Official UK procurement notice
NHS Healthier You · UK public procurement notice
Authority: NHS England (Central government)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionFollowing extensive Preliminary Market Engagement with suppliers and a route to market assessment, NHS England (NHSE) is actively exploring scope to commission a range of behavioural support for obesity prescribing and diabetes prevention services, known as NHS Healthier You, through the competitive process under the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023.
Subject to final decisions, NHSE is intending to commence a competitive procurement process in early 2026 to award supplier contracts to deliver multiple behavioural support services to be brought together under the NHS Healthier You branding to each integrated care board (ICB) or ICB cluster in England.
Scope
Further to previous Preliminary Market Engagement notices (2025/S 000-052155 and 2025/S 000-021802), the proposed procurement of NHS Healthier You will comprise:
Diabetes prevention: a 9-month behaviour support intervention for people at risk of type 2 diabetes. For more information visit: www.england.nhs.uk/diabetes/diabetes-pr… ↗
Behavioural support for obesity prescribing: a 9-month behaviour support intervention for people prescribed weight-loss medication in primary care.
Type 2 diabetes path to remission: a 3-month total diet replacement intervention followed by a 9-month behaviour support intervention for people living with type 2 diabetes. For more information visit: www.england.nhs.uk/diabetes/treatment-c… ↗
Long-term conditions prevention pilot: a pilot 9-month behaviour support intervention for people living with hypertension. This intervention will be piloted over 3 years in 8 ICB areas (to be confirmed) with an option to expand wider as evidence emerges.
Suppliers will need the capability and capacity to provide the full suite of services to an ICB or ICB cluster (or group of ICB’s), offering eligible participants a choice of group based on one to one based in-person services, group based remote services delivered via video conference, or a digitally delivered one to one or independently accessed service provided through a web browser or a mobile application. The Type 2 diabetes path to remission intervention will only be delivered on a one-to-one basis.
Timescales
Whilst precise procurement timelines cannot currently be confirmed, below is an indicative programme:
Contract notice (call for competition) published: Q1 2026
Tender return deadline: Q2 2026 (target 8 week Tender window)
Bidders notified of award decision: Q2/Q3 2026
Standstill period: Q2/Q3 2026
Contract award confirmed and contracts issued: Q2/Q3 2026
Service commencement: Q2/Q3 2026
Please note the above timelines are indicative only and subject to change.
Evaluation & Stages
NHSE intend to use a 3 stage evaluation process of Tenders submitted, summarised below:
Stage 1
NHSE will assess an initial series of pass/fail questions, including technical capability and past experience which form the basic selection criteria (Supplier Questionnaire (SQ))
Bidders who pass the SQ will progress to Stage 2
Stage 2
NHSE will evaluate Bidder’s proposed service offer against the key criteria for all populations to be served, including commercial schedules and universal technical and quality responses and social value
A maximum of the 5 highest scoring bids (across price and quality) for each ICB/ICB cluster, which also meet the relevant minimum thresholds for quality (where applicable), will progress to Stage 3
Stage 3
ICB’s/ICB clusters (or NHSE where appropriate) will evaluate specific locality technical and quality questions
The highest scoring Bid by ICB/ICB cluster from Stage 3 evaluation will be offered an award of contract to deliver the full scope of the NHS Healthier You services for that ICB/ICB cluster
Tackling health inequalities is a direct responsibility and a prime focus of the NHS Healthier You programme. Bidders should acknowledge they are likely to be evaluated on how they will tackle the relative disparities in access to services, patient experience and demonstrable evidence that they have the capability to improve healthcare outcomes within the geographic areas they are bidding for.
It is proposed the price evaluation will be based on the total cost of delivering all Healthier You services calculated on indicative participant volumes for the full initial 3-year contract term, to include behavioural support, TDR products and monitoring equipment.
Contract Term
The intended contract term is 3 years, with a proposed optional extension of up to 24 months (subject to performance and budgetary approval).
Pricing & Payment Models
NHSE is proposing to utilise a sessional payment where providers are paid a fixed tariff per completed session per participant, based on actual activity undertaken.
It is expected that Bidders will be requested to provide a common price per participant across the full range of behavioural support elements, separated according to the mode of delivery to reflect the behavioural science underpinning its model, duration, and delivery schedule intensity, i.e. face-to-face group, digital, remote group, face-to-face one-to-one.
It is anticipated that NHSE will provide a guide unit price for behavioural support elements to ensure services can be delivered within our defined budget, however, it will be for Bidders to determine their own sustainable pricing, and Bidders will not be excluded for submitting pricing above or below the guide price.
Bidders will be able to identify those ICB/ICB clusters they wish to bid for and will provide prices per ICB/ICB cluster. This allows Bidders to offer differing prices per ICB/ICB cluster according to indicative local population volumes and cohort profile.
Bidders will be asked to provide separate pricing for total diet replacement (TDR) products and monitoring equipment under the T2DR service. It is anticipated these products and equipment will be funded in three payments during the TDR phase of the programme (week 4, 8 and 12) in line with an individual’s retention on the programme.
Mobilisation costs are anticipated to be built into unit costs. Suppliers will be responsible for managing inflationary risk within the fixed price of service delivery, although an inflationary uplift is being explored for the total diet replacement (TDR) products only, due to external supply chain and manufacturing pressures unique to this component.
Participation
Successful Bidders should be able to provide the full range of services across all delivery modes required under NHS Healthier You, as listed above.
NHSE actively encourages suppliers to enter partnership and sub-contracting arrangements with other organisations, particularly small and medium sized enterprises (SME’s) or specialist providers who can contribute niche expertise, regional delivery strength, or digital innovation through a lead provider or other joint venture model, in order to build the required capabilities and capacity to deliver the full scope of the services.
Digital Service Model Requirements
Bidders will be required to demonstrate access to an existing, operational web browser or mobile application that will underpin the digital service model. Bidders (or their nominated digital sub-contractor) will be required to provide a live download link or installation route and test credentials to enable NHSE to review the core functionality of the app or web-based content.
Bidders will also be required to confirm they hold the necessary intellectual property rights (IP) to deploy and configure the platform for the purposes of delivering the Healthier You service.
Bidders will need to ensure compliance with the latest version of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG).
These requirements will be tested at Stage 1 evaluation (SQ) as pass/fail questions.
Cyber Security Requirements
Bidders will need to demonstrate they (or their relevant sub-contractor(s)) hold, or will hold prior to service commencement, the Cyber Essentials Plus and/or ISO 27001 certification and have undertaken subsequent penetration testing carried out under the NCSC CHECK scheme.
Pre-Tender Briefing Session
In order to assist potential Bidders prepare for the release of this planned procurement, NHSE will hold a Pre-Tender Briefing Session ahead of Tender release, in the first quarter of 2026.
Details of the date and time of the session will be released in early 2026 via the Atamis e-sourcing portal health-family.force.com/s/Welcome ↗. Potential Bidders are encouraged to register their interest in this planned procurement to receive the session details.
Please Note:
This notice does not constitute a call for competition in its own right
All information contained within this notice is still indicative and not yet confirmed
NHS England reserve the right to change any part of the process for this planned procurement and engage further where appropriate to further inform the final approach
It is not intended this Planned Procurement Notice will be used as a “qualifying” notice to reduce the Tender period
Full details of any planned procurement will be finalised and released at Invitation to Tender (ITT) stage, which will be issued under a separate Contract Notice published via the Find a Tender service
Any questions in relation to this notice or planned procurement should be submitted via the Atamis portal
CPV: Health services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · value publishedLot #1PlannedRenewalPublished value£386,000,000
- Technical & professional ability
Cyber essentials plus or ISO27001
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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).
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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).
- Technical & professional ability
Cyber essentials plus or ISO27001
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
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How often local firms win similar work.
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A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners are registered in Greater London.
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How long buyers here take to decide after bids close.
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Half of these awards were announced within 24 days of the bid deadline.
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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.
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Past bids do not predict this tender.
1 bid26% / 32%
2–341% / 32%
4–616% / 23%
7+17% / 13%
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.
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Below estimate37% / 39%
Within ±2%51% / 54%
Above estimate11% / 7%
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No supplier is confirmed as a bidder.
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Lot #1CPV 8510Published estimate£386m
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1 bid32%
2–332%
4–623%
7+13%
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Where the award price may land.
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No comparable awards for this lot yet.
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None is confirmed as a bidder.
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Who could compete for this lot?
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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- Procedure method
- Open procedure
- 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
- 5 Dec 2025, 09:31 GMT
- Last source update
- 5 Dec 2025, 09:31 GMT
- Award evaluation window
- Submission end – 30 Jun 2026
- Authority reference
C362277- FTS notice number
2025/S 000-079982- Latest notice
- Planned procurement notice (UK3)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Not published
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-05ef50Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
- 2 Apr 2026, 12:00 BST
- Electronic submission
- Allowed
Timeline
5 Dec 2025 → 1 Aug 2026 · 5 dates- Planning notice published321 days ago5 Dec 2025, 09:31 GMT
- Tender notice expected261 days ago2 Feb 2026, 23:59 GMT
- Submission deadline203 days ago2 Apr 2026, 12:00 BST
- Award decision expected by113 days ago30 Jun 2026, 23:59 BST
- Contract starts82 days ago1 Aug 2026, 00:00 BST
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Planned procurement notice published5 Dec 2025, 09:31 GMTUK3
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
- Planned procurement notice Planned procurement notice on Find a Tender