Official UK procurement notice
Integrated Sexual and Reproductive Health Service · Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Council (Aug 2026)
Authority: Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Council (Local council)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionMost Suitable Provider Process:
This is a Provider Selection Regime (PSR) intention approach notice. The awarding of this contract is subject to the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023. For the avoidance of doubt, the provisions of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 and Procurement Act Regulations 2023 do not apply to this award.
BCP Council, acting on behalf of both BCP Council and Dorset Council, intends to award a contract using the Most Suitable Provider Process for the provision of a fully integrated, open-access Sexual and Reproductive Health Service across the Bournemouth, Christchurch, Poole, and Dorset local authority areas.
The service will be awarded as a single contract and will not be divided into lots.
The service shall deliver:
- Sexual health prevention, testing, diagnosis and treatment services.
- Reproductive health and contraception services, including Long Acting Reversible Contraception (LARC).
- HIV testing, prevention and Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) services.
- Digital and self-managed sexual health pathways, including online information, triage and home testing where clinically appropriate.
- Relationships and Sex Education (RSE) support and targeted prevention activity.
- Clinical outreach services designed to improve access and reduce health inequalities.
- Services for children and young people.
- Workforce development, training and public health prevention initiatives.
The provider will be expected to deliver a blended model of care comprising:
- Face-to-face clinical services, (CQC Registration requirement - Level Good or above)
- Telephone consultations.
- Digital access routes and online service provision.
- Walk-in services where appropriate.
- Same-day assessment pathways for urgent clinical need.
- Integrated pathways enabling seamless movement between digital, telephone and in-person services.
The contract is intended to secure a single provider capable of delivering accessible, high-quality, person-centred services across both council areas, ensuring continuity of care and consistent service standards throughout the contract term.
This notice is published to provide transparency regarding the councils' commissioning intentions and does not, in itself, constitute a contract award.
CPV: Health and social work services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1Planned
Pipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Council buys Health and social work services (CPV 85), and who usually turns up
Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Council’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: 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.
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. Small firms win less of this buyer’s work than the market’s: 13% against 45%, n=78.
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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. The market figure counts awards delivered in South West England.
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. More of this buyer’s work stays local than in this market: 74% against 49%, n=120.
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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 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.
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 bid20% / 22%
2–340% / 37%
4–60% / 23%
7+40% / 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 estimate0% / 32%
Within ±2%100% / 66%
Above estimate0% / 2%
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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 85Estimate not published
This lot lists more than one class in CPV 85. The comparison uses that group.
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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 241 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 · publisher note attached- 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
- 17 Aug 2026, 16:33 BST
- Last source update
- 17 Aug 2026, 16:33 BST
- Authority reference
DN812062- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-078265- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06e5f3Find a Tender
Publisher note: Most Suitable Provider Process: This is a Provider Selection Regime (PSR) intention approach notice. The awarding of this contract is subject to the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023. For the avoidance of doubt, the provisions of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 and Procurement Act Regulations 2023 do not apply to this award. BCP Council, acting on behalf of both BCP Council and Dorset Council, intends to award a contract using the Most Suitable Provider Process for the provision of a fully integrated, open-access Sexual and Reproductive Health Service across the Bournemouth, Christchurch, Poole, and Dorset local authority areas. This notice is published to provide transparency regarding the councils' commissioning intentions and does not, in itself, constitute a contract award.
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
17 Aug 2026 → 16 Nov 2026 · 2 dates- Notice published72 days ago17 Aug 2026, 16:33 BST
- Today28 Oct 2026
- Tender notice expectedin 18 days16 Nov 2026
Commercial outcome & contract awards
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Official documents & specifications
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