Official UK procurement notice
NLFT Service Desk and End User Technology Services - Open Market Engagement (RFI)
Authority: North London NHS Foundation Trust (NHS & healthcare)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionNorth London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT) is undertaking an Open Market Engagement exercise to inform its future sourcing strategy for Service Desk and End User Technology Services.<br/><br/>The Trust is seeking market feedback on service delivery models, transition approaches, service management capabilities, innovation opportunities, automation, AI-enabled services and indicative commercial arrangements.<br/><br/>Suppliers are invited to review the Request for Information (RFI) documentation and submit responses via the Atamis procurement portal.<br/><br/>This exercise is issued for market engagement purposes only and does not constitute a call for competition, procurement exercise or commitment by the Trust to procure any services.
CPV: IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support
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The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1North London NHS Foundation Trust is undertaking an Open Market Engagement exercise…Planned
North London NHS Foundation Trust is undertaking an Open Market Engagement exercise relating to the future provision of Service Desk and End User Technology Services.<br/><br/>The Trust is seeking supplier feedback regarding service delivery models, transition approaches, user support arrangements, automation and AI capabilities, service management tooling, innovation opportunities, commercial models and implementation considerations.<br/><br/>Interested suppliers are invited to review the Request for Information (RFI) documentation available through the Atamis portal and submit responses by the stated deadline.<br/><br/>This exercise is being undertaken solely for market engagement purposes and is not a call for competition. Additional information: The Authority may use external technical, commercial and procurement advisers to review responses received through this market engagement exercise.<br/><br/>All advisers are subject to appropriate confidentiality and conflict of interest arrangements.<br/><br/>Participation in this exercise will not provide any supplier with an advantage in any subsequent procurement process.<br/><br/>The Authority reserves the right not to commence any procurement arising from this market engagement activity.
Pipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How North London NHS Foundation Trust buys IT services: consulting, software, internet (CPV 72), and who usually turns up
North London NHS Foundation Trust’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: IT services: consulting, software, internet (CPV 72) →
How the contest usually goes
Winner shares use published awards; bid and price charts use contested lots.
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Small firms have won here. Neither number says whether you qualify; it describes who has been winning.
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Local means the winner is registered in the region where that award was delivered. The market figure counts awards delivered in Greater London.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners were registered in the region where that award was delivered.
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Half of these awards have an award date within 66 days of the bid deadline.
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How many bids did past lots attract?
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1 bid8%
2–331%
4–631%
7+30%
How did awards compare with estimates?
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Below estimate41%
Within ±2%39%
Above estimate20%
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Open a lot for its forecast, this buyer’s previous supplier and possible competitors, from published award history, not a bid list
Lot #1North London NHS Foundation Trust is undertaking an Open Market Engagement exercise…CPV 72Estimate not published
This lot lists more than one class in CPV 72. The comparison uses that group.
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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 106 past lots.
1 bid8%
2–331%
4–631%
7+30%
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No comparable awards for this lot yet.
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No earlier contract of this buyer matches this lot on the published record.
Who could compete for this lot? i
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Candidate suppliers for this notice have not been worked out yet, so this is not a verdict that nobody fits.
About this data
- Estimates, labelled. The price range, possible competitors and earlier-work matches are our estimates from past awards, not published facts, win chances or price advice. The buyer’s own record and the wider market are shown apart, never mixed.
- Source. Official UK public procurement notices (Find a Tender and Contracts Finder), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0, updated through the day and rebuilt nightly. Not every figure uses both feeds, and each one shows how many records it rests on: see 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
- 13 Nov 2026, 13:44 GMT
- Last source update
- 13 Nov 2026, 13:44 GMT
- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-108028- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-07bbb8Find a Tender
Publisher note: This Prior Information Notice relates to an Open Market Engagement and Request for Information (RFI) exercise for future Service Desk and End User Technology Services.<br/><br/>The purpose of this exercise is to gather market intelligence, understand available service delivery models, technology capabilities, innovation opportunities and indicative commercial approaches.<br/><br/>Suppliers are invited to review and respond to the RFI documentation available through the Atamis eSourcing portal.<br/><br/>This notice is not a call for competition, does not commence a procurement procedure and does not commit North London NHS Foundation Trust to undertake any procurement or award any contract.<br/><br/>Responses to the RFI should be submitted via the Atamis portal no later than 27 November 2026 at 14:00.
How it was run
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- Submission deadline
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Timeline
13 Nov 2026 → 13 Nov 2026 · 2 dates- Tender notice expected2 days ago13 Nov 2026
- Notice published37h ago13 Nov 2026, 13:44 GMT
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
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