Find a TenderPlanned procurement
Published 6 Nov 2025, 14:55 GMT

Official UK procurement notice

Echo Scans Additional Services

Authority: South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (Central government)

Services
Planned pipeline value£46,200pipeline notice, not a live tender
Tender notice expected 6 Nov 2025from the planned procurement notice

What is being bought

Published requirement description

This is a Provider Selection Regime (PSR) confirmation of contract award notice. This contract has been awarded under 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. This contract has now been formally awarded using the most suitable provider process.<br/><br/>This process has now come to a close with no representations brought to the Trust. <br/><br/>The contract start date is estimated to be 8th December 2025 for a period of 8 months. <br/><br/>The total contract value will not exceed £70,000.00.

CPV: Cardiology services

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published
Lot #1This is a Provider Selection Regime (PSR) intended approach noticePlanned

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. The intention is to award a contract using the most suitable provider process. Additional information: N/A

Delivery: North East

Who is likely to bid for this lot ↓

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

How South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust buys Medical practice and related services (CPV 8512), and who usually turns up

South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust’s own published record, next to the published market for the same work. Frameworks and DPS are kept out: they attract a different number of bids. Whole-market view: Medical practice and related services (CPV 8512) →

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How the contest usually goes

Winner shares use published awards; bid and price charts use contested lots.

Question for the bidWhat 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: 8 of 11 known-size awards · market: CPV 8512 · North East England, n=91
73%37%

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.

Here, local means registered in North East England.

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

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 11 of 16 known-location awards · market: CPV 8512 · North East England, n=115
69%85%

Most of this buyer’s recorded winners are registered in North East England.

How long to a decision?
i

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.

Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: no decision dates published · market: CPV 8512 · UK-wide, n=21
—51 days

Half of these awards were announced within 51 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.

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

Last 36 months.

Buyer: exactly 13 of 15 procurements with awards had no recorded rival · market: CPV 8512 · North East England, n=131
87%95%

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?

i

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 buyerNo bid counts published
The market5 lots with bid counts · CPV 8512 · North East England
60% had one bid
Market · select a colour for counts
1 bid60%
Market: 3 of 5 lots with published bid counts.
2–320%
Market: 1 of 5 lots with published bid counts.
4–60%
Market: 0 of 5 lots with published bid counts.
7+20%
Market: 1 of 5 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 buyerNo estimate-and-award pairs published
The market71 lots with estimate and award · CPV 8512 · UK-wide
24% below estimate
Market · select a colour for counts
Below estimate24%
Market: 17 of 71 lots with an estimate and award.
Within ±2%69%
Market: 49 of 71 lots with an estimate and award.
Above estimate7%
Market: 5 of 71 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 #1This is a Provider Selection Regime (PSR) intended approach noticeCPV 8512Published estimate£46k
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 160 past lots.

A forecast, not a list of bidders.

—No model forecast yet24% single-bid risk
Past bids on 160 similar lots
1 bid24%
38 of 160 similar past lots received 1 bid (24%).
2–338%
60 of 160 similar past lots received 2–3 (38%).
4–618%
28 of 160 similar past lots received 4–6 (18%).
7+21%
34 of 160 similar past lots received 7+ (21%).
Comparable past lots usually drew 3 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 £46k, 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
ICS Operations trading as Xyla ServicesEarlier contractEcho Scans Additional Servicesnotice published Jun 2025—£45kMatched 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.

What this replaces
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Who has done similar work for this buyer.

Past contracts are matched by buyer, title and type of work.

100% title match.

A past supplier may not bid again.

The prior contract this notice most likely re-tenders · matched by title and category (100% title match), the holder is not guaranteed to re-bid

Echo Scans Additional Services — held by ICS Operations trading as Xyla 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
6 Nov 2025, 14:55 GMT
Last source update
3 Dec 2025, 12:08 GMT
Authority reference
W210323
FTS notice number
2025/S 000-079303
Classification (CPV)
Cardiology services
Delivery area
North East (UKC12)
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-05dbf8 Find a Tender

Publisher note: N/A

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

6 Nov 2025 → 3 Dec 2025 · 2 dates
  1. Tender notice expected350 days ago
    6 Nov 2025
  2. Notice published322 days ago
    3 Dec 2025, 12:08 GMT

Notice history

2 releases on Find a Tender
Published amendments (1)

This is a Provider Selection Regime (PSR) confirmation of contract award notice. This contract has been awarded under 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. This contract has now been formally awarded using the most suitable provider process.

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

South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Contracting authorityCentral GovernmentHealthHealth 2 Eggleston Court, Middlesbrough, North East, TS2 1RUContact name, email, phone

Official documents & specifications

Official links; attachments are not copied

No document links were published on the notice.