Official UK procurement notice
Northamptonshire and LLR Non Custodial Services Market Engagement Event
Authority: NHS England (NHS & healthcare)
NHS England (Midlands) is undertaking a market engagement exercise in advance of a future procurement for the provision of:<br/>. NHS England (Midlands) (the Contracting Authority) intends to commission the following services across Northamptonshire and Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland (LLR):<br/>- Reconnect and Liaison & Diversion Services<br/>- Mental Health Treatment Requirement (MHTR) Services<br/><br/>To inform the market of this forthcoming opportunity and to engage with potential providers, the Contracting Authority will hold a Market Engagement Event on 14 December 2026, which will be delivered virtually via Microsoft Teams.<br/><br/>Organisations wishing to attend the event are required to complete and submit the registration questionnaire by 15:00 (3:00 pm) on Friday 11 December 2026. These sessions will be conducted via Microsoft Teams, will be limited to 10 minutes per provider, and must be booked in advance.
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionNHS England (Midlands) is undertaking a market engagement exercise in advance of a future procurement for the provision of:<br/>
- Lot 1: Reconnect and Liaison & Diversion Services<br/>
- Lot 2: Mental Health Treatment Requirement Services<br/>across Northamptonshire and Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland (LLR).<br/><br/>A virtual market engagement event will be held via Microsoft Teams on 14 December 2026 at 10 am. Attendance is limited to a maximum of three representatives per organisation.<br/><br/>As part of the engagement process, interested providers will have the opportunity to participate in a one-to-one meeting with commissioners. These sessions will be conducted via Microsoft Teams, will be limited to 10 minutes per provider, and must be booked in advance. To allow providers sufficient time to consider the information presented and formulate questions, the one-to-one sessions will take place on the afternoon of 14 January 2027.
CPV: Miscellaneous health services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1NHS England (Midlands) (the Contracting Authority) intends to commission the following…Planned
NHS England (Midlands) (the Contracting Authority) intends to commission the following services across Northamptonshire and Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland (LLR):<br/>- Reconnect and Liaison & Diversion Services<br/>- Mental Health Treatment Requirement (MHTR) Services<br/><br/>To inform the market of this forthcoming opportunity and to engage with potential providers, the Contracting Authority will hold a Market Engagement Event on 14 December 2026, which will be delivered virtually via Microsoft Teams.<br/><br/>Organisations wishing to attend the event are required to complete and submit the registration questionnaire by 15:00 (3:00 pm) on Friday 11 December 2026. Following closure of the registration period, individual Microsoft Teams invitations will be issued to registered attendees.<br/>Attendance at the Market Engagement Event is limited to a maximum of three representatives per organisation.<br/>Further information regarding this opportunity can be found on the Atamis e-sourcing portal under project reference C472176:<br/>atamis-1928.my.site.com/s/Welcome ↗<br/><br/>As part of the engagement process, interested providers will have the opportunity to participate in a one-to-one meeting with commissioners. These sessions will be conducted via Microsoft Teams, will be limited to 10 minutes per provider, and must be booked in advance. To allow providers sufficient time to consider the information presented and formulate questions, the one-to-one sessions will take place on the afternoon of 14 January 2027. Additional information: Participation in this market engagement exercise is intended to inform the market and assist the Contracting Authority in developing its commissioning approach. It does not form part of any formal procurement process and does not commit the Contracting Authority to commence a procurement or award any contract.
Pipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How NHS England buys Miscellaneous health services (CPV 8514), and who usually turns up
NHS England’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) →
How the contest usually goes
Winner shares use published awards; bid and price charts use contested lots.
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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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Local means the winner is registered in the region where that award was delivered. The market figure counts awards delivered in East Midlands.
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 24 days of the bid deadline.
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Both shares are minimums: some awards have no bid count.
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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1 bid26% / 11%
2–341% / 16%
4–615% / 37%
7+17% / 37%
How did awards compare with estimates?
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Below estimate36% / 20%
Within ±2%53% / 60%
Above estimate11% / 20%
Assess each lot i
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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 #1NHS England (Midlands) (the Contracting Authority) intends to commission the following…CPV 8514No real estimate
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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 19 past lots.
1 bid11%
2–316%
4–637%
7+37%
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No comparable awards for this lot yet.
Who has supplied this buyer on similar work? i
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| Supplier | This buyer’s earlier contract | Lot | Award value | Why listed |
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| Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation TrustEarlier contract | Northamptonshire Non-Custodial Services (Liaison and Diversion, MHTR and Reconnect)notice published Jul 2026 | — | £2.8m | Matched as the earlier contract |
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.
What this replaces i
46% title match.
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46% title match.
The prior contract this notice most likely re-tenders · matched by title and category (46% title match), the holder is not guaranteed to re-bid
Northamptonshire Non-Custodial Services (Liaison and Diversion, MHTR and Reconnect) — held by Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust; no contract end date published.
Coming up in this sector
Contracts ending within 12 months · Retender Radar, sector filter set
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
- 6 Nov 2026, 14:44 GMT
- Last source update
- 6 Nov 2026, 14:44 GMT
- Authority reference
C472176- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-105794- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-07b6b2Find a Tender
How it was run
Official noticeTender documents are also served through a separate tool: https://atamis-1928.my.site.com/s/Welcome ↗
- Submission deadline
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Timeline
6 Nov 2026 → 22 Jan 2027 · 2 dates- Notice published8 days ago6 Nov 2026, 14:44 GMT
- Today15 Nov 2026
- Tender notice expectedin 67 days22 Jan 2027
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.