Official UK procurement notice
Norfolk, Suffolk and Essex Integrated Urgent Care Service
Authority: NHS SUFFOLK AND NORTH EAST ESSEX INTEGRATED CARE BOARD (NHS & healthcare)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionUrgent care is evolving faster than ever before. People now expect services that are timely, convenient, and tailored to their individual needs. At the same time, our workforce is under increasing strain, and the system must adapt to remain safe, sustainable, and high-quality for the future. This makes the development of an Integrated Urgent Care Strategic Plan essential. By aligning urgent care, primary care, emergency services, and community resources, we can create a seamless pathway that ensures individuals receive the right support, in the right place, at the right time. This integrated approach not only enhances the experience for those using our services but also strengthens the wider health and care system by reducing duplication, easing pressure on emergency departments, and enabling our workforce to deliver care more efficiently.
For Norfolk, Suffolk and Essex, we have produced a Strategic Plan sets out a bold vision for the future-one that is collaborative, innovative, and focused on the needs of the communities we serve. It builds on our commitment to partnership working and highlights how integration can transform the way we deliver urgent care.
We are pleased to announce that we will be jointly procuring the new IUC service between Norfolk and Suffolk ICB and Essex ICB and are seeking your valuable feedback and professional expertise to help refine and strengthen our outcomes. Your perspectives will be instrumental in ensuring that the final product is both robust and responsive to the needs and priorities we aim to address.
Following your submissions, our leadership team will determine the most appropriate procurement approach and develop the accompanying service specification, predicted activity data, and financial information. These materials will be shared in the same way as this Procurement Information Notification. We also plan to hold a virtual market engagement event in early June 2026.
CPV: Health services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1At this stage, we are seeking additional feedback from providers across the integrated…Planned
At this stage, we are seeking additional feedback from providers across the integrated urgent care market to help refine and strengthen our outcomes in the Strategic Plan. This feedback is instrumental in ensuring that the final product is both robust and responsive to the needs and priorities we aim to address.
Please contact [email protected] and we will provide you with an updated copy of the Strategic Plan and a response template to complete.
For the avoidance of doubt these documents are NOT available on the SNEE website
Deadline for completed responses to this PIN is midnight on 7th April 2026
A previous prior information notice was released for this procurement, which is on the below link.
www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/069333-2025/P… ↗
This is to seek additional feedback as the strategic intent develops. Additional information: The intention is that any subsequent procurement process will be undertaken within the Provider Selection Regime (PSR). Any related procurement process will be governed by the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023. For the avoidance of doubt, the provisions of the Procurement Act 2023 do not apply to this process.
Pipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How NHS SUFFOLK AND NORTH EAST ESSEX INTEGRATED CARE BOARD buys Health services (CPV 8510), and who usually turns up
NHS SUFFOLK AND NORTH EAST ESSEX INTEGRATED CARE BOARD’s own published record, next to the published market for the same work. Frameworks and DPS are kept out: they attract a different number of bids. 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.
Here, local means registered in East of England.
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners are registered in East of England.
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How long buyers here take to decide after bids close.
Middle value in days from the deadline to the first award notice, on competitions that published both dates.
Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.
Half of these awards were announced within 41 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 bid7% / 15%
2–327% / 35%
4–653% / 38%
7+13% / 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 estimate25% / 41%
Within ±2%75% / 53%
Above estimate0% / 5%
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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.
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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 #1At this stage, we are seeking additional feedback from providers across the integrated…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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| PRACTICE PLUS GROUP URGENT CARE LIMITEDEarlier contract | Integrated Urgent Care Servicenotice published Oct 2025 | — | £91m | Matched as the earlier contract |
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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.
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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.
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Who has done similar work for this buyer.
Past contracts are matched by buyer, title and type of work.
58% 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.
58% title match.
A past supplier may not bid again.
The prior contract this notice most likely re-tenders · matched by title and category (58% title match), the holder is not guaranteed to re-bid
Integrated Urgent Care Service — held by PRACTICE PLUS GROUP URGENT CARE LIMITED; no contract end date published.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- 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 Mar 2026, 08:25 GMT
- Last source update
- 13 Mar 2026, 08:25 GMT
- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-022649- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06691cFind a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
13 Mar 2026 → 1 Aug 2026 · 2 dates- Notice published224 days ago13 Mar 2026, 08:25 GMT
- Tender notice expected83 days ago1 Aug 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
Official documents & specifications
Official links; attachments are not copiedNo document links were published on the notice.