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Published 7 Oct 2026, 09:52 BST

Official UK procurement notice

New Mental Health Emergency Department Unit at Luton Centre for Mental Health

Authority: East London NHS Foundation Trust (Central government)

Two-stageWorksCompetitive procedure with negotiation
Published estimate£1,700,000≈ £1.9m / year
Submission deadline 12 Oct 202612:00 BST · 5d 1h left
Contract term 11 mostarts 1 Feb 2027

What is being bought

Published requirement description

New build works for New Mental Health Emergency Department Unit at Luton Centre for Mental Health as indicated in the tendering specification.

CPV: Building construction work

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · value published
Lot #1Open tender 11 moPublished value£1,700,000
Contract period: 1 Feb 2027 — 17 Dec 2027 (11 mo)Delivery: East of England · LutonTurnover guideline: ~£3,878,125/yr≈ 2× annual value
45210000 Building construction work

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
How bids are scored
Quality: 50%Price: 40%Social value: 10%
Published sub-criteria (3)
  • Quality Questions — 50%
  • Cost — 40%
  • Social Value — 10%
Published award criteria (3)
  • Social Value — 10
  • Quality Questions — 50
  • Cost — 40

No conditions of participation were published on the notice; check the tender documents.

What this means for your bid
  • Price carries 40 of 100 points — a 10% discount moves about 4 points. The method statement decides this lot, not the discount.
  • Turnover usually expected at this size: about £3,878,125 (twice the annual value).

Price arithmetic assumes straight proportional scoring — the tender pack may use another formula. Turnover is an indicative market norm (≈2× annual value), not a published condition.

Competition analysis · published record, not a forecast of who will bid

How East London NHS Foundation Trust buys Building construction work (CPV 4521) — and who usually turns up

East London NHS Foundation Trust’s own published record, next to the East of England market for the same work. Frameworks and DPS are kept out: they attract a different number of bids. Whole-market view: Building construction work (CPV 4521) →

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How the contest usually goes

This buyer’s published record next to the market where the work is delivered — contested contracts only, counted per lot

Question for the bid
This buyerEast London NHS Foundation Trust · all categories
The marketBuilding construction work (CPV 4521) · East of England
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: 3 of 12 known-size awards · market: CPV 4521, n=97
25%71%

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 East of England.

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

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 9 of 12 known-location awards · market: CPV 4521, n=144
75%42%

Most of this buyer’s recorded winners are registered in East of England.

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: no dates · market: n=59
—35 days

Half of these awards were announced within 35 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 9 of 18 awarded contracts without a rival · market: n=132
50%21%

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 buyer3 lots with bid counts · all categories · too few to chart
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The market100 lots with bid counts · CPV 4521
8% had one bid
Market · select a colour for counts
1 bid8%
Market: 8 of 100 lots with published bid counts.
2–329%
Market: 29 of 100 lots with published bid counts.
4–634%
Market: 34 of 100 lots with published bid counts.
7+29%
Market: 29 of 100 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.

Past prices are a guide, not a bid price.

Last 36 months.

This buyerNo matched awards
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The market65 lots with estimate and award · CPV 4521
40% below estimate
Market · select a colour for counts
Below estimate40%
Market: 26 of 65 lots with an estimate and award.
Within ±2%22%
Market: 14 of 65 lots with an estimate and award.
Above estimate38%
Market: 25 of 65 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 #1Open tenderCPV 4521 11 monthsPublished value£1,700,000
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.

The bar shows 100 past lots.

A forecast, not a list of bidders.

—8% single-bid risk
Past bids on 100 similar lots
1 bid8%
8 of 100 similar past lots received 1 bid (8%).
2–329%
29 of 100 similar past lots received 2–3 (29%).
4–634%
34 of 100 similar past lots received 4–6 (34%).
7+29%
29 of 100 similar past lots received 7+ (29%).
Comparable past lots usually drew 4.5 bids.
Commercial price forecast
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Where the winning 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 guide, not a price to bid.

—No model forecast yet
No comparable awards on record for this lot’s category yet — the published estimate is £1.7m, 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.

SupplierThis buyer’s earlier contractLotAward valueMatch
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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.

Restricted route (Stage 2 ITT / Shortlist): Bidding is restricted to invited candidates who qualified at Stage 1. Uninvited suppliers cannot participate in this round.
SupplierWon in this categoryLive contractsAward vs estimate
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Coverage and what to read with care
  • Each figure explains itself. The on a figure says what it is, how it is counted and which scope this notice’s own record came from (class, division, all categories, or the authority’s 24-month row). The two sides are never blended. A lot’s own market is read at its delivery region where the lot names one; where it names several, or none that can be resolved, the chart falls back to the UK-wide record for the same category and says so under the bar. An empty cell means the source published nothing usable. Long form: Methodology.
  • When we call out a difference. A buyer figure is only flagged against the market when the sample is large enough that the gap is unlikely to be chance; at most two callouts appear, always phrased as a comparison with both numbers and the sample size.
  • Coverage (re-measured 5 Oct on the live record, 94,497 awarded procedures of the last three years). 51 % publish a bid count and 72 % a delivery region, so the market column reads the authority’s registered region when the notice names none, labelled. Of the 17,687 award-vs-estimate pairs, 34 % sit exactly on the estimate — the buyer published the award at the figure it advertised. n is on every figure; a thin sample is muted, never hidden, and a distribution is not drawn as percentages below ten observations.
  • “Match”, text similarity, the expected-bid figure and the distribution drawn beneath it are model outputs, not published facts or win probabilities. Find a Tender does not publish who is bidding. Never shown: contact details, payment behaviour, or a recommended price.

Procedure terms & legal framework

From the official record
Procedure method
Competitive procedure with negotiation
Legal basis
CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
Procurement category
Works
Notice status
Open for expressions of interest
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
No (one-off requirement)
First published
7 Oct 2026, 09:52 BST
Last source update
7 Oct 2026, 09:52 BST
Authority reference
ELFT/TENDER/26/C475621 JCT
Classification (CPV)
Building construction work
Delivery area
East of England (UKH21)
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-078233

How to participate & submission route

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Expression of interest (EOI)
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Tender submission deadline
12 Oct 2026, 12:00 BST
Clarification deadline
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Submission channel
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Accepted languages
en
Detailed submission instructions & authority contactsFrom official release

Timeline

3 published dates · Europe/London
  1. Notice publishedjust passed
    7 Oct 2026, 09:52 BST
  2. Submission deadlinein 5 days
    12 Oct 2026, 12:00 BST
  3. Contract startsin 117 days
    1 Feb 2027, 00:00 GMT

Commercial outcome & contract awards

Nothing awarded yet
Awards (0)
No award published
Contracts (0)
No contract published
Bid statistics
No aggregate bid statistics published

Contracting authority & participating public bodies

East London NHS Foundation Trust

Contracting authorityCentral GovernmentBody governed by public lawHealth 9 Alie Street, London, London, E1 8DE [email protected] Published organisation website ↗

Dispute resolution & review bodies

Official documents & specifications

Official links; attachments are not copied

No document links were published on the notice; the tender pack is on the portal.