Official UK procurement notice
Independent Sector Collaboration in Diagnostic Service Transformation
Authority: Department of Health & Social Care (Central government)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThis market engagement is an opportunity to understand the IS offer so that we can inspire systems and trusts to work in partnership to achieve elective recovery and enable the ambition of the 10YHP. Diagnostic demand and capacity modelling estimates that 35% of the capacity required between 2026/27 and 2028/29 needs to come from the IS. This equates to an estimated additional 2 million tests and could be achieved through either capacity or productivity initiatives, including digital infrastructure and tools.
CPV: Diagnostics and radiodiagnostic devices and supplies · Health services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedPipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How Department of Health & Social Care buys Health services (CPV 8510), and who usually turns up
Department of Health & Social Care’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: Health services (CPV 8510) →
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 Greater London (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 Greater London.
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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 31 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 bid38% / 28%
2–313% / 29%
4–638% / 26%
7+13% / 18%
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 estimate50% / 36%
Within ±2%50% / 56%
Above estimate0% / 8%
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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 8510No 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 80 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid28%
2–329%
4–626%
7+18%
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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
- 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
- 20 Nov 2025, 12:38 GMT
- Last source update
- 20 Nov 2025, 12:38 GMT
- FTS notice number
2025/S 000-075632- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Not published
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-05e566Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
20 Nov 2025 → 18 Dec 2025 · 3 dates- Contract starts334 days ago20 Nov 2025
- Planning notice published334 days ago20 Nov 2025, 12:38 GMT
- Market engagement305 days ago18 Dec 2025, 23:59 GMT
Background:
The 10 Year Health Plan for England (10YHP) provides a breadth of opportunities for the Independent Sector (IS) to partner with the NHS - from providing the diagnostics that can support neighbourhood healthcare to the innovations that can enhance diagnostics’ productivity, and from the testing that can support prevention to the means to enable effective remote monitoring.
The Independent Sector is also in a strong position to support the Government’s ambition to return to elective constitutional standards, a key priority for the NHS over the next 4 years. For referral time to treatment ambitions to be achieved, 99% of patients will need to receive a diagnostic test within 6 weeks by March 2029.
This market engagement is an opportunity to understand the IS offer so that we can inspire systems and trusts to work in partnership to achieve elective recovery and enable the ambition of the 10YHP. Diagnostic demand and capacity modelling estimates that 35% of the capacity required between 2026/27 and 2028/29 needs to come from the IS. This equates to an estimated additional 2 million tests and could be achieved through either capacity or productivity initiatives, including digital infrastructure and tools.
The responses received to this preliminary engagement will support us in bringing together needs at local level with industry offers and expertise. This engagement covers three distinct types of IS involvement:
- Where Trusts or networks are using national capital to procure from the independent sector e.g. from digital technology suppliers for digital diagnostic investments
- Where Trusts work with the IS to bring together IS capital with NHS revenue to build and run new diagnostic capacity e.g. a CDC or provision of diagnostic equipment
- Where Trusts work with the IS to procure MedTech or other innovations
While these involve local procurements, we are exploring how these procurements could be coordinated nationally to reduce the burden on local NHS teams, streamline processes and secure economies of scale.
This notice does not constitute a call for competition. The aim of this engagement is to inform future NHS and IS partnerships.
How to participate:
Interested organisations are invited to complete the Collaboration Questionnaire linked here: forms.office.com/e/wgFF6Nn80N ↗
For further guidance on how to complete the questionnaire and information about the market engagement please use this link: atamis-1928.my.salesforce.com/sfc/p/0O000000rwim/a… ↗
The guidance also contains links to additional supporting materials, including demand modelling information and case studies of IS working with the NHS.
The deadline for submission is 12:00pm, Thursday 18th December 2025.
Please send any questions to [email protected] – please note, to manage our capacity, this inbox should not be used for any correspondence other than questions.
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Preliminary market engagement notice published20 Nov 2025, 12:38 GMTUK2
Commercial outcome & contract awards
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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