Official UK procurement notice
Market Engagement for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention and Optimisation Service
Authority: NHS NORFOLK AND SUFFOLK INTEGRATED CARE BOARD (Central government)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThe ICB is developing a single, integrated and digitally enabled CVD prevention and optimisation pathway across Norfolk and Suffolk, with an initial focus on hypertension and lipid management. The programme is intended to replace fragmented, reactive activity with a coordinated pathway that connects identification, assessment, clinical review, treatment initiation and optimisation, behaviour-change support, monitoring and follow-up.
The pathway will support delivery of the Cardiovascular Disease Modern Service Framework priorities for hypertension and cholesterol, while also supporting a broader shift towards proactive population health management, neighbourhood delivery, care closer to home and reduction of health inequalities.
The proposed service will bring together existing system assets and additional capacity. It is expected to support consistent standards across the ICB footprint while allowing delivery to be tailored to local population need, including Core20PLUS5 populations and deprived, rural, coastal and other underserved communities.
CPV: Health services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1The ICB intends to commission the service through a single Lead Provider arrangementPlanned
The ICB intends to commission the service through a single Lead Provider arrangement. The Lead Provider will hold overall accountability for coordinating and delivering the end-to-end pathway and will be expected to work through an appropriately governed consortium and/or subcontracted network where specialist capabilities are required. Additional information: The initial PIN 2026/S 000-164159 was published in July 2026
Pipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How NHS NORFOLK AND SUFFOLK INTEGRATED CARE BOARD buys Health services (CPV 8510), and who usually turns up
NHS NORFOLK AND SUFFOLK 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) →
How the contest usually goes
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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 41 days of the bid deadline.
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Direct awards and tenders where every published lot count shows one bid.
Both shares are minimums: some awards have no bid count.
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How many bids past lots received.
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Past bids do not predict this tender.
1 bid45% / 15%
2–39% / 35%
4–645% / 38%
7+0% / 12%
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% / 41%
Within ±2%89% / 53%
Above estimate11% / 5%
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No supplier is confirmed as a bidder.
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Lot #1The ICB intends to commission the service through a single Lead Provider arrangementCPV 8510Published estimate£12m
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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 82 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid15%
2–335%
4–638%
7+12%
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Where the award price may land.
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No comparable awards for this lot yet.
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Who has done similar work for this buyer.
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Who could compete for this lot?
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None is confirmed as a bidder.
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Who could compete for this lot?
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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.
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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
- 30 Oct 2026, 13:03 GMT
- Last source update
- 30 Oct 2026, 13:03 GMT
- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-103202- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-0794a2Find a Tender
Publisher note: NHS Norfolk and Suffolk Integrated Care Board is issuing this Prior Information Notice (PIN) to support a second phase of market engagement in relation to the proposed commissioning of a system-wide Cardiovascular Disease (CVD) Prevention and Optimisation Service. The ICB has progressed the programme since the first market engagement event in July 2026. A proposed delivery model, activity assumptions and service requirements have been developed. This second event will update the market, test the emerging approach before procurement documentation is finalised, and give potential providers time to form the partnerships needed to deliver an integrated pathway at scale. This in an invitation to a face to face market engagement event to be held on Friday 27th November commencing at 10.00 am in the Rose Mead Room, Endeavour House, 8 Russell Road, Ipswich, IP1 2BX To book a place please email [email protected] and further information will be provided. For the avoidance of doubt, this information is NOT available on the Norfolk and Suffolk ICB website. This PIN is not a call for competition and does not formally commence a procurement process. Participation in the event will not confer any advantage in a future procurement, and non-participation will not preclude an organisation from taking part in any subsequent competition.
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
30 Oct 2026 → 1 Jun 2027 · 2 dates- Notice published3h ago30 Oct 2026, 13:03 GMT
- Today30 Oct 2026
- Tender notice expectedin 213 days1 Jun 2027, 00:00 BST
Commercial outcome & contract awards
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Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Official documents & specifications
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