 169 in CPV 8532 (21 competed, 10 route not published) · 1,934 in division 85 (378 competed, 212 route not published)
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How many companies usually bid for work like this.
Middle value of published bid counts, one per lot, for this buyer or this region in the same sector.
Based on this region’s tenders in this sector (CPV 8532), last 36 months: 10 lots. 7 lots are from Procurement Act 2023 notices (bids assessed, middle 3) and 3 from older notices (bids received, middle 3).
Nothing is filled in from UK-wide numbers. An empty tile means nothing usable was published.
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How often only one company bid.
Share of lots that received exactly one bid, on the same competitions as the bids figure.
Based on this region’s tenders in this sector (CPV 8532), last 36 months: 10 lots.
High means a thin market or an incumbent that is hard to beat.
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Do awards for work like this land above or below the estimate.
Estimate against award per lot, for this buyer or this region in the same sector.
Based on this region’s tenders in this sector (CPV 8532), last 36 months: 10 pairs.
A past pattern, not a price to bid.
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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.
Based on this region’s tenders in this sector (CPV 8532), last 36 months: 9 notices.
Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.
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How much of this market goes to small and medium firms.
SME bidders where buyers published the split, otherwise SME winners.
Based on this region’s tenders in this sector (CPV 8532), last 36 months: 8 lots.
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How much work like this goes to companies based in the delivery region.
Awards in this category delivered here where the winner’s registered address is in the region.
Based on this region’s tenders in this sector (CPV 8532), last 36 months: 152 awards.
Registered address, so a national firm with a local branch counts as outside.
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Where this tender’s estimate would land if the usual pattern repeats.
We apply the buyer’s usual movement between estimate and award (or the region’s) to the estimate on this notice.
No estimate in pounds on this notice, so the movement stays a percentage.
A benchmark, not a price to bid.
Coverage and what to read with care
- Each tile explains itself. The on a figure says what it is, how it is counted and which scope this notice’s own record came from (class, division, all categories, or the authority’s 24-month row). The two columns are never blended and nothing is filled from a UK-wide figure; an empty tile means the source published nothing usable. Long form: Methodology.
- Coverage. Roughly 40 % of notices publish a bid count; about half publish an ITL1 delivery location, so the market column reads the authority’s registered region when the notice has none (labelled). About 30 % of award-vs-estimate pairs are exact matches — the buyer published the award at the estimate. n is on every figure; a thin sample is muted, never hidden.
- “Match” and “relevance” are model scores from the nightly matcher, not published facts. Find a Tender does not publish who is bidding. Never shown: contact details, payment behaviour, or a recommended price.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Procedure method
- Open procedure
- Legal basis
- CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Open for tender
- 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
- No (one-off requirement)
- First published
- 30 Sept 2026, 11:04 BST
- Last source update
- 30 Sept 2026, 11:04 BST
- Award evaluation window
- 4 Nov 2026, 12:01 GMT — …
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-077d4a
How to participate & submission route
Submit via OPEN-UK- Expression of interest (EOI)
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- Tender submission deadline
- 4 Nov 2026, 12:00 GMT
- Clarification deadline
- —
- Submission channel
- {"electronicSubmission"}
- Accepted languages
- en
- Bids opened
- 4 Nov 2026, 12:01 GMT
Timeline
3 published dates · Europe/London- Notice publishedearlier today30 Sept 2026, 11:04 BST
- Submission deadlinein 35 days4 Nov 2026, 12:00 GMT
- Bids openedin 35 days4 Nov 2026, 12:01 GMT
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
Dispute resolution & review bodies
- Newcastle City Council Public Health DirectorateReview body
Official documents & specifications
Official links; attachments are not copiedNo document links were published on the notice; the tender pack is on the portal.