Official UK procurement notice
NHS England – East of England Bowel Cancer Screening Programme
Authority: NHS England (Central government)
What is being bought
Published requirement description*This is a Prior Information Notice (PIN)*<br/><br/>NHS Arden and Greater East Midlands Commissioning Support Unit (AGCSU) on behalf of NHS England – East of England (referred to as the Commissioner) wish to inform the market of a future procurement opportunity for NHS Bowel Cancer Screening in West Essex.<br/><br/>The Commissioner is placing this PIN in relation to a pre market assessment questionnaire regarding the provision of NHS Bowel Cancer Screening in West Essex. This will be used as a conduit to obtain feedback from the market to ascertain market capability and interest in the opportunity. <br/><br/>The feedback aims to achieve several critical objectives:<br/><br/>
- Gain market views on the viability of procuring the services<br/>
- Determine length of future contracts,<br/>
- Determine a suitable mobilisation period for the services,<br/>
- Feedback on the draft Service Specification,<br/>
- Feedback on premises solutions, <br/><br/>The Commissioners would like to invite interested providers to register their interest via the Atamis e-tendering portal. Once registered providers will have access to a national service specification and the NHS Bowl Cancer Screening Programme - Schedule 4 and schedule 6 to aid completion of the market assessment questions. <br/><br/>We would like to encourage providers to review the national service specification and schedules provided in order to inform their responses to the market assessment questionnaire.<br/><br/>If your organisation is interested in this opportunity, then please respond to the market assessment questionnaire on Atamis and register your interest by following the instructions given below in section VI.3.0.1 Additional information. Please note the deadline for interested providers to complete the early market assessment questionnaire is 10.00am on 2nd June 2026.
CPV: Gastroenterologist services · Health services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1This notice is purely for providers to express an interest in the opportunity to…Planned
This notice is purely for providers to express an interest in the opportunity to provide NHS Bowel Cancer Screening in West Essex.<br/><br/>The NHS Bowel Cancer Screening Programme (BCSP) aims to reduce the incident of and mortality from bowel cancer by delivering a systematic, quality assured population-based screening programme. Bowel Cancer Screening is offered every 2 years to people aged 50 to 74.<br/><br/>NHS England – East of England, would like to invite all interested providers to participate in an early market assessment questionnaire.<br/><br/>Please note the deadline for expressing an interest is 10.00am on 2nd June 2026. Additional information: Please note the Contract Notice Publish date is only indicative at this time and is subject to change.
Pipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How NHS England buys Health services (CPV 8510), and who usually turns up
NHS England’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
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.
Local means the winner is registered in the region where that award was delivered. The market figure counts awards delivered in East of England.
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 24 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 bid26% / 15%
2–341% / 35%
4–615% / 38%
7+17% / 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 estimate37% / 41%
Within ±2%52% / 53%
Above estimate11% / 5%
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 #1This notice is purely for providers to express an interest in the opportunity to…CPV 8510Estimate 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 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.
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.
| Supplier | This buyer’s earlier contract | Lot | Award value | Why listed |
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| GXO LOGISTICS UK LIMITEDLive contract | NHS England Bowel Cancer Screening Programme Managed Serviceruns to Jun 2029 | — | — | Matched as the earlier contract |
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.
What this replaces i
Who has done similar work for this buyer.
Past contracts are matched by buyer, title and type of work.
67% title match.
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.
67% title match.
A past supplier may not bid again.
The prior contract this notice most likely re-tenders · matched by title and category (67% title match), the holder is not guaranteed to re-bid
NHS England Bowel Cancer Screening Programme Managed Service — held by GXO LOGISTICS UK LIMITED; the published contract ends 30 Jun 2029.
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
- 13 May 2026, 08:52 BST
- Last source update
- 13 May 2026, 08:52 BST
- Authority reference
C445927- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-043708- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06972dFind a Tender
Publisher note: This is purely an early engagement exercise; any subsequent procurement will be advertised separately and all organisations wanting to participate will need to respond to the procurement advertisement as and when published.<br/><br/>This is a market testing exercise and does not commit the Commissioners to carry out a procurement process. Current services will remain in place during this period in line with existing contracts and service level agreements.<br/><br/>The procurement will be advertised in accordance with the Provider Selection Regime(PSR) Notice. The awarding of this contract will be subject to the HealthCare Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023. For the avoidance of doubt, the provisions of the Procurement Act 2023 will not apply to this award.<br/><br/>The Contracting Authority will be using an eTendering system for this market engagement exercise. To express an interest and access the questionnaire go to the 'Live Opportunities' list on the e-tendering portal at the following<br/>link: https://health-family-contract-search.secure.force.com/?searchtype=Projects and register your interest.<br/><br/>You can search for the opportunity by entering the following contract reference: C445927 - NHS England – East of England Bowel Cancer Screening Programme<br/><br/>Please note the deadline to complete the questionnaire is 10:00am on 2nd June 2026.
How it was run
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- Submission deadline
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Timeline
13 May 2026 → 31 Aug 2026 · 2 dates- Notice published165 days ago13 May 2026, 08:52 BST
- Tender notice expected55 days ago31 Aug 2026, 00:00 BST
Commercial outcome & contract awards
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- No award published
- Contracts (0)
- No contract published
- Bid statistics
- No aggregate bid statistics published
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Official documents & specifications
Official links; attachments are not copiedNo document links were published on the notice.