Official UK procurement notice
Pharmaceutical Dispensing Services including the Supply and Delivery of Medicine
Authority: Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (Central government)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionLincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (LPFT) (The Authority) is exploring Pharmaceutical Dispensing Services including the Supply and Delivery of Medicines options and wishes to gain valuable insights into the provider landscape, the scoping and feasibility of requirements and potential refinement and development of the specification.
CPV: Medical equipments, pharmaceuticals and personal care products · Pharmacy services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1The Authority provides mental health, learning disability and autism services across…Planned
The Authority provides mental health, learning disability and autism services across the county. It currently requires a Provider to deliver an outsourced Pharmaceutical Dispensing Services including the Supply and Delivery of Medicines across LPFT sites, supporting mental health inpatient, community, and crisis services. Additional information: The Authority is using this pre-market engagement (PME) stage as a fact-finding process to help understand the current market, capabilities of suppliers, the nature of services, and feasibility of supply options, which is critical for determining the most appropriate route to market and for choosing the correct procurement process. For the avoidance of doubt this is not a call for competition. <br/><br/>The Authority anticipates that any future procurement will fall under the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023, potentially using the Most Suitable Provider or Competitive Process, although this may be subject to change following the PME stage.<br/><br/>The Authority reserves the right to abandon this procurement and/or change the procurement route or process and make any subsequent changes to the existing specification as a result of the conclusions of the PME responses.<br/><br/>Providers interesting in engaging are asked to complete a PME questionnaire.<br/>Part 1 is a summary description of the service requirements and relevant background information. <br/>Part 2 is a series of questions upon which we would like to understand the feasible and preferred approach of the market. Please be as open as possible and include problems that may be encountered. <br/>It would be appreciated if Part 2 could be completed and responses sent back via Atamis by Monday 8 June at 12 noon by at the latest.<br/><br/>The responses will be collated and considered as part of any future commissioning decisions. We are keen to understand a true reflection of the market's views; your answers will have no influence on your further participation in this process, and all responses will be treated as confidential and commercially sensitive.
Pipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust buys Miscellaneous health services (CPV 8514), and who usually turns up
Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust’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: 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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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 Midlands.
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners are registered outside East Midlands.
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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 29 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 bid11%
2–316%
4–637%
7+37%
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 estimate20%
Within ±2%60%
Above estimate20%
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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 #1The Authority provides mental health, learning disability and autism services across…CPV 8514Estimate 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 19 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid11%
2–316%
4–637%
7+37%
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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.
No earlier contract of this buyer matches this lot on the published record.
Who could compete for this lot? i
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.
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
- Yes (GPA)
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 14 May 2026, 11:03 BST
- Last source update
- 14 May 2026, 11:03 BST
- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-044284- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06988aFind a Tender
How it was run
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- Submission deadline
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Timeline
14 May 2026 → 1 Oct 2026 · 2 dates- Notice published161 days ago14 May 2026, 11:03 BST
- Tender notice expected22 days ago1 Oct 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.