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Local Healthwatch Provision

Buyer: Buckinghamshire Council →

BuyerBuckinghamshire Council
Statusplanning
DeadlineNot published
ValueValue not published
Published17 Oct 2025

What is being bought

The purpose of this exercise is to briefly explain to suppliers the business and technical requirements along with the expected scope of the Local Healthwatch provision. Please note: this market testing exercise is not an invitation to tender or a request for formal expressions of interest. This exercise does not form any part of an invitation to tender. Buckinghamshire Council is issuing this request for information only. Any supplier responding to BC is doing so to support market research only and to help make any potential procurement process more focused and efficient.

Categories

Health and social work services 85000000

Lot details

Lot 1

No lot description published.

Statusplanning
Contract periodFrom 1 Jan 2026 to 31 Dec 2026
SME suitabilitySuitable for SMEs

What is included

ItemCategoryQuantity
1Health and social work servicesNot published

Comparable-procurement analytics

Benchmarked against retained Find a Tender procedures with CPV division 85. The category anchor is Health and social work services (85000000); 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 setProceduresReported bids per procedureNamed award suppliersPrice evidence
Market: CPV division 8531,8351 median · 22.4 average (18,224 of 31,835 with a bid count)1.8 average (19,635 of 31,835 with named award suppliers)10 comparable price pairs
Same buyer20Not publishedNot publishedNot published

“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.

Price-outcome signal

Not enough comparable procedures currently publish both a GBP tender value and a usable lowest-valid-bid value to calculate a responsible price-reduction benchmark. Tenderline deliberately does not infer a saving from named award suppliers or from missing award values.

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
MilestoneTypeDueStatus
The purpose of this exercise is to briefly explain to suppliers the business and technical requirements along with the expected scope of the Local Healthwatch provision Please note: this market testing exercise is not an invitation to tender or a request for formal expressions of interest. This exercise does not form any part of an invitation to tender. Buckinghamshire Council is issuing this request for information only. Any supplier responding to BC is doing so to support market research only and to help make any potential procurement process more focused and efficient. Please register on our E-Tendering Portal to view the document. https://in-tendhost.co.uk/buckinghamshire-council/aspx/Registrationengagement28 Oct 2025scheduled

Related procurements

No linked framework, prior procurement or reprocurement published.

Documents & submission route

Source data inventory

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

OCIDocds-h6vhtk-05ce8e
Latest release ID066180-2025
Latest release timestampFri Oct 17 2025 09:39:14 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Sourcefind-a-tender
Official notice URLNot published
Tender statusplanning
Procurement methodNot published
Procurement method detailsNot published
Main procurement categoryservices
Above thresholdNot published
Legal basis2023/54
Tender period: startNot published
Tender period: endNot published
Expression of interest deadlineNot published
Enquiry deadlineNot published
Award period: startNot published
Award period: endNot published
Submission method detailsNot published
Submission languagesNot published
Electronic catalogue policyNot published
Total tender valueNot published
Tender lots in source1
Tender items in source1
Tender documents in source0
Awards in latest release0
Contracts in latest release0
Parties in latest release1

Notice history

DateEventReference
17 Oct 2025planning066180-2025

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 (1 releases)
17 Oct 2025 · 066180-2025 · planning
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