Find a TenderPlanned procurement
Published 26 May 2026, 14:00 BST

Official UK procurement notice

Lung Cancer Screening Programme Market Engagement (BSol ICB)

Authority: NHS Birmingham and Solihull Integrated Care Board (Central government)

Services
Planned pipeline value£21,000,000pipeline notice, not a live tender
Tender notice expected 28 Jul 2026from the planned procurement notice

What is being bought

Published requirement description

***THIS NOTICE IS FOR A MARKET ENGAGEMENT EVENT ONLY***<br/><br/>NHS Arden and Greater East Midlands CSU on behalf of NHS Birmingham and Solihull Integrated Care Board (BSol ICB) is seeking expressions of interest from suitably experienced and qualified providers for the provision of a Lung Cancer Screening Programme across Birmingham and Solihull.<br/><br/>The Commissioner intends to hold a market engagement event via MS Teams on 16th June 2026 at 14:00-15:30, and a 30-minute 1:1 session via MS Teams, with those Providers that request to book a session, on 17th June 2026 and 18th June 2026 between 09:30 and 17:00. These sessions are to provide you with an opportunity to ask further questions in relation to the service specification and/or procurement process. Sessions will be scheduled on a first come first served basis.<br/><br/>Interested parties should express an interest in attending by completing a short questionnaire which can be found on the Atamis Health Family portal (atamis-1928.my.site.com/s/Welcome ↗) and search for project C448452.<br/><br/>Registration to the event can be accessed here:<br/>events.teams.microsoft.com/event/ddee0350-f828-… ↗

CPV: Health services

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published
Lot #1***THIS NOTICE IS FOR A MARKET ENGAGEMENT EVENT ONLY***Planned

***THIS NOTICE IS FOR A MARKET ENGAGEMENT EVENT ONLY***<br/><br/>NHS Arden and Greater East Midlands CSU on behalf of BSol ICB is seeking expressions of interest from suitably experienced and qualified providers for the provision of a Lung Cancer Screening Programme across Birmingham and Solihull. <br/><br/>The contract length is expected to be 3 years with the option to extend up to a further 2 years.<br/><br/>The objective of this engagement is to help the commissioner finalise the procurement strategy, service model and financial model. <br/><br/>The Commissioner intends to hold a market engagement event via MS Teams on 16th June 2026 at 14:00-15:30, and a 30-minute 1:1 session via MS Teams, with those Providers that request to book a session, on 17th June 2026 and 18th June 2026 between 09:30 and 17:00. These sessions are to provide you with an opportunity to ask further questions in relation to the service specification and/or procurement process. Sessions will be scheduled on a first come first served basis.<br/><br/>Interested parties should express an interest in attending by completing a short questionnaire which can be found on the Atamis Health Family portal (atamis-1928.my.site.com/s/Welcome ↗) and search for project C448452. <br/><br/>Registration to the event can be accessed here:<br/>events.teams.microsoft.com/event/ddee0350-f828-… ↗<br/><br/>Please ensure you have registered your interest in attending the market engagement event by 17:00hours Friday 12th June 2026.<br/><br/>Please note, this Prior Information Notice relates to a service within the scope of The Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023, and the Competitive Process is intended to be followed.<br/><br/>Any and all information/documents that are made available to the market as part of this engagement exercise is draft and subject to change. All timeframes are indicative and also subject to change. Additional information: Interested parties should express an interest in attending by completing a short questionnaire which can be found on the Atamis Health Family portal (atamis-1928.my.site.com/s/Welcome ↗) and search for project C448452. <br/><br/>Registration to the event can be accessed here:<br/>events.teams.microsoft.com/event/ddee0350-f828-… ↗<br/><br/>Any award of contract for this requirement 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 do not apply. In addition, neither the placement of this notice nor any subsequent notice shall bind the Commissioner to award of any contract.

Delivery: West Midlands · Birmingham and Solihull

Who is likely to bid for this lot ↓

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

How NHS Birmingham and Solihull Integrated Care Board buys Health services (CPV 8510), and who usually turns up

NHS Birmingham and Solihull Integrated Care Board’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 services (CPV 8510) →

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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
The marketHealth services (CPV 8510) · West Midlands
What to do with it
How often do SMEs win?
i

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: 62 of 85 known-size awards · market: CPV 8510 · West Midlands, n=453
73%54%

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.

Local means the winner is registered in the region where that award was delivered. The market figure counts awards delivered in West Midlands.

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

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 439 of 479 known-location awards · market: CPV 8510 · West Midlands, n=839
92%71%

Most of this buyer’s recorded winners were registered in the region where that award was delivered.

How long to a decision?
i

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.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: no decision dates published · market: CPV 8510 · West Midlands, n=12
—69 days

Half of these awards have an award date within 69 days of the bid deadline.

How often single-bid or direct?
i

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 127 of 163 procurements with awards had no recorded rival · market: CPV 8510 · West Midlands, n=309
78%66%

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?

i

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 buyerToo few to chart: 4 lots with bid counts, 5 needed · broad CPV 85
The market87 lots with bid counts · CPV 8510 · West Midlands
23% had one bid
Market · select a colour for counts
1 bid23%
Market: 20 of 87 lots with published bid counts.
2–331%
Market: 27 of 87 lots with published bid counts.
4–624%
Market: 21 of 87 lots with published bid counts.
7+22%
Market: 19 of 87 lots with published bid counts.

How did awards compare with estimates?

i

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.

Last 36 months.

This buyerToo few to chart: 4 lots with estimate and award, 5 needed · broad CPV 85
The market39 lots with estimate and award · CPV 8510 · West Midlands
51% below estimate
Market · select a colour for counts
Below estimate51%
Market: 20 of 39 lots with an estimate and award.
Within ±2%44%
Market: 17 of 39 lots with an estimate and award.
Above estimate5%
Market: 2 of 39 lots with an estimate and award.
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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 #1***THIS NOTICE IS FOR A MARKET ENGAGEMENT EVENT ONLY***CPV 8510Published estimate£21m
Expected competition
i

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 87 past lots.

A forecast, not a list of bidders.

—No model forecast yet23% chance of a single bid
Past bids on 87 similar lots
1 bid23%
20 of 87 similar past lots received 1 bid (23%).
2–331%
27 of 87 similar past lots received 2–3 (31%).
4–624%
21 of 87 similar past lots received 4–6 (24%).
7+22%
19 of 87 similar past lots received 7+ (22%).
Comparable past lots usually drew 3 bids.
Commercial price forecast
i

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.

—No model forecast yet
No comparable awards on record for this lot’s category yet. The published estimate is £21m, and the forecast stays empty until the market has a record to read.

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.

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.

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
26 May 2026, 14:00 BST
Last source update
26 May 2026, 14:00 BST
Authority reference
C448452
FTS notice number
2026/S 000-048806
Classification (CPV)
Health services
Delivery area
West Midlands (UKG3)
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06a3b0 Find a Tender

Publisher note: Interested parties should express an interest in attending by completing a short questionnaire which can be found on the Atamis Health Family portal (https://atamis-1928.my.site.com/s/Welcome) and search for project C448452. <br/><br/>Registration to the event can be accessed here:<br/>https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/ddee0350-f828-48f6-bc07-a83f967b5f1d@37c354b2-85b0-47f5-b222-07b48d774ee3<br/><br/>Any award of contract for this requirement 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 do not apply. In addition, neither the placement of this notice nor any subsequent notice shall bind the Commissioner to award of any contract.

How it was run

Official notice
Run through: portal not identified

Tender documents are also served through a separate tool: https://atamis-1928.my.site.com/s/Welcome ↗

Submission deadline
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Timeline

26 May 2026 → 28 Jul 2026 · 2 dates
  1. Notice published151 days ago
    26 May 2026, 14:00 BST
  2. Tender notice expected89 days ago
    28 Jul 2026, 00:00 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

NHS Birmingham and Solihull Integrated Care Board

Contracting authorityCentral GovernmentBody governed by public lawHealth NHS Birmingham and Solihull Integrated Care Board Alpha Tower, 8th Floor, Suffolk Street Queensway, Birmingham, West Midlands, B1 1TTContact name, email

Official documents & specifications

Official links; attachments are not copied

No document links were published on the notice.