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Published 28 Jul 2026, 13:32 BST

Official UK procurement notice

Market Engagement for Delivery of Obesity Surgery (Tier 4) Services

Official notice Competition analysis

Authority: Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (Central government)

Services
Sectors: Health & Social Care (85) Delivery: Yorkshire & Humber (UKE3)
Planned pipeline valueValue not publishedpipeline notice, not a live tender
Tender notice expected 31 Oct 2026from the planned procurement notice
Contract term 4 yrsends 31 Dec 2030 · starts 1 Jan 2027

What is being bought

Published requirement description

STHNFT is undertaking this Market Engagement for the purpose of understanding market interest in working with us to deliver Obesity Surgery (Tier 4) services in line with the NHS England specification.

Please review the Engagement Information for further details and how to submit a response.

CPV: Hospital and related services

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published
Lot #1Planned 4 yrs
Contract period: 1 Jan 2027 – 31 Dec 2030 (4 yrs)
Delivery: Yorkshire & Humber
85110000 Hospital and related services

Who is likely to bid for this lot ↓

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

How Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust buys Hospital and related services (CPV 8511), and who usually turns up

Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust’s own published record, next to the published market for the same work. Frameworks and DPS are kept out: they attract a different number of bids. Whole-market view: Hospital and related services (CPV 8511) →

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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 buyerSheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust · division 85
The marketHospital and related services (CPV 8511)
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: 22 of 45 known-size awards · market: CPV 8511 · Yorkshire and the Humber, n=116
49%36%

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 registered in Yorkshire and the Humber.

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

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 28 of 52 known-location awards · market: CPV 8511 · Yorkshire and the Humber, n=111
54%60%

Most of this buyer’s recorded winners are registered in Yorkshire and the Humber.

How long to a decision?
i

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: 14 decided notices · market: CPV 8511 · UK-wide, n=21
103 days78 days

Half of these awards were announced within 103 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 56 of 65 procurements with awards had no recorded rival · market: CPV 8511 · Yorkshire and the Humber, n=158
86%91%

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 buyer16 lots with bid counts · all categories
0% had one bid
The market6 lots with bid counts · CPV 8511 · Yorkshire and the Humber
33% had one bid
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
1 bid0% / 33%
Buyer: 0 of 16 lots with published bid counts. Market: 2 of 6 lots with published bid counts.
2–325% / 33%
Buyer: 4 of 16 lots with published bid counts. Market: 2 of 6 lots with published bid counts.
4–669% / 0%
Buyer: 11 of 16 lots with published bid counts. Market: 0 of 6 lots with published bid counts.
7+6% / 33%
Buyer: 1 of 16 lots with published bid counts. Market: 2 of 6 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 buyer7 lots with estimate and award · all categories
29% below estimate
The market34 lots with estimate and award · CPV 8511 · UK-wide
18% below estimate
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
Below estimate29% / 18%
Buyer: 2 of 7 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 6 of 34 lots with an estimate and award.
Within ±2%43% / 50%
Buyer: 3 of 7 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 17 of 34 lots with an estimate and award.
Above estimate29% / 32%
Buyer: 2 of 7 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 11 of 34 lots with an estimate and award.
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Assess each lot
i

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 851148 monthsEstimate not published
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 342 past lots.

A forecast, not a list of bidders.

—No model forecast yet26% single-bid risk
Past bids on 342 similar lots
1 bid26%
90 of 342 similar past lots received 1 bid (26%).
2–332%
108 of 342 similar past lots received 2–3 (32%).
4–625%
85 of 342 similar past lots received 4–6 (25%).
7+17%
59 of 342 similar past lots received 7+ (17%).
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.

—Estimate not published
The buyer published no estimate for this lot, so there is nothing to forecast against. A price prediction here would be a number about a number we do not have.

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
Legal basis
UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
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
28 Jul 2026, 13:32 BST
Last source update
28 Jul 2026, 13:32 BST
Authority reference
SPME202608
FTS notice number
2026/S 000-071221
Latest notice
Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
Classification (CPV)
Hospital and related services
Delivery area
Yorkshire & Humber (UKE3)
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06d53e Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice
Submission deadline
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Timeline

28 Jul 2026 → 1 Jan 2027 · 4 dates
  1. Planning notice published84 days ago
    28 Jul 2026, 13:32 BST
  2. Market engagement52 days ago
    28 Aug 2026, 23:59 BST

    STHNFT is undertaking this Market Engagement for the purpose of understanding market interest in working with us to deliver Obesity Surgery (Tier 4) services in line with the NHS England specification.

    This is not a call for competition and is being conducted without prejudice to any future procurement process. Contract and notice dates provided are indicative only. Please note this engagement is only for information and is not to be scored.

    Providers with the relevant capabilities who are interested in working with STHNFT should:

    • email [email protected] to request the ME Instructions and Guidance Document and Supplier Response form
    • read the Instructions and Guidance Document carefully and submit any questions to [email protected] no later than 5pm on 17 August 2026, we will respond no later than 21 August 2026
    • complete and submit the Supplier Response Document to [email protected] by 5pm on Friday 28 August 2026.
  3. Today
    20 Oct 2026
  4. Tender notice expectedin 12 days
    31 Oct 2026, 23:59 GMT
  5. Contract startsin 73 days
    1 Jan 2027

Notice history

1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender
  1. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    28 Jul 2026, 13:32 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

SHEFFIELD TEACHING HOSPITALS NHS FOUNDATION TRUST

Contracting authorityPublic authority - central government GB-NHS: RHQ · GB-PPON: PYZV-3517-VQCJ 8 Beech Hill Road, Sheffield, Yorkshire & Humber, S10 2SBContact name, email

Official documents & specifications (1)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure