Official UK procurement notice
Enteral Feeding Products and Services
Authority: Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (Central government)·Consortium: 4 public authorities
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionAcute and community Enteral Feeding products and services covering multiple Contracting Authorities:
Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust
City Health Partnership
Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust
York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals
Hull University Teaching Hospitals
Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust
The contract is to include:
provision of feeds and associated pumps and consumables for patients in an acute and community setting.
Nursing support and homeward service.
CPV: Enteral feeds · Home medical treatment services · Nutritional pumps · Parenteral nutrition products · Tubes and fittings
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedPipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust buys Various medicinal products (CPV 3369), and who usually turns up
Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS 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: Various medicinal products (CPV 3369) →
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.
Here, local means registered in Yorkshire and the Humber.
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners are registered outside Yorkshire and the Humber.
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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.
Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.
Half of these awards were announced within 134 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.
Both shares are minimums: some awards have no bid count.
Thin markets produce this too; it is not proof of a tailored specification.
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How many bids did past lots attract?
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How many bids past lots received.
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Past bids do not predict this tender.
1 bid0% / 27%
2–322% / 23%
4–633% / 50%
7+44% / 0%
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 estimate29% / 13%
Within ±2%43% / 53%
Above estimate29% / 33%
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.
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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 3369Published estimate£40m
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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 14 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid7%
2–336%
4–643%
7+14%
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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- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Goods
- Notice status
- Planned procurement
- Procurement threshold
- Above threshold (FTS publication)
- 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
- 27 Feb 2026, 15:48 GMT
- Last source update
- 27 Feb 2026, 16:09 GMT
- Authority reference
W167393- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-018111- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-065eb5Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
27 Feb 2026 → 5 Jul 2027 · 4 dates- Planning notice published237 days ago27 Feb 2026, 15:48 GMT
- Market engagement220 days ago16 Mar 2026, 23:59 GMT
The Contracting Authorities are seeking input on a comprehensive service delivery model that includes: supply of feeds and oral nutrition products; provision of enteral feeding pumps, equipment and associated ancillaries; a nursing support service; servicing and maintenance; and associated digital systems for patient registration, ordering and management reporting. The service provider would be expected to deliver feeds and consumables to the Contracting Authorities’ sites and provide an end-to-end patient homecare delivery service.
This engagement is intended to help the Contracting Authorities understand current market capabilities, delivery models, innovation and product development, and key risks and mitigations, in order to shape the scope, service model and procurement approach. At this stage, no decisions have been taken on the final route to market or any future tender.
As part of this engagement, suppliers will be requested to present to clinical and procurement teams, covering the following areas:
Clinical:
Nursing and clinical support model including training, dietetic support, patient education materials.
Feed range and product development: Overview of the full enteral feed range and planned developments, including micronutrient completeness and clinical suitability across patient groups
Blended diets and support for complex patients, including pump compatibility and any alternative equipment options required.
Allergen Management
Equipment compatibility
Supply chain resilience:
Management of Stock shortages, including communication to clinical teams and patients
Digital/Systems:
Demonstration of electronic patient registration/ordering
Integration with NHS systems
Usage reporting/dashboards
Compliance tracking/wastage monitoring
Hospital discharge and flow support
Commercial, Sustainability and Net Zero:
Service model: FP10 – ON/OFF
Contract Implementation and transition plans with examples
Environmental plans including
Carbon footprint data
Packaging reduction/recycling etc
Links to the NHS Net Zero plan.
A Hands-on product demonstration of pumps and ancillaries would also be preferable.
The PME sessions will be held at the Hull University Teaching Hospitals main site - Anlaby Road.
Date of intended PME Session Monday 16th March 2026.
Sessions will include Procurement and clinical representatives from each contracting Authority and NOECPC who will be supporting on any future tender.
The process will be hosted and led by the Humber North Yorkshire Procurement Collaborative.
Please notify the procurement lead of your intention to attend and a time slot along with a list of pre-agreed questions will be provided
Procurement Lead:
Emma Marsden - Procurement Business Partner for Medicine and Healthcare across HNYPC
- Tender notice expected143 days ago1 Jun 2026, 23:59 BST
- Today22 Oct 2026
- Contract startsin 255 days5 Jul 2027, 00:00 BST
Notice history
3 events · 2 releases on Find a Tender · since 27 Feb 2026- Preliminary market engagement notice published27 Feb 2026, 15:48 GMTUK2
- Preliminary market engagement notice published27 Feb 2026, 16:09 GMTUK2
- Buyer details updated27 Feb 2026, 16:09 GMT
Published amendments (1)
To amend the contact organisation
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
4 public bodies on the noticeConsortium members and other public bodies
- Harrogate and District NHS Foundation TrustContracting authorityPublic authority - central government
- Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation TrustContracting authorityPublic authority - central government
- York and Scarborough Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation TrustContracting authorityPublic authority - central government
Official documents & specifications (2)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender