Official UK procurement notice
LCHS Community Pharmacy - Prior Market Engagement
Authority: Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust (Central government)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionLincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust (LCHS) is undertaking Prior Market Engagement to inform the future commissioning of Community Pharmacy services across Lincolnshire. The engagement seeks feedback from providers regarding service design, medicines supply, dispensing arrangements, clinical pharmacy support, digital solutions, mobilisation considerations and delivery models. Any future commissioning process is expected to be undertaken in accordance with the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023, where applicable. Participation in this engagement exercise will not confer any advantage in any future commissioning process.
CPV: Health services · Pharmacy services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust is seeking engagement from…Planned
Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust is seeking engagement from organisations with the capability and capacity to provide Community Pharmacy services across Lincolnshire.<br/>The Authority wishes to engage with the market to better understand current provider capability, capacity, innovation, delivery models and commercial considerations relating to the provision of community pharmacy services. The scope of services may include, but is not limited to, medicines supply, dispensing services, medicines optimisation, clinical pharmacy support, patient advice and support, and other associated pharmaceutical services.<br/>This Prior Market Engagement exercise is intended to inform future commissioning decisions and service development. The Authority welcomes participation from community pharmacy providers, pharmacy multiples, independent pharmacies, distance-selling pharmacies and other suitably qualified organisations.<br/>The information gathered through this exercise will be used to help shape future service requirements and determine the most appropriate commissioning approach. Any future commissioning process is expected to be undertaken in accordance with the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023, where applicable.<br/>Participation in this engagement exercise does not constitute a procurement process, and no contract will be awarded as a result of this notice. Additional information: This Prior Market Engagement exercise is being undertaken solely to inform future commissioning considerations and to improve the Authority's understanding of the market.<br/>The Authority welcomes responses from all suitably qualified providers capable of delivering community pharmacy services, including existing providers, independent pharmacies, pharmacy multiples, distance-selling pharmacies and other relevant organisations.<br/>The Authority reserves the right to determine the most appropriate commissioning approach following completion of the engagement exercise. Any future commissioning activity is anticipated to be conducted in accordance with the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023, where applicable.<br/>Participation in this engagement exercise is voluntary and will not confer any advantage, preference or guarantee of involvement in any subsequent commissioner-led process.
Pipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust buys Miscellaneous health services (CPV 8514), and who usually turns up
Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust’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: Miscellaneous health services (CPV 8514) →
How the contest usually goes
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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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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.
Local means the winner is registered in the region where that award was delivered. The market figure counts awards delivered in East Midlands.
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.
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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 29 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.
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How many bids did past lots attract?
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How many bids past lots received.
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Past bids do not predict this tender.
1 bid11%
2–316%
4–637%
7+37%
How did awards compare with estimates?
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Where winning prices landed against estimates.
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Past prices are a guide, not a bid price.
Below estimate20%
Within ±2%60%
Above estimate20%
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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.
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Lot #1Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust is seeking engagement from…CPV 8514Estimate not published
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How many bids this lot may attract.
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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 19 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid11%
2–316%
4–637%
7+37%
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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.
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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.
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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
- Yes (GPA)
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 3 Jul 2026, 15:02 BST
- Last source update
- 3 Jul 2026, 15:02 BST
- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-062880- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06c39dFind a Tender
How it was run
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- Submission deadline
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Timeline
3 Jul 2026 → 3 Jul 2026 · 2 dates- Tender notice expected114 days ago3 Jul 2026, 00:00 BST
- Notice published113 days ago3 Jul 2026, 15:02 BST
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Pipeline notice- Awards (0)
- No award published
- Contracts (0)
- No contract published
- Bid statistics
- No aggregate bid statistics published
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Official documents & specifications
Official links; attachments are not copiedNo document links were published on the notice.