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Published 2 Nov 2026, 10:48 GMT

Official UK procurement notice

Guided Ultrasound Technology for Suspected Deep Vein Thrombosis (DVT)

Official notice Competition analysis

Authority: Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust (Central government)·Procurement run by: Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust

ServicesAbove threshold
Sectors: IT Services & Software (72) Delivery: Delivery location not published
Planned pipeline value£300,000pipeline notice, not a live tender
Tender notice expected 13 Nov 2026from the planned procurement notice
Contract term 3 yrsends 30 Nov 2029 · starts 1 Dec 2026

What is being bought

Published requirement description

Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is seeking information on available solutions to support a clinician led, point of care ultrasound pathway for suspected lower limb DVT across Chelsea and Westminster Hospital and West Middlesex University Hospital.

CPV: IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published
Lot #1Planned 3 yrs
Contract period: 1 Dec 2026 – 30 Nov 2029 (3 yrs)
72000000 IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support

Who is likely to bid for this lot ↓

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

How Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust buys IT services: consulting, software, internet (CPV 72), and who usually turns up

Chelsea and Westminster Hospital 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: IT services: consulting, software, internet (CPV 72) →

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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 buyerChelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust · all categories
The marketIT services: consulting, software, internet (CPV 72) · Greater London (authority’s region)
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: 3 of 12 known-size awards · market: division 72 · Greater London (authority’s region), n=737
25%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.

Local means the winner is registered in the region where that award was delivered. The market figure counts awards delivered in Greater London (authority’s region).

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

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 5 of 7 known-location awards · market: division 72 · Greater London (authority’s region), n=674
71%41%

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: division 72 · Greater London (authority’s region), n=71
—68 days

Half of these awards have an award date within 68 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 9 of 15 procurements with awards had no recorded rival · market: division 72 · Greater London (authority’s region), n=1,085
60%62%

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 buyer5 lots with bid counts · all categories
0% had one bid
The market103 lots with bid counts · division 72 · Greater London (authority’s region)
8% had one bid
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
1 bid0% / 8%
Buyer: 0 of 5 lots with published bid counts. Market: 8 of 103 lots with published bid counts.
2–3100% / 32%
Buyer: 5 of 5 lots with published bid counts. Market: 33 of 103 lots with published bid counts.
4–60% / 31%
Buyer: 0 of 5 lots with published bid counts. Market: 32 of 103 lots with published bid counts.
7+0% / 29%
Buyer: 0 of 5 lots with published bid counts. Market: 30 of 103 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 buyerToo few to chart: 2 lots with estimate and award, 5 needed · all categories
The market78 lots with estimate and award · division 72 · Greater London (authority’s region)
40% below estimate
Market · select a colour for counts
Below estimate40%
Market: 31 of 78 lots with an estimate and award.
Within ±2%40%
Market: 31 of 78 lots with an estimate and award.
Above estimate21%
Market: 16 of 78 lots with an estimate and award.
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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.

Open a lot for its forecast, this buyer’s previous supplier and possible competitors, from published award history, not a bid list

Lot #1CPV 7236 monthsPublished estimate£300k

This lot lists more than one class in CPV 72. The comparison uses that group.

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 103 past lots.

A forecast, not a list of bidders.

—No model forecast yet8% chance of a single bid
Past bids on 103 similar lots
1 bid8%
8 of 103 similar past lots received 1 bid (8%).
2–332%
33 of 103 similar past lots received 2–3 (32%).
4–631%
32 of 103 similar past lots received 4–6 (31%).
7+29%
30 of 103 similar past lots received 7+ (29%).
Comparable past lots usually drew 4 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 £300k, 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.

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. Contracts Finder contracts appear on the Retender Radar, not yet in these figures.
  • 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
Services
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
2 Nov 2026, 10:48 GMT
Last source update
2 Nov 2026, 10:48 GMT
Authority reference
C487455
FTS notice number
2026/S 000-103607
Latest notice
Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
Classification (CPV)
IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support
Delivery area
Not published
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-07954a Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice
Submission deadline
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Timeline

2 Nov 2026 → 1 Dec 2026 · 4 dates
  1. Planning notice published47h ago
    2 Nov 2026, 10:48 GMT
  2. Today
    4 Nov 2026
  3. Market engagementin 5 days
    9 Nov 2026, 23:59 GMT

    To participate in this RFI exercise, please navigate to the Atamis tender portal - find the opportunity against ref C487455. Please download the RFI pack and respond accordingly through the portal.

  4. Tender notice expectedin 9 days
    13 Nov 2026, 23:59 GMT
  5. Contract startsin 26 days
    1 Dec 2026

Notice history

1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender
  1. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    2 Nov 2026, 10:48 GMT
    UK2

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 notice

Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Contracting authorityPublic authority - central government GB-PPON: PGHW-2767-ZYZT Unit G3, Harbour Yard, Chelsea Harbour, London, London, SW10 0XDContact name, email

Other public bodies

Official documents & specifications (1)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure