Find a TenderPlanned procurementPreliminary market engagement notice
Published 17 Dec 2025, 12:49 GMT

Official UK procurement notice

HAC6134 - London Tobacco Alliance and Stop Smoking London Supplier Framework

Authority: Tower Hamlets

Framework agreementServicesAbove thresholdSME suitableVCSE suitable
Sectors: Health & Social Care (85) Delivery: UK
Planned pipeline value£579,600pipeline notice, not a live tender
Tender notice expected 31 Mar 2026from the planned procurement notice
Framework period 3 yrsends 30 Jun 2029 · starts 1 Jul 2026

What is being bought

Published requirement description

London Tobacco Alliance is a London-wide partnership of key organisations aiming to make London smoke free by 2030. It is a programme hosted by London Borough of Tower Hamlets (LBTH), under the umbrella of the Association of Directors of Public Health, London (ADPHL). Key partners include Local Authority Directors of Public Health (DsPH), NHS London, OHID, London Councils, NHS London clinical networks, London Trading Standards, Action on Smoking and Health and London academic partners. Stop Smoking London is the delivery arm of the LTA and is also hosted by LBTH. Somen Banerjee, Director of Public Health LBTH is the lead for the pan London tobacco control programme on behalf of all DsPH through ADPHL. The aim of the LTA is to deliver ‘once for London’ resources to support the work locally by local authority and NHS partners and provide content of interest to key stakeholders and communicate key messages, and to host these resources on its website for system partners to access. The aim of SSL is to increase SSL brand awareness, drive users to the SSL website, through organic awareness or paid activity, to drive quit smoking attempts and successes. To help Londoners quit smoking, the SSL website provides online information, signposting to local services, a text messaging service, and a digital app. Promotion of the service is through targeted digital marketing, linked to regionals and national campaigns, as well as through local authority and NHS communication channels. LTA and SSL has a small programme team and commissions a number of suppliers involved in marketing, communications, website management and stakeholder management.

CPV: Health and social work services

How this framework works

From the published notice
Framework period
3 yrs from 1 Jul 2026

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published
Lot #1Planned 3 yrsSMEVCSE
Contract period: 1 Jul 2026 – 30 Jun 2029 (3 yrs)
Delivery: UKEligibility: SME eligibleVCSE eligible

Who is likely to bid for this lot ↓

What it takes to win
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How this buyer will score bids.

The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).

Evaluation split and conditions of participation as published; the tender pack may add more
What this means for your bid
  • “HAC6134 - London Tobacco Alliance and Stop Smoking London Supplier…” is a framework: the contest is a place on its panel, not a single contract.

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

How Tower Hamlets buys Health and social work services (CPV 85), and who usually turns up

Tower Hamlets’s own published record, next to the published market for the same work. This notice is a framework or DPS, so only frameworks and DPS are compared. Whole-market view: Health and social work services (CPV 85) →

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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 buyerTower Hamlets · all categories
What to do with it
How often do SMEs win?
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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: 2 of 3 known-size awards · market: no supplier sizes published
2 of 3—

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.

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

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 3 of 3 known-location awards · market: no winner locations published
3 of 3—

Most of this buyer’s recorded winners are registered in the delivery region.

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: 32 decided notices · market: no decision dates published
36 days—

Half of these awards were announced within 36 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 1 of 2 procurements with awards had no recorded rival · market: no bid counts or routes published
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Direct awards or one recorded bid are common here. Check the route before spending time on a bid.

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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 #136 monthsSME suitablePublished estimate£580k
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 791 past lots.

A forecast, not a list of bidders.

—No model forecast yet7% chance of a single bid
Past bids on 791 similar lots
1 bid7%
54 of 791 similar past lots received 1 bid (7%).
2–312%
98 of 791 similar past lots received 2–3 (12%).
4–616%
123 of 791 similar past lots received 4–6 (16%).
7+65%
516 of 791 similar past lots received 7+ (65%).
Comparable past lots usually drew 12 bids.
Commercial price forecast
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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.

—Priced at call-off
On a framework or DPS the price is agreed on each call-off, so there is no award price to forecast here: the published figure is a ceiling.

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
UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
Procurement category
Services
Notice status
Planned procurement
Procurement threshold
Above threshold (FTS publication)
Regulatory regime
Standard
Commercial structure
Framework agreement
Who may use this agreement
Not stated in the notice; call-off rights may be limited to the establishing authority
Competition type
Competitive procedure
GPA / WTO covered
Unspecified in notice
Recurring procurement
Unspecified in notice
First published
17 Dec 2025, 12:49 GMT
Last source update
17 Dec 2025, 12:49 GMT
Authority reference
HAC6134
FTS notice number
2025/S 000-083817
Latest notice
Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
Classification (CPV)
Health and social work services
Delivery area
UK
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-05f7d0 Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice
Appointment period ends
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Timeline

17 Dec 2025 → 1 Jul 2026 · 4 dates
  1. Planning notice published309 days ago
    17 Dec 2025, 12:49 GMT
  2. Market engagement289 days ago
    5 Jan 2026, 23:59 GMT

    The London Tobacco Alliance (LTA) and Stop Smoking London (SSL) are collaborative, city-wide programmes under the umbrella of the Association of Directors of Public Health, London (ADPH London). They are dedicated to making London a smokefree city by 2030 and addressing the significant health inequalities caused by tobacco use.

    The LTA acts as a strategic partnership, bringing together key stakeholders from public health,

    trading standards, the NHS, local councils, and the voluntary sector to share best practices and develop a coordinated, system-wide approach.

    SSL serves as the public-facing arm of this initiative, providing a range of accessible, free digital

    services and information to support Londoners in their journey to quit smoking.

  3. Tender notice expected204 days ago
    31 Mar 2026, 23:59 BST
  4. Contract starts113 days ago
    1 Jul 2026, 00:00 BST

Notice history

1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender
  1. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    17 Dec 2025, 12:49 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

Tower Hamlets

Contracting authorityPublic authority - sub-central government GB-PPON: PQBL-2673-MVYG Tower Hamlets Town Hall, London, London, E1 1BJContact name, email, phone

Official documents & specifications (1)

Official links; attachments are not copied

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