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Individual Placement Support (IPS) Pre Market Engagement

Buyer: Birmingham & Solihull Mental Health Foundation Trust →

BuyerBirmingham & Solihull Mental Health Foundation Trust

Statusplanning

DeadlineNot published

Value£5,982,506

Published26 Nov 2025

What is being bought

This is a pre market engagement notice for IPS Services, full detail of the service can be found within the specification. Expressions of interest should be submitted no later than 12/12/2025. To access the notice please use the atamis portal - https://atamis-1928.my.site.com/ Search for the reference number C403483 and title "Individual Placement Support (IPS) Pre Market Engagement". If there are any issues please contact the procurement team via the email listed on the notice.

Lot details

Lot 1

No lot description published.

Statusplanning

Contract periodFrom 1 Apr 2026 to 31 Mar 2028

What is included

Item	Category	Quantity
1	Health services	Not published

Comparable-procurement analytics

Benchmarked against retained Find a Tender procedures with CPV division 85. The category anchor is Health services (85100000); this is a deliberately broad market comparator. The comparison is shown at several levels rather than pretending one company or region is always the best benchmark.

Comparison set	Procedures	Reported bids per procedure	Named award suppliers	Price evidence
Market: CPV division 85	31,905	1 median · 22.4 average (18,279 of 31,905 with a bid count)	1.8 average (19,694 of 31,905 with named award suppliers)	10 comparable price pairs
Same buyer	5	Not published	Not published	Not published
Similar published value (0.5×–2×)	909	4 median · 22.5 average (23 of 909 with a bid count)	2.2 average (23 of 909 with named award suppliers)	1 comparable price pairs

“Reported bids” is an official aggregate, sometimes reported per lot; it is the closest available competition measure. “Named award suppliers” are winners, not all applicants.

Indicative price outcome

£3,892,216 is the median lowest-valid-bid benchmark for the broad CPV market sample, against this procedure’s published value of £5,982,506.

This is a historical comparator, not a bid-price forecast or a guaranteed saving. It excludes records where the published values cannot be sensibly compared and does not adjust for lot structure, quality weighting, framework terms or scope.

Procurement strategy & market signals

Framework agreementNot published

Dynamic purchasing systemNot published

Competitive procurementNot published

Recurring requirementNot published

Procurement method rationaleNot published

Rationale classificationsNot published

Special regimeNot published

Covered byNot published

Submission policyNot published

Selection criteriaNot published

Risk detailsNot published

Planning & early market engagement

BudgetValue not published

No-engagement rationaleNot published

Planning documents1

Planning milestones1

Milestone	Type	Due	Status
To engage in the pre market engagement, please submit expression of interest via atamis no later than 12/12/2025.	engagement	12 Dec 2025	scheduled

Related procurements

No linked framework, prior procurement or reprocurement published.

Documents & submission route

Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender planning · marketEngagementNotice

Source data inventory

Diagnostic view. “Not published” means this current release does not provide a value.

OCID	ocds-h6vhtk-05e8d9
Latest release ID	077096-2025
Latest release timestamp	Wed Nov 26 2025 10:02:08 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Source	find-a-tender
Official notice URL	Not published
Tender status	planning
Procurement method	Not published
Procurement method details	Not published
Main procurement category	services
Above threshold	Not published
Legal basis	2023/54
Tender period: start	Not published
Tender period: end	Not published
Expression of interest deadline	Not published
Enquiry deadline	Not published
Award period: start	Not published
Award period: end	Not published
Submission method details	Not published
Submission languages	Not published
Electronic catalogue policy	Not published
Total tender value	£5,982,506
Tender lots in source	1
Tender items in source	1
Tender documents in source	0
Awards in latest release	0
Contracts in latest release	0
Parties in latest release	2

Notice history

Date	Event	Reference
26 Nov 2025	planningUpdate	077096-2025
26 Nov 2025	planning	077094-2025

All source data

Unmodified official OCDS data retained by Tenderline for this procurement process.

Complete current OCDS release JSON

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Complete JSON history (2 releases)

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