Find a TenderPlanned procurement
Published 6 Nov 2026, 14:44 GMT

Official UK procurement notice

Northamptonshire and LLR Non Custodial Services Market Engagement Event

Authority: NHS England (NHS & healthcare)

Services
Planned pipeline value£1pipeline notice, not a live tender
Tender notice expected 22 Jan 2027from the planned procurement notice
Notice summaryFrom the published notice

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 description

NHS 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 published
Lot #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.

Delivery: East Midlands · Northamptonshire<br/>Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland

Who is likely to bid for this lot ↓

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) →

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How the contest usually goes

Winner shares use published awards; bid and price charts use contested lots.

Question for the bid
This buyerNHS England · division 85
The marketMiscellaneous health services (CPV 8514) · East Midlands
What to do with it
How often do SMEs win?
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The counts under this question show how many awards have a known supplier size.

Buyer: 378 of 1,022 known-size awards · market: CPV 8514 · East Midlands, n=88
37%53%

Small firms have won here. Neither number says whether you qualify; it describes who has been winning.

How often do local suppliers win?
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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.

Buyer: 544 of 651 known-location awards · market: CPV 8514 · East Midlands, n=97
84%41%

Most of this buyer’s recorded winners were registered in the region where that award was delivered.

How long to a decision?
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Buyer: 10 decided notices · market: CPV 8514 · East Midlands, n=8
24 days29 days

Half of these awards have an award date within 24 days of the bid deadline.

How often single-bid or direct?
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Both shares are minimums: some awards have no bid count.

Buyer: at least 276 of 422 procurements with awards had no recorded rival · market: CPV 8514 · East Midlands, n=103
65%73%

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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This buyer170 lots with bid counts · broad CPV 85
26% had one bid
The market19 lots with bid counts · CPV 8514 · East Midlands
11% had one bid
% of lots with a published bid count: this buyer (170) / the market (19) · select a colour for counts
1 bid26% / 11%
Buyer: 45 of 170 lots with published bid counts. Market: 2 of 19 lots with published bid counts.
2–341% / 16%
Buyer: 70 of 170 lots with published bid counts. Market: 3 of 19 lots with published bid counts.
4–615% / 37%
Buyer: 26 of 170 lots with published bid counts. Market: 7 of 19 lots with published bid counts.
7+17% / 37%
Buyer: 29 of 170 lots with published bid counts. Market: 7 of 19 lots with published bid counts.

How did awards compare with estimates?

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This buyer109 lots with estimate and award · broad CPV 85
36% below estimate
The market15 lots with estimate and award · CPV 8514 · East Midlands
20% below estimate
% of lots with an estimate and award: this buyer (109) / the market (15) · select a colour for counts
Below estimate36% / 20%
Buyer: 39 of 109 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 3 of 15 lots with an estimate and award.
Within ±2%53% / 60%
Buyer: 58 of 109 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 9 of 15 lots with an estimate and award.
Above estimate11% / 20%
Buyer: 12 of 109 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 3 of 15 lots with an estimate and award.
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Assess each lot
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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
Expected competition
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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.

—No model forecast yet11% chance of a single bid
Past bids on 19 similar lots
1 bid11%
2 of 19 similar past lots received 1 bid (11%).
2–316%
3 of 19 similar past lots received 2–3 (16%).
4–637%
7 of 19 similar past lots received 4–6 (37%).
7+37%
7 of 19 similar past lots received 7+ (37%).
Comparable past lots usually drew 5 bids.
Commercial price forecast
i

No comparable awards for this lot yet.

—No real estimate
The buyer published £1 as the estimate (a placeholder, not the contract’s value), so there is nothing to forecast against.

Who has supplied this buyer on similar work?
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SupplierThis buyer’s earlier contractLotAward valueWhy listed
Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation TrustEarlier contractNorthamptonshire Non-Custodial Services (Liaison and Diversion, MHTR and Reconnect)notice published Jul 2026—£2.8mMatched as the earlier contract

Who could compete for this lot?
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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
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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)
Miscellaneous health services
Delivery area
East Midlands (UKF22)
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-07b6b2 Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice
Run through: portal not identified

Tender 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
  1. Notice published8 days ago
    6 Nov 2026, 14:44 GMT
  2. Today
    15 Nov 2026
  3. Tender notice expectedin 67 days
    22 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

NHS England

Contracting authorityNHS & healthcareBody governed by public lawHealth Wellington House, 133-135 Waterloo Rd, London, London, SE1 8UGContact name, email

Official documents & specifications

Official links; attachments are not copied

No document links were published on the notice.