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Published 23 Oct 2025, 09:41 BST

Official UK procurement notice

Physiotherapy Services · UK public procurement notice

Authority: Cambridgeshire Community Services NHS Trust (Central government)

ServicesBelow threshold - open competitionBelow thresholdReserved: K02000001SME suitableVCSE suitable
Planned pipeline value£100,000pipeline notice, not a live tender
Tender notice expected 31 Oct 2025from the planned procurement notice
Contract term 4 moends 31 Mar 2026 · starts 17 Nov 2025

What is being bought

Published requirement description

This is a Provider Selection Regime (PSR) Intended Approach Notice. The awarding of this contract is subject to the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023.

This Intended Approach Notice is being published in line with Regulation 10 - under The Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime - PSR) Regulations 2023. (The Most Suitable Provider Process) is being used to commission this service.

This will be published for at least 14 calendar days as per the requirements of the Provider Selection Regime 2023.

CPV: Physiotherapy services

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · value published
Lot #1Planned 4 moSMEVCSEPublished value£100,000
Contract period: 17 Nov 2025 – 31 Mar 2026 (4 mo)Value: £100,000 exc. VAT · £120,000 inc. VAT

Who is likely to bid for this lot ↓

What it takes to win
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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).

Evaluation split and conditions of participation as published; the tender pack may add more
How bids were scored

Lot awarding rule: PSR MSP Process

Pipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published

How Cambridgeshire Community Services NHS Trust buys Miscellaneous health services (CPV 8514), and who usually turns up

Cambridgeshire Community Services NHS 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) →

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How the contest usually goes

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

Question for the bidWhat to do with it
How often do SMEs win?
i

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.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 8 of 15 known-size awards · market: CPV 8514 · East of England, n=57
53%30%

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

How often do local suppliers win?
i

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 of England.

A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 8 of 14 known-location awards · market: CPV 8514 · East of England, n=64
57%50%

Most of this buyer’s recorded winners are registered in East of England.

How long to a decision?
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.

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

Last 36 months.

Buyer: no decision dates published · market: CPV 8514 · UK-wide, n=60
—52 days

Half of these awards were announced within 52 days of the bid deadline.

How often single-bid or direct?
i

How often work is awarded with no recorded rival.

Direct awards and tenders where every published lot count shows one bid.

The market share is a minimum: some awards have no bid count.

Thin markets produce this too; it is not proof of a tailored specification.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: exactly 22 of 24 procurements with awards had no recorded rival · market: CPV 8514 · East of England, n=80
92%79%

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.

Last 36 months.

This buyer3 lots with bid counts · broad CPV 85 · too few to chart
The market9 lots with bid counts · CPV 8514 · East of England
11% had one bid
Market · select a colour for counts
1 bid11%
Market: 1 of 9 lots with published bid counts.
2–333%
Market: 3 of 9 lots with published bid counts.
4–644%
Market: 4 of 9 lots with published bid counts.
7+11%
Market: 1 of 9 lots with published bid counts.

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.

Last 36 months.

This buyerNo estimate-and-award pairs published
The market6 lots with estimate and award · CPV 8514 · East of England
33% below estimate
Market · select a colour for counts
Below estimate33%
Market: 2 of 6 lots with an estimate and award.
Within ±2%67%
Market: 4 of 6 lots with an estimate and award.
Above estimate0%
Market: 0 of 6 lots with an estimate and award.
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Assess each lot
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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 #1CPV 85144 monthsSME suitablePublished estimate£100k
Expected competition
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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 299 past lots.

A forecast, not a list of bidders.

—No model forecast yet14% single-bid risk
Past bids on 299 similar lots
1 bid14%
43 of 299 similar past lots received 1 bid (14%).
2–326%
79 of 299 similar past lots received 2–3 (26%).
4–633%
99 of 299 similar past lots received 4–6 (33%).
7+26%
78 of 299 similar past lots received 7+ (26%).
Comparable past lots usually drew 4 bids.
Commercial price forecast
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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.

—No model forecast yet
No comparable awards on record for this lot’s category yet. The published estimate is £100k, and the forecast stays empty until the market has a record to read.

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.

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.

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
Procedure method
Below threshold - open competition
Legal basis
UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
Procurement category
Services
Notice status
Planned procurement
Procurement threshold
Below threshold
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
23 Oct 2025, 09:41 BST
Last source update
30 Oct 2025, 14:40 GMT
FTS notice number
2025/S 000-069778
Latest notice
Planned procurement notice (UK3)
Classification (CPV)
Physiotherapy services
Delivery area
North East (UKC)North West (UKD)Yorkshire & Humber (UKE)East Midlands (UKF)West Midlands (UKG)East of England (UKH)London (UKI)South East (UKJ)
+1 moreSouth West (UKK)
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-05d21d Find a Tender
Contract terms
Reserved participation area
K02000001

How it was run

Official notice
Submission deadline
12 Nov 2025, 23:59 GMT

Timeline

23 Oct 2025 → 17 Nov 2025 · 5 dates
  1. Planning notice published363 days ago
    23 Oct 2025, 09:41 BST
  2. Latest notice published356 days ago
    30 Oct 2025, 14:40 GMT
  3. Tender notice expected355 days ago
    31 Oct 2025, 23:59 GMT
  4. Submission deadline343 days ago
    12 Nov 2025, 23:59 GMT
  5. Contract starts339 days ago
    17 Nov 2025

Notice history

3 events · 2 releases on Find a Tender · since 23 Oct 2025
  1. Planned procurement notice published
    23 Oct 2025, 09:41 BST
    UK3
  2. Planned procurement notice published
    30 Oct 2025, 14:40 GMT
    UK3
  3. Deadline moved to 12 Nov 2025, 23:59 GMT
    30 Oct 2025, 14:40 GMT
    +0 days · was 12 Nov 2025, 23:59 GMT
Published amendments (1)

Amendment to locations due to initial error.

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

CAMBRIDGESHIRE COMMUNITY SERVICES NHS TRUST

Contracting authorityPublic authority - central government GB-NHS: RYV · GB-PPON: PHQR-1485-BDJQ Unit 7/8, Meadow Park, St. Ives, Cambridgeshire, East of England, PE27 4LGContact email

Official documents & specifications (2)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure