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Published 14 Jan 2026, 12:40 GMT

Official UK procurement notice

(PME Notice) Sexual Health Promotion and Support Service

Official notice Competition analysis

Authority: Westminster City Council (Local council)

ServicesAbove thresholdLight touch regimeSME suitableVCSE suitable
Sectors: Health & Social Care (85) Delivery: Delivery location not published
Planned pipeline value£0pipeline notice, not a live tender
Tender notice expected Date not publishedfrom the planned procurement notice
Contract term 5 yrsends 31 Mar 2032 · up to 31 Mar 2034 with extensions · starts 1 Apr 2027

What is being bought

Published requirement description

Westminster City Council (WCC) and the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea (RBKC) are undertaking preliminary market engagement for a non-clinical, community-based Sexual Health Promotion and Support Service for residents aged 15+ across both boroughs. The service will provide confidential information, advice, and support delivered through a blend of face-to-face, outreach/pop-up, and digital channels to improve sexual and reproductive health and reduce inequalities.

Early engagement is essential to shaping a service that truly meets the needs of our communities. The Councils are inviting potential suppliers to engage to provide unique opportunity to gain insight into the Councils’ priorities, influence service design, and prepare for key considerations such as consortium formation and TUPE. Engaging at this stage also enables providers to showcase innovative approaches and help develop delivery models that reflect best practice and lived experience.

Indicative Scope Includes:

  • Personalised support and care coordination, including signposting and facilitated referral into clinical services (e.g., GUM, contraception, HIV care, abortion services), mental health, and substance misuse services.
  • Counselling, peer support, and group workshops to build knowledge, confidence, and resilience in sexual health and relationships.
  • Targeted outreach for communities with higher or complex needs, including LGBTQ+ residents, young people, people living with HIV (including those newly diagnosed), sex workers, and people with learning disabilities.
  • Chemsex harm reduction information and pathways into specialist provision where relevant.
  • Promotion of contraception choices, with emphasis on Long-Acting Reversible Contraception (LARC) awareness and informed decision-making.
  • Community engagement and co-production, ensuring lived experience shapes service design, communications, and evaluation.
  • Safeguarding, information governance, and equality, diversity, and inclusion embedded throughout delivery.

This market engagement is not a procurement; it is intended to gauge capacity, supplier interest, delivery models, and innovation to inform the commissioning plan ahead of any future tender. A full Service Specification, KPIs, and outcome measures will be developed and published at tender stage if the Councils proceed.

CPV: Community health services · Counselling services · Family-planning services · Health services

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published
Lot #1PlannedRenewal 5 yrsSMEVCSE
Contract period: 1 Apr 2027 – 31 Mar 2032 (5 yrs) · up to 31 Mar 2034 with extensions
Eligibility: SME eligibleVCSE eligible
Extensions: Extension options published
85100000 Health services85312320 Counselling services85312330 Family-planning services85323000 Community health services

Who is likely to bid for this lot ↓

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

How Westminster City Council buys Health services (CPV 8510), and who usually turns up

Westminster City Council’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: Health services (CPV 8510) →

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How the contest usually goes

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

Question for the bid
This buyerWestminster City Council · division 85
The marketHealth services (CPV 8510) · Greater London (authority’s region)
What 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: 34 of 59 known-size awards · market: CPV 8510 · Greater London (authority’s region), n=423
58%28%

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 Greater London (authority’s region).

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

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 38 of 48 known-location awards · market: CPV 8510 · Greater London (authority’s region), n=595
79%58%

Most of this buyer’s recorded winners are registered in Greater London.

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: 7 decided notices · market: CPV 8510 · Greater London (authority’s region), n=15
146 days85 days

Half of these awards were announced within 146 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.

Both shares are minimums: some awards have no bid count.

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

Last 36 months.

Buyer: at least 32 of 54 procurements with awards had no recorded rival · market: CPV 8510 · Greater London (authority’s region), n=347
59%73%

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?

i

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 buyer27 lots with bid counts · broad CPV 85
33% had one bid
The market80 lots with bid counts · CPV 8510 · Greater London (authority’s region)
28% had one bid
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
1 bid33% / 28%
Buyer: 9 of 27 lots with published bid counts. Market: 22 of 80 lots with published bid counts.
2–337% / 29%
Buyer: 10 of 27 lots with published bid counts. Market: 23 of 80 lots with published bid counts.
4–626% / 26%
Buyer: 7 of 27 lots with published bid counts. Market: 21 of 80 lots with published bid counts.
7+4% / 18%
Buyer: 1 of 27 lots with published bid counts. Market: 14 of 80 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 buyer31 lots with estimate and award · broad CPV 85
26% below estimate
The market39 lots with estimate and award · CPV 8510 · Greater London (authority’s region)
36% below estimate
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
Below estimate26% / 36%
Buyer: 8 of 31 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 14 of 39 lots with an estimate and award.
Within ±2%71% / 56%
Buyer: 22 of 31 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 22 of 39 lots with an estimate and award.
Above estimate3% / 8%
Buyer: 1 of 31 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 3 of 39 lots with an estimate and award.
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Assess each lot
i

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 851060 monthsSME suitableNo real estimate
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 80 past lots.

A forecast, not a list of bidders.

—No model forecast yet28% single-bid risk
Past bids on 80 similar lots
1 bid28%
22 of 80 similar past lots received 1 bid (28%).
2–329%
23 of 80 similar past lots received 2–3 (29%).
4–626%
21 of 80 similar past lots received 4–6 (26%).
7+18%
14 of 80 similar past lots received 7+ (18%).
Comparable past lots usually drew 3 bids.
Commercial price forecast
i

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 real estimate
The buyer published £0 as the estimate (a placeholder, not the contract’s value), so there is nothing to forecast against.

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
Legal basis
UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
Procurement category
Services
Notice status
Planned procurement
Procurement threshold
Above threshold (FTS publication)
Regulatory regime
Light touch regime
Commercial structure
Stand-alone contract (no framework)
Competition type
Competitive procedure
GPA / WTO covered
Unspecified in notice
Recurring procurement
Unspecified in notice
First published
14 Jan 2026, 12:40 GMT
Last source update
14 Jan 2026, 12:40 GMT
Authority reference
PRJ_30858
FTS notice number
2026/S 000-003078
Latest notice
Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
Classification (CPV)
Community health servicesCounselling servicesFamily-planning servicesHealth services
Delivery area
Not published
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-0605a3 Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice
Submission deadline
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Timeline

14 Jan 2026 → 1 Apr 2027 · 3 dates
  1. Planning notice published279 days ago
    14 Jan 2026, 12:40 GMT
  2. Market engagement258 days ago
    3 Feb 2026, 23:59 GMT

    An online market engagement event will be held on Tuesday 3rd February at 14:30.

    To register your interest, please visit wcc.ukp.app.jaggaer.com ↗ and search for reference: PQQ: SQ_30175.

    All engagement will be conducted via the Councils’ eSourcing portal: City of Westminster Procurement & Contracts Portal (Jaggaer).

    • Registration is free.
    • All communications and clarifications will take place within Jaggaer only.
    • SMEs and VCSEs are strongly encouraged to participate.

    Important Notes:

    • This exercise is for market engagement only and does not form part of any formal procurement process.
    • No information provided at this stage will be used for supplier evaluation.
    • A full-service specification will be published at tender stage if the Councils proceed.

    Portal Access:

    • Connect to: wcc.ukp.app.jaggaer.com ↗
    • Enter your Username and Password
    • Go to Published Opportunities and click on the Project Title to view details

    This engagement relates to a future procurement that will be conducted under the Provider Selection Regime 2023 (PSR23), which applies to healthcare services for individuals. This notice is published in line with transparency requirements and aims to ensure early engagement with the market.

  3. Today
    20 Oct 2026
  4. Contract startsin 163 days
    1 Apr 2027, 00:00 BST

Notice history

1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender
  1. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    14 Jan 2026, 12:40 GMT
    UK2

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

Westminster City Council

Contracting authorityPublic authority - sub-central government GB-PPON: PJVD-6261-BPPJ 64 Victoria Street, London, London, SW1E 6QPContact name, email

Official documents & specifications (1)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure