Official UK procurement notice
Pre-engagement for MRI Scanning Services for Herefordshire and Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust (HWHCT) Worcestershire Patients
Authority: Herefordshire and Worcestershire Health & Care NHS Trust (Central government)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionHerefordshire & Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust ("the Trust") is undertaking a preliminary market engagement exercise in accordance with the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023.
The Trust is considering future arrangements for the provision of a Direct Access MRI Service for patients referred primarily from the Herefordshire and Worcestershire Musculoskeletal (MSK) Service.
A draft service specification is enclosed for review.
The purpose of this questionnaire is to:
- Understand supplier interest in a potential future opportunity.
- Assess market capability and capacity.
- Obtain feedback on the draft service specification.
- Explore alternative service delivery models, including mobile MRI provision.
- Identify any barriers or considerations which may affect participation.
- Inform the Trust's future commissioning and procurement strategy.
This exercise is for information gathering purposes only and does not constitute a procurement process, invitation to tender, commitment to procure, or award of any contract.
Participation in this exercise will not provide any supplier with an advantage or disadvantage in any future procurement activity.
The Trust may invite suppliers expressing an interest to participate in follow-up market engagement discussions.
The Trust would like interested parties to complete the Expressions of Interest Questionnaire by 25 September 2026. Documents available and responses to be uploaded via the Health Family Single eCommercial System (Atamis) atamis-1928.my.site.com/s/Welcome ↗ by the stated submission deadline. All documents are available via the above weblink, once you have accessed the website search for reference C468898 in the “find opportunities” area.
CPV: Health services · Hospital services · Medical imaging services · Medical practice services · Miscellaneous health services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedPipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How Herefordshire and Worcestershire Health & Care NHS Trust buys Health services (CPV 8510), and who usually turns up
Herefordshire and Worcestershire Health & Care NHS Trust’s published record next to the market for the same work. Frameworks and DPS are left out: they draw different bid counts. Whole-market view: Health services (CPV 8510) →
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.
Local means the winner is registered in the region where that award was delivered. The market figure counts awards delivered in West Midlands.
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners were registered in the region where that award was delivered.
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How long buyers here take to decide after bids close.
Middle value in days from the bid deadline to the award date, on competitions that published both.
Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.
Half of these awards have an award date within 69 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.
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.
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 bid23%
2–331%
4–624%
7+21%
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 estimate51%
Within ±2%44%
Above estimate5%
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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 #1CPV 85Published estimate£2.6m
This lot lists more than one class in CPV 85. The comparison uses that group.
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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 342 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid22%
2–331%
4–622%
7+25%
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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
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Planned procurement
- Procurement threshold
- Above threshold (FTS publication)
- 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
- 28 Aug 2026, 15:38 BST
- Last source update
- 1 Sept 2026, 12:59 BST
- Authority reference
C468898- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-082634- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
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How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
28 Aug 2026 → 4 Oct 2027 · 5 dates- Planning notice published58 days ago28 Aug 2026, 15:38 BST
- Latest notice published54 days ago1 Sept 2026, 12:59 BST
- Market engagement30 days ago25 Sept 2026, 23:59 BST
The Trust would like interested parties to complete the Expressions of Interest Questionnaire by 25 September 2026. Documents available and responses to be uploaded via the Health Family Single eCommercial System (Atamis) atamis-1928.my.site.com/s/Welcome ↗ by the stated submission deadline. All documents are available via the above weblink, once you have accessed the website search for reference C468898 in the “find opportunities” area.
The Trust may invite suppliers expressing an interest to participate in follow-up market engagement discussions during October / November 2026
The responses received from the questionnaire and the discussions from any follow up meetings will help the Trust to refine it's service specifications and determine the most suitable complaint PSR procurement process to be undertaken.
- Today25 Oct 2026
- Tender notice expectedin 37 days1 Dec 2026, 23:59 GMT
- Contract startsin 343 days4 Oct 2027, 00:00 BST
Notice history
2 events · 2 releases on Find a Tender · since 28 Aug 2026- Preliminary market engagement notice published28 Aug 2026, 15:38 BSTUK2
- Preliminary market engagement notice published1 Sept 2026, 12:59 BSTUK2
Published amendments (1)
Additional instructions to access documentation and response
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