Official UK procurement notice
HCC July 2026 – PME for the Development of Nursing Home Care Provision in Hertfordshire
Authority: Hertfordshire County Council (Local council)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionHertfordshire County Council (the Council) is carrying out PME in relation to the Development of Nursing Home Care Provision in Hertfordshire programme. The Council will consider the feedback received to shape the Council’s options, requirements and further decision making. For the avoidance of doubt, this stage of the project is not part of a formal procurement process, and the Council is not committing, at this stage, to carrying out such a process.
The Council has created a detailed care provider prospect which is published as part of the PME outlining the opportunity and programme aims, as well as signposting key areas where care provider feedback can play a central role in shaping the nursing homes service model and ensuring they are designed and operated to meet the needs of our residents now and in the future. Please refer to these documents for more detailed information on the programme.
At the heart of this programme is Hertfordshire County Council's Connected Lives approach. We believe that people requiring nursing care, should continue to have opportunities to maintain relationships, make choices about their lives, participate in their communities and enjoy the best possible quality of life.
The Council is progressing a Social Investment Model to support the delivery of additional nursing home capacity in Hertfordshire. Under this innovative model, investors and developers would fund and build 6-8 new homes, the Council would enter into long-term lease arrangements for completed buildings, and the homes would then be sub-leased to registered care providers responsible for delivering high quality nursing dementia care with an agreed number of beds allocated for LA use at its normal fee rates.
The Council are aiming to understand how we can expand nursing care bed capacity, improve long term sustainability of both our provider and our wider market, and ensure our residents can access modern, affordable and high quality accommodation that meets their needs local to where they live and have a home for life wherever possible.
Participation or non-participation in the PME shall not prevent any supplier participating in a potential future procurement, nor is it intended that any information supplied as part of the PME shall place any supplier at an advantage in a potential procurement process.
For further information, please see the PME Document, Prospectus Document and Questionnaire.
CPV: Residential nursing care services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1PlannedRenewal
Pipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How Hertfordshire County Council buys Miscellaneous health services (CPV 8514), and who usually turns up
Hertfordshire County Council’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: Miscellaneous health services (CPV 8514) →
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.
The counts under this question show how many awards have a known supplier size.
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 East of England (authority’s region).
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners are registered in East of England.
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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 67 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.
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?
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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.
1 bid11% / 11%
2–319% / 33%
4–611% / 44%
7+59% / 11%
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 estimate21% / 33%
Within ±2%79% / 67%
Above estimate0% / 0%
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.
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 8514Estimate not published
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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 299 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid14%
2–326%
4–633%
7+26%
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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
- Services
- Notice status
- Planned procurement
- Procurement threshold
- Unspecified in notice
- Regulatory regime
- Light touch regime
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 13 Jul 2026, 16:10 BST
- Last source update
- 13 Jul 2026, 16:10 BST
- Authority reference
HCC-PME-Nursing Homes-Providers-Jul26- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-065755- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Not published
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06c9d5Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
13 Jul 2026 → 1 Sept 2028 · 4 dates- Planning notice published100 days ago13 Jul 2026, 16:10 BST
- Market engagement61 days ago21 Aug 2026, 23:59 BST
To access the PME documentation please visit the Council’s e-tendering system Supply Hertfordshire, run by In-Tend at in-tendhost.co.uk/supplyhertfordshire ↗ and follow the on-screen guidance.
To participate in this PME, organisations must return their completed Questionnaire (Appendix A of the PME Document), together with any supporting documents, through the Correspondence area of the project on Supply Hertfordshire by the return deadline of 12.00 Noon on 21/08/2026, as per the PME documentation and e-tendering system. Supplier Questionnaires received after the deadline may not be reviewed at the Council’s sole discretion.
As part of the PME, there will be three online provider engagement events. These are scheduled to be held on Tuesday 28th July (14:00-15:30), Tuesday 4th August (10:00-11:30) and Wednesday 12th August (10:00-11:30). Please contact via email to organise a session: [email protected] .
There will also be the opportunity for 1:1 provider discussion. Sessions will run from 28th July until 14th August 2026. 1:1s will only be offered if best endeavours have been made to attend an online forum and will have same content as the forums. All questions and answers will be published and shared with the wider market.
Please contact the via email ([email protected]) to organise a session. Please note that information provided by the Council will be made available to all potential bidders on a QA sheet that will be uploaded with the procurement.
Please make sure that you have submitted your Supplier Questionnaire following the instructions within the PME documentation and e-tendering system. The Council will not be held accountable for any errors made by an organisation in submitting their Supplier Questionnaire.
If you are experiencing problems with the Supply Hertfordshire website, In-Tend offer a help section which includes a dedicated UK support desk which can be contacted via email: [email protected] or Telephone: +44 1144070065 for any website/technical questions, Monday to Friday, 8:30-17:00.
Participation in the PME will be at each organisation’s own cost. No expense in responding to this PME will be reimbursed by the Council.
- Today21 Oct 2026
- Tender notice expectedin 344 days30 Sept 2027, 23:59 BST
- Contract starts1 Sept 2028, 00:00 BST
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Preliminary market engagement notice published13 Jul 2026, 16:10 BSTUK2
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
Official documents & specifications (1)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender