Find a TenderPlanned procurement
Published 27 Jul 2026, 16:42 BST

Official UK procurement notice

NHS Health Checks · UK public procurement notice

Authority: Somerset Council (Local council)

Services
Planned pipeline value£8,900pipeline notice, not a live tender
Tender notice expected 1 Sept 2026from the planned procurement notice

What is being bought

Published requirement description

An NHS Health Check is a free health assessment offered to help prevent serious cardiovascular conditions by spotting risks early. For the purpose of this local service, those eligible are between 40 and 74 years old without already diagnosed long term cardiovascular health conditions, and either registered with a Somerset GP or living in Somerset. The service may be offered to staff or patients meeting this criterion.

The aim of this service is to reduce access barriers for those with severe mental illnesses by combining the NHS HC opportunity with other treatment access. This may be extended to other cohorts like those accessing bariatric services as the service develops.

The service will need to be run to the standard protocol for NHS Health Checks service including measurement of pulse rate, blood pressure and POCT blood cholesterol. It will enable detection of risk factors for hypertension, diabetes, high cholesterol, kidney dysfunction, obesity and heart arrythmias which would be referred to the patient's GP to consider formal diagnosis. It will also include lifestyle support for alcohol use, smoking, healthy weight and physical exercise.

CPV: Community health services · Services provided by nurses

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published

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

How Somerset Council buys Miscellaneous health services (CPV 8514), and who usually turns up

Somerset Council’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: Miscellaneous health services (CPV 8514) →

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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 buyerSomerset Council · division 85
The marketMiscellaneous health services (CPV 8514) · South West England
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: 65 of 95 known-size awards · market: CPV 8514 · South West England, n=150
68%51%

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.

Local means the winner is registered in the region where that award was delivered. The market figure counts awards delivered in South West England.

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

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 96 of 108 known-location awards · market: CPV 8514 · South West England, n=218
89%62%

Most of this buyer’s recorded winners were registered in the region where that award was delivered.

How long to a decision?
i

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.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 4 decided notices · market: CPV 8514 · South West England, n=6
35 days41 days

Half of these awards have an award date 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 34 of 52 procurements with awards had no recorded rival · market: CPV 8514 · South West England, n=186
65%85%

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 buyer35 lots with bid counts · broad CPV 85
40% had one bid
The market15 lots with bid counts · CPV 8514 · South West England
13% had one bid
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
1 bid40% / 13%
Buyer: 14 of 35 lots with published bid counts. Market: 2 of 15 lots with published bid counts.
2–323% / 40%
Buyer: 8 of 35 lots with published bid counts. Market: 6 of 15 lots with published bid counts.
4–620% / 20%
Buyer: 7 of 35 lots with published bid counts. Market: 3 of 15 lots with published bid counts.
7+17% / 27%
Buyer: 6 of 35 lots with published bid counts. Market: 4 of 15 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 buyer9 lots with estimate and award · broad CPV 85
44% below estimate
The market9 lots with estimate and award · CPV 8514 · South West England
44% below estimate
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
Below estimate44% / 44%
Buyer: 4 of 9 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 4 of 9 lots with an estimate and award.
Within ±2%56% / 56%
Buyer: 5 of 9 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 5 of 9 lots with an estimate and award.
Above estimate0% / 0%
Buyer: 0 of 9 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 0 of 9 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 #1CPV 8514Published estimate£9k
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.

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 15 past lots.

A forecast, not a list of bidders.

—No model forecast yet13% chance of a single bid
Past bids on 15 similar lots
1 bid13%
2 of 15 similar past lots received 1 bid (13%).
2–340%
6 of 15 similar past lots received 2–3 (40%).
4–620%
3 of 15 similar past lots received 4–6 (20%).
7+27%
4 of 15 similar past lots received 7+ (27%).
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.

—No model forecast yet
No comparable awards on record for this lot’s category yet. The published estimate is £9k, 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.

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 · 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
Yes (GPA)
Recurring procurement
Unspecified in notice
First published
27 Jul 2026, 16:42 BST
Last source update
27 Jul 2026, 16:42 BST
FTS notice number
2026/S 000-070928
Classification (CPV)
Community health servicesServices provided by nurses
Delivery area
South West (UKK23)
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06d491 Find a Tender

Publisher note: This is a Provider Selection Regime (PSR) intended approach notice. The awarding of this contract is subject to the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023. For the avoidance of doubt, the provisions of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 do not apply to this award. The award decision-makers are as follows: Dr Orla Dunn, Consultant in Public Health Sandy Beamson, Senior Commissioning Officer, Public Health# Chloe Denford, Apprentice, Public Health Abbie Dermody, Apprentice, Public Health It is the intention to award a contract using the most suitable provider process. If you believe your organisation should be considered for provision of this service, please email [email protected] by the deadline of 10.08.2026. For more information on the Most Suitable Provider Process, please see https://www.england.nhs.uk/long-read/the-provider-selection-regime-statutory-guidance/

How it was run

Official notice
Submission deadline
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Timeline

27 Jul 2026 → 1 Sept 2026 · 2 dates
  1. Notice published89 days ago
    27 Jul 2026, 16:42 BST
  2. Tender notice expected53 days ago
    1 Sept 2026, 00:00 BST

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

Somerset Council

Contracting authorityLocal CouncilRegional or local authorityGeneral public services County Hall, The Crescent, Taunton, South West, TA14DYContact name, email

Official documents & specifications

Official links; attachments are not copied

No document links were published on the notice.