Official UK procurement notice
Complex Emotional Needs for Adults Services
Authority: Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust (Central government)·On behalf of: Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThis is a Planned Procurement Notice to notify the market that following Market Engagement completed in June 2026, we will be publishing the tendering opportunity for a Complex Emotional Needs Service for Adults 18+ within the Kensington and Chelsea Borough on behalf of Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust.
This is an Open procedure under the PA23 Light Touch Regime.
CPV: Guidance services · Other community, social and personal services · Provision of services to the community
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · value publishedLot #1PlannedRenewalPublished value£645,000
Pipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust buys Social work services (CPV 8531), and who usually turns up
Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust’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: Social work services (CPV 8531) →
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.
Local means the winner is registered in the region where that award was delivered. The market figure counts awards delivered in Greater London.
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 79 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 bid29%
2–339%
4–622%
7+10%
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 estimate21%
Within ±2%70%
Above estimate9%
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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.
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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 8531Published estimate£645k
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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 77 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid29%
2–339%
4–622%
7+10%
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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- 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
- Light touch regime
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 27 May 2026, 17:42 BST
- Last source update
- 11 Aug 2026, 17:57 BST
- Award evaluation window
- Submission end – 2 Nov 2026
- Authority reference
C464379- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-076446- Latest notice
- Planned procurement notice (UK3)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06a6e6Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
- 21 Sept 2026, 12:00 BST
- Clarification deadline
- 9 Sept 2026, 16:00 BST
- Submission channel
- Official e-sourcing portal
- Electronic submission
- Allowed
- Accepted languages
- en
All submissions must be via the Atamis Portal for project C464379 the next notice UK04 Tender Notice, will provide all the details relevant to the tender.
Timeline
27 May 2026 → 1 Dec 2026 · 8 dates- Planning notice published150 days ago27 May 2026, 17:42 BST
- Market engagement136 days ago10 Jun 2026, 23:59 BST
Please respond via the Atamis portal to project C449946 with your responses - RFI documents can be accessed from this project page on Atamis
- Latest notice published74 days ago11 Aug 2026, 17:57 BST
- Tender notice expected64 days ago21 Aug 2026, 23:59 BST
- Clarification questions by46 days ago9 Sept 2026, 16:00 BST
- Submission deadline34 days ago21 Sept 2026, 12:00 BST
- Today25 Oct 2026
- Award decision expected byin 9 days2 Nov 2026, 23:59 GMT
- Contract startsin 37 days1 Dec 2026
Notice history
7 events · 3 releases on Find a Tender · since 27 May 2026- Preliminary market engagement notice published27 May 2026, 17:42 BSTUK2
- Preliminary market engagement notice published28 May 2026, 08:53 BSTUK2
- Planned procurement notice published11 Aug 2026, 17:57 BSTUK3
- Published value updated to £645,00011 Aug 2026, 17:57 BSTwas £0
- Status changed to planned11 Aug 2026, 17:57 BST
- Procurement method changed11 Aug 2026, 17:57 BST
- Deadline published: 21 Sept 2026, 12:00 BST11 Aug 2026, 17:57 BST
Published amendments (1)
Closing time for responses is incorrect, this should read as 11:59am not pm
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 noticeOther public bodies
- Central London Community Healthcare NHS TrustProcuring entityCentral London Community Healthcare host North West Procurement Services who deliver all procurement services to CNWL
Official documents & specifications (3)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Planned procurement notice Planned procurement notice on Find a Tender
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender