Official UK procurement notice
Pathology Fully Managed Services Framework – Early Market Engagement
Authority: Surrey & Boarders Partnership NHS on behalf of NHS Commercial Solutions (Central government)
What is being bought
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Project Ref: C444152
We are undertaking preliminary market engagement in advance of a potential future procurement. The purpose of this engagement is to explore the viability and suitability of establishing a national framework agreement for the provision of Pathology Fully Managed Services.
CPV: Pathology services
How this framework works
From the published notice- Framework period
- 8 yrs from 2 Nov 2026
The lotProcurement structure
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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).
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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).
- “Pathology Fully Managed Services Framework – Early Market Engagement” is a framework: the contest is a place on its panel, not a single contract.
Pipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
Competition for Hospital and related services (CPV 8511), and who usually turns up
Surrey & Boarders Partnership NHS on behalf of NHS Commercial Solutions has too little published record in this market to describe on its own. No delivery region is published, so no market column stands beside whatever it has. This notice is a framework or DPS, so only frameworks and DPS are compared. Whole-market view: Hospital and related services (CPV 8511) →
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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
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Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Planned procurement
- 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
- 6 May 2026, 16:38 BST
- Last source update
- 6 May 2026, 16:46 BST
- Authority reference
C444152- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-041619- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06929fFind a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Appointment period ends
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Timeline
6 May 2026 → 2 Nov 2026 · 3 dates- Planning notice published169 days ago6 May 2026, 16:38 BST
- Market engagement148 days ago27 May 2026, 23:59 BST
NHS Commercial Solutions (NHSCS) is acting on behalf of NHS England and in collaboration with the five NHS procurement hubs (NHS London Procurement Partnership (NHS LPP), North of England Commercial Procurement Collaborative (NOE CPC), East of England Collaborative Procurement Hub (EoE CPH), NHS Commercial Solutions (NHS CS) and Peninsula Purchasing and Supply Alliance (PPSA).
We are undertaking preliminary market engagement in advance of a potential future procurement. The purpose of this engagement is to explore the viability and suitability of establishing a national framework agreement for the provision of Pathology Fully Managed Services.
- Today22 Oct 2026
- Contract startsin 10 days2 Nov 2026
Notice history
2 events · 2 releases on Find a Tender · since 6 May 2026- Preliminary market engagement notice published6 May 2026, 16:38 BSTUK2
- Preliminary market engagement notice published6 May 2026, 16:46 BSTUK2
Published amendments (1)
Provide instruction to tender portal
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 (2)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender