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Published 28 Sept 2026, 15:17 BST

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Nutritional Products Framework — UK public procurement notice

Official notice Competition analysis

Authority: Belfast Health and Social Care Trust (BHSCT) (Central government)·On behalf of: Business Services Organisation Procurement and Logistics Service

Framework agreement5 lotsGoodsOpen procedureAbove threshold
Sectors: Food, beverages, tobacco and related products (15) Delivery: Delivery location not published
Framework ceiling (notional)£9,261,120envelope for 5 lots · framework ceiling, not attributable revenue
Admission open until 28 Oct 202623:59 GMT · period end, not a bid countdown
Clarification cut-off 21 Oct 202623:59 BST · questions to the authority
Framework period 1 yrup to 4 yrs with extensions · starts 1 Mar 2027
Bids per lot · this authority 9all categories · n=19 · competition analysis ↓

What is being bought5 lots · detail below

Published requirement description

Business Services Organisation (BSO) Procurement and Logistics Service (PaLS) is publishing this tender advertisement on behalf of HSC for the procurement of nutritional products, devices, consumables and associated services via the Nutritional Products Framework. The tender consists of five (5) lots.

  • No preliminary market engagement: N/A - PME was published. Further information available in the Tender Assessment Methodology.

CPV: Special nutritional products

Lots and requirements (5)Procurement structure

5 lots · all with a published value

Every one of these 2 lots carries the same published figure, £185,222: it is the framework's maximum for the whole notice, not each lot's own budget, and no share per lot is published. The cards below say ceiling above rather than repeat it.

Lot #1Oral Nutritional SupplementsRenewal 1 yrPublished value£92,611
Provision of Oral Nutritional Supplements
Contract period: 1 Mar 2027 — 29 Feb 2028 (1 yr) · up to 4 yrs with extensions
Value
£92,611 exc. VAT · £115,764 inc. VAT
Extensions
The initial periods of this framework is for one (1) Year with possible extension periods of 36 months. Additionally, where required the Buyer retains the right to extend this framework for any periods up to 18 months via the clause referenced in 'Special Term 2' of the Mid-Tier Award Form included in the tender documents.
15880000 Special nutritional products
Award criteria (4)
  • ACBS Approved Products — Pass/Fail
  • Governance and Risk — Pass/Fail - Products must have a system for identification of products for reducing risk of incorrect selection.
  • Product Composition / Characteristics — Pass/Fail - Full compositional/ characteristics data must be available on request for all products.
  • Product Support and Associated Services — Pass/Fail - Support of the product must be available, to include: client support, patient support, product development, management information or other means of demonstrating support for the product.

Who is likely to bid for this lot ↓

Lot #2Tube FeedsRenewal 1 yrceiling above
Provision of Tube Feeds
Contract period: 1 Mar 2027 — 29 Feb 2028 (1 yr) · up to 4 yrs with extensions
Extensions
The initial periods of this framework is for one (1) Year with possible extension periods of 36 months. Additionally, where required the Buyer retains the right to extend this framework for any periods up to 18 months via the clause referenced in 'Special Term 2' of the Mid-Tier Award Form included in the tender documents.
15880000 Special nutritional products
Award criteria (4)
  • ACBS Approved Products — Pass/Fail
  • Governance and Risk — Pass/Fail - Products must have a system for identification of products for reducing risk of incorrect selection.
  • Product Composition / Characteristics — Pass/Fail - Full compositional/ characteristics data must be available on request for all products.
  • Product Support and Associated Services — Pass/Fail - Support of the product must be available, to include: client support, patient support, product development, management information or other means of demonstrating support for the product.

Who is likely to bid for this lot ↓

Lot #3Pumps, Administration Sets and Associated ServicesRenewal 1 yrceiling above
Provision of Pumps, Administration Sets and Associated Services
Contract period: 1 Mar 2027 — 29 Feb 2028 (1 yr) · up to 4 yrs with extensions
Extensions
The initial periods of this framework is for one (1) Year with possible extension periods of 36 months. Additionally, where required the Buyer retains the right to extend this framework for any periods up to 18 months via the clause referenced in 'Special Term 2' of the Mid-Tier Award Form included in the tender documents.
15880000 Special nutritional products
Award criteria (3)
  • Governance and Risk — Pass/Fail - Products must have a system for identification of products for reducing risk of incorrect selection.
  • Compliance with Medical Devices Regulations and EU Authorisations — Pass/Fail
  • Product Support and Associated Services — Pass/Fail - Support of the product must be available, to include: client support, patient support, product development, management information or other means of demonstrating support for the product.

Who is likely to bid for this lot ↓

Lot #4ConsumablesRenewal 1 yrPublished value£7,408,896
Provision of Consumables
Contract period: 1 Mar 2027 — 29 Feb 2028 (1 yr) · up to 4 yrs with extensions
Value
£7,408,896 exc. VAT · £9,261,120 inc. VAT
Extensions
The initial periods of this framework is for one (1) Year with possible extension periods of 36 months. Additionally, where required the Buyer retains the right to extend this framework for any periods up to 18 months via the clause referenced in 'Special Term 2' of the Mid-Tier Award Form included in the tender documents.
15880000 Special nutritional products
Award criteria (5)
  • Compliance with Medical Devices Regulations and EU Authorisation — Pass/Fail
  • Governance and Risk — Pass/Fail - Products must have a system for identification of products for reducing risk of incorrect selection.
  • ENFit Compatibility — Pass/Fail
  • Product Support and Associated Services — Support of the product must be available, to include: client support, patient support, product development, management information or other means of demonstrating support for the product.
  • Provision of Samples/ Benchtop Assessment — Pass/Fail

Who is likely to bid for this lot ↓

Lot #5Homecare ServicesRenewal 1 yrPublished value£1,389,168
Provision of Homecare Services
Contract period: 1 Mar 2027 — 29 Feb 2028 (1 yr) · up to 4 yrs with extensions
Value
£1,389,168 exc. VAT · £1,736,460 inc. VAT
Extensions
The initial periods of this framework is for one (1) Year with possible extension periods of 36 months. Additionally, where required the Buyer retains the right to extend this framework for any periods up to 18 months via the clause referenced in 'Special Term 2' of the Mid-Tier Award Form included in the tender documents.
15880000 Special nutritional products
Award criteria (5)
  • Compliance with Medical Devices Regulations and EU Authorisation — Pass/Fail
  • Governance and Risk — Products must have a system for identification of products for reducing risk of incorrect selection.
  • ENFit Compatibility — Pass/Fail
  • Product Support and Associated Services — Support of the product must be available, to include: client support, patient support, product development, management information or other means of demonstrating support for the product.
  • Social Value — Scored out of 0,1,2,4 and 5. Assessment rationale available in CP21 Tender Assessment Methodology.

Who is likely to bid for this lot ↓

Competition analysis · published record, not a forecast of who will bid

How Belfast Health and Social Care Trust (BHSCT) buys Special nutritional products (CPV 1588) — and who usually turns up

Belfast Health and Social Care Trust (BHSCT)’s own published record, next to the Northern Ireland market for the same work. This notice is a framework or DPS, so only frameworks and DPS are compared. Whole-market view: Special nutritional products (CPV 1588) →

1

How the contest usually goes

Left: this authority. Right: the market where the work is delivered. Bids and award-vs-estimate pairs are per lot, from contested frameworks and DPS only — direct awards (including PA 2023 transparency notices) report one bid by definition and are left out. On Procurement Act 2023 notices the count is the tenders assessed at the final stage, not every submission received; pairs compare like with like (VAT-exclusive, or VAT-inclusive on both sides). Empty means nothing was published, not filled in from elsewhere.

This authority

Belfast Health and Social Care Trust (BHSCT)

framework/DPS notices in 36 months: 17 in all categories

Bids per lot
i

How many companies usually bid for work like this.

Middle value of published bid counts, one per lot, for this buyer or this region in the same sector.

Based on this buyer’s tenders in all categories, last 36 months: 19 lots. All 19 lots are from Procurement Act 2023 notices, which count bids assessed.

Nothing is filled in from UK-wide numbers. An empty tile means nothing usable was published.

9all categories · 36m · n=19 lots
Single-bid lots
i

How often only one company bid.

Share of lots that received exactly one bid, on the same competitions as the bids figure.

Based on this buyer’s tenders in all categories, last 36 months: 19 lots.

High means a thin market or an incumbent that is hard to beat.

11%all categories · 36m · n=19 lots
Award vs estimate
i

Do awards for work like this land above or below the estimate.

Estimate against award per lot, for this buyer or this region in the same sector.

Based on this buyer’s tenders in all categories, last 24 months: 15 pairs.

A past pattern, not a price to bid.

2% aboveall categories · 24m · n=15 pairs
Deadline → award date
i

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.

Based on this buyer’s tenders in all categories, last 36 months: 7 notices.

Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.

Last 36 months.

35dall categories · 36m · n=7 notices
Notice updates
i

How often this buyer changes a notice after publishing it.

Middle number of amendments per notice. Deadline extensions and corrections both count.

Based on this buyer’s tenders in all categories, last 24 months: 165 notices.

Last 24 months.

0all categories · 24m · n=165 notices
Awarded without competition
i

How often this buyer awards without a competition.

Direct or limited awards as a share of its notices that say which procedure was used. These routes are legal in defined cases. This is just the record.

Based on this buyer’s tenders in all categories, last 36 months: 17 notices.

Last 36 months.

0%all categories · 36m · n=17 notices
Bids per lot · history, not this notice’s lots robust · n=19
i

How the number of bidders is spread across lots.

Each lot with a published bid count is put in a band: one bid, two to three, four to six, seven or more. Real competitions only.

Based on 19 lots on 7 contested notices · all categories, last 36 months.

  • 1 bid 11%
  • 2–3 5%
  • 4–6 21%
  • 7+ 63%

Middle value 9 · 19 lots on 7 contested notices · all categories.

How procedures are run robust · n=17
i

Which procedures buyers here use.

Notices by the procedure they declare: open, selective, limited or direct. Open and selective are competitions; limited and direct are not.

Based on 17 notices · all categories, last 36 months.

  • Open 76%
  • Selective 24%
  • Limited 0%
  • Direct 0%

17 notices · all categories. Open and selective are competed (they feed the bid and price figures above); limited and direct are not; notices publishing no route are outside all four.

The market · authority’s region

Northern Ireland · Special nutritional products (CPV 1588)

framework/DPS notices delivered in Northern Ireland in 36 months: 1 in CPV 1588 (0 competed, 1 route not published) · 12 in division 15 (6 competed, 2 route not published) · the notice publishes no delivery location, so the authority’s registered region is used

Bids per lot
i

How many companies usually bid for work like this.

Middle value of published bid counts, one per lot, for this buyer or this region in the same sector.

Based on this region’s tenders in this industry (CPV 15), last 36 months: 14 lots. All 14 lots are from older notices, which count bids received.

Nothing is filled in from UK-wide numbers. An empty tile means nothing usable was published.

3division 15 · 36m · n=14 lots
Single-bid lots
i

How often only one company bid.

Share of lots that received exactly one bid, on the same competitions as the bids figure.

Based on this region’s tenders in this industry (CPV 15), last 36 months: 14 lots.

High means a thin market or an incumbent that is hard to beat.

21%division 15 · 36m · n=14 lots
Award vs estimate
i

Do awards for work like this land above or below the estimate.

Estimate against award per lot, for this buyer or this region in the same sector.

Nothing published for this region in this sector: not measured on frameworks — a panel award is a ceiling, not a price.

A past pattern, not a price to bid.

—not measured on frameworks — a panel award is a ceiling, not a price
Deadline → award date
i

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.

Nothing published for this region in this sector: no award dates published.

Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.

Last 36 months.

—no award dates published
SME bidders
i

How much of this market goes to small and medium firms.

SME bidders where buyers published the split, otherwise SME winners.

Based on this region’s tenders in this industry (CPV 15), last 36 months: 12 lots.

Last 36 months.

45%division 15 · 36m · n=12 lots
Winners based in the region
i

How much work like this goes to companies based in the delivery region.

Awards in this category delivered here where the winner’s registered address is in the region.

Based on this region’s tenders in this industry (CPV 15), last 36 months: 30 awards.

Registered address, so a national firm with a local branch counts as outside.

Last 36 months.

93%division 15 · 36m · n=30 awards
Bids per lot · history, not this notice’s lots robust · n=14
i

How the number of bidders is spread across lots.

Each lot with a published bid count is put in a band: one bid, two to three, four to six, seven or more. Real competitions only.

Based on 14 lots on 4 contested notices · division 15, last 36 months.

  • 1 bid 21%
  • 2–3 36%
  • 4–6 0%
  • 7+ 43%

Middle value 3 · 14 lots on 4 contested notices · division 15.

How procedures are run robust · n=10
i

Which procedures buyers here use.

Notices by the procedure they declare: open, selective, limited or direct. Open and selective are competitions; limited and direct are not.

Based on 12 notices · division 15, last 36 months.

  • Open 50%
  • Selective 10%
  • Limited 40%
  • Direct 0%

12 notices · division 15. Open and selective are competed (they feed the bid and price figures above); limited and direct are not; notices publishing no route are outside all four.

robust · n=15
i

Where this tender’s estimate would land if the usual pattern repeats.

We apply the buyer’s usual movement between estimate and award (or the region’s) to the estimate on this notice.

This notice gives one total for several lots, so we show the percentage but do not turn it into pounds.

A benchmark, not a price to bid.

The middle award in Belfast Health and Social Care Trust (BHSCT) (all categories, n=15 pairs) lands 2% above. Applied to each lot’s own published value in the lot table below — the notice total (£9,261,120) is an envelope for 5 lots and is not converted.
Coverage and what to read with care
  • Each tile explains itself. The on a figure says what it is, how it is counted and which scope this notice’s own record came from (class, division, all categories, or the authority’s 24-month row). The two columns are never blended and nothing is filled from a UK-wide figure; an empty tile means the source published nothing usable. Long form: Methodology.
  • Coverage. Roughly 40 % of notices publish a bid count; about half publish an ITL1 delivery location, so the market column reads the authority’s registered region when the notice has none (labelled). About 30 % of award-vs-estimate pairs are exact matches — the buyer published the award at the estimate. n is on every figure; a thin sample is muted, never hidden.
  • “Match” and “relevance” are model scores from the nightly matcher, not published facts. Find a Tender does not publish who is bidding. Never shown: contact details, payment behaviour, or a recommended price.

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
Competition type
Competitive procedure
GPA / WTO covered
Unspecified in notice
Recurring procurement
No (one-off requirement)
First published
28 Sept 2026, 15:17 BST
Last source update
28 Sept 2026, 15:17 BST
Award evaluation window
Submission end — 11 Feb 2027, 23:59 GMT
Authority reference
6512868
Latest notice
Tender notice (UK4)
Classification (CPV)
Special nutritional products
Delivery area
Not published
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-077bb6 Find a Tender

How to participate & submission route

Official notice Apply via eTendersNI
Submission portal named on this notice: eTendersNI · Who buys & how to bid on eTendersNI
Supplier login requiredElectronic submission allowedLanguage: EN
Access & registration note: Free Northern Ireland registration
Expression of interest (EOI)
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Appointment period ends
28 Oct 2026, 23:59 GMT
Clarification deadline
21 Oct 2026, 23:59 BST
Submission channel
Official e-sourcing portal
Electronic submission
Allowed
Accepted languages
en
Detailed submission instructions & authority contactsFrom official release
Submission only via the eTendersNI [Ref: 6512868] 'Call for Tender' (CfT) page. Submission of Lot 4 - Benchtop Assessment samples must be submitted and received by PaLS before the tender submission deadline closes. Instructions and address for sending samples is available within the CP21 Tender Assessment Methodology. etendersni.gov.uk/epps/cft/prepareView… ↗

Timeline

5 published dates · Europe/London
  1. Tender notice publishedearlier today
    28 Sept 2026, 15:17 BST
  2. Clarification questions byin 23 days
    21 Oct 2026, 23:59 BST
  3. Admission / appointment period endsin 30 days · period end, not a bid countdown
    28 Oct 2026, 23:59 GMT
  4. Award decision expected byin 136 days
    11 Feb 2027, 23:59 GMT
  5. Contract startsin 153 days
    1 Mar 2027, 00:00 GMT

Commercial outcome & contract awards

Nothing awarded yet
Awards (0)
No award published
Contracts (0)
No contract published
Bid statistics
No aggregate bid statistics published

Notice history

1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender
  1. Tender notice published
    28 Sept 2026, 15:17 BSTUK4

Contracting authority & participating public bodies

9 public bodies on the notice

Belfast Health and Social Care Trust (BHSCT)

Contracting authorityPublic authority - central government GB-PPON: PLQJ-5727-JCLR Trust Headquarters, 2nd Floor, Non Clinical Support Building, Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast, Northern Ireland, BT12 6BA

Consortium members and other public bodies

Official documents & specifications (2)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Tender pack and attachments

  • Conflict of interest declarationtenderConflict of interest declarationNot published

Notices published for this procedure

  • Tender notice tenderTender noticeUK4Tender notice on Find a Tender