Official UK procurement notice
Non Invasive Ventilation, Associated Consumables and Ancillary Services in the Community
Procurement agent: Belfast Health & Social Care Trust·On behalf of: Regional Business Services Organisation Procurement and Logistics Service
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThis Framework Agreement is being established on behalf of Health and Social Care (HSC) in Northern Ireland (referred to as ‘the Buyer’).
The aim of this Tender is to develop a regional managed service to provide for the health and wellbeing of Patients who have been prescribed NIV Treatment. HSC organisations are committed to maximising the social value available through this procurement, by collaborating with the Suppliers to address identified social and health inequalities which exist for Patients within the scope of this managed service.
- No preliminary market engagement: PME (6324330) Carried out 26/01/2026
CPV: Gas-therapy and respiratory devices · Medical breathing devices · Medical equipments · Respiratory monitors
How this framework works
From the published notice- Type
- Closed framework
- Call-offs
- call-offs may be awarded directly or by further competition
- Framework period
- 2 yrs · up to 4 yrs from 1 Mar 2027
Published description of the framework
As per Tender document 'PaLS CLOSED FRAMEWORK (NON-RANKED)'
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · value publishedWhat it takes to wini
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 morei
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).
Published sub-criteria (2)
- Quality Assessment (Social Value): 10%
- Price: 90%
Published award criteria (2)
- Quality Assessment (Social Value)
- Price
- Price carries 90 of 100 points: a 10% discount moves about 9 points. This one is won on the number: sharpen the price before polishing the prose.
- “Non Invasive Ventilation, Associated Consumables and Ancillary…” is a framework: the contest is a place on its panel, not a single contract: call-offs may be direct or by further competition.
Price arithmetic assumes straight proportional scoring; the tender pack may use another formula.
Competition analysis · published record, not a forecast of who will bid
How Regional Business Services Organisation Procurement and Logistics Service buys Radiotherapy, mechanotherapy, electrotherapy and physical therapy devices (CPV 3315), and who usually turns up
Regional Business Services Organisation Procurement and Logistics Service’s published record next to the market for the same work. Compared with other frameworks and DPS only. Whole-market view: Radiotherapy, mechanotherapy, electrotherapy and physical therapy devices (CPV 3315) →
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. 152 known-size awards sit across 14 procurements, so one procurement can dominate this percentage.
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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 Northern Ireland (authority’s region).
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners were registered outside 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 33 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.
Thin markets produce this too; it is not proof of a tailored specification.
Missing bid counts may hide more single-bid awards. This share is a minimum.
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 bid7% / 0%
2–318% / 18%
4–626% / 18%
7+50% / 64%
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.
On a framework or DPS, prices are agreed when work is called off.
Past prices are a guide, not a bid price.
Not comparable on a framework or DPS: the price is set later, on each call-off.
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 #1CPV 33Published estimate£45m
This lot lists more than one class in CPV 33. The comparison uses that group.
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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 74 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid3%
2–37%
4–631%
7+59%
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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.
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.
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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.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Procedure method
- Open procedure
- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Goods
- Notice status
- Open admission
- Procurement threshold
- Above threshold (FTS publication)
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Framework agreement
- Who may use this agreement
- Not stated in the notice; call-off rights may be limited to the establishing authority
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 30 Oct 2026, 16:18 GMT
- Last source update
- 30 Oct 2026, 16:18 GMT
- Award evaluation window
- Submission end – 1 Jan 2027
- Authority reference
5889370- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-103413- Latest notice
- Tender notice (UK4)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Not published
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-079500Find a Tender
How to participate & submission route
Official notice Apply via eTendersNI- Requests to participate (first stage)
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- Appointment period ends
- 30 Nov 2026, 15:00 GMT
- Clarification deadline
- 20 Nov 2026, 15:00 GMT
- Submission channel
- Official e-sourcing portal
- Electronic submission
- Allowed
- Accepted languages
- en
Timeline
30 Oct 2026 → 1 Mar 2027 · 5 dates- Tender notice published7h ago30 Oct 2026, 16:18 GMT
- Today31 Oct 2026
- Clarification questions byin 20 days20 Nov 2026, 15:00 GMT
- Admission / appointment period endsin 30 days · period end, not a bid countdown30 Nov 2026, 15:00 GMT
- Award decision expected byin 62 days1 Jan 2027, 23:59 GMT
- Contract startsin 120 days1 Mar 2027
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Tender notice published30 Oct 2026, 16:18 GMTUK4
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
6 public bodies on the noticeClients of the procurement agent
- Northern Health & Social Care TrustContracting authorityPublic authority - central government
- Regional Business Services Organisation, Procurement and Logistics ServiceProcess contact pointProcuring entityBSO PaLS are both a Contracting authority and tendering on behalf of all other organisations listed
- South Eastern Health & Social Care TrustContracting authorityPublic authority - central government
- Southern Health and Social Care TrustContracting authorityPublic authority - central government
- Western Health & Social Care TrustContracting authorityPublic authority - central government
Official documents & specifications (1)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Tender notice Tender notice on Find a Tender