Find a TenderPlanned procurement
Published 10 Nov 2025, 16:03 GMT

Official UK procurement notice

East of England Gender Dysphoria Service for Adults (non-surgical)

Authority: NHS England (Central government)

Services
Planned pipeline value£14,700,000pipeline notice, not a live tender
Tender notice expected 10 Nov 2025from the planned procurement notice

What is being bought

Published requirement description

This is an Intended Approach Notice to award contracts using the Most Suitable Provider (MSP) Process for the delivery of non-surgical interventions for individuals on the NHS pathway of care for the treatment of gender dysphoria within the East of England region.

CPV: Health services

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published

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

How NHS England buys Health services (CPV 8510), and who usually turns up

NHS England’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) →

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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 buyerNHS England · division 85
The marketHealth services (CPV 8510) · East of England
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: 285 of 926 known-size awards · market: CPV 8510 · East of England, n=435
31%46%

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.

Local means the winner is registered in the region where that award was delivered. The market figure counts awards delivered in East of England.

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

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 544 of 650 known-location awards · market: CPV 8510 · East of England, n=611
84%48%

Most of this buyer’s recorded winners were registered in the region where that award was delivered.

How long to a decision?
i

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.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 10 decided notices · market: CPV 8510 · East of England, n=14
24 days41 days

Half of these awards have an award date within 24 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.

Both shares are minimums: some awards have no bid count.

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

Last 36 months.

Buyer: at least 276 of 425 procurements with awards had no recorded rival · market: CPV 8510 · East of England, n=373
65%70%

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.

Last 36 months.

This buyer170 lots with bid counts · broad CPV 85
26% had one bid
The market82 lots with bid counts · CPV 8510 · East of England
15% had one bid
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
1 bid26% / 15%
Buyer: 45 of 170 lots with published bid counts. Market: 12 of 82 lots with published bid counts.
2–341% / 35%
Buyer: 70 of 170 lots with published bid counts. Market: 29 of 82 lots with published bid counts.
4–615% / 38%
Buyer: 26 of 170 lots with published bid counts. Market: 31 of 82 lots with published bid counts.
7+17% / 12%
Buyer: 29 of 170 lots with published bid counts. Market: 10 of 82 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.

Past prices are a guide, not a bid price.

Last 36 months.

This buyer108 lots with estimate and award · broad CPV 85
36% below estimate
The market58 lots with estimate and award · CPV 8510 · East of England
41% below estimate
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
Below estimate36% / 41%
Buyer: 39 of 108 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 24 of 58 lots with an estimate and award.
Within ±2%53% / 53%
Buyer: 57 of 108 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 31 of 58 lots with an estimate and award.
Above estimate11% / 5%
Buyer: 12 of 108 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 3 of 58 lots with an estimate and award.
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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 8510Published estimate£15m
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 82 past lots.

A forecast, not a list of bidders.

—No model forecast yet15% chance of a single bid
Past bids on 82 similar lots
1 bid15%
12 of 82 similar past lots received 1 bid (15%).
2–335%
29 of 82 similar past lots received 2–3 (35%).
4–638%
31 of 82 similar past lots received 4–6 (38%).
7+12%
10 of 82 similar past lots received 7+ (12%).
Comparable past lots usually drew 3.5 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.

—No model forecast yet
No comparable awards on record for this lot’s category yet. The published estimate is £15m, and the forecast stays empty until the market has a record to read.

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.

SupplierThis buyer’s earlier contractLotAward valueWhy listed
Cheshire and Merseyside NHS Foundation TrustEarlier contractCheshire & Merseyside Adult Gender Dysphoria Servicenotice published Sept 2024——Matched as the earlier contract
Mersey Care NHS Foundation TrustEarlier contractCheshire & Merseyside Adult Gender Dysphoria Servicenotice published Sept 2024——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.

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
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
10 Nov 2025, 16:03 GMT
Last source update
10 Nov 2025, 16:03 GMT
Authority reference
C398879
FTS notice number
2025/S 000-072524
Classification (CPV)
Health services
Delivery area
East of England (UKH)
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-05de00 Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice
Run through: portal not identified

Tender documents are also served through a separate tool: https://health-family.force.com/s/Welcome ↗

Submission deadline
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Timeline

10 Nov 2025 → 10 Nov 2025 · 2 dates
  1. Tender notice expected353 days ago
    10 Nov 2025
  2. Notice published353 days ago
    10 Nov 2025, 16:03 GMT

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

NHS England

Contracting authorityCentral GovernmentBody governed by public lawHealth Wellington House, 133-135 Waterloo Rd, London, South East, SE1 8UGContact name, email

Official documents & specifications

Official links; attachments are not copied

No document links were published on the notice.