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HomeTest - Preliminary Market Engagement

Health services
Location not published
Published value
£0
Submission deadline Not published
Lots published1
Procurement Executive Summary
AI & Search Synopsis
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Tenderline Synopsis: NHS England: "HomeTest - Preliminary Market Engagement". Published status: planning. Published value: £0. 1 published lot. Submission deadline not published. See the official notice for participation instructions.
Contracting AuthorityNHS EnglandScope & CategoriesNot publishedSubmission Window
planning
No deadline published
Submission GatewayDirect notice routeLegal Basis & RegimeStandard procurementEstimated Value (exc. VAT)£0
Bidder Intelligence · Authority Profile: NHS England
Market Analytics
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Derived from OCDS awards & bid statistics
Published history for NHS England. These figures describe retained records, not a forecast of bids or a measure of buyer bias.
Published-to-award variance
Not availableInsufficient comparable data
Requires at least 5 comparable procedures
Competition Density
22.8Bids / Report
7.7% of reports have one bid
Supplier ConcentrationModerate Concentration
Anna FreudTop vendor: 29.6% of attributable value
Payment Terms
Check noticePublished terms
Payment obligations depend on the applicable regime and contract. Consult the official documents.
Coverage: 859 active published awards; 13 bid reports (which may be per lot). Supplier values exclude multi-supplier awards, frameworks and DPS, and use GBP only. They are published award values, not payments. Published-to-award variance compares single-lot, single-award, single-supplier GBP procedures with explicitly non-framework/non-DPS status; increases remain in the average. Unpublished data stays unknown. Awarded suppliers are winners, not all bidders.
Historical Awarded Suppliers With This Authority:
Supplier NameHistoric AwardsAttributable GBP Value
Anna Freud1 win£5,862,540
Anglia Ruskin University1 win£4,809,159
NHS Shared Business Services Limited1 win£4,393,727
Pearson Professional Assessments Limited1 win£4,374,320
Timewise Foundation CIC1 win£166,667
Procedure terms
Contracting AuthorityNHS England
Procedure methodNot published
Procurement categoryNot published
Statusplanning
Framework / DPSNot published
CompetitionNot published
Above thresholdNot published
Legal basisNot published
Tender period startsNot published
Clarification deadlineNot published
Electronic submissionNot published
Submission languagesNot published
Published10 Apr 2026, 11:37 BST
Last source update10 Apr 2026, 11:37 BST
Recurring procurementNot published
ClassificationHealth services
Delivery areaLocation not published
OCIDocds-h6vhtk-067c3a
What is being bought
This is not a procurement exercise. This is a market engagement exercise in support of the NHS England's home testing programme which was announced as part of the 10 Year Plan. The programme is seeking to explore the feasibility of establishing a single, trusted national home testing capability that will enable individuals to order, complete and receive results from clinically validated diagnostic tests from home, integrated into the NHS App and aligned with national screening, monitoring, treatment and prevention ambitions. This exercise is designed to understand the potential capability of the supplier market to inform the future development of the programme. This exercise does not currently include point of care testing capability but is focused on self-sample collection and laboratory analysis.
What changed
From the official release history
  1. Published value updated to £0
    10 Apr 2026, 11:37 BST
  2. Official notice release published
    10 Apr 2026, 11:37 BST
  3. Published value updated to £35,000,000
    2 Apr 2026, 16:03 BST
  4. Status changed to planning
    2 Apr 2026, 16:03 BST
  5. Official notice release published
    2 Apr 2026, 16:03 BST
  6. Buyer information updated
    2 Apr 2026, 16:03 BST
  7. Published tender amendment
    Not published
    This notice has been updated to remove the estimated contract value. These figures were always indicative only. However, as a Preliminary Market Engagement exercise rather than a procurement, their inclusion risked creating a misleading impression of the purpose and status of this engagement. This notice is intended solely to help NHS England understand the current market landscape for home testing services and does not presuppose any particular procurement route, value or timeline. In addition there have been some updates to the RFI and in light of those we are giving suppliers further time to respond. The revised date will be 5pm on 30th April 2026.
Lots and requirements (1)
Published by the contracting authority
  • Lot 1 · #1
    Individual lot title not published
    planning
    Published valueNot published
    The source published no individual title or description for this lot.
    Contract periodNot published
    EligibilityNot published
    Options / renewalNot published
Timeline
  1. Pipeline notice
    10 Apr 2026, 11:37 BST
  2. Procedure published
    10 Apr 2026, 11:37 BST
  3. engagement
    30 Apr 2026, 23:59 BST · scheduled
    The Authority is initially seeking to: Test market current activity, future capacity and capability Understand commercial models, pricing structures and supply chain and logistics approaches Identify innovative approaches Assess risks and delivery models Proposed Engagement Activities: To address the above, the Authority is seeking responses to a market questionnaire and in addition to this, the Authority may undertake: One-to-one meetings All supplier meetings Solution workshops How to Participate: Those wishing to participate in the engagement process should register their interest by completing and submitting the questionnaire which can be found at the following link: https://atamis-1928.my.site.com/s/Welcome C436125 The closing date for responses is: 5pm on Thursday 30th April 2026. Responses received after this time will not be accepted. Important Information: This notice is not a call for competition and no submissions will evaluated leading to any contract award as this is about understanding the market. The Authority is not committed to undertaking any procurement. Participation will not prejudice involvement in any future procurement process. Information shared may be published to ensure transparency. Participation will not give any advantage in any future procurement process Note the above may be subject to change and NHSE will update the market should this be the case. The response deadline to the Market Engagement Questionnaire is 5pm, 30th April 2026, via Health Family Atamis Portal - https://atamis-1928.my.site.com/s/Welcome
Commercial outcome and competition
AwardsNo award published
ContractsNo contract published
Bid statisticsNo aggregate bid statistics published
Buyer and organisations in this procedure

NHS England

Contracting authority GB-PPON-PDPT-3135-BWWY
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  • NHS England
    buyer

    GB-PPON: PDPT-3135-BWWY
    Wellington House, 133-135 Waterloo Rd, London, UKI45, SE1 8UG, GB
Documents (1)
Official links; attachments are not copied
Related procedures (0)
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No related procedures published
Planning and rationale
Planning budgetNot published
No-engagement rationaleNot published
Procedure rationaleNot published