Official UK procurement notice
Healthcare at Short-Term Holding Facilities
Authority: Home Office (Central government)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThe Home Office seeks to engage suppliers for the provision of healthcare services at short-term holding facilities and ports of entry across the UK. These services will support individuals whilst detained for short periods of time including in, but not limited to, short-term holding facilities as defined under the Short-Term Holding Facilities Rules 2018 (as amended), where individuals can be held up to 24 hours.
The Authority is seeking a flexible, responsive and value for money healthcare solution that meets the basic needs of individuals and can be flexible to different service environments; the short-term holding facilities are located at different location types across the UK which include Airports, Seaports, and Reporting Centres.
Remote Healthcare Services: This market engagement aims to understand supplier capabilities and appetite, to further refine the Authority’s specification and gather feedback on the proposed approach of remote healthcare services. This includes gaining further understanding of both the provision of Clinicians to undertake remote consultations and the provision of IT infrastructure required to deliver a remote only healthcare service.
The content of this Notice, including the nature of services and the start date of the contract, is subject to change.
The contract is expected to commence in early 2028. The length of contract has not been confirmed yet.
For the purposes of this Preliminary Market Engagement Notice, the estimated contract value has been listed as £0. This figure does not reflect the expected final value of the contract. The actual estimated value is currently being finalised and will be shared later.
CPV: Advisory services provided by nurses · General-practitioner services · Health services · Medical practice and related services · Medical practice services · Medical software package · Miscellaneous health services · Outpatient care services · Paramedical services · Services provided by medical personnel · Services provided by nurses
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedPipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How Home Office buys Miscellaneous health services (CPV 8514), and who usually turns up
Home Office’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: 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.
Local means the winner is registered in the region where that award was delivered.
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners were registered in the region where that award was delivered.
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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.
Half of these awards have an award date within 227 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% / 31%
2–337% / 31%
4–641% / 22%
7+11% / 15%
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 estimate46% / 24%
Within ±2%34% / 61%
Above estimate20% / 15%
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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.
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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 8514No real estimate
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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 183 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid31%
2–331%
4–622%
7+15%
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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
- 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
- 12 May 2026, 14:10 BST
- Last source update
- 7 Sept 2026, 13:38 BST
- Authority reference
Project_20280- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-084421- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
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How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
12 May 2026 → 6 Jan 2028 · 5 dates- Planning notice published166 days ago12 May 2026, 14:10 BST
- Latest notice published48 days ago7 Sept 2026, 13:38 BST
- Market engagement24 days ago1 Oct 2026, 23:59 BST
Participants must first be registered on the Home Office eSourcing Suite (Jaggaer). Registration can be completed online at homeoffice.app.jaggaer.com/web/login.html ↗ by selecting the “Register Here” link. A valid DUNS number from Dun & Bradstreet is required for the organisation being registered.
To access the market engagement documents, suppliers must sign the Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA), which can be downloaded from Jaggaer under Project_20280.
An email should be sent to [email protected]. The email should be titled "Healthcare at Short Term Holding Facilities – Expression of Interest" and must clearly state the supplier’s interest in participating in the Market Engagement. The email should include the supplier’s organisation name, contact name, email address and contact number.
Once the NDA has been signed and the email submission is complete, the Market Engagement documents will be made available through an invitation to the PQQ event under Project_20280 on Jaggaer.
All suppliers, who sign the NDA, will be invited to complete a Supplier Questionnaire to provide their insight.
To ensure fairness, transparency, and equal treatment, all suppliers will have access to the same information that was made available to all suppliers during the initial preliminary market engagement under the previous published notice (2026/S 000-043496). This includes the background note, virtual industry day pack, subsequent Q&A responses and previous questionnaire (which suppliers are also welcome to complete if they choose).
All written engagement with suppliers will be managed through Jaggaer, except for the Expression of Interest email. If you have any questions regarding this market engagement, please submit them through Jaggaer.
- Today25 Oct 2026
- Tender notice expectedin 127 days1 Mar 2027, 23:59 GMT
- Contract starts6 Jan 2028
Notice history
2 events · 2 releases on Find a Tender · since 12 May 2026- Preliminary market engagement notice published12 May 2026, 14:10 BSTUK2
- Preliminary market engagement notice published7 Sept 2026, 13:38 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 (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