Official UK procurement notice
Market Engagment Notice for a Laundry and Linen Service
Authority: CITY HOSPITALS INDEPENDENT COMMERCIAL ENTERPRISES LIMITED (Central government)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionPurpose of Engagement
The Contracting Authority is undertaking preliminary market engagement in advance of a potential future procurement for the provision of healthcare linen and laundry services.
The purpose of this engagement is to:
- Assess current market capacity and capability.
- Understand available service delivery models.
- Explore opportunities for innovation, resilience and business continuity.
- Understand supplier approaches to sustainability, carbon reduction and reusable textile solutions.
- Consider potential mobilisation requirements and timescales.
- Inform the development of the future procurement strategy, specification and contract requirements.
This engagement is being undertaken in accordance with Sections 16 and 17 of the Procurement Act 2023 and does not constitute a call for competition. Participation in the engagement process will not provide any advantage or disadvantage in any subsequent procurement exercise.
Scope
The Contracting Authority is interested in engaging with suppliers capable of delivering healthcare laundry and linen services, including but not limited to:
- Processing and laundering of healthcare linen.
- Linen rental and managed linen services.
- Reusable theatre and clinical textile solutions.
- Collection and distribution services.
- Emergency and contingency service provision.
- Stock management and inventory control.
- Digital and reporting solutions.
- Sustainable and environmentally responsible service delivery.
Suppliers must be able to demonstrate compliance with relevant healthcare standards and requirements, including arrangements for the processing of healthcare linen.
Engagement Activity
The Contracting Authority intends to undertake one or more of the following:
- Supplier meetings.
- Market engagement questionnaires.
- Requests for information.
- Site visits.
- Supplier presentations.
- Market engagement events.
Participation is voluntary and no supplier will be excluded from any future procurement opportunity on the basis of non-participation.
Indicative Timetable
- Publication of engagement notice:
- Supplier expressions of interest:
- Engagement activities:
- Potential procurement commencement:
The timetable is provided for planning purposes only and may change.
Response Requirements
Interested suppliers should provide:
- Company details and contact information.
- Overview of healthcare linen and laundry experience.
- Details of processing facilities and geographic coverage, including ability to provide a service in the North East of England.
- Any information the supplier considers relevant to the future service requirement.
CPV: Laundry-management services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1PlannedRenewal
Pipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How CITY HOSPITALS INDEPENDENT COMMERCIAL ENTERPRISES LIMITED buys Washing and dry-cleaning services (CPV 9831), and who usually turns up
CITY HOSPITALS INDEPENDENT COMMERCIAL ENTERPRISES LIMITED’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: Washing and dry-cleaning services (CPV 9831) →
How the contest usually goes
Winner shares use published awards; bid and price charts use contested lots.
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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.
Small firms have won here. Neither number says whether you qualify; it describes who has been winning.
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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.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners are registered outside North East England.
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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.
Half of these awards were announced within 36 days of the bid deadline.
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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.
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.
1 bid14% / 27%
2–364% / 42%
4–67% / 31%
7+14% / 0%
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 estimate50% / 20%
Within ±2%17% / 47%
Above estimate33% / 33%
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.
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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 9831Estimate not published
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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 11 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid45%
2–336%
4–618%
7+0%
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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.
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.
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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.
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.
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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
- Services
- Notice status
- Planned procurement
- Procurement threshold
- Above threshold (FTS publication)
- 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
- 16 Oct 2026, 13:09 BST
- Last source update
- 16 Oct 2026, 13:09 BST
- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-097943- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-078985Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
16 Oct 2026 → 1 Jun 2027 · 3 dates- Planning notice published5 days ago16 Oct 2026, 13:09 BST
- Today21 Oct 2026
- Market engagementin 9 days30 Oct 2026, 23:59 GMT
Submit the information requested to [email protected]
- Contract startsin 222 days1 Jun 2027
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Preliminary market engagement notice published16 Oct 2026, 13:09 BSTUK2
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
Official documents & specifications (1)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender