Official UK procurement notice
Insourced Services to support the Provision of Healthcare
Authority: University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust (NHS & healthcare)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionBWPC (Bristol & Weston NHS Purchasing Consortium), plan to utilise the NHS Workforce Alliance RM6276 - Insourced Services - NHS Workforce Alliance to support the Provision of Healthcare and thereby conduct a mini-competition under this Framework.
Only suppliers awarded under this Framework will be eligible to submit a bid.
This procurement will be governed by the NHS Provider Selection Regime.
CPV: Health and social work services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1BWPC (Bristol & Weston NHS Purchasing Consortium), plan to utilise NHS Workforce…Planned
BWPC (Bristol & Weston NHS Purchasing Consortium), plan to utilise NHS Workforce Alliance RM6276 - Insourced Services to support the Provision of Healthcare and thereby conduct a mini-competition under this Framework.
Only suppliers awarded under this Framework will be eligible to bid. However we would welcome bids from framework suppliers that utilise other suppliers (i.e. sub-contracts) to meet the full requirements.
This procurement will be governed by the NHS Provider Selection Regime.
The objective is to improve patient access, reduce waiting times, and enhance the efficiency of elective care services by leveraging external healthcare providers within the existing healthcare facility.
BWPC are sourcing for the provision of the following specialties:
Specialty
1 Breast Care
2 Cardiology
3 Cardiology Diagnostics
4 Care of the Elderly
5 Cleft
6 Dental
7 Dermatology
8 DEXA (bone density scans)
9 Diabetes and Endocrine
10 Endoscopy
11 Ear, Nose and Throat (ENT)
12 Gastroenterology and Hepatology
13 General Surgery (including Colorectal and Upper Gastrointestinal)
14 Gynaecology
15 Hernia
16 Histology
17 Neurophysiology
18 Non-obstetric ultrasound (NOUS)
19 Ophthalmology
20 Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery
21 Paediatric Cardiology
22 Paediatric Dentistry
23 Paediatric Surgery (including ENT, Cleft, Maxillofacial and Urology)
24 Plastics skin/general
25 Radiology Reporting
26 Respiratory (including Lung Function, NIV and Sleep)
27 Thoracic Surgery
The prospective route to market for any award will be via a mini-competition under PSR regulations. The anticipated contract length is planned for initial 2 years with one optional 12 month extension (2+1).
All suppliers with an interest in this opportunity are encouraged to attend the online briefing, which will be hosted via Microsoft Teams on Wednesday 3rd June *time to be confirmed and Link to follow. During this session, the Trust will present its objectives and explain the rationale behind the procurement. The event is open to all suppliers and is not limited to those on the Framework.
Each supplier may nominate up to two representatives to attend. The webinar will be recorded for those suppliers unable to join live, and the recording will be made available upon request and through the mini-competition.
Following the webinar, a Supplier Capability Assessment will be issued to all suppliers listed under Framework RM6276. A link to the recording of the webinar will also be shared with this document via SAP Ariba.
All Suppliers on the framework will receive the Capability Assessment regardless of whether not they attend the briefing.
Capability Assessments duly completed and received by the deadline stated herein shall be subject to evaluation. Only those responses (either independently or through sub-contracts) that (i) demonstrate the capability to meet the requirements in full and (ii) confirm their intention to participate by the stated deadline shall be invited to participate in any subsequent or associated further competition.
Capability Assessments received after the stated deadline shall not be evaluated. Any supplier that fails to submit a completed Capability Assessment shall not be eligible to participate in any further competition.
Suppliers that expressly indicate that they do not wish to participate, or that fail to respond by the stated deadline, shall not be invited to participate in any associated further competition. Additional information: Indicative Procurement Timeline
Indicative procurement timelines are below:
Capability Assessment Issued to Framework Suppliers 04/06/2026
Completed Capability Assessments returned by Suppliers 18/06/2026
Tender is Live 29/06/2026
Bid Submission Deadline 27/07/2026
Evaluation 28/07/2026-10/09/2026
Contract Award 02/10/2026
Contract Start 01/04/2027
The e-procurement portal to be used for this opportunity will be SAP Ariba.
Pipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust buys Health and social work services (CPV 85), and who usually turns up
University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust’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 and social work services (CPV 85) →
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.
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No supplier sizes published for this authority.
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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 South West England.
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners are registered in South West 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 49 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.
The market share is a minimum: 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 bid22%
2–337%
4–623%
7+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 estimate33%
Within ±2%66%
Above estimate2%
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 #1BWPC (Bristol & Weston NHS Purchasing Consortium), plan to utilise NHS Workforce…Estimate 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 239 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid22%
2–337%
4–623%
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
- CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
- 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
- 27 May 2026, 15:59 BST
- Last source update
- 28 May 2026, 16:44 BST
- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-050517- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06a6b3Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
28 May 2026 → 29 Jun 2026 · 2 dates- Notice published147 days ago28 May 2026, 16:44 BST
- Tender notice expected116 days ago29 Jun 2026, 00:00 BST
Notice history
2 releases on Find a TenderPublished amendments (1)
The Trusts intend to award a contract to a single lead supplier. However the Trust would welcome bids from framework suppliers that utilise other suppliers (i.e. sub-contracts) to meet the full requirements. All suppliers with an interest in this opportunity are encouraged to attend the online briefing, which will be hosted via Microsoft Teams on Wednesday 3rd June at 10.00am Microsoft Teams Me…
Commercial outcome & contract awards
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Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Official documents & specifications
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