Find a TenderPlanned procurement
Published 30 Jun 2026, 17:12 BST

Official UK procurement notice

General Dental Services with supervision of students

Authority: NHS NORFOLK AND SUFFOLK INTEGRATED CARE BOARD (Central government)

Services
Planned pipeline valueValue not publishedpipeline notice, not a live tender
Tender notice expected 1 Sept 2026from the planned procurement notice

What is being bought

Published requirement description

Norfolk and Suffolk ICB and the University of Suffolk have established a new dental service at the University Waterfront's premises, a state-of-the-art dental facility which opened in February 2024. The service provides both access to NHS dental services for the local community and placements for undergraduate students at the University's BSc in Dental Hygiene and Therapy.

CPV: Dental practice and related services

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published
Lot #1Planned
Delivery: East of England · The practice is located in central Ipswich.

Who is likely to bid for this lot ↓

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

How NHS NORFOLK AND SUFFOLK INTEGRATED CARE BOARD buys Dental practice and related services (CPV 8513), and who usually turns up

NHS NORFOLK AND SUFFOLK INTEGRATED CARE BOARD’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: Dental practice and related services (CPV 8513) →

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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: 7 of 25 known-size awards · market: CPV 8513 · East of England, n=59
28%90%

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: 31 of 48 known-location awards · market: CPV 8513 · East of England, n=83
65%76%

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: no decision dates published · market: CPV 8513 · UK-wide, n=5
—31 days

Half of these awards have an award date within 31 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 12 of 30 procurements with awards had no recorded rival · market: CPV 8513 · East of England, n=75
40%79%

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 buyer11 lots with bid counts · broad CPV 85
45% had one bid
The market13 lots with bid counts · CPV 8513 · East of England
31% had one bid
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
1 bid45% / 31%
Buyer: 5 of 11 lots with published bid counts. Market: 4 of 13 lots with published bid counts.
2–39% / 31%
Buyer: 1 of 11 lots with published bid counts. Market: 4 of 13 lots with published bid counts.
4–645% / 31%
Buyer: 5 of 11 lots with published bid counts. Market: 4 of 13 lots with published bid counts.
7+0% / 8%
Buyer: 0 of 11 lots with published bid counts. Market: 1 of 13 lots with published bid counts.

How did awards compare with estimates?

i

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 buyer9 lots with estimate and award · broad CPV 85
0% below estimate
The market8 lots with estimate and award · CPV 8513 · East of England
75% below estimate
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
Below estimate0% / 75%
Buyer: 0 of 9 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 6 of 8 lots with an estimate and award.
Within ±2%89% / 13%
Buyer: 8 of 9 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 1 of 8 lots with an estimate and award.
Above estimate11% / 13%
Buyer: 1 of 9 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 1 of 8 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 8513Estimate not published
Expected competition
i

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 13 past lots.

A forecast, not a list of bidders.

—No model forecast yet31% chance of a single bid
Past bids on 13 similar lots
1 bid31%
4 of 13 similar past lots received 1 bid (31%).
2–331%
4 of 13 similar past lots received 2–3 (31%).
4–631%
4 of 13 similar past lots received 4–6 (31%).
7+8%
1 of 13 similar past lots received 7+ (8%).
Comparable past lots usually drew 2 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.

—Estimate not published
The buyer published no estimate for this lot, so there is nothing to forecast against. A price prediction here would be a number about a number we do not have.

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.

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.

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
30 Jun 2026, 17:12 BST
Last source update
30 Jun 2026, 17:12 BST
FTS notice number
2026/S 000-061469
Classification (CPV)
Dental practice and related services
Delivery area
East of England (UKH14)
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06c0a9 Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice
Submission deadline
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Timeline

30 Jun 2026 → 1 Sept 2026 · 2 dates
  1. Notice published116 days ago
    30 Jun 2026, 17:12 BST
  2. Tender notice expected53 days ago
    1 Sept 2026, 00:00 BST

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 NORFOLK AND SUFFOLK INTEGRATED CARE BOARD

Contracting authorityCentral GovernmentBody governed by public lawHealth GB-NHS: T6Y0W County Hall, Martineau Lane, Norwich, East of England, NR12DHContact name, email

Official documents & specifications

Official links; attachments are not copied

No document links were published on the notice.