Find a TenderPlanned procurementPreliminary market engagement notice
Published 29 Sept 2025, 16:29 BST

Official UK procurement notice

LSL/MED/0219 - The Supply and Support of Operating Tables for Maritime Vessels

Authority: LEIDOS SUPPLY, LIMITED (Central government)·On behalf of: TVS SUPPLY CHAIN SOLUTIONS LIMITED

Framework agreementGoodsAbove thresholdSME suitableVCSE suitable
Sectors: Medical Devices & Pharma (33) Delivery: UK
Planned pipeline value£1,500,000pipeline notice, not a live tender
Tender notice expected 3 Dec 2026from the planned procurement notice
Framework period 4 yrsends 30 Jul 2031 · starts 31 Jul 2027

What is being bought

Published requirement description

In April 2015, the MOD signed a thirteen-year contract with Leidos Europe Ltd to provide the procurement and inventory management of commodity items (as well as the storage and distribution services) historically provided in-house by the Logistic Commodities and Services Operating Centre.

Leidos, working with the MOD, will transform the way these services are delivered to ensure requirements continue to be met whilst providing best value for money for the department. The organisation delivering these services is known as Team Leidos.

Team Leidos would like to make markets aware that we are continuing to investigate innovative approaches to fill our requirement for the supply of operating tables for use in the maritime environment.

This additional PMEN is to inform the market of a minor change in requirement following the initial PMEN and market engagement activity.

Solutions must be suitable for conducting damage control surgery within a maritime environment, capable of achieving standard operating positions and suitable for use with imaging equipment.

Both manual and electric solutions will be considered.

The aim of this Preliminary Market Engagement Notice (PMEN) is to encourage companies, suppliers, or manufacturers to make us aware and provide as much information as they are comfortable with, to help decide the future strategy for the range.

Team Leidos wishes to generate interest, information and views with other companies to understand the current market innovation and gain useful intelligence that can help our requirement.

To register your interest in this requirement, please contact:

Olivia Lyle - [email protected]

The value of this framework is estimated to be between £1,500,000 - £2,250,000

CPV: Medical equipments, pharmaceuticals and personal care products · Operating tables

How this framework works

From the published notice
Framework period
4 yrs from 31 Jul 2027

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published
Lot #1Planned 4 yrsSMEVCSE
Contract period: 31 Jul 2027 – 30 Jul 2031 (4 yrs)
Delivery: UKEligibility: SME eligibleVCSE eligible

Who is likely to bid for this lot ↓

What it takes to win
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How this buyer will score bids.

The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).

Evaluation split and conditions of participation as published; the tender pack may add more
What this means for your bid
  • “LSL/MED/0219 - The Supply and Support of Operating Tables for Maritime…” is a framework: the contest is a place on its panel, not a single contract.

Pipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published

How LEIDOS SUPPLY, LIMITED buys Miscellaneous medical devices and products (CPV 3319), and who usually turns up

LEIDOS SUPPLY, LIMITED’s own published record, next to the published market for the same work. This notice is a framework or DPS, so only frameworks and DPS are compared. Whole-market view: Miscellaneous medical devices and products (CPV 3319) →

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How the contest usually goes

Winner shares use published awards; bid and price charts use contested lots.

Question for the bid
This buyerLEIDOS SUPPLY, LIMITED · division 33
What to do with it
How often do SMEs win?
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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.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 5 of 10 known-size awards · market: CPV 3319 · UK-wide, n=156
50%83%

Small firms have won here. Neither number says whether you qualify; it describes who has been winning.

How often do local suppliers win?
i

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 the winner is registered in the region where that contract was delivered.

A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: no winner locations published · market: CPV 3319 · UK-wide, n=15
—53%

No winner locations published for this authority. Local means a registered address in South West England.

How long to a decision?
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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.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 5 decided notices · market: CPV 3319 · UK-wide, n=12
136 days93 days

Half of these awards were announced within 136 days of the bid deadline.

How often single-bid or direct?
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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.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: at least 11 of 19 procurements with awards had no recorded rival · market: CPV 3319 · South West England (authority’s region), n=5
58%80%

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.

Last 36 months.

This buyer7 lots with bid counts · broad CPV 33
29% had one bid
The market124 lots with bid counts · CPV 3319 · UK-wide
2% had one bid
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
1 bid29% / 2%
Buyer: 2 of 7 lots with published bid counts. Market: 2 of 124 lots with published bid counts.
2–314% / 7%
Buyer: 1 of 7 lots with published bid counts. Market: 9 of 124 lots with published bid counts.
4–629% / 16%
Buyer: 2 of 7 lots with published bid counts. Market: 20 of 124 lots with published bid counts.
7+29% / 75%
Buyer: 2 of 7 lots with published bid counts. Market: 93 of 124 lots with published bid counts.

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.

On a framework or DPS, prices are agreed when work is called off.

Past prices are a guide, not a bid price.

Last 36 months.

Not comparable on a framework or DPS. The notice sets up a supplier panel and a ceiling value; what the work actually costs is agreed later, on each call-off or mini-competition, and those publish as contract notices of their own. The award-vs-estimate record of this market therefore sits on the call-offs; this page shows it on the contracts, not on the panel that frames them.

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Assess each lot
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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 331948 monthsSME suitablePublished estimate£1.5m
Expected competition
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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 46 past lots.

A forecast, not a list of bidders.

—No model forecast yet24% single-bid risk
Past bids on 46 similar lots
1 bid24%
11 of 46 similar past lots received 1 bid (24%).
2–317%
8 of 46 similar past lots received 2–3 (17%).
4–69%
4 of 46 similar past lots received 4–6 (9%).
7+50%
23 of 46 similar past lots received 7+ (50%).
Comparable past lots usually drew 6.5 bids.
Commercial price forecast
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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.

—Priced at call-off
On a framework or DPS the price is agreed on each call-off, so there is no award price to forecast here: the published figure is a ceiling.

Who has supplied this buyer on similar work?
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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.

SupplierThis buyer’s earlier contractLotAward valueWhy listed
Bio-Rad Laboratories LimitedLive contractLSL/MED/0212 - The Supply and Support of Blood Bank Centrifuge Devicesruns to Aug 2029LSL/MED/0212 - The Supply of Blood Bank Centrifuge Devices—Matched as the earlier contract

Who could compete for this lot?
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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
UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
Procurement category
Goods
Notice status
Planned procurement
Procurement threshold
Above threshold (FTS publication)
Regulatory regime
Standard
Commercial structure
Framework agreement
Who may use this agreement
Not stated in the notice; call-off rights may be limited to the establishing authority
Competition type
Competitive procedure
GPA / WTO covered
Unspecified in notice
Recurring procurement
Unspecified in notice
First published
29 Sept 2025, 16:29 BST
Last source update
29 Jul 2026, 09:46 BST
Authority reference
LSL/MED/0219
FTS notice number
2026/S 000-071535
Latest notice
Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
Classification (CPV)
Medical equipments, pharmaceuticals and personal care productsOperating tables
Delivery area
UK
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-05a461 Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice
Appointment period ends
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Timeline

29 Sept 2025 → 31 Jul 2027 · 5 dates
  1. Planning notice published386 days ago
    29 Sept 2025, 16:29 BST
  2. Latest notice published83 days ago
    29 Jul 2026, 09:46 BST
  3. Market engagement54 days ago
    27 Aug 2026, 23:59 BST

    To register your interest in this requirement, please contact:

    Olivia Lyle - [email protected]

    Responses are required as soon as possible to inform next steps.

  4. Today
    20 Oct 2026
  5. Tender notice expectedin 44 days
    3 Dec 2026, 23:59 GMT
  6. Contract startsin 283 days
    31 Jul 2027, 00:00 BST

Notice history

2 events · 2 releases on Find a Tender · since 29 Sept 2025
  1. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    29 Sept 2025, 16:29 BST
    UK2
  2. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    29 Jul 2026, 09:46 BST
    UK2

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

2 public bodies on the notice

LEIDOS SUPPLY, LIMITED

Contracting authorityPublic authority - central government GB-COH: 09353172 8 Monarch Court The Brooms, Bristol, South West, BS16 7FHContact email

Other public bodies

Official documents & specifications (2)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure