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 descriptionPharmaceutical Dispensing Services including the Supply and Delivery of Medicines including: <br/>- The timely procurement and purchase of medication, with full compliance with MHRA, Human Medicines Regulations 2012, and GPhC standards.<br/>- The undertaking of general legal and clinical safety screen on all medicine orders and prescriptions presented for dispensing. The Supplier must have suitably trained and clinically competent staff in order that they can adequately screen, dispense and check all dispensed items. <br/>- The application of Good Distribution Practice (GDP) and holding a WDA(H) licence.<br/>- The legal, safe and secure, correct temperature regulated storage of all medicinal products within all the Supplier’s premises including ambient and refrigeration temperatures. This includes receipt, storage and transportation of any clinical trial medication requests on behalf of the Relevant Authority. <br/>- The registration with the Relevant Authority’s current clozapine provider. <br/>- The acceptance of the Relevant Authority’s electronic ordering of medicines processes through both ePMA system integration and by email.<br/>- The timely dispensing and supply of medicines.<br/>- A multi-sited delivery of medicines model, with secure transportation and distribution.<br/>- Out of hours medication supplies. <br/>- Out of hours pharmaceutical clinical advice.
CPV: Pharmacy services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · value publishedLot #1This procurement falls under the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime)…RenewalPublished value£2,500,000
This procurement falls under the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) (PSR) Regulations 2023. The Relevant Authority is using the Competitive Process under PSR.<br/>Contract Value based on Pharmaceutical Services only. Medicines will be additional on pass through basis.
What it takes to wini
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).
Evaluation split and conditions of participation as published; the tender pack may add morei
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).
- Turnover usually expected at this size: about £998,905 (twice the annual value).
Turnover is an indicative market norm (≈2× annual value), not a published condition.
Competition analysis · published record, not a forecast of who will bid
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 bid8%
2–38%
4–646%
7+38%
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 estimate10%
Within ±2%70%
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.
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Lot #1This procurement falls under the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime)…CPV 8514Published estimate£2.5m
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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.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid12%
2–338%
4–632%
7+18%
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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.
Based on 11 comparable awards. Each lot reflects its own category; forecasts for different lots of the same notice are not comparative.
A statistical guide from past awards, not a price to bid.
Middle 50%£2.5m
Estimate£2.5m
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.
| Supplier | Won in this category | Live contracts | Award vs estimate |
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| £29m35 awards in 36m · last 1 months ago | 16 live · £15m iPublic contracts this supplier still holds. Its awards whose published end date is still in the future, with their values. Many contracts publish no end date, so this is a floor, not the whole book. Unexpired says nothing about spare capacity. | no comparable pairs | |
| £14m35 awards in 36m · last 1 months ago | 9 live · £9.7m iPublic contracts this supplier still holds. Its awards whose published end date is still in the future, with their values. Many contracts publish no end date, so this is a floor, not the whole book. Unexpired says nothing about spare capacity. | no comparable pairs | |
| £25m15 awards in 36m · last 3 months ago | 3 live · £430k iPublic contracts this supplier still holds. Its awards whose published end date is still in the future, with their values. Many contracts publish no end date, so this is a floor, not the whole book. Unexpired says nothing about spare capacity. | 5% below n=1 | |
| £6.4m9 awards in 36m · last 1 months ago | 4 live · £3.5m iPublic contracts this supplier still holds. Its awards whose published end date is still in the future, with their values. Many contracts publish no end date, so this is a floor, not the whole book. Unexpired says nothing about spare capacity. | no comparable pairs | |
| £11m27 awards in 36m · last 4 months ago | 11 live · £3.1m iPublic contracts this supplier still holds. Its awards whose published end date is still in the future, with their values. Many contracts publish no end date, so this is a floor, not the whole book. Unexpired says nothing about spare capacity. | no comparable pairs |
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.
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- 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.
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Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Procedure method
- Open procedure
- Legal basis
- CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Open for tender
- 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
- Yes
- First published
- 20 Oct 2026, 14:31 BST
- Last source update
- 20 Oct 2026, 14:31 BST
- Award evaluation window
- 4 Dec 2026 – …
- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-099064- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-078bf9Find a Tender
How to participate & submission route
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- Requests to participate (first stage)
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- Tender submission deadline
- 4 Dec 2026, 12:00 GMT
- Clarification deadline
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- Submission channel
- {"electronicSubmission","written"}
- Accepted languages
- en
- Bids opened
- 4 Dec 2026, 12:00 GMT
Timeline
20 Oct 2026 → 1 Oct 2027 · 5 dates- Notice published1 day ago20 Oct 2026, 14:31 BST
- Today21 Oct 2026
- Submission deadlinein 44 days4 Dec 2026, 12:00 GMT
- Bids openedin 44 days4 Dec 2026, 12:00 GMT
- Bids must remain valid untilin 224 days2 Jun 2027, 23:59 BST
- Contract startsin 344 days1 Oct 2027, 00:00 BST
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Nothing awarded yet- Awards (0)
- No award published
- Contracts (0)
- No contract published
- Bid statistics
- No aggregate bid statistics published
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Dispute resolution & review bodies
- NHS Lincolnshire Integrated Care BoardReview body
Official documents & specifications (2)
Official links; attachments are not copiedTender pack and attachments
- Economic and financial selection criteria
- Technical selection criteria